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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Dec 30, 2005 18:17:22 GMT -5
Can someone please enlighten me!
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Post by ybrown on Jan 3, 2006 17:30:08 GMT -5
This theology places the Bible promises for a future earthly kingdom right now in this world. It says that in order to prepare the earth for Christ’s return, it is up to us, the Body, to take over the world (engage in spiritual warfare) before He comes. There are several beliefs under the KN banner, but the overall concept of the theology is that since Adam was tricked out of his dominion in the garden, and that because of this failure, God lost His jurisdiction and legal authority over the earth to Satan. I don’t adhere to this theology and believe a lot of its points are biblically unsound. It really does offer a smorgasboard of thoughts and essentially requires one to believe in a sundry of items such as the gap theory, man being “little gods,” etc., in order to take the belief system all the way. Here is a nutshell version of KN theology by one of its greatest proponents: "In the very beginning God created the universe and populated it with spirits (or angels) who lived in perfect obedience to Him. However, a third of these angels, led by Lucifer, rebelled against God's authority; becoming the demons... The angelic rebellion occurred in a "gap" between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. The result was that the earth, which was the "capital city" or headquarters of the demonic Evil Empire, was brought into chaos and made formless and void (Gen. 1:2). In order to win back unchallenged dominion over the universe, God introduced into the earth, Man, a race of creatures which God intended to become a resistance movement that would conquer the Devil's home planet and thus lead the way in taking back dominion over the entire universe. Man was to be a race of "little gods," exercising divine sovereignty ... thus overwhelming the devil's forces.
Unfortunately the father of this race was tricked by the devil into forfeiting Man's place in this plan and actually brought God's first plan to naught. God was then forced to come up with a "Plan B" to take dominion over the earth. His solution: to introduce into this fallen race a man in whom the divine nature dwelled fully, who would become the prototype of a new race of human beings in which the original godhood of Adam was restored. This divine Man was Jesus Christ, a perfect manifestation of God, the Father, and the "first fruit" of the "incarnation of God." This race of "little gods" who are spiritually united with Christ as members of His "body" is the church, constituting collectively with Him the complete incarnation, a corporate manifestation of God in the flesh, which together will overcome the devil and restore God's dominion unchallenged on the earth. Ultimate victory over the devil, then, depends finally upon the church accepting the calling to be little gods. It further depends on the church's submitting to the fivefold ministry through whom God is seeking to mobilize the church into a unified army prepared to take dominion back from the devil." 1 |
But really what it has become is another point of contention for Christians to debate and another thing by which we can become divided over. |
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Post by krazeeboi on Jan 6, 2006 18:01:12 GMT -5
Another theologically unsound concept going around is this whole "Moving from Church to Kingdom" crap.
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Post by kanyon on Jan 12, 2006 19:30:12 GMT -5
On the Liberal side, they are Amilleniasts. In Canada it is the United church, a union of Methodist and Presbyterian.
They believe that it is their job to change society through government.
They are usually on the left of center.
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