![]() ![]() This truth is not uniquely Christian: “A little leaven leavens the whole lump” (1 Corinthians 5:6). The last five years bear vivid witness to this infection at almost every level of society. ![]() They move out from centers of influence to infect whole cultures. This is true not only because flagrant boastfulness, vulgarity, immorality, and factiousness are self-incriminating, but also because they are nation-corrupting. “Flagrant boastfulness, vulgarity, and factiousness are not only self-incriminating they are nation-corrupting.” In fact, I think it is a drastic mistake to think that the deadly influences of a leader come only through his policies and not also through his person. It is not a small thing to treat lightly a pattern of public behaviors that lead to death. My point so far is simply to raise the stakes of what is outwardly modeled in leadership, so that Christians are given pause. To which you may say, “So what? Rejecting Jesus as Lord also leads to death, but you are willing to vote for a non-Christian, aren’t you?” I am, assuming there is enough overlap between biblical uprightness and the visible outworking of his character and convictions. The New Testament teaches that “those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:21) and that “those who practice such things deserve to die” (Romans 1:32). But where humble repentance is absent, the sins condemn. Personsįorgiveness through Christ is always possible where there is repentance and childlike trust in Jesus. And through persons, they destroy nations (Jeremiah 48:29–31, 42). They lead to eternal destruction (2 Thessalonians 1:9). To be more specific, they are sins that destroy people. The reason I put those Greek words in parentheses is to give a graphic reminder that these are sins mentioned in the New Testament. But you need not be sinning if you weigh matters differently.Īctually, this is a long-overdue article attempting to explain why I remain baffled that so many Christians consider the sins of unrepentant sexual immorality ( porneia), unrepentant boastfulness ( alazoneia), unrepentant vulgarity ( aischrologia), unrepentant factiousness ( dichostasiai), and the like, to be only toxic for our nation, while policies that endorse baby-killing, sex-switching, freedom-limiting, and socialistic overreach are viewed as deadly. Nothing I say here is intended to dictate how anyone else should vote, but rather to point to a perspective that seems to be neglected. Only God knows what may happen in the next days. This article is probably as close as you will get to an answer on how I will vote in the upcoming presidential election. ![]()
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