I do not know which US nonsense heresy you identify yourself with, but the fact you even need to ask shows that there literally is no Christ in your life and you are, in fact, irredeemable. Otherwise you would fully well know two things.
I subscribe to the Covenant Theological tradition, also referred to as Reformed Theology. Confessionally, I would be identified as a Baptist since I affirm the Second London (1689) Baptist Confession of Faith. Please use Scripture to substantiate your claim that Covenant Theology and the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith are heretical. You no longer have the burden of guessing my essential theological and doctrinal positions. I fully agree with you that without Christ, I am irredeemable. I thought that I explicitly stated so.
- Christians are not influenced by the old testament, so you quoting psalms as if they were law means nothing.
It is true that we are not bound by the old covenants, but this also does not grant license to sin.
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ro 5:18–6:4.
There are distinctions between the ceremonial law, dietary law, civil law, and moral law. In this passage from Romans, Paul is referring to failure to keep the moral law when he refers to sin. He is not referring to failure to keep the ceremonial, dietary, and civil laws.
Have you not noticed the number of references to the Septuagint (Greek translated Old Testament) that are in the New Testament? The New Testament text even provides interpretations for the Old Testament. What Bible are you reading that lacks this? Every translation that I read has these (NIV, NLT, NASB 95, ESV, KJV, NKJV, LEB, LSB, AMP, etc.). The Old Testament is not at all irrelevant. If it were, it would not be included in the biblical canon, nor would its text be referenced and interpreted throughout the New Testament Scriptures.
Psalms are songs. Most are songs of worship and lamentation. I did not quote any Psalms, though I did explicitly mention and refer to Psalm 24. I don't think you read it because your aversion to it seems derived from an ignorance of its content. If I am wrong, I would like to know why you find the content of Psalm 24 so offensive.
Skimming through my posts on this thread, most of the passages that I've referenced are New Testament. Here is a list of the books that I've explicitly mentioned and referenced when you responded: Romans, Luke, 1 John, James, Judges (Christopheny example), Matthew, Romans, Revelation, Psalms, and 1 Corinthians. There is a repeat of Romans because I've referenced it twice in this thread. Do you agree that Matthew, Luke, Romans, 1 Corinthians, James, and Revelation are New Testament books while Judges and Psalms are Old Testament books? You seem to forget that Christ would read and teach from the Tanakh (Old Testament text) and that the writers of the New Testament text read, taught, and referenced the Septuagint (Greek translated Old Testament).
- the Sermon of the Mount and Matthew 22:35-40 pretty much tell you all that there is to know. If there is one group in the US that is in direct contrast with that, it's the republicans. The heretics who worship trump before God.
I don't think either party asserts these passages in the Sermon of the Mount:
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery."
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Mt 5:17–32.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Mt 7:21–27.
I certainly agree with Matt. 22:34-40. You will find more details of this discourse in the other two synoptic gospels: Mark 12:28-31 and Luke 10:25-37. A fact that I find interesting is that this discourse references the Shema composed of Deut. 6:4-9, 11:13-21, and Num. 15:37-41, being a reference to texts within the Torah (the Law) section of the Tanakh. Christ then asserts that the contents of both the Torah and the Nevi'im (the Prophets), another section of the Tanakh, depend on the two commandments, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" and "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
I really do not believe that the Democratic Party at all asserts these commandments. Their policy proposals are in contempt with Scripture. I also do not believe that the Republican Party does either. Again, policy proposals are in contempt of Scripture. The inclination toward idolatrous syncretism by both political parties ought to make this evident.
Do not mistake me for being an apologist asserting that the Republican Party is the Christian or more Christian political party. I am critical of such claims. I am also critical of claims that the Democratic Party is the Christian or more Christian political party. My standard for this criticism is independent of the political parties themselves. Both are guilty of being contemptuous toward the authority of God and His righteousness.
I do not assert that no one worships Trump. I also will not assert that no one worships Harris. All it takes is a single exception to prove the assertion wrong. The same applies to the assertion that all those who vote for Trump worship him or all those who vote for Harris worship her. Just one exception is all that is required to render the claim false. I can readily present at least a handful of exceptions for both of these assertions, unless we are going to define worship as including the act of voting. This then means that the assertion is instead that voting for either candidate is an act of worshipping that candidate. It cannot apply exclusively to one candidate or the other without non sequitur reasoning.
