On May 8, 9:31 am, " Sword of the Spirit" <swordofspi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 6, 5:54 am, " Sword of the Spirit" <swordofspi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> "Pastor Dave" <ananias917_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > On Mon, 05 May 2008 07:40:47 GMT, " Sword of the Spirit"
> >> > <swordofspi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >>And that Christ has returned from heaven to set up
> >> >>God's kingdom can be seen to be a blatant lie as he
> >> >>promised the nations would be ruled with a "Rod of
> >> >>iron" by the saints once his kingdom is established
> >> >>on the earth.
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> >> > I have explained to you repeatedly what that is and
> >> > you think that ignoring this and repeating the same
> >> > claim, means you proved your doctrine correct!
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> >> No-way Mr. heretic was the gospel preached to ALL nations by AD70...
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> > [I'll probably be corrected here, but] I've always understood "all
> > nations" (e.g. Luk 24:47) to mean the known world of the time.
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> As God was Jesus mentor, God knew exactly what 'ALL NATIONS' was to mean
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> we see 2,000 years later.
> It now includes Christians in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia, New
> Zealand, Hawaii, etc, etc. it didn't then, as no-one knew they even
existed.
Thanks for that.
I would go along that the whole of humanity bit.
Cheers.
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