Would you vote for John James?

I believe Scripture teaches against abortion, therefore I support my church in its my name stories to prevent abortion.

The GOP platform is anti-abortion. So is the RCC platform, the Mormon platform, and the Jehovah Witness platform.

I am content with Christ, so I do not need to support those other groups.

 

Oh....I am not saying anybody owes me anything. I continue to benefit from my military service.

I am saying nobody has a right to demand that I participate in worldly powers.

 

I did. I am not talking about that type of powers. I am talking about the world in terms of the world systems (which are opposed to God).

The GOP and the DNC are two sides of the same coin. The difference is the GOP is a wolf in sheep's clothing while the DNC wears it's immorality on the surface.

 

My church is doing a lot. We have ministries to those who were seeking abortion, counseling, caring for mother's, and ministering to those who have had abortions.

Nobody is tipping the law. An advancement would be making abortion illegal. Reversing Toe vs Wade is pretty benign, just a political victory that most likely will not save one child.

But it allows the wolf (the GOP) to look good to the sheep who follow them.

 

I'll just wrap up the vote or abstain from voting thing so we can get back on topic.

If your conscience demands you vote, then vote. If your conscience demands you abstain from voting, then abstain.

If your conscience allowed you to serve in the military then serve, if you like. But if not, then don't.

Either way it is not up to you to encourage another Christian, as long as that Christian is obedient to Christ, to commit the sin of acting against his or her conscience.

 

No, it won't. It will allow states to make it illegal.

I am a big states rights advocate. But not with this one. Abortion needs to be illegal at a federal level. It is not difficult today to travel from Georgia to North Carolina.

 

I agree to an extent. Serving in the military and voting may be wrong or allowable at an individual level based on ones convictions. But I disagree that there is a right or wrong answer that can be applied to everybody.

The reason I say this is it would be wrong for a Christian who believes voting is wrong to participate in secular politics br voting. It would be wrong for a Christian who believes it is wrong to serve in the military to join the military. In each case the person would be sinning.

When we do what we are convicted is sinful then we sin, regardless of whether it would be sinful for another.

When we encourage other Christians to act against their conscience in these issues we are disobedient by encouraging a brother to sin.

 

I disagree.

When Paul spoke about eating meat or drinking wine sacrificed to idols he left that as a matter of conviction, encouraging one another to support those who could not eat or drink with a clear conscious.

I was not raised to abstain from voting. I voted all of my life. The past two elections I resisted a leaning to abstain and voted for Trump. But more and more my convictions grew.

The reason why I do not vote is biblical. But at the same time, people can vote for biblical reasons.

Christians should act in accordance with how God is leading them. And they should allow others to do so as well.

 

Abortion is just the carrot at the end of the GOP stick they use to control their sheep. It won't happen anyway.

The GOP has controlled the Presidency, the Senate, Congress and has had most of the appointed SCOTUS judges before.

 

I don't cash any check. I also don't get paid from an employer who gets their money from the DOD.

That said, it would not bother me to have a DOD job (except I don't want one).

I also pay taxes (which involves the government). I installed solar panels ($0 power bills and the government paid over half of the cost of the panels).

I do not believe an employee has the right thing dictate how an employer does business.....remember? (That was one of our disagreements).