10-29-2024, 07:50 AM
The problem with Christians thinking that they're voting for candidates with biblical values is that they practically never really are. They have been subjected to a lifetime of indoctrination of partisan propaganda disguised as theology that cherry picks and misinterprets passages of the Bible in order to shore up Christian support for the candidate or policy du jour and have never taken a step back, set aside the issues that dominate the news of their day, and carefully and honestly developed a biblical theology of the state that focuses on timeless biblical truths.
For example, one of the grand unifying themes of biblical teaching concerning the powers that be is that God does not show partiality, i.e. that he does not have a double standard whereby he gives rulers permission to perform acts that he does not permit commoners to perform. On the contrary, if something would be a sin for any commoner to do, then it is also a sin for rulers to do. But the entire premise of statism, including the Christian statism of those who think they're voting for candidates with biblical values, is that there is a double standard and that they are voting to delegate to agents of the state powers that they recognize that God's law does not permit them to wield themselves as individuals.
For another example, they completely ignore the example of Jesus, who, although crucified as an enemy of the state, voluntarily refrained from fighting against pursuing political power by means of the same tools that the state relies on (i.e. force), and demanded of his disciples that they too refrain from attempting to pursue his agenda by using the means that the rulers of the nations use.
I could go on with multiple examples like these.
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