Editor, Commonwealth:
Various letter writers and columnists have written recently on the subject “How can a Christian even consider voting for Trump?” Often, those writers hail from a more liberal tradition, but nevertheless they raise some important issues.
For example, they might discuss what the Bible teaches about sin by reminding us about the seven deadly sins and God’s law. Often they will compare Donald Trump’s conduct with Jesus’ teachings in the Sermon on the Mount.
Any reasonable, thoughtful, thinking reader of Jesus’ Sermon, coming to the end, can only fall down and cry, “Woe is me!” The only available response is a sinner’s plea for mercy and God’s grace to save him.
It’s not only Trump but all of us who are guilty. If we are awaiting a sinless candidate, we will have to wait for Jesus to return one day and take up His rule. To study what Jesus has to say about sin, and then thank God that we are not as guilty as the next person, is just to play the Pharisee.
We do need to have compassion for the poor and the weak, but the Bible commands that of each of us as individuals, not as a function of government. The Good Samaritan didn’t tell the innkeeper to send the bill for the sick traveler to the local welfare office. The Samaritan paid it himself. Indeed, Christians have a long history of looking out for the poor. Historically, there have been few if any atheist or infidel hospitals, orphanages or soup kitchens.
But if we are going to bring the Bible and Christian ethics into politics, then we will also conclude that no Christian can vote for the Democrat ticket either, since that party advocates abortion, the slaying of the innocent in their mothers’ wombs. 9-11 was a horrible murder of more than 3,000 of our innocent citizens, but on the same day more than 4,000 innocent babies were slaughtered in their supposedly “safe” mothers’ bodies.
This has been repeated not just on 9-11 but every day for more than 43 years now. And to think this genocide has been sponsored by the Democrat Party.
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and his justice cannot sleep forever.”
God is taking note and will call our nation to account. As part of His judgment, who knows, he may make us have Hillary as our president! Or maybe worse, He might give us Trump!
John Hey, M.D.
Greenwood
