During the Civil War, the Confederacy was blessed by the support of several devoted Christian generals; Lee, Jackson, Johnson, Polk, and several others. They have all been judged for fighting on the side of slavery. Well, they would claim, their cause was state's rights...not slavery. And, slavery was legal.
It is a distinction without a difference...and they didn't prevail.
Today, many professed Christians stand in support of abortion. They claim it's not about killing babies, it's about a woman's "right to choose". And, after all, abortion is legal.
A distinction without a difference. And, they will not prevail. We can already see the tide turning.
In either case, we should be charitable and withhold judgment on a person's heart. That right belongs to God, alone. Yet, in both cases, I suspect allowing politics to overcome our moral sensibilities results in a spiritual dyslexia that renders us incapable of sound religious practice.
As Christians, we are "People of the Book". We cannot allow other sources to inform our beliefs. If we do, history will judge us less kindly than the God of Heaven who stands ready to forgive. Fortunately we do not have to choose between history and Heaven. In our Book, God says "seek me and I will be found" (Jeremiah 29:13)
I wonder...where have I strayed from Scripture to achieve a preferred outcome?
Live boldly out there today...
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