Posted by
faithfulmom on Saturday, November 08, 2008 4:31:45 PM
I just came from a bible study today. This is a fairly new group, for me. All the other people there have know each other for a while, I think. I'm still at the stage where I'm feeling everyone out and gauging their character, likes and dislikes (mostly biblical) and where they are spiritually and culturally.
One of my new friends just has her husband back home from being posted in Korea, by the Army. He's home for a month's break. I get the feeling a good number of the men in my new bible study group have been in the military. Although I personally feel very grateful to any and all military, I find myself unable to express that to those who have served. Part of that is guilt. They've given and given up so much and I take so much for granted.
After introductions, a discussion ensued about our current President elect. This let me know where everyone stands on their political view points. As expected, conservative, on most if not all subjects. As our bible study got underway, a new couple joined us. I hadn't seen them before, but everyone else greeted them with warm familiariy. It wasn't planned, but because of the lastest ballot bailout, a good part of our discussion circled around the differences between faith and belief.
Our conversations were varied and interesting, I actually spoke aloud (with my face turning red as the subject matter became heated) and gave my view points on politics and belief, and almost everyone came to a general consensus. I say almost everyone because the new guy, to me, wanted to know why we were so upset about Barak Obama being elected President when we call ourselves Christians? He felt Christian should't be so involved in the political process. If we as Christians believe that God is Supreme, than why do we get our hands dirty in politics? I expected this from the MSM and liberal Dems, to try and keep Christian voices from being heard and having a say in our political process but to have heard this from a Christian (very intelligent, probably highly educated and definately not military) left me a bit bewildered.
The soldier on leave from Korea had stated earlier that nowadays politics was about legislating morals or lack there of. I pointed out the when the Dems started legislating their brand of ethics, ie; abortion on demand funded by public dollars, advancement (militantly so) of homosexual agendas, hi-jacking of our childrens education, that's when the conservative movement took a big upswing. Since I was getting so hetted, the gentleman became withdrawn and didn't say much more during our study time, but before he left, he wrote on the dry-erase board that all points of view had equal merit.
This was such a liberal point of view that the label "liberal Christian" being an oxymoron took root. If all ideas were truely equal, than there can be no concept of good, nor evil. We get our ideas (ideals) from the world (Satan) or from the bible (God). As a non-believing person, of no stated faith this would make sense. They want to deny God's supremacy over the world so they deny His existence. Logically, if He doesn't exist, than the bible was written by man and so one man's idea is equal to any others. However, if we are true, bible inerrancy, believing Christians than we cannot say that all ideas have equal merit.
Clearly stated by Christ himself, a person is a child of Satan or a child of God. Since all man was physically beget from Adam, a creation of God's own handiwork, than reason says that Jesus was not talking about genetics but about spirits. Spiritually dead and you are of Satan. Spiritually alive and you are of God. Death or life that is dependant on what you believe and your beliefs are cobbled together by the ideas that you hold as truths. So, are all ideas equal in merit? Again, as a Christian, if you are a true Bible believing Christian, I don't think you can say yes to that question.
A liberal who believes that all ideas have the same merit are actually liars. Even in their own belief system they can't be consistant. If all ideas are equal, than at least to that liberal, my idea should have the same merit as his, but of course if this was true he wouldn't have become upset with my ideas. This I believe is the fundamental difference between the liberal mindset and the conservative Christian. Conservative Christains are consistant in one thing, if nothing else, that all truth coms from God and He taught us this truth by the teachings of the bible. Interpretations and applications may differ slightly (should worship services be held only on Sunday morninigs or are Saturday evening services also considered worship) but we all agree that in the end, we find the absolute truth from God (God sanctions the punishment of death by governing bodies but absolutely abhors the spilling of innocent blood).
For a liberal, truth is qualifiable to any individual. The bigger the sin of the individual the more quantifiable it becomes. Sin is not sin because..... There's always an excuse. To the liberal minded person, the only true sin in this world is to claim that there is sin. So the only true sinners are the conservative Christian. This being the case, how can there be Liberal Christians? One cancels out the other, doesn't it?