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Going here in theology with this one because of a quote found today via Twitter: "My goal is to dethrone God and stop capitalism." --Marx
Please note that at this time, a futurist millenial view was not in question in Reformation churches, whose businessmen, by the way, were also active in building lines of credit. The significance of that is the restored doctrine of crediting or imputation from teaching the Gospel as Paul put it, had led to a realization in the economic world, which Marx hated.
Actually he hated both the economic and theological. Marx may have favored Jews raising their place in society through capital and credit, but he hated the idea from the Reformation that the world was Christ's and that the nations should honor him with their wealth. I knew of no direct statement until this, and don't know if he ever commented on a future millenium. That would not have been articulated much until after his time.
But the credit concept is not the theology that matters first in the quote. What matters first is the enthronement. The Reformation correctly taught Christ's entitlement to this world, as found in early Acts, in Ps 2 and 110. The apostles built on that all through the NT. The idea is not that 'God/Christ has everything under control,' and Marxists are quick to sneer at Christian faith not providing the goods there.
They do that because they don't believe in individual property, and that includes God's ownership. If that is not taken down, then the masses will be oppressed by the Owner in the sky. (State ownership alone). That's really what they are attacking, or why they distract from Acts by insulting Christ having everything under control. They are quite good at misinforming and deconstructing.
Thinking they are answering a real problem, many Christians find an "answer(s)" to Marxism in circumstance-control affirmations and in futurist millenialism. For one, Christians love to sing to themselves that God has total control, has everything under control. Certainly a case can be made for God's provision of peace of mind, no matter what happens externally. But Christians often speak of the external actually happening. There are hundreds of songs and sermons saying so.
2nd, "we" have the future millenium, they say. 'Nothing in early Acts is about its own times; Peter was actually speaking about things X000 years in the future.' The enthronement references of 2:30, 3:19 ('being honored in heaven'), and 4 (Ps 2) are nothing about the present, only about the future.
Please note that at this time, a futurist millenial view was not in question in Reformation churches, whose businessmen, by the way, were also active in building lines of credit. The significance of that is the restored doctrine of crediting or imputation from teaching the Gospel as Paul put it, had led to a realization in the economic world, which Marx hated.
Actually he hated both the economic and theological. Marx may have favored Jews raising their place in society through capital and credit, but he hated the idea from the Reformation that the world was Christ's and that the nations should honor him with their wealth. I knew of no direct statement until this, and don't know if he ever commented on a future millenium. That would not have been articulated much until after his time.
But the credit concept is not the theology that matters first in the quote. What matters first is the enthronement. The Reformation correctly taught Christ's entitlement to this world, as found in early Acts, in Ps 2 and 110. The apostles built on that all through the NT. The idea is not that 'God/Christ has everything under control,' and Marxists are quick to sneer at Christian faith not providing the goods there.
They do that because they don't believe in individual property, and that includes God's ownership. If that is not taken down, then the masses will be oppressed by the Owner in the sky. (State ownership alone). That's really what they are attacking, or why they distract from Acts by insulting Christ having everything under control. They are quite good at misinforming and deconstructing.
Thinking they are answering a real problem, many Christians find an "answer(s)" to Marxism in circumstance-control affirmations and in futurist millenialism. For one, Christians love to sing to themselves that God has total control, has everything under control. Certainly a case can be made for God's provision of peace of mind, no matter what happens externally. But Christians often speak of the external actually happening. There are hundreds of songs and sermons saying so.
2nd, "we" have the future millenium, they say. 'Nothing in early Acts is about its own times; Peter was actually speaking about things X000 years in the future.' The enthronement references of 2:30, 3:19 ('being honored in heaven'), and 4 (Ps 2) are nothing about the present, only about the future.