Is voting a Christian duty?

[DavyP]

Can you explain how this passage teaches that it's a Christian duty to vote? I'm not seeing it.

That's too bad, because as a Christian you should... see how that Scripture relates to your voting question.

When we vote, we are selecting representatives that rule over us.

That's how Bible Scripture like that 2 Chron.7:14 directly relates, because it's about choosing God's Way, which when we vote we are indirectly making that kind of choice with what 'kind'... of representative we put in office.

So yes, as Christians we do have the Christian duty to vote.

And in case brethren didn't realize it, Christ's enemies have been making bogus religious laws against Christian preachers teaching about political issues at the pulpit, trying to silence them. Trying to make such a law in the United States affecting religious institutions is a violation of the U.S. Constitution about freedom of speech.

 

[ResidentAlien]

That's too bad, because as a Christian you should... see how that Scripture relates to your voting question.

When we vote, we are selecting representatives that rule over us.

That's how Bible Scripture like that 2 Chron.7:14 directly relates, because it's about choosing God's Way, which when we vote we are indirectly making that kind of choice with what 'kind'... of representative we put in office.

So yes, as Christians we do have the Christian duty to vote.

And in case brethren didn't realize it, Christ's enemies have been making bogus religious laws against Christian preachers teaching about political issues at the pulpit, trying to silence them. Trying to make such a law in the United States affecting religious institutions is a violation of the U.S. Constitution about freedom of speech.

Should and duty are two different things. It's a right and a privilege to to vote, but there's nothing in scripture that compels us to. For every reason you could give for why it's a good idea to vote, I could match you with reasons why it's not always a good idea. I would vote under the right circumstances; if there was a candidate I truly believed would represent me.

 

[DavyP]

Should and duty are two different things. It's a right and a privilege to to vote, but there's nothing in scripture that compels us to. For every reason you could give for why it's a good idea to vote, I could match you with reasons why it's not always a good idea. I would vote under the right circumstances; if there was a candidate I truly believed would represent me.

I strongly... disagree with your view, which does not fit our Christian duty to follow God's Ways in our choices. Anyone who has done Bible study of Old Testament history well understands this point, as Israel made choices to follow evil which God had warned them against many times through His prophets sent to them.

Thus the Bible facts are in accordance with the choices we make: choose evil and God's blessings are removed; choose those who keep God's Ways and His blessings remain. That's not a difficult choice for me at all. I choose... God and those who represent His Way. What do YOU choose?

 

[ResidentAlien]

I strongly... disagree with your view, which does not fit our Christian duty to follow God's Ways in our choices. Anyone who has done Bible study of Old Testament history well understands this point, as Israel made choices to follow evil which God had warned them against many times through His prophets sent to them.

Thus the Bible facts are in accordance with the choices we make: choose evil and God's blessings are removed; choose those who keep God's Ways and His blessings remain. That's not a difficult choice for me at all. I choose... God and those who represent His Way. What do YOU choose?

If you want to vote then vote. That's your right as a US citizen.

 

[PennEd]

agreed

my point is that a conscientious objecter does not incur guilt for abstaining from voting

Were you a conscientious objector in 2020 or 2016?

You have repeatedly refused to answer who you voted for in those elections.

You also NEVER bash the Democrats and their blatantly satanic policies.

So who exactly is the disingenuous one?

You, or Trump?

 

[PennEd]

Democrats and the left lie with such ease it’s almost as if it’s their natural language. Ya know, like their fathers.

https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1842584220545560866

 

[DavyP]

If you want to vote then vote. That's your right as a US citizen.

Yes, it is... my right to vote, and the right of those U.S. citizens that I served while I was in the U.S. military to protect their Constitutional right to vote!

 

[DavyP]

Democrats and the left lie with such ease it’s almost as if it’s their natural language. Ya know, like their fathers.

Ex-FBI agent Cleon Skousen, in his 1958 book The Naked Communist, listed 45 strategic points the Soviet Communists developed for subversive takeover of the United States. Number 15 covered your point...

"15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S."

(The 45 points were entered in the U.S. Congressional Record in 1963. See https://www.hiddendominion.com/45-communist-goals-congressional-record-1963/)

Today's platform of the Democratic Party is not the same platform that my parents supported in their generation of the 1930's. It has instead taken on many Communist policies that are designed to destroy the United States. Skousen's 1958 book The Naked Communist, is an eye-opener of documenting evidence of past Soviet spies working in the U.S. government, and how they led deceived U.S. diplomats into serving the Moscow line with foreign policy. This included U.S. statesmen like Whitaker Chambers and Owen Lattimore being responsible for transferring briefcases of U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets which helped them to test their own atomic bomb. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were directly responsible received the death penalty.

Every true American citizen should get a copy of Cleon Skousen's 1958 book, so as to not be deceived by all the policies being followed in the U.S. that are from the Communist line devised by Moscow.