Neither of these politicians are god. One is destructive of the highest order.
“Neither of these politicians are god.”
But both think they are, or will be, a god. That makes it impossible for me to vote for either of them. The Apostolic teaching says when you give support, no matter how slight, to those who bring a false doctrine of Christ, you become a partaker of their evil deeds. See 2 John 1:10-11.
No Christian who cares about his relationship with God can willfully violate his conscience and get away with it. You may argue my conscience is malformed, but until it changes, until I can find a way around those Scriptures that incriminate me for supporting either of those two lying, baby-killing, deity wannabes, I will have no choice but to look for some other option.
I don’t want to be here. I would love for someone to find that missing verse from the Bible that says you can occasionally wink at the Devil and God won’t care, especially if its a really big huge political crisis.
But I have found no such verse in my Bible. And really, I would be disappointed in God if I did. It would make me question whether he was serious about his insistence on doing the right thing no matter what.
Put the shoe on the other foot. What would you do to save the country? If you knew that doing a particular evil act would prevent America from sinking whole into the sea, what evil act would you be willing to do to save the lives of all those innocent people? Some perverse sexual act forbidden by Scripture? Some act of violence against an innocent person? Bowing down to a rock and calling it God?
Do you really think God would make you do something evil so that something good would come of it? Especially when he has told us plainly in Scripture we are never to use that kind of ends-justifies-the-means reasoning?
God doesn’t work that way. He insists we have faith in Him. Whatever is not of faith is sin. If I set aside faith, and act out of fear for the country, or as a cowardly act of submission to bullying, it is sin to me. It separates me from God. I won’t go there. I will not base my vote on fear, but on faith. I will do what is right and let God worry about the consequences. What else can I do?
Yet...
1–6, Exaltation is gained through the new and everlasting covenant; 7–14, The terms and conditions of that covenant are set forth; 15–20, Celestial marriage and a continuation of the family unit enable men to become gods; 21–25, The strait and narrow way leads to eternal lives; 26–27, The law is given relative to blasphemy against the Holy Ghost; 28–39, Promises of eternal increase and exaltation are made to prophets and Saints in all ages; 40–47, Joseph Smith is given the power to bind and seal on earth and in heaven; 48–50, The Lord seals upon him his exaltation; 51–57, Emma Smith is counseled to be faithful and true; 58–66, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.
16Therefore, when they are out of the world they neither marry nor are given in amarriage; but are appointed angels in bheaven, which angels are ministering cservants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory.
17For these angels did not abide my law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and singly, without exaltation, in their saved condition, to all eternity; and from henceforth are not gods, but are aangels of God forever and ever.
18And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with her for time and for all eternity, if that acovenant is not by me or by my word, which is my law, and is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, through him whom I have anointed and appointed unto this power, then it is not valid neither of force when they are out of the world, because they are not joined by me, saith the Lord, neither by my word; when they are out of the world it cannot be received there, because the angels and the gods are appointed there, by whom they cannot pass; they cannot, therefore, inherit my glory; for my house is a house of order, saith the Lord God.
19And again, verily I say unto you, if a man amarry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and beverlasting covenant, and it is csealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of dpromise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power and the ekeys of this priesthood; and it shall be said unto them—Ye shall come forth in the first resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the next resurrection; and shall inherit fthrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths—then shall it be written in the Lamb’s gBook of Life, that he shall commit no hmurder whereby to shed innocent iblood, and if ye abide in my covenant, and commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, it shall be done unto them in all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through all eternity; and shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their jexaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and a continuation of the kseeds forever and ever.
20 Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from aeverlasting to everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be bgods, because they have call power, and the angels are subject unto them.
21Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye abide my alaw ye cannot attain to this glory.
22For astrait is the gate, and narrow the bway that leadeth unto the exaltation and continuation of the clives, and few there be that find it, because ye receive me not in the world neither do ye know me.
23But if ye receive me in the world, then shall ye know me, and shall receive your exaltation; that awhere I am ye shall be also.
24This is aeternal lives—to bknow the only wise and true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath csent. I am he. Receive ye, therefore, my law.
25aBroad is the gate, and wide the way that leadeth to the bdeaths; and many there are that go in thereat, because they creceive me not, neither do they abide in my law.