No the tools that he uses to wield whatever "power" he has over this nation are deceit and lying. The power that he has to "rule over us" would not be his unless God had ordained him to be in that position. The question which Christians must ask themselves is "Why would God appoint such a lying deceitful egomaniac to be appointed as President"?
If God had not ordained him to be where he is, he would not be there. Obama has not chosen himself to be a leader, but a ruler. God has stated quite clearly that the heart of the ruler is in the hand of God and he changes it at his will. Just as he hardened the heart of Pharaoh, he hardens and softens the hearts of all rulers to accomplish HIS will.
America is at an interesting crossroad. We have been slouching towards this crossroad to Gomorrah for decades and here we are. We have been cursed with 4 years of being ruled over by an Abortion promoting, homosexual agenda promoting, homosexual marriage and adoption advocating President and now we are being given a choice between a President who has been Abortion promoting, homosexual agenda promoting, homosexual marriage and adoption advocating President and a candidate who has time and again proven himself to be an Abortion promoting, homosexual agenda promoting, homosexual marriage and adoption advocating Candidate (either for Governor, Senator and now president.
I have little doubt but that Governor Romney has been appointed to be our next president. There are a few in my camp who think that Obama can beat him. I'm not in that camp, in fact I believe that the American People, being the fickle self-centered electorate that they are, are going to put the same faith in Romney that they put in Obama and that Romney will probably win this election in a landslide.
But does that mean that American will be turning away from the path towards Gomorrah? I don't think so. Romney is as embedded in that camp as anyone and Romney's principle road to power has been the same as Obama, i.e. he has used the same "Tools" of "deceit, of systematic lying" that Obama used to get to his current position of power.
I'm going for "the big picture" here, which — as has already been eloquently suggested by Alamo-Girl and thouworm — essentially boils down to a great spiritual crisis confronting the American people, to my way of thinking, the greatest since the Civil War.
If it is a spiritual crisis that we are in, then obviously the solution to that crisis is not to vote for a lying deceitful pro-abortionist, pro-gay marriage, pro homosexual agenda, pro-gay adoption social corporatist who believes that God is just one of a gazillion Gods who get together every once in a while on the planet Kolob and vote to exalt a new breed of Gods, one of whom will be Mitt Romney at some point in the not too distant future.
If we are at a point of a political crisis only, then the "logical" choice is to vote for Romney and to continue on the spiritual down slide that brought us Obama in the first place. If it is a "spiritual crisis" that we are in, then I suspect that the next 4 years is not going to change at all if either Romney or Obama is elected. If God gave us Obama because we as a nation put our collective "Hope" in him to change things for the better, then if we put our "Hope" in Romney to accomplish the same feat, we will be sorely disappointed.
I will not vote for Romney. Let it be clear that Romney is probably going to win because Obama has been such an utter disaster. Romney will win, but not with my vote or the votes of those you choose to ridicule here. We are standing on solid ground by not choosing to be pragmatic with our priciples. I have vowed never to vote again for any candidate with a pro-abortion record or who advocates a pro-abortion platform. For Romney's entire political career he has been firmly entrenched in the pro-abortion camp. His recent "conversion" is nothing but "lies and deceit" which is how he won the nomination and it is how he will succeed in winning the Presidency. He will win it. But not with my vote. No how. No way.
It wasn't God who "appointed" Obama. It was the American electorate. (How can one blame God for human acts?)
I only hope the "dupes" among them will not succeed in returning him to an Office he is not by any means or measure qualified to hold, this next time out.
BTW, I define "dupes" as people who are not ordered in the Logos of God, but who are ruled from the level of "vital nature." IOW, the "pull of the physical world" outweighs and outdraws the "pull of the spiritual world" with such people.
I aver we Americans are in the throes of a great spiritual crisis at this time.
By "spirit," I intend the following:
...the openness of man to the divine ground [of being]. Through spirit man actualizes his potential to partake of the divine. He rises thereby to the imago Dei which it is his destiny to be. Spirit in this classical sense of nous, is that which all men have in common, the xynon as Heraclitus called it. Through the life of the spirit, which is common to all, the existence of man becomes existence in community. In the openness of the common spirit there develops the public life of society. [Voegelin, Collected Works 12:7]Now the America that Obama seems dedicated to destroying is the most promising crucible of the emergence of God-given individual liberty as the main factor to be protected in a just and free ("liberal") public order. In this sense, America is, as John Winthrop put it, a "shining city on a hill," the beacon of liberty under just law beaming outward into the world. All because, historically, culturally, the American people understood America was a "nation under God."
In the past, God has manifestly blessed America....
But do we deserve His blessings nowadays?
At this point, I just get down on my knees and pray. For I have no privileged insight into the answer to that question.
Everyone must do the best he/she can: Pray. Vote your conscience.