Why a Baptist should not run for political office:

Tell that to Daniel and Joseph.

 

The same argument can be made for police officers, firefighters, school teachers, conservation officers...anyone who has a job with a federal, state, local government.

 

If their premise is true, then separating elected officials from hired/appointed employees of "Babylon" is a meaningless distinction.

ETA: Lol, Canadyjd, you beat me to the punch.

 

You said it much gracefully.

 

Perhaps, but the checkered flag was yours.

And thank you for the kind words.

 

Good morning, Salty, Good to see you & hope things are on the upswing for you & your wife, we have all been praying for you. Say it isn’t so that you are on fb

 

Neither Daniel or Joseph were volunteers. Daniel was taken captive and Joseph was sold into slavery.

 

How about Esther, then?

 

But even they refused to sin when commanded to.
If it is really such a great sin for men like this to be in service of “Babylon” or the world system, then I’m sure they both would have refused to serve and suffered the consequences like a Daniel in the lions den or with the prayer order and like the 3 Hebrew children refusing to bow down to Nebuchadnezzar’s idol.

 

I was just pointing out that they did not choose to enter into "politics" on their own.

A Christian can serve honorably in politics.

 

The story of Esther might be an apt parallel to a Christian entering politics.

(1) Getting drafted into a harem -- Esther 2:2-4
(2) Taught the ways of cosmetics (changing one's natural appearance) -- Esther 2:9
(3) One of many who were brought into the king's chambers, one-by-one, for an all-night "interview" to see who could please the king better than the rest.
(4) And after all of the women were "interviewed," being picked as the one who would hold a high office because you satisfied the king's desires the best. (I wonder, did the king give up his harem? Apparently they were still around after the coronation, see Esther 2:19)

Good can come out of it, but it is a difficult thing to do with integrity.

 

Well, many of the Founders, as well as the States themselves once a United States, saw the best qualified to do such were Christians!
We are to be lightswhre god has placed us to be, are to have fail and biblical laws, where better to have that happen that with godly mena nd women in the sewer of politics?

 

Actually a Christian who is a citizen of the US is already holding government authority. He is a member of the electorate, which is the most powerful elector on earth. His duties are to vote among other things. You'd have to renounce your citizenship to not be involved in politics. I don't think that's what God's called us to do.