Backing Mormon candidate as bad as saying Mormonism is Christianity?
“When you have someone like Franklin Graham going on CNN and saying he has no problem voting for a Mormon like Mitt Romney and Osteen saying Mormons are Christian, it is clear that politics are being put before the eternal soul of man.” Televangelist Launches Fierce Attack on Joel Osteen, Says Mormonism Isn’t Christianity
I do believe the promise to Abraham that God will “bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse” applies to the Jews generally and certainly the Jews in their homeland. The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. All the prophets affirm that this promise will be the reality as God’s plan for his people comes to fruition at the end of the age (Isa. 49:22; Isa. 54:3,17; Isa. 60; Ezek. 37:28; Zech. 14:16-21, etc.).
Between the Promise and the End, we have the evidence of history that those nations/governments that have been kind to the Jews have flourished, while those who have sought their destruction have faltered or disappeared.
That does not mean the modern Israeli government is never wrong, or never guilty of injustice (they are unredeemed humans for the most part, after all). However, by happy Providence, in addition to the Promise, they share our values of democracy and human rights as well. Arabs citizens of Israel have more rights in Israel than their brethren in Muslim controlled lands. So by common faith in the promises to Abraham, and in shared western values, they are allies and should remain so. It is no surprise to me that in an era when our nation seems destined for decline, popular politicians at both ends of the spectrum (European-style Socialist and Libertarian) should share a disdain for Israel, and thus finalize the loss of blessing we already are beginning to experience as we drive from our laws divine moral principle and embrace that which pollutes the land. This is one of those times in history when things are very plain.
Between the Promise and the End, we have the evidence of history that those nations/governments that have been kind to the Jews have flourished, while those who have sought their destruction have faltered or disappeared.
That does not mean the modern Israeli government is never wrong, or never guilty of injustice (they are unredeemed humans for the most part, after all). However, by happy Providence, in addition to the Promise, they share our values of democracy and human rights as well. Arabs citizens of Israel have more rights in Israel than their brethren in Muslim controlled lands. So by common faith in the promises to Abraham, and in shared western values, they are allies and should remain so. It is no surprise to me that in an era when our nation seems destined for decline, popular politicians at both ends of the spectrum (European-style Socialist and Libertarian) should share a disdain for Israel, and thus finalize the loss of blessing we already are beginning to experience as we drive from our laws divine moral principle and embrace that which pollutes the land. This is one of those times in history when things are very plain.
I have started a poll and thread in the politics section of SI so that we can carry on the Ron Paul discussion without further hijacking this thread.
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