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To: The Grammarian
>More of the social gospel. No where do we have in the NT the example/exhortation for us to have guvment "love" our neighbor.< I disagree with him about the ACA's merits, but politics aren't theology. One can be a "good" Christian without being a political conservative in the sense the term is meant in U.S. politics.

I'm not sure how you can support the liberal agenda and be a "good" Christian. The two are incompatible.

13 posted on 07/28/2014 4:44:33 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: ealgeone
Your opinion is troublingly common here on FR. But if one cannot hold politically liberal positions and still be saved, then you undermine central tenets of Christianity (and certainly, Protestant Christianity): namely, that salvation is by faith alone, in Christ alone.

If we make it about thinking the right way on items that are not essential doctrine (the Trinity or substitutionary atonement, for example), then we make it about what we think and that comes awfully close to works-righteousness: what we do and think.

16 posted on 07/28/2014 5:00:26 PM PDT by The Grammarian
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