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Originally Posted by Ohio
The chief issue of this divide is abortion, the murder of the unborn. Apparently you are now convinced that God is not so concerned about the unborn life as the conservatives are.
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The last time I checked, the kingdom of God was not in the business of abortions. That is in the kingdom of the world.
While God may have used Israel to deal with the sins of the Canaanintes, most of which was about them refusing to even acknowledge God which resulting in all those other sins, the task of the church is not to bring God's justice on anyone outside of the household of faith (and even then the justice generally results only in their expulsion from our fellowship, not from citizenship of the worldly kingdom in which we live), or in the taking of their life. Our charge is to live the life of righteousness that we were originally created for. And in doing that to attempt to bring more people into the nation-in-exile which is the kingdom of God.
All of this railing over abortion that is occurring in the world is not furthering our actual charge. And no matter how much more important you think certain sins are v others (I do not disagree), their eradication through marriage of the church with the government of the world is absolutely NOT an option. It is as bad as anything that the RCC ever did in its worst times. It associates us with the immorality of Trump. I refuse to have any such association. No matter how nice it would be to end all abortion, union with the world is not the way.
In any case, it is time to remember that we should not fear. Not fear the liberals. Not fear the caravan. Not fear healthcare that in any way involves the government.
Fear Not.
I am not saying to just roll over. But to the extent that you want to shape how any of that happens, get involved in the process. Don't just hope that a bully can force it upon us (or
them). That would be truly unexceptional.