The Nugget:
1Ti 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
1Ti 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
My Comment:
It would seem to me that if Scripture urges us to pray “for all that are in authority,” then it would be logical to conclude that for those who live in a country where they are given the opportunity to vote to select those who would be in authority, it would be a Christian duty to participate in that voting process.
Yet I have read or heard the claim that 32 per cent of Evangelical Christians will likely sit out this election and not participate. Those Evangelical Christians need to learn how to do Real Bible Study. They had better change their minds in a hurry and get out and vote, whether in early voting, or on election day.
Failure to vote may cost you the freedoms you have enjoyed. You may lose the country you once enjoyed and find yourselves living in potentially disastrous conditions.
Vote for the candidate of your choice, but do vote.
It is my personal view that no Bible-believing Christian can, in good conscience, vote for Vice President Harris.
Vice President Harris has had almost four years now to accomplish something for good. But she has not done so. Have a different opinion? Educate me. Name one or more good things Vice President Harris has accomplished.
Unfortunately, from the standpoint of the Bible, a vote for Vice President Harris is a vote directly against the Bible because:
(1) Vice President Harris and the Democrat Party support sodomy, while the Bible totally condemns it.
(2) Vice President Harris and the Democrat Party support abortion, while the Bible totally condemns it. That is a non-issue in this election because it is no longer a federal issue but a state issue, which is how it should be.
As for the debates which have now concluded, I listened in full to each of them.
Vice President Harris is a very poor debater. The moderators were disgraceful in both what they allowed and how they intervened in a one-sided manner in partisan fashion in support of Vice President Harris. Beyond the debates, in her appearance on “Sixty Minutes,” Vice President Harris was in error, but her answer to another question was spliced in to replace what she mistakenly said. In another interview, she failed to address an important question, despite the repeated but rebuffed efforts of the interviewer to get her to focus on the question being asked.
It is too bad that Presidential debates are not conducted in the manner collegiate debates are conducted. Failing to address the issues and making false claims about an opponent’s position is unacceptable behavior in a real debate.
Now, what about President Trump as a presidential candidate?
Some Christians object that President Trump displays by his language and past behavior some very unchristian character traits. They fail to acknowledge that President Trump, a Presbyterian, honors and believes the Bible, firmly supports the nation of Israel, is against antisemitism, has publicly asked for forgiveness during his first term in office, is a peace maker, and was led to Christ by a group of pastors who publicly presented him a copy of the Jewish study Bible.
President Trump may have his faults, as we all do. But we are not electing the “Theologian in Chief” but the President of the United States of America.
I believe President Trump will hold more closely to the Rule of Law, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
That is all-important, and if there were no other reason than that to support President Trump, that is sufficient justification to vote for him.
The Biden/Harris Administration has literally trashed the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by disregarding them when convenient. The duty to maintain the security of the southern border has not been fulfilled. Is Vice President Harris the “Border Czar”? For nearly four years she has done nothing to secure the border. She attempts to blame President Trump for her problem, saying he spoke against a bill she favors, and urged his supporters not to vote for it such that it was never passed due to his influence. She does not tell you that the bill she favors would actually worsen the border crisis, not solve it. Harris continues to support the entirely false claim that President Trump orchestrated a violent attempt to overthrow the 2020 election on January 6, 2021. I personally watched that event in real time as it happened and assert that President Trump did no such thing. President Trump offered to authorize a National Guard contingent to protect the Capital. The mayor of Washington DC and Nancy Pelosi both refused the offered protection. A number of three-letter agencies have subsequently rounded up innocent, peaceful participants, identifying their presence based on cell phone tracking, and have made them political prisoners who even yet are still incarcerated unlawfully without a hearing or speedy trial, claiming they participated in an unlawful insurrection.
Many voters apparently do not even know who Vice President Harris really is. They fail to understand that she is a far left Marxist whose record is further to the left than Bernie Sanders. As for transparency, everyone who cares to know understands where former President Trump stands on the issues. As for Vice President Harris, she flips back and forth in her positions, and when asked questions about where she stands, often deflects the question and rambles on, often repeating her lies about President Trump’s positions. As for any claims Vice President Harris makes about what she will do if elected President, we need only to ask, “Why have you said and done nothing about the issue for the last four years?”
The national economy and its sorry state is perhaps the most important issue of the election. At least President Trump has had actual experience in the real world that demonstrates he understands economic issues, and knows how to turn things around by successfully solving economic problems–things about which our current Vice President, running for the same office, is clueless.
Indications are that there are very tough choices that must be made immediately lest we suffer unspeakably dire consequences. I have not heard Vice President Harris address these matters. But of the two viable choices for President, I believe President Trump has the background to enable him to make the right decisions, hard as they will be. President Trump has already demonstrated his ability to resolve problems despite concerted opposition bent on preventing him from doing so as exhibited during his first term.
I have repeatedly read that a good many Christians fail to vote. In the light of James 4:17 and also what Jesus said about “Rendering to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,” failing to vote is failing to obey Scripture.
If all Bible-believing Christians would vote their values this election, this could make a most important difference in the outcome that would have a positive effect for years to come.
If all Roman Catholics would heed the past call of their church and bishops and vote their values, this too could positively affect the outcome. Though the following quotation goes back several election cycles, its timeless truth is still pertinent:
Bishop David Ricken, the leader of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, noted in a recent letter [October 24, 2012] to parishioners that voting for candidates who support what he calls “intrinsically evil” positions, such as abortion and gay marriage, could “put your own soul in jeopardy.”
In any case, don’t just sit there and complain–go vote! Even if your vote cancels mine!