In school, my rookie philosophy professor frequently made us replicate the saying:” A words without a framework is a justification for a prooftext”. In other words, it’s unsafe to twist the Bible to contradict a predetermined place. Before fraudulently using Jesus ‘ death to scold Christians for their political views, Rick Warren might have thought twice before taking the same advice.
The Evangelical Pastor used John 19: 18 as a telephone for democratic kumbaya on X on Wednesday morning. According to Warren, because Jesus was crucified between two thieves, it was obvious that the most Compassionate political location was right in the middle of the spectrum.
” If you’re looking for the #realJesus, hardly a parody disfigured by political desires, you’ll find him in the middle, no on either side”, Warren wrote quietly.
In chapter 23 of his church bill, Luke includes details that Warren may have forgotten if he had a little more thought about how his exegesis was thought out. Luke tells us one of the thieves “hurled accusations” at Jesus, while the other sought and received joy. Warren’s forced assessment possibly fails to convey what he was trying to convey in its purest form.
While only God can interpret the heart’s intentions, Warren’s post resembles efforts by some christian “leaders” to earn points for rising above the political strife.
Even if Warren’s deceptive use of Scripture earned him back-pats for being more divine than his politically active brethren, he deserves to be exposed for it. I honestly hope he will stop using his position of influence to distribute a distorted version of the biblical tale. The apostle Peter had strong words for the “ignorant and unstable” who” twist]Scripture ] to their own destruction”.
While Warren’s blog is badly conceived and fraudulently executed, its issues don’t stop there. He also uses a strange idea to twist Scripture that is also incorrect.
Jesus isn’t in the middle of any given break. He is so much more than, and so far better to, a bargain place between two individuals, two thoughts, or two viewpoints. There would be no distinction between Christianity and any other church seeking peace that was created by man if that was all that was meant to follow Christ.
The crucifixion’s information, as well as the entire Bible, is one of conflict between good and evil. The emotions of man have been the battle on which our fallen natures fight against God’s compassion and forgiveness through Christ’s death and resurrection ever since Eve ate the branch of the knowledge of good and evil. There is no way to end that conflict. In Discovery 3, the saint John was instructed to write to the Laodicea religion,” May that you were either cold or hot!  , But, because you are ambivalent, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth”.
A struggle between Republicans and Democrats is hardly comparable to a fight for souls. However, the conflict between good and evil can be felt in every corner of the world and in every area of our lives. Nowhere in the universe, including the world we live in, is sinful or beyond the reach of God’s god. Pastors like Warren should apply their holy allegiance to avoid a duty to stand up for truth and goodness while they are on earth. This is dumb at best and wicked at worst. There are important political issues on which Christians should use the tools at their disposal to recommend for intelligent, responsible, and pious laws, from abortion to religious freedom to appropriate treatment for children with gender dysphoria or even governmental stewardship. To prevent doing so is wicked, and to avoid doing so under the pretense of majesty is even more wicked.
The church requires much less platitudes about everyone getting down and far more sincerity to speak out and denounce bad. We didn’t get beings with both-side-isms on social advertising, but by inviting them to join the fight against sin, starting in their own emotions. Conviction begets confidence.
Warren’s information suggests that if we could all know to get along, if left and right could only meet in the middle, we may get Jesus it. The assumption is that the creator of the universe is constantly balancing act as political beliefs change, keeping him perched at the top of an ever-changing ring curve.
Not only is it naturally absurd, this perspective also takes a really modest view of God. Instead of putting us on the same level as sin and forgiveness, it places God on the Republican and Democratic scales. Jesus isn’t sitting around waiting to be found in the” popular earth” between two wicked ideas. He invites us to meet the tremendous struggle for our hearts that He has won. We must take his recovery and his victory over the evil in our hearts, acknowledging our evil and our ability to redeem ourselves.
All of our earth battles, political and often, perform out on the fringes of that much greater fight. They are not final, but that does not produce them morally neutral. We may seek God’s guidance in every struggle to understand what is moral and what confidence to do it. Quite often does that imply merely dividing the change. Our thoughts must be weighed in accordance with the truth because truth is no triangulated based on divergent people viewpoints. If they are, moderating them is not an act of righteousness but one of stupidity.
Elle Purnell is the elections director at The Federalist. Her job has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women’s Forum. She received a B. A. in state from Patrick Henry College and a media small. Observe her on Twitter @_ellepurnell.
