David (P.R.E.Z.) Washington
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Three out of four Americans say they believe in God with the vast majority identifying themselves as Christian. However, the country is highly divided, the 2008 presidential election resulting in a near 50/50 split. Tempers have flared amidst a plethora of T.E.A. parties, town hall meetings, and media wrangling that’s unprecedented.
One of the main and least repeated facts concerning the ideological war between conservatism and liberalism is God’s influence in shaping each worldview.
According to Barna Research:
- Six out of ten conservatives say their faith is becoming an increasingly important moral guide compared to just three out of ten for liberals.
- Liberalism has almost six times as many atheists, agnostics, and general unbelievers than conservatives.
- 63% of conservatives believe the Bible to be accurate in the tenets it teaches to just 27% of liberals.
- 63% of conservatives were categorized as “born again” versus 32% of liberals.
- Conservatives are seven times more likely than liberals to identify themselves as evangelical Christians.
Politics is a smokescreen in the battle between conservatism and liberalism. It’s not about politics. It’s about God.
As one of those conservative Christians, this doesn’t come as a surprise since the Bible speaks specifically about this coming down the pike:
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
When we look at the ideology of liberalism which supports such positions as abortion, euthanasia, and homosexuality, only two things can happen in order to come to the fallacious idea that you can be a Christian and hold firmly to the ideology. You have to redefine and reinterpret the Bible so that it supports your position and therefore creating God in the image you want Him to be, or get rid of the Bible and God altogether, therefore strengthening the evil positions the philosophy is steeped in. Liberals have tried to do both and continue to do so with more of the latter.
I have said this before and I will say it again: there is no way you can be fully Christian and fully liberal. Not possible. Ain’t happenin. Keep dreamin. Nuh uh. Nope. Not in a million years. Liberalism is anathema to the Christian worldview. Always has been, always will be.
So don’t be fooled by those who profess to be a liberal and a Christian. Challenge them with the truth of the scriptures. That will always be the litmus test of where they stand in the grand scheme of things.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (1 John 4:1a,2-3)
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