Someone posted An Open Letter to Rev. Franklin Graham on Facebook, expecting it to be controversial (it came with a warning!) and I read it with interest. I commented on the letter itself, but I wanted to preserve it here just in case it got moderated away for some reason (I don't expect it to be, but still, it's my thought and I wanted to keep it. Plus, I wanted to be able to edit it to add some relevant information that I didn't include when I wrote my original comment.) It was an interesting letter, but it missed the mark on a few things. For one thing, the sarcasm was appreciated by, well, me - because I love sarcasm, and I say that without sarcasm - but it's directed at a man who publicly supported Trump. Sarcasm is not only wasted on such people, in my opinion, but it actually occludes the point; they don't recognize it. I thought this sentence was well done: "We just preach the good news of Jesus Christ; love one another the best we can (which sometimes isn’t very well); feed … [Read more...]
Christians, please don’t vote for Trump.
I'm an American citizen. I vote. I'm also a Christian who votes. I know a distressing number of fellow Christians who have voted for, or are willing to vote for, Donald Trump as President of the United States. I do not understand this; to me, something's horribly broken in their reasoning. It's not that Trump is not a man in need of salvation just like any other - and from all appearances, he remains in need of salvation. See Trump believes in God, but hasn't sought forgiveness - accepting Christ as propitiation for our sin is a pretty fundamental part of being saved, and here we have Trump directly repudiating any guilt on his part. Romans 3:23 says that "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" -- emphasis mine. His denial of his own sins before God means one of two things. He doesn't think he has sinned. The Bible says that all have sinned; he's either elevated himself to Jesus' stature (and therefore blasphemes) or doesn't recognize sin for what it is, and … [Read more...]