Posted on 08/08/2007 3:02:33 PM PDT by carolgr
Where have all the Christians gone? I wish I were writing this paper to give you an answer to that question. I feel that it is one of the most important questions of the day.
What prompts me to ask the question? One thing is the dismal approval performance rating that our news media shows for President Bush. Obviously many Christians are negative about his performance. Christians should be 100% positive to give him support. He is not ashamed of his salvation and refers to it frequently. That makes me believe that he regularly prays to Almighty God asking for wisdom and direction in the decisions he makes. That’s the kind of leader I want. What's the alternative we have today? One who promotes homosexual relations, same sex marriages, abortion on request, disregard of our constitution, opposition to preaching the Bible, etc. Where have all the Christians gone? I'm sure you have heard the illustration of frogs and hot water. If you put a live frog in a bucket of boiling water it will thrash around, scream, and struggle until it escapes or dies trying. On the other hand, if you put one in a bucket of comfortable temperature water and slowly heat it, it will continually swim around until it dies. I'm afraid that too many Christians are swimming around in luke warm water not realizing what danger they are in. We may be taking the biblical teaching of loving and caring for our enemies too literally and not fighting for God's work to be accomplished. I understand that 11 of the 12 original apostles were martyred. Surely it was not because they were complacent and did not resist ungodly government and leadership. They resisted and struggled until death.
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WHAT???!!!! President Bush, and I respect the office of course, but let’s face it... the war and immigration aside, look at his treatment of Israel, pushing the “Roadmap to Death”, whoops, I mean Peace. Forcing the Israelis to live with the Palestinians is like putting a badger down the front of your pants, and then wondering why you’re getting torn to shreds.
If The President were regularly “praying to Almighty God”, I think he’d repent. No man with God’s spirit in him, could treat Israel this way. And by throwing Israel to the wolves, Bush has damned us as well, because if you curse Israel, you’re to be cursed (destroyed). This is hard to swallow, but it’s the truth. Yes, God appoints the leaders of the world, but it doesn't’t make them God-fearing men. Bush is a classic wolf, in sheep’s clothing. A man who
“looks” the part of a Christian , but really, ends up tearing people into pieces.
Many of them have died and not reproduced.
He got that part wrong. At least two of the original 12 weren't martyred (John bar Zebedee and Judas Iscariot) and the record certainly isn't clear as to several of the others.
Christians should be 100% positive to give President Bush support? Why? Bush and I will often choose to agree to disagree, like we did about amnesty for the illegals he holds up as doing the jobs that we Americans just don’t want to do anymore.
If Bush would say “I am of Paul,” I’d definitely claim to be of Apollos, but I guess we could both still be “of Christ”.
Why should I give him 100% support? Because it’s believed that he prays everyday? That doesn’t make his actions infallible.
If he built a border fence, communicated with the American people in a better way, abandoned the ridiculous “path to amnesty,” and had been more of a hawk on Iraq, I’d support him more than I do now. But putting 100% faith in anything other than G-d is a recipe for disaster:
Psalm 146:3-4 “Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.”
By the way, I do not suffer from BDS. But I am a conservative, and I expect those that were elected on a conservative platform to govern that way.
It's not enough to claim to be a Christian, you've got to govern like one!
Supporting a baby killer like Specter in PA instead of a real conservative was a betrayal to all that's good and right in this world. Opening up the border - prescription drugs, fortifying the myth that a Supreme Court Justice must believe that Roe v Wade is settled law, signing McCain–Feingold, that prayer service in the national cathedral that prayed to all the gods of the pantheon with a woman pastor officiating and most of all his insistence on calling Islam a valid religion of peace - yea why would Christians feel betrayed? Answer: because they have been!
I hear you. I was duped too, like everybody else, I thanked God that a Christian was in the White House.
Well, The Bible teaches that our weapons aren’t physical, they’re spiritual, and so I think it’s probably a good idea not to put much faith in the political arena anyway. The Bible also teaches that Satan is the god of this present world, and in fact he offered the world to Jesus, so, if he has the ability to give power on the earth to whomever he will, what does that say about our President? I think we got zinged. Good one, satan.
one of the more silly things i have seen posted here.
Sorry, I refuse to support GWB when he calls Islam a “religion of peace,” or when he tells Israel they need to give more land to the terrorist enemies who surround them, or when he tells me, a law-abiding taxpayer, that I am a racist or a bigot because I don’t want illegal aliens swarming unchecked and unpenalized into this country.
“Sorry, I refuse to support GWB when ...tells me, a law-abiding taxpayer, that I am a racist or a bigot because I don’t want illegal aliens swarming unchecked and unpenalized into this country.”
One of Bush’s more disgusting and low actions, a cheap shot, a statement beneath contempt, and a page right out of the democrat’s playbook. He ought to be deeply ashamed of it.
Christians can’t reproduce, so they must recruit.
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Boy o boy, do you have it all wrong!!!
This President has done a remarkable job. I haven’t gone with him on every issue, of course. He was mistaken on the immigration matter.
But, the two wars against terrorism overall have gone well. With all the best laid plans made, you must be prepared for counter moves - like chess. War, every war, is fluid with each side shifting according to what is happening. The President let his generals run the war and, by and large, we have the greatest. He did not micro-manage as some suggest. Iraq has come a long way - even their government. They are going to make it. It took our continental congress 12 years to get it right. The Iraqi congress seems to me to more functional than ours. So whats the problem - patience there young fella.
Yes the President is a strong Christian with all the attributes that go with it. And we should thank God for his dedication to God and Country. I’m sure the distant goal is peace in the middle-east - peace in the world. But there are many battles along the way. He and those boys in uniform are the only peace-makers in the world - not the Congress. EU, or Pope - only he and those American GI’s.
We have had steady progress in our national economy. Even after a devestating 9/11 which was designed to take down our capitalistic system. The enemy did injure us badly, but under this President we healed and continued onward.
And in all the other areas, he has done very well.
Open your eyes, and take a look around you!
I didn’t say anything about the war. God certainly leads nations to war, and to be honest, I think the main reason we went (in the spiritual sense) was to take out Saddam’s two boys. They were psychotic. I’m not criticizing the war. Calling Islam a religion of peace, that doesn’t have me too excited, I’m merely focusing on his dealings with Israel. According to the Bible, that matter is all-important, and is basically how all nations are judged. We have supported Israel for so long, it’s a shame to see that all go down the toilet as we force Israel into the hands of crazies who want nothing more than to destroy it.
Clinton before him, had Yasser Arafat shaking hands on the White House Lawn, but I don’t think anyone confuses Bill Clinton with a Christian anyway. But Bush claims to be one, and dupes us all.
They made a good try at John, though.
What is the real answer? Anyone know?
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