Featured It's a Sin to Disrespect the President and to not Submit to his Authority

And it doesn't surprise me that you twist it in order to exalt yourself.

 

Okay you told us we should be polite and respect evil. So what's the difference? I'll start respecting Obama when he stops lying and starts honoring his oath of office and not until and that's saying alot because according to the constitution the man isn't even qualified to hold the office of president. Everything about this man is fraudulent. From his birth certificate to Obamacare and everything in between. He is indeed the "great pretender".

 

It's been clearly shown you that Jesus Himself criticized the political leader of His people. You see only what is convenient for you to see, and ignore that which negates your argument.

You're a hypocrite, for I know full well you did the same or worse in criticizing Romney, and I'd say it is a better-than-average guess you exhibited the same negativity and disrespect you haughtily accuse others of directing at the Great Pretender, when you wrote of or spoke of President George W. Bush

You think people have short memories, and you can escape having your own hypocrisy thrown up in your face? Think again!

 

His caveat for the Romney-bashing was Romney wasn't president, so it was OK> I'm sure Zaac would have accepted his authority, had he won.

 

Oh, of course he would! Zaac wouldn't say one thing, and do another, would he?

By the way, Zaac, it occurred to me that, since the apostles encourage believers to honor the king, and since the apostles were Jewish, our question may be best served by examining the political commentary within the book of Kings found in the Jewish Scriptures. Jewish scholarship attributes the chronicling of these books to priests who were contemporaries of the kings. These priests highlighted the major accomplishments of each king, to each one's glory. But they also had another job, that of making a special point of summarizing the reign of each leader by evaluating his conduct with one of two general statements: Either "He did good in the sight of the LORD," or "He did evil in the sight of the LORD."

Priests were not limited to simply confronting political figures from the safety of their sacred halls, nor were they the only ones who made bold assertions directly in the presence of kings. Countless prophets within the Scriptures are on record for confronting the poor conduct of a king. In fact, when Elijah's protégé Elisha is summoned into the presence of both the King of Judah and the King of Israel, he says to King Jehoram:

2 Kings 3, NASB
14 ... "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look at you nor see you."​

Where's that fit in your philosophy of respect for a bad leader, Zaacaroo? That's backhanded "respect" if I ever read it, and it was said to his face! We can't get before the Great Pretender's face, or else at least one of us here would repeat what we have written on these electronic pages.

 

And my eternity is not affected by you mislabeling something you don't like as "sin".

Admonishment rejected.

 

Lawful authority Zaac, lawful authority. Obama is not acting on lawful authority. We are under no obligation to respect or obey unlawful authority. Get it?

 

Actually, under our system of government, under the principle of enumerated powers, it does.

Actually, under our system of government, Obama has no authority over me. He's president, not emperor.

Clearly, we obey God first, then man and then, only if man's laws are consistent with God's decrees.

 

Clearly Zaac doesn't understand our system of government.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't lying a sin?

How about making an idol of one's self? Obama was once asked if he believed sin exists, and he said "Yes." But when asked to define sin, he said, "Being out of alignment with my values."

He said he is offended by the notion that all people need Christ in order to be saved.

Do I have to explain to you how his statements represent sin, Zaac, or can you figure that out for yourself? He denies the deity and power of Christ! Would you dare do that and continue to call yourself a Christian? More importantly, how quickly would you denigrate any of us for doing so on this board, yet you defend this man as one who has done nothing to violate the word of God! That's pure unadulterated hypocrisy.

Hardly. But yours is most assuredly an attempt to call a hopelessly lost sinner a sinless man. That's precisely what your statement initially quoted in this post attempts to do, and there's nothing funny about that.

 

Stealing is a sin. Socialism couldn't exist without theft nor could it exist without coveting which is also a sin.

Murder is a sin. But Obama says it's a "woman's right" as well as his. He maintains he has the right to kill people he "suspects" of being involved in "terrorism". For anyone else to kill a person on suspicion alone would be murder.

Bearing false witness is a sin and Obama blames everyone else for the things he and his ilk have done. He is a man that is definitely in need of a savior and I ain't talk about the state neither.