The Difference Between Conservative and Christian Civil Rulers

As much as I enjoy the term conservative, the word Christian means more. It signifies a follower of the person of Jesus Christ. I do not care who is in charge politically. When civil leaders and Scripture differ, we must always follow the latter.

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Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit
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The Difference Between Conservative and Christian Civil Rulers
By Buddy Hanson
The Covenant News
September 24, 2009
http://www.covenantnews.com/hanson090924.htm

At any moment we are either imaging Christ (keeping His laws), or Satan (breaking Christ’s laws by living according to a different set of rules). For a legislator, the thought of approaching his duties from an exclusively Christian perspective (imaging Christ) may seem to be an overwhelming task. And well it would be without the Creator God’s help. The thought of having the Creator God in your corner, watching over you and directing your every move through His revealed Word should more than offset any “peer pressure” to image Satan. The difference it makes in being a Christian is that we have God guiding us with absolute truths on how to live, work, play, raise our children, and self-govern ourselves, as He blesses our obedience!

How can we expect to improve on God’s will by living according to our ideas?

Since the Triune God has brought us out of darkness of our self-invented truth and into the light of His revealed wisdom, why are we more concerned about how people will respond to His truth, than we are about how He will respond to our compromising His truth? There is no biblical warrant for religious pluralism!

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