All the benefits of my Vote for Donald Trump Appear to be
Material, Temporal, Earthly
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More Conservative Judges
- Inasmuch as I want a society
- where conservative values are respected, this
- pertains mostly to America, not the Kingdom of God,
- when judges are appointed
- by both sides
- solely for partisan control of the judiciary,
- and it will ultimately corrupt justice
- for everyone, forever (!);
- and it will ultimately corrupt justice
- when judges are appointed
- will not prevent the ongoing moral decay of humanity
- predicted in the Bible, as we move toward the end-times!
- Deuteronomy 1.16: “‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.”
- That is, justice must be blind to even the closest earthly affiliations.
- Inasmuch as I want a society
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The Possibility of Overturning Roe vs. Wade
- Inasmuch as I am pro-life
- (in Church and personal life
- and I will work to reduce abortion in society
- in other ways other than using the force of law)
- I am also pro-choice (as a matter of law in society), and
- inasmuch as I will like to reduce abortions in the US,
- the church will do a better job to impact society for God
- by modelling selfless, holy, and cross-bearing lives as people of faith,
- than to try to wield the corrupting tools of political power
- to force social change; that is,
- making abortion illegal
- constrains action by force of law, it
- does not change people and
- is only a temporary fix, to the eternal problem of the
- sinfulness of man, and it
- does not address immorality within the Church itself;
- I also have hope that God has a plan even for unborn babies
- as I believe he does for infants who die early!
- the church will do a better job to impact society for God
- Matt. 18.10: “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.”
- Inasmuch as I am pro-life
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A friend of the (mostly white) Church in the White House
- is temporary, of this earth, not the kingdom of God
- if the Church cannot criticize that ‘friend’,
- if the Church must always praise that ‘friend’,
- if the Church must explain away, excuse, and lie (‘spin’),
- when that ‘friend’ lies, divides, and is unrepentant of
- deceit, meanness, pride and boastfulness, narcissism, and adultery,
- and thereby abandon its basic mission to a lost world:
- faithfully proclaim the truth and will of God
- that we must be
- true, loving, meek and lowly, selfless, and faithful to the wife of our youth, welcoming, be wronged instead of wronging others, give vengeance to God instead of always ‘fighting back.’
- when that ‘friend’ lies, divides, and is unrepentant of
- Faithful prophetic witness
- to powerful (and sometimes corrupt) political leaders (kings)
- is clear in the Bible.
- It usually involves truth, rebuke, courage, and great risk:
- Samuel (Eli), Samuel (Saul), Nathan (David),
- Elijah (Ahab, Jezebel, Ahaziah), Elisha (Ahab), Micaiah (Ahab)
- Isaiah (Manasseh), Jonah (Nineveh),
- Jeremiah (Zedekiah), Daniel (Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar),
- John the Baptist (Herod)
- Jesus (Pilate), Peter (Sanhedrin);
- the Early Church (the Sanhedrin); and
- Paul (Agrippa).
- It is never a cozy relationship as the one we see between
- the White House and white evangelical American leadership.
- is temporary, of this earth, not the kingdom of God
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Strong Economy?
- As good as that sounds,
- a strong economy is of this earth, not eternal
- Mark 8.36: “What does it profit a man [nation]….”
- What if
- (as the signs are beginning to show, and
- as Donald Trump continues to gamble
- with the economy and
- with the livelihood of millions of Americans,
- using trade wars),
- the economy takes a downturn,
- as is expected every now and again?
- As good as that sounds,
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Strong Immigration Enforcement?
- This excites those
- whose primary concern is America
- not the Kingdom of God,
- who may be driven by
- lack of knowledge and compassion, fear, distaste, and/or
- indifference towards
- those who are different, who are weak, and destitute;
- who have forgotten, who ignore the fact,
- that the Kingdom of God is all tribes, tongues and nations
- that everyone ‘came from somewhere else’,
- that the Bible overwhelmingly teaches love and welcome
- for the weak, the widow, the fatherless, the alien ,strangers (!)
- that Mary, Joseph, and the Baby Jesus were themselves refugees
- to Egypt from political violence!
- whose primary concern is America
- Matthew 24.44: “Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’”
- Revelation 7.9 “…from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb….”
- This excites those
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Strong Military and National Defense,
- pertains to only America, not the Kingdom of God;
- is material, temporary, and earthly.
- Ephesians 6. “For we do not wrestle not against flesh and blood…”
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Second Amendment Rights
- Is only of this earth, and temporary, and
- when promoted unreasonably and at all cost, it
- UNDERCUTS THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS:
- selfless love,
- sacrifice,
- give instead of taking life,
- “turning the other cheek”,
- “Nevertheless, let your [God’s] will be done not mine”
- not my right(!)
- [Jesus!]
- lacks any sound biblical and theological support.
- Matt. 16.24: “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
- The choice between a gun and the cross is easy
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I CHOOSE THE CROSS!
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- The choice between a gun and the cross is easy
- UNDERCUTS THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS:
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