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Subject Competing Paths of Liberty, a look at European History and intrigue correlated to prophecies of the book of Revelation

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Old Covenant Blindness

Protestantism as a whole was flawed from the beginning, because its success depended upon flawed people. Men were given the freedom to be wrong, and many took advantage of that new-found freedom. The laws of God had been replaced by the traditions of men for many centuries, even as the same problem had existed in Jesus’ day with the religious leadership of Judaism. True justice by the mind of God had lost its essence by the Jewish idea that being chosen meant putting other ethnicities and races into subjection and slavery. By not understanding the law of Jubilee and the impartiality of God, their system was fatally flawed and remains so to this day.

The Apostle Paul attributes this problem to men’s Old Covenant mindset, which he says is a “veil” (2 Corinthians 3:15) blinding the eyes of the people. The solution is the New Covenant and its Mediator, Jesus Christ, who alone can remove this veil from our hearts and bring us true liberty (2 Corinthians 3:16, 17).

The Old Covenant mindset brought a veil of blindness both to Judaism and to the various denominations of the church. Judaism rejected the New Covenant altogether, while the church merely redefined the New Covenant so that it became synonymous with the Old Covenant in its most important features. (See my book, The Two Covenants.)

The Roman church degenerated into the same condition by replacing the law of God with its own traditions. Protestantism found itself on the same path as time progressed.

Only those influenced by the Bible and the New Covenant in particular worked toward full freedom under God by adopting biblical law (to the best of their understanding). Yet even they had disputes with the Church of England, which, in spite of its Protestant label, never adopted the Protestant ideals of the Jubilee. They broke away from the Roman church and established the King of England as the head of the church, but they made only peripheral changes to the actual doctrines of Rome.

When persecuted, the Pilgrims went first to Holland and later came to America to enjoy religious freedom to set up biblical government under God’s law. Meanwhile, Anglicans subject to the Church of England settled in the South and soon imported the old-world Roman view of slavery. Although they adopted the Protestant Reformers’ principle of biblical freedom for themselves, they failed to extend that freedom to other races.

Romans 8:20, 21 foretells a time when all of creation will be set free into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Yet the path toward universal liberty has proven to be difficult to find, as long as carnal men rule. Nonetheless, America was greatly impacted by Reformation theology and understanding of the Bible, and really did change the course of history.
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Original Message All text per Dr. Stephen Jones Weblog Nov. 8

Competing Paths of Liberty
Nov 08, 2018
The Age of Faith, according to Will Durant in his series in The Story of Civilization, began with the Emperor Constantine and that it lasted until the death of Dante in 1321—essentially a thousand years. The Age of Faith, intellectually speaking, was a time when men were asked (or forced) to believe in God and in church creeds without question.

Faith in those days was assumed to be blind, going beyond reason and logic. Such blind faith depended largely upon the ignorance of the Scriptures, for during this time literacy rates plummeted, and the Scriptures were hidden away in religious centers. The people lost the right to discover the truth of Scripture for themselves and to compare it with church doctrine.

The Age of Faith was eclipsed by the Renaissance, which was the secular form of the Protestant Reformation that began about the same time. Durant dates the start of the Renaissance at about 1300 and ends it with the death of Galileo in 1648—or about 350 years. The prosperity of Venice that came from its fleet of ships brought both trade and antiquities to Italy, including classical Greek writings and art

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