God Talk and Voting for
Obama...
11/09/08 06:10 PM Filed in:
Tom | Theology/Philosophy
We’ll, it’s worse
than I feared.
The church that I work at on Sunday mornings is very
mixed ethnically. That’s a great thing, but it
sometimes leads to a weird dynamic. With a variety of
ethnicities and backgrounds comes a variety of
worldviews. It shouldn’t be this way in the church.
You’d think we’d be united in Christ and therefore have
a common view of the world based on our closely held
Christian beliefs, but I guess that assumes that those
holding those views of the world have thought them
through. We won’t agree on everything, but at least
we’ll get the core things correct. You couple this lack
of coherent worldview with mystical views about God,
and you’re in a lot of trouble.
I overheard a couple ladies talking after service today
(one black, one white, lest you think I’m
stereotyping). One lady remarked to the other about
what a “great” week it had been. She was specifically
referring to the election of Barack Obama. The other
lady remarked that God had been speaking to her all
kinds of “controversial” things about the election.
There’s two problems here:
1) They not only have no problem with Obama being
elected, they’re excited
about it.
2) God told them it’s a good thing
that Obama was
elected.
The second problem really reveals the problem with
looking for individual special revelation from God
outside of scripture. Why would God reveal something
contradictory to His inspired revelation (the Bible) to
an individual? I know the Bible doesn’t specifically
say “Don’t vote for Obama!”, but I don’t believe that
Christians who are consistent in their beliefs could
vote for him in good conscience. See my previous post for
my thoughts on Christians voting for
Obama... Instead of looking for
external specific revelation from God, isn’t it
better to actually know what Scripture teaches? At
least if you know Scripture, you would be able to
sort out your thoughts to know what’s from God and
what isn’t. I think I’ll stick with what God has
already revealed in Scripture.
As I said before, I guess Christians with coherent
worldviews are hard to come by...