My View on Politics and Religion

We’ve all been told, at least in certain places, it’s rude to talk politics and religion. Many of us grew up that these subjects were to be avoided at all times. To be fair, I don’t like getting political, but I love talking about Jesus. I think it’s rude NOT to talk about Jesus; all things are through, for, and by Him, so how can I keep silent?! But my distaste for talking politics ends when politics inserts itself in to the Spiritual.

Here is what I mean: in the beginning, God defined marriage as between one man and one woman. This shouldn’t be controversial to say, it’s scriptural, and literally within the first two chapters of Scripture. Valuing life: again, it is said in the first chapter of the Bible that God created humanity in His image, so to say a human life, whether in utero or outside of it, is valuable and worthy of defense is not political, it’s Spiritual. In the beginning, God created them male and female, again, in Genesis 1, so to say a woman can become a man, or a man can become a woman, or, worse yet, that we can convince kids that they were born in the wrong body and mutilate them, is not a political issue, it’s a Spiritual one. God told Adam, in Genesis 2, to work the ground and watch over it, and told him to hear and obey his voice, so to say a man’s job is to protect, provide, and heed and teach God’s instructions is not political, it’s scriptural and, thus, Spiritual.

I may lose friends and followers over this, but I don’t care. The Bible IS controversial. It’s not open for loose interpretation, and because of our fallen state, we’re always trying to re-interpret God’s commands to suit our own desires. Those in darkness hate the light. I’m getting back to the Bible. I will care for every human being, because they are made in the image of God, but I will stand for truth, and I will not back down from it. I would rather hurt feelings than see a soul condemned to hell for lack of truth, and this is the truth: Jesus died for sinners, of which I am one, and so are you.

We are condemned, by our own rebellion against a perfect and Holy God, and deserve death, but God, while we were His enemies, sent Christ to die for us. Jesus lived the perfect life we could not, and died the death I earned, taking my sin, my shame, and bearing the wrath I deserved on Himself that I might be restored to Him. In rising from the dead, He sealed my fate: I am sealed with Him eternally, and this world has nothing for me, and no hold over me. Cancel me, say what you will about me, but I want you to go to heaven, so I will continue to speak the truth. And I hope the Truth will set you free.

Romans 5

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.