Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. - Romans 13:1-7 (ESV)
One month to go and the uber-dominionst Steven Strang is leveraging his fake Christian media platform over at Charisma news extra hard to try and bully your vote for his chosen political messiah, Donald Trump. For the past few months, we have seen Charisma trot out lunatics like Greg Lock and Mario Murillo to say Democratic voters are going to hell. The once respected Jack Hibbs has jumped off the theological cliff by declaring that Christ will be standing at the pearly gates with our voting record in His hand, as if saving faith in Christ and the cross are no longer what constitutes a saved individual. Mix in a little Dr. Michael Brown demanding Republican votes, albeit in a nicer manner and you have the perfect storm of political idolatry being sold to the sheep. This past day saw two more articles, as the aforementioned lunatic Murillo has a new piece claiming God directly told him five warnings, should Kamala Harris be elected. Now, think about the sheer biblical stupidity of that statement. Is God somehow unaware of who is going to win this November? Does He or does he not see all time? Does He or does He not raise up all leaders and use them for His will? In addition to the Murillo piece, which we will deal with second, there was another article, the first one linked above, from someone at CBN about someone named Dr. Jeff Meyers. CBN is another bastion of dominionist propaganda and Meyers proudly calls himself the "leading worldview authority." Worldview is of course dominionist code-speak for voting Republican. I will start with Meyers only because he said some breathtakingly unbiblical and disturbing things. We will review the false prophecy from Murillo after. So, let us reason once more together.
One of the biggest mistakes Christians make, he said, is believing they are choosing between the "lesser of two evils." Myers wasn't suggesting there is a perfect choice. Rather, he argued, using that metric makes deciding who to vote for that much more difficult. Myers explained that Christians "really need to understand how to be good citizens in a time of tension," acknowledging it's a "truism" believers are voting for the "lesser of two evils," because it's granted in Scripture that every human being is born with a sinful nature (Romans 5:12). "People only run for president because they have an enormous ego," he said. "Instead of thinking of choosing between the 'lesser of two evils,' I think of my vote as 'lessening evil.' That's what I focus on."' - CBN, Via Charisma News
Clever attempt but quite transparent. The NAR has a problem. They exist now, solely as an extension of the Republican Party. In the past this was more aligned with false Christian teachings because they could always play the morality card. The problem is that now their candidate is the least moral person in American history seeking the presidency. Therefore, the lesser of two evils, risks people correctly determining that the man who has been unfaithful with all three wives, including one time with a porn star, might not be the lesser evil. So, Meyers job here was to try and dispel this by just saying, oh well, everyone is evil because of sin. While true, that is not the point. Thinking your vote is going to lessen evil, is the exact same thing as saying you are voting for the lesser evil. It is just linguistic semantics. What he is trying to do is get people to not focus on the individual person as a lesser evil and instead focus on what they promise, which he spins as lessening evil. Except, who the person is should matter to us greatly. This is the path we have been on since Franklin Graham, removed Mormonism from the Billy Graham list of cults because he wanted to co-opt your vote for Mitt Romney. Compromise breeds compromise. Not to mention that politicians rarely deliver on any of their promises. If the devil himself ran in 2028, the NAR would insist, hey we are not electing a pastor in chief! Meyers openly admits here that using the lesser of two evils makes the choice in November more difficult! Why is that? Because he knows his choice is not the lesser evil! It is not our job to be good citizens of this world beloved. The bible says we are citizens of heaven, present tense. God does not allow dual citizenship. Meyers then tries to pretend that life liberty and property are somehow all Christian values that can only point us to his candidate. Ugh. The most egregious part came when he absolutely eviscerates the bible:
'"The kind of government we have [in the United States] is a constitutional republic," said Myers. "And in a constitutional republic, the people are the rulers. That's very difficult for us to get our minds around. We just assume that whoever's running for president or mayor " those are the rulers " but that's not true." He went on to argue the correct interpretation of Romans 13, which tells believers they are to "be subject to the governing authorities," is that, within the American governmental context, Christians are called to participate in the political system. "Who are the governing authorities?" Myers asked rhetorically. "The people. So, in this situation " in the American context " if you are a Christian and you are not involved, you are literally disobeying God's admonition to be obedient to the governing authorities."' - CBN Via Charisma News
