Jesus was not a Communist, nor was Communism ever a part of His teachings in any way. While Jesus encouraged His followers to be generous with their possessions like the Father is, He also made it very clear throughout His ministry that He believed in private ownership.
Paul lived in a unique time. He knew that his country was doomed to be destroyed by a malicious empire during his lifetime.
We, on the other hand, have a vote as to what will ensue, and we would be fools to not take advantage of that.
Christians are either convinced that Orange Hitler only APPEARS to be a pussy grabbing, POW disrespecting, disabled mocking FREAK OF NATURE, and is actually Christ reborn, OR, they are convinced that they are not to vote. NEITHER IS BIBLICAL. Vote as if our democracy depends on it, because it does.
YOUR CHRISTIAN LEADERS ARE BLIND AND USELESS.
But you know that your vote is a sacred duty, so get to it.
Voting is not a sacred duty, and it's not going to make God overlook the abominations America is proudly practicing. God told His people to come out of Babylon because it's all going to be erased soon. A person would actually have to be a fool to believe their vote is going to change God's plans for the future. Everything in this world is temporary, including America's democracy.
It's funny how "Christians" talk about how sacred a duty voting is while completely ignoring what Paul says in Colossians about how a Christian's mind should be on heavenly things, what he said in Heb. 11 about the people of faith considering themselves to be sojourners in this world, and John saying in his epistles that whoever is fixated on the things of this world doesn't have the love of God in them. If adherents of Orthodox Christianity believe what the Bible says like they claim, why do they put so much effort into trying to preserve things that have no permanent value or worth compared to God offering eternal life and ruling the universe with Him? Is preserving American democracy really supposed to be more important to a Christian than that?
Democrats serve evil a lot. Republicans don't with the exception of some selfishness.
"Christians" who buy into the "Republicans are the good guys" narrative seem to overlook Rev. 12:9 where it says Satan deceives the whole world and 2 Cor. 4:4 saying he is the god of this world. It doesn't say he just deceives some people or that he is some people's god. Every last aspect of this world's politics was fundamentally built on shutting God out of human affairs and disregarding God's laws. Republicans are just as much about the Rom. 1 life as Democrats are. Look at how proud they are of their LGBT base and how much they proudly talk about celebrating or defending the same festivals God condemned in the Bible.
Your response in my opinion is we all have sin, murder isnt a priority, let's just sit and watch and not oppose killing the innocent unborn, after all everybody has sin, and murdering the innocent unborn isnt Gods priority?
In my opinion unbelievable coming from a person professing the name of Jesus Christ
Christ didn't oppose Pilate murdering the people in the temple and mixing their blood with the sacrifices they made. Instead, He said "unless you repent, you will likewise perish". There is a difference between acknowledging something is a sin while letting God be the judge and actively doing something outside God's will in a misguided sense of zeal like Paul did prior to his conversion. Engaging in politics isn't going to change what is a spiritual problem. Spiritual problems can only be fixed by living according to God's laws. Religious and non-religious voters in America can't see that, which is why they keep getting disappointed by both parties.
Very early on and for a very short time when the Pilgrims and the Puritans arrived. But the Constitution was based upon Christian principles and now it has been trashed. By no less than the Supreme Court. Everything that the Founding Fathers had instituted has been destroyed. Joseph Stalin and Joseph Biden are blood brothers. Trampling on the rights of citizens and literally killing them. So where are the targeted drones meant for tyrants?
The fact that everything the founders instituted is being trashed only proves it was not built on biblical Christianity, even though they borrowed some Christian principles from the Bible. In Matt. 7:26-27, Jesus made a particularly interesting statement that is certainly applicable to the Constitution:
“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: “and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
Jesus said whatever isn't built on His instructions are like a house that was built on sand. America is crumbling under attack because it wasn't built on the solid rock of biblical Christianity. As Christ said in verses 24-25, that is the only way anything can last against any attack. The Constitution may have Christian principles in it, but the thing religious conservatives never want to mention is that it is consists a lot more of human reasoning than it does God's reasoning. And as Christ succinctly pointed out in the above passage, anything that is built on human reasoning will experience a "great fall".