My Bible says accept Christ as your Savior and be born again.
Noting about politics at all except, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's..."
I don't believe God the Father will bar a person with Christ in his or her heart from Heaven because they didn't vote the republican party line all their life!
JEEZ....
Jesus isn't a relativist.
ALL liberals are relativists.
The point is, if you support abortions, gay marriages and the like, you are not in keeping with the church. If you feel differently...brush the dust off your Bible!
You are correct that salvation is based on faith in Christ alone, not one's works or affiliations with organizations, including churches or political parties. However, once you are born again, the Holy Spirit comes to live inside of you and begins the process of sanctification in the Christian, leading one to become progressively more like Christ.
How does relate to politics or voting? It is hard for one to believe the Holy Spirit would guide the believer to vote for a candidate who supports infanticide/abortion on demand and the homosexual agenda (which is contrary to Romans 1 and other teachings of the Word of God). In addition, the liberal montra of secularism denies the very power and existence of the Creator, making it even harder to believe that the Holy Spirit would move a Christian to vote for this ideology. God cannot be contrary to His Word so He cannot and would not direct someone to act in opposition to His word.
However, as to the size and scope of government or the correct reaction to terrorism in our world, I believe there can be genuine disagreement in the Church (the body of true believers). Frankly, the leftists and secularists in our country and in Europe fear the evangelical Christian more than they fear the fundamentalist terrorist. This has been their main grievance with Bush and America since he was elected and continues to this day.
My Bible says accept Christ as your Savior and be born again.
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Agreed and we are to follow Christ. Do you think Christ would have put his seal of approval on abortion or gay marriage or being a sluggard (welfare system)? You can't serve 2 masters, you will pick one or the other. This country is so divided and it reminds me of when the people were offered Christ or Barabas (not that Bush is Christ but he sure represents him alot more than Kerry) and you have 1/2 this country screaming "GIVE US BARABAS!!!" Scary...very scary.
I agree completely. Christians can be saved and be wrong on many things. They need only be right on one.
But being pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality and pro-big government (which is liberalism) contradicts the Christian faith, and harms our witness to the world. I'm sure that you and I agree here.
I don't think that it's that you gotta vote Republican to be saved. It's not the party labels, it what the party believes. The bible says to flee evil, so I wouldn't think that a Christian could align themselves with a party that believes things to be normal and acceptable that are evil in God's eyes, according to His Word. Now, I am not saying that the Republican party is perfect, but on the whole what they beleive and how they present themselves is usually better than the other.