This is strictly my opinion.
People who say that Christian American voters should forsake allegiance to a political party and align themselves with Christ ignore the fact that, though they are citizens of Heaven, they are still citizens of a secular United States. Sometimes the most practical, realistic choice is not a matter of what's the best or the most righteous, but what is most likely to stop or slow a political trend.
Glad you prefaced it with that it was just opinion.:laugh: But here's what I don't get. God has given the Christian a task. And God has given the Christian His Greatest Commandment. What on earth has given us this perception that WE must slow or stop a political trend by endorsing something secular that is against God?
The wounded needs his bleeding stopped before he can heal. I see America as wounded, her fate being the same as Europe.
But you apparently see it as being healed at the ballot box. Christ says that HE will heal our land if we do certain things. We're trying to be in control of the fixing which is as much of a problem, if not more, than the folks who are actually doing the evil.
I mean no offense, because I recognize everyone has their own conscience, but the argument that we ought not vote for one of the two parties who are the only serious contenders, and instead vote for third party or abstain or vote for the "Christian" candidate ( whoever that is) smells of denial of the political realities in America today coupled with a dose of self-righteousness.
And voting for "the lesser evil" while blatantly ignoring God's Greatest Commandment( and I know a lot of folks don't think they are doing this, but they are) speaks loudly to sacrificing but not obeying.
But God's word says that OBEDIENCE is better than sacrifice. So Christians are to OBEY first, and not feel as though they have to support that which is against God in a sacrifice in order to stop the bleeding.
God has said that HE will stop the bleeding.
if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land 2 Chr. 7:14
And our inability to do things God's way but to rather try and orchestrate the "fix" ourselves speaks to the same disobedience that the Repubs in here speak about the Dems. Or shall I say the same self-righteousness that tells us WE are gonna stop the bleeding and start to heal the land.
