Chuck as a pastor you should be well aware there are temporal and eternal issues.
Who fixes your toilet is temporal.
Who fixes your soul is eternal.
As a Christian pastor you should know the dangers of a cult claiming today to be “just another Christian denomination”.
Anyone who is elected to the leader of the free world will elevate that cult, it is a given.
What I am having trouble with is why you find this acceptable.
As a Christian pastor you should know the dangers of mormonism, why do you not know, that in and of itself is troubling.
Romney is a liberal. Romney is a mormon. Romney is ingrained in mormonism since its foundation. Romney does nothing that is contrary to his oath position in mormonism.
How as a Christian pastor do you not see and know that?
Where Chuck is your discernment?
First of all, I do not go by "Chuck." It's "Charles" or "Charlie" or "Pastor Henrickson," depending on the context.
you should be well aware there are temporal and eternal issues. Who fixes your toilet is temporal. Who fixes your soul is eternal.
Oh, I am very aware. In fact, I just taught a week-long course at a pastors' conference on "The Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms: The Proper Distinction of Church and State."
A government official holds a temporal office. A minister of the gospel holds a spiritual office. Each has their place. One does not need to be a Christian to do a good job in a temporal office. One should hold the Christian faith firmly in order to do a good job as a Christian minister.
As a Christian pastor you should know the dangers of mormonism, why do you not know, that in and of itself is troubling.
You seem not to have read what I have written, since I have said repeatedly that Mormonism is a false religion. I called it "a pile of crap." It will lead people to hell.
That does not mean that Mormons cannot be good neighbors, lead upright lives, serve well in public offices, etc. They can and they do.
If you oppose Romney for his political views, fine. I myself don't trust him to be a thoroughgoing conservative. I'm hoping he will govern fairly conservatively, and I'm sure he will be miles better than Obama. But that's a political judgment, not a religious one.
I would like one of you folks to show me how being a Mormon would inherently conflict with carrying out the duties of the President. For instance, if Mormonism were a pacifist religion, a Mormon President could not carry out the duty of being Commander-in-Chief. But Mormons are not pacifist, as far as I know. Can you give a specific example like that?
Also, if a Mormon was running for office who held strong conservative political views and values, was competent, and did not use political office to advance false Mormon doctrines, and he was locked in a tight race with a non-Mormon who was an extreme liberal and was a disaster in office, are you telling me that you would not vote for the conservative Mormon simply because he was a Mormon??? That in and of itself would be troubling.
Now I must go to bed, and I will not have much time for FR for the next three or four days.