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Originally Posted by James Griffin
Christians while not of the world are still in the world. As individual citizens of this country they have a right to influence their own government. Passing laws will not save souls because being a good moral person is not salvation, that only comes through the redemptive blood of Christ. HOWEVER, your comments here have repeatedly suggested that because a citizen happens to be a Christian that they should refuse to have an opinion or take any action in either the workings of government or voting on its body of law. (Which would result in the laws of this country being written without the input by those of Judeo-Christian values)
Just because I have heavenly citizenship does not rob me of my American one . Laws are passed to govern human conduct. Our society has decided that in its best interest it is necessary to govern both certain individual conduct and even conduct between consenting adults ranging from incest to conspiracy to commit tax evasion.
It is remarkable that the ones who protest against a Christian exercising their rights as American citizens have either an overt or hidden agenda to either legalize or decriminalize a behavior that the majority of the citizenry of this republic oppose. As Christians we cannot and should not elevate political movements above our primary mission. But to suggest a Christian should have no say in the civil governance of their country?
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Our job is to teach and preach the good news. I did not necessarily say "no say in civil governance" obviously if the opportunity presents itself we should make God's opinion known IF they seek our advice from a Christian stand point of view. Political Christianity denies God is in charge of world affairs. Therefore we must intervene because God's appointments are failing is in essence what they are saying. Political Christianity believes we are serving an "oops" God. Oop's God they just passed roe vs wade. What shall we do? Oops God the GLB agenda passed what shall we do? God knows the future, he is Alpha and Omega, the earth is his foot stool. God is not in panic, why should we be?
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