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King David is your answer. King David is the prototype of the Model Christian King; even if he makes a few mistakes here and there like King David did, that has nothing to do with all the Good he did for the Lord's Name, and which every Christian King must surely do. [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]^{[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]} 05:33, September 13, 2023 (EDT)

King David is your answer. King David is the prototype of the Model Christian King; even if he makes a few mistakes here and there like King David did, that has nothing to do with all the Good he did for the Lord's Name, and which every Christian King must surely do. [[User:NishantXavier|NishantXavier]]^{[[User talk:NishantXavier|For Christ the King]]} 05:33, September 13, 2023 (EDT)

:Now you're misinterpreting the events of the ''Old Testament'' to promote faulty doctrine. The reason OT times operated under theocracy by contrast to the NT's advocacy of separation of church and state is simple: before 34 A.D., when probation closed for the Judeans upon the stoning of Stephen, thereby fulfilling the 70-week prophecy (Daniel 9:24–27), salvation was primarily through the Jewish nation. And since the Jews in those days (or at least prior to long-term conquest and imperialism by pagan kingdoms as judgments for their sins) lived under the religious Levitical authority which was also the civil authority, it was a theocracy—until the New Covenant, salvation for Gentiles came almost entirely through converting to Judaism and thereby entering the Old Covenant into the theocratic Jewish nation.

:Now you're misinterpreting the events of the ''Old Testament'' to promote faulty doctrine. The reason OT times operated under theocracy by contrast to the NT's advocacy of separation of church and state is simple: before 34 A.D., when probation closed for the Judeans (of course, the judgment was reserved for 70 A.D.) upon the stoning of Stephen, thereby fulfilling the 70-week prophecy (Daniel 9:24–27), salvation was primarily through the Jewish nation. And since the Jews in those days (or at least prior to long-term conquest and imperialism by pagan kingdoms as judgments for their sins) lived under the religious Levitical authority which was also the civil authority, it was a theocracy—until the New Covenant, salvation for Gentiles came almost entirely through converting to Judaism and thereby entering the Old Covenant into the theocratic Jewish nation.

:''However'': Christianity is not limited to its early Jewish sect. Paul explains clearly that one need not be circumcised (read: enter into the covenant to be converted into Judaism/the literal Jewish nation) to be saved, so Christians are not mandated to Judaize, despite what many Pharisaic Jews believed. This means that, with Christianity as a religion for all of humanity and not limited to Jewry, Christians must live among all sorts of various societies which invariably are ''not'', from the standpoint of the governing civil authority, in the faith. It is therefore unbiblical and impractical, from the standpoint of the New Covenant and its corollaries, to expect modern secular civil authorities to be mouthpieces for God.

:''However'': Christianity is not limited to its early Jewish sect. Paul explains clearly that one need not be circumcised (read: enter into the covenant to be converted into Judaism/the literal Jewish nation) to be saved, so Christians are not mandated to Judaize, despite what many Pharisaic Jews believed. This means that, with Christianity as a religion for all of humanity and not limited to Jewry, Christians must live among all sorts of various societies which invariably are ''not'', from the standpoint of the governing civil authority, in the faith. It is therefore unbiblical and impractical, from the standpoint of the New Covenant and its corollaries, to expect modern secular civil authorities to be mouthpieces for God.

:So it's actually kind of ironic: your argument relies on a strictly literal, outdated interpretation of the Old Testament, which falls into the same category of errors committed by the very "anti-Christian Pharisaic Jews" you condemn! —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|^{Rev. 22:13}]]''''' Thursday, 01:33, September 14, 2023 (EDT)

:So it's actually kind of ironic: your argument relies on a strictly literal, outdated interpretation of the Old Testament, which falls into the same category of errors committed by the very "anti-Christian Pharisaic Jews" you condemn! —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|^{Rev. 22:13}]]''''' Thursday, 01:33, September 14, 2023 (EDT)