October 27, 2016 @ 8:30 AM
One of the things the Bible clearly charges Christians to do is to defend the faith once delivered to the saints (1 Peter 3:15; Jude 1:3). However, when it comes to politics and politicians, Christians in America routinely rollover and play dead when Christianity is trounced by political heretics who publicly tout their phony Christian professions. Here’s a good case in point, at last week’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York City, Hillary Clinton said the following: “I am not Catholic. I’m a Methodist. But one of the things we share is a belief that in order to achieve salvation, we need both faith and good works.” Of course, the Bible totally refutes Mrs. Clinton’s remarks. According to Ephesians 2:8-9, we are saved by God’s grace through our faith in Christ. It has nothing to do with our works, but everything to do with Christ’s work for us, which we could have never done for ourselves. Therefore, salvation, according to God’s Word, is a gift of God that can never be earned by our good works for Christ, but can only be received by our faith in the sufficiency of Christ’s saving work for us.
Now, most evangelicals will shrug their shoulders at Hillary’s heretical belief, since she is a Democrat, a member of a political party whose platform is as foreign to the cardinal doctrines of the Christian Faith as Adolph Hitler was to Bar Mitzvahs. Yet, these same evangelicals have been closing a blind eye to the publicly stated heresy of Republicans for decades.
For instance, President George W. Bush once publicly stated, “All the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same universal God.” While this is a fundamental belief of Unitarians, it is, as far as Christianity is concerned, an egregious false doctrine.
Although he was defeated in his bid for the White House by another phony professor of Christ; namely, Barack Obama, who has publicly stated his denial of the existence of Hell, his doubts about the existence of Heaven, and his confidence that all people who believe in a higher power will somehow be rewarded, John McCain, like George W. Bush, was another Republican given a free pass by America’s evangelical community for his egregious and heretical pronouncements. A good example is when Mr. McCain—who once called for the ouster of all evangelicals from the Republican Party, describing us as “agents of intolerance” and an “evil influence”—explained his refusal to publicly profess Christ by following Him in believer’s baptism by arguing that he “didn’t find it necessary” in order to meet his “spiritual needs.” I guess, when it comes to this so-called follower of Christ, the first thing Christ commands His followers to do in order to publicly prove their commitment to follow Him, is really optional and not necessary.
Although defended as Christians rather than cultists by former President Jimmy Carter, who is another false professor of Christ and purveyor of false doctrine, Mormons, like Mitt Romney, are anything but Christian. Among their outlandish beliefs is the belief that Jesus was the physical offspring of sexual relations between God and the Virgin Mary, as well as the brother of Lucifer—the devil. Despite such egregious heresy, evangelicals flocked to the polls in our last presidential election in hopes of electing to the White House a cultist who the Bible actually forbids us from welcoming into our houses lest we give credence to his false faith and encourage him in the propagation of it in our world (2 John 1:9-11).
While Hillary preaches her heresy in this year’s presidential election, her counterpart, Donald Trump, professes to be a Christian, despite denying he has ever asked God for forgiveness, a biblical prerequisite for becoming a Christian (1 John 1:9). According to Trump, he doesn’t do much wrong, but when he does he tries to “make it right” himself, feeling no need to “bring God into the picture.”
I know a post like this will result in me being roundly and readily condemned. My fellow evangelicals will accuse me of making mountains out of molehills. However, I couldn’t disagree more, feeling that the real problem here is how today’s evangelicals insist upon making molehills out of mountains. According to the Apostle Paul, “A little leaven leavens the whole lump” (Galatians 5:9). It only takes a little pinch of error to corrupt the whole Gospel message, which Christ has commissioned us not only to preach without compromise, but also to protect and preserve from corruption. If we, the lone stewards of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, fail to pass off a pure Gospel to the next generation, God’s message of salvation will be lost upon the earth, as well as man’s hope of eternal life.
When it came to the Apostle Paul, he wouldn’t compromise the Gospel for an instant in anyway whatsoever (Galatians 2:5). He was quick on the draw to shoot down the least little deviation from an unadulterated Gospel message. He, unlike most evangelicals today, understood what was really at stake, not the losing of political elections, but the losing of men’s immortal souls.
You would have never caught the Apostle Paul giving a pass to politicians spewing apostasy. He was resolved, as a wholehearted defender of the Christian Faith, to be ever on his guard in its defense. You would have never found him allowing the Gospel to be compromised by anyone, not even presidential candidates or sitting presidents. Likewise, you would have never found him allowing the Gospel to be compromised anywhere, not even at the polling place or in the voting booth.