Posted on 12/29/2019 10:00:37 AM PST by Jayster
I don’t expect many Blacks to join the GOP, but I do expect a number of them becoming independent voters, and spreading their votes among several other political parties, making the Democrats road to an electoral college lock much harder!
I wish that “black awakening” would extend to my liberal siblings.
I’m the only one (out of six) who’s walked away from the Democrat left, and I did that 25 years ago.
I think the rest of the bunch will be voting Dem until their dying day.
You mean they will start rejecting the democrat slave plantation for a change?
Good for you. I actually got my mother to switch from D to R before the 2000 election. She turned out to be a true blue Trump supporter even before I was.
A very different kind of “woke” is now taking place. “Walk away” is becoming a more and more attractive option for what was once largely a pretty sure vote for liberal Democrats.
There will still be Black Panthers walking back and forth before polling places in a number of inner city precincts, with a baton in one hand, slapping it in the other hand. A number of votes will “disappear” if the ballot is not “properly marked”, i.e., checked off for the favored candidate. These will be replaced in the back room at the county clerk’s office with ballots that are “correctly” marked. Many of the “registered” voters will climb off a bus at one polling station, do their “duty” then climb back on the same bus, which curiously enough, happens to show up at ANOTHER polling station a few miles down the road, where the show is repeated.
I wonder if his campaign staff is calculating how many stops in CA it will take to swing that state
Might be worth the thought
I’m aware of the divide.
But these days it isn’t that one bunch is religious and the other isn’t but that both follow a religion, for the Left is a religion too, one that finds its mirror in Islam ... except where Mohammad’s disciples went out waging war ASAP because Allah’s kingdom is only in this world the Left is out to fix the world for much the same cause.
As for the true faithful, there is always a remnant. Christianity spread to the farthest reaches without the institutions you speak of ... and in a very real sinse those have made it easier for the unconverted to warm pews for the price of “not being” a Christian (or appearing to as men judge things) has sometimes been higher than being an actual believer.
Back in the day Christ told those who demanded a sign from Him that no sign would be given them but the sign of Jonah.
Now, were He openly walking among us, He might say that an evil generation will be given no sign but the sign of Romans 1:18-32.
Which we are being given, BTW.
Recall that Christ wondered if He would find faith when He returned for context.
And as I said, there’s always a remnant.
Sense ... darn typos
The first institutions to adopt Christianity were the monarchs who made it the official religion of their countries....without the support of kings and queens, Christians were subject to persecution, just as they are being persecuted again today.
I’ve come to believe over the years that Judaism and Christianity are different versions of the same religion, who once had an adversarial relationship but are meant to join forces in the end times..... It doesn’t really matter if it’s Jews becoming Christians or Christians becoming Jews... All that matters is that they are both on God’s side
I cannot agree with the last.
After Christ the Rabbis that had rejected Him led the people astray, they were the blind guides, those who did not enter the Kingdom and who tried to prevent others trying to enter from entering.
The Judaism that was biblically legitimate and functional, able to be some help, that surrounded the Aaronic priesthood, became factually functionally defunct in all its operation in 70 AD and remains so. The mechanisms for dealing with sin or ceremonial impurity ceased to be available from then until now.
It does matter then: no one can keep the Law if only because the priesthood does not function (and not just because they cannot not break any of it at all ... lest it condemn them as breakers of the Law). But as I keep saying, there has always been a remnant and the Lord knows who is whom even if they aren’t so sure.
(Though I will confess my own family mattered not one jot to the story of Israel proper, being elsewhere and in darkness from the time of the patriarchs till the Gospel came to be proclaimed where they were, and then they would be unremarkable.)
No one coming to the Father but by the Son does not change simply because some have steadfastly rejected the Son for numerable generations. Is there the issue of culpability when someone has received little? Possibly so but it remains unrevealed to us how that would function and what are its limits. At any rate such is not the Gospel, there is no other gospel than the Gospel, and innocent ignorance is a very different thing than being ignorant by tradition.
The difference may possibly (though not certainly) help Israelite women that were kept ignorant by their men as a part of certain traditions, but those men are without excuse. Scripture testifies against them (recall, He said do not think I accuse you but Moses for he wrote of Him ... per Christ).
Or why do you think Israel will be mourning when Christ returns? Seeing Him and believing is very good for them personally, but believing also means understanding what it means to never have believed.
And before you go there everyone (arguably) has people that they care about who will not enter the Kingdom, people I know and care about or people you know and care about. Or do you think it is without cause that we are told He shall wipe away all tears?
Actually, I think it will go something like this.....
Jews: “Look, the Messiah is here”
Christians: “Look, Jesus has returned..... and did you see the Jews are calling him the Messiah, they’re Christians now”
God is the original and greatest storyteller... He loves a good story as much as people do... That’s why he created us... Without human intelligence, emotion and wit, there’s no story... It’s all just scenery.... the story of human history is filled with all sorts of unexpected and ironic twists and turns..... when the Messiah finally comes, I have no doubt there will be some shocking and surprising details that none of us predicted.....but hey, that’s just my opinion.
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