Which has nothing to do with politics... unless it's someone who looks to the state as being their God as many do.
Okay... We either see politics completely differently, or I'm just not accurately expressing my view of what politics is and your getting confused by what I'm saying.
My view of politics is straight from the Bible. That God sets up nations and governments to provide for the people of that nations common good. I earlier quoted some Scripture which spells that out.
To punish the evil doer - people who steal, murder and so forth.
It's a deterrent to hurting others, or it's a removing the person from the ability to do so in the near future, therefore , providing a general good to that society.
Also to provide people with a small measure of justice - to have their side of the story taken into consideration, to see that another person's daughter won't be raped etc.
To protect the rights all men are born with, being creations of God.
^^^ this is actually the battle right now at the border. Many of these immigrants will be turned into slaves now that they are here.. Many of them came into this country as slaves, and the Dems plan on using them for slaves.
But, if they simply legalize them all, then we all turn into slaves..
It's an issue in 2024 because secular humanism doesn't believe all men have an inherent worth or an inherent set of "rights" given to them at their creation because they don't believe in any God.
They believe they are happy accidents and that the human being has no more inherent worth, or inherent rights, than the ostrich...
^^^ they made sure to televise this teaching at Davos this year...
In their views, no one should have any rights other than whatever privileges their "social superiors" give them, in their point of view.
The Biblical worldview calls these teachers liars, and evil men - if you believe in the Bible anyway.
Our country is founded on the fact God does indeed have a general good which God desires government in this world to fulfill. Founded on the fact the Bible is prescriptive of how a government
should be run.
It is not the church at all because the general good is for believers and unbelievers alike.
It is a secular institution, but in America it's a secular institution that is predicated on the fact that there is a God and mankind does have a certain set of rights they are born with that God intends for them to have, and that God intends no government to take away.
If you take that base away, that base set of biblical facts about man - you loose your freedom and live however the "state" wants you to live, with no more rights than the ostrich, instead of the opportunity to get the tiniest taste of the goodness of God to draw you into the fold.
Not standing against evils and for things like justice, does a disservice to the general good God would provide for when his prescriptions for government are followed as best as we are able.
Preachers preach.
Christians still give in Charity, real physical charity to those in real need because they know paying taxes has nothing to do with Christian Charity.
Christians try and be sure their personal actions always glorify God, but we are in the minority, there's not some great majority of Christians in America to tout about anywhere.
But I don't think it's beyond God to have His people in a nation they just so happened to be born into stand up against the masses for His prescription for government. It is for peoples general good.
and it beats hands down the system predicated on saying there's no God and men have no worth and therefore have no, or should have no rights that are not specifically given them by their respective governments.
