One of the subjects in another thread and an issue that made national headline news this morning that was directly involved with people I know...
And I don't know how to stop the tidal wave of momentum.
Religion and politics... you can't mix them.
Basic lesson:
It was for political reasons that Jesus was crucified.
We, as a church body, have enough issues trying to agree enough on theological issues to join together and accomplish anything.
But then...
People want to blend two opposite and still incorrect political parties (and I don't think third parties are right either) into the mix of religion as well.
They do not mix...they don't belong together. It's like horse dung on a bride's cake at a wedding. It doesn't go there. Someone is going to get very upset about the dung on the cake. A farmer would probably welcome the dung in his fields for use as fertilizer...but not on his daughter's wedding cake.
In Daniel we read that "God sets up leaders and deposes them" (and Daniel didn't see eye to eye with his leaders either)
Paul says that governments were given by God for our benefit.
Even Jesus himself was respectful to Pilate and said that his Father put him into his position of power. Pilate then said that he had no grounds for finding guilt in Jesus for anything he said or did.
But Herod and Pilate and the Jews still used Jesus as a political football to advance their own agenda.
Today, there's so much mudslinging...so many conspiracy theories...so much slander coming from Christians that it's impossible to recognize anything Godly about them.
Our identity is in Christ...not a political party, not in a national identity, not a political agenda, or even a "God given civil right".
It's a definite violation of misusing God's name.
"If the people who call themselves by my name..."
And I don't know how to stop the tidal wave of momentum.
Religion and politics... you can't mix them.
Basic lesson:
It was for political reasons that Jesus was crucified.
We, as a church body, have enough issues trying to agree enough on theological issues to join together and accomplish anything.
But then...
People want to blend two opposite and still incorrect political parties (and I don't think third parties are right either) into the mix of religion as well.
They do not mix...they don't belong together. It's like horse dung on a bride's cake at a wedding. It doesn't go there. Someone is going to get very upset about the dung on the cake. A farmer would probably welcome the dung in his fields for use as fertilizer...but not on his daughter's wedding cake.
In Daniel we read that "God sets up leaders and deposes them" (and Daniel didn't see eye to eye with his leaders either)
Paul says that governments were given by God for our benefit.
Even Jesus himself was respectful to Pilate and said that his Father put him into his position of power. Pilate then said that he had no grounds for finding guilt in Jesus for anything he said or did.
But Herod and Pilate and the Jews still used Jesus as a political football to advance their own agenda.
Today, there's so much mudslinging...so many conspiracy theories...so much slander coming from Christians that it's impossible to recognize anything Godly about them.
Our identity is in Christ...not a political party, not in a national identity, not a political agenda, or even a "God given civil right".
It's a definite violation of misusing God's name.
"If the people who call themselves by my name..."
