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Question: Can Christians be both?
Answer: Yes
Question: Under what circumstances can Christians agree with politics?
Answer: When the political issues support biblical teaching.
Question: Under what circumstances can Christians oppose politics?
Answer: When the political issues are contrary to biblical teaching.
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Question: May the politics of a person be an excuse for withholding the Gospel message?
Question: May the country of birth be an excuse for withholding the Gospel message?
Question: May the crimes committed be an excuse for withholding the Gospel message?
Question: May the risk to your life be an excuse for withholding the Gospel message?
It is well if the answer is no to each of these questions.
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Question: How fiercely did the Jews in the 1st century dislike the Roman occupation forces and government control?
Answer: Extremely
Question: Did Jews believe it was by divine right that Judea was subject to Rome?
Answer: There is not any record of a Jew approving of the Roman subjection.
Question: Did Jews think it was politically acceptable to under Roman subjection?
Answer: There is not any record of a Jew approving of the Roman subjection.
Question: Do you think any Jew thought Rome ruled Judea by some legal process?
Answer: History records that Rome ruled Judea by military conquest not through a legal right or process.
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Question: What did the Lord Jesus teach his disciples about their relationship to Roman soldiers?
Answers:
Matthew 8 & Luke 7
The Lord Jesus heals the slave of the Roman centurion in Capernaum of Galilee.
Question: How did the apostles respond to Roman soldiers?
Answer: Acts 10
The Apostle Peter travels from Joppa of Judea to Caesarea of Samaria and enters the house of a gentile, which by the Law of Moses makes him unclean, and presents the gospel to the Roman centurion Cornelius and his household.
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Question: As a Christian in America is it politics or the teachings of scripture which rules your attitudes or beliefs?
Question: Is there any group of people you despise?
Examples:
Christians
Evangelicals
Conservatives
Cults
Liberals
Republicans
Democrats
Moslems
Race
Abortionist
Illegal aliens
If so, consider them as if a Roman centurion in 1st century Galilee or Samaria and have the attitude of the Lord Jesus or the Apostle Peter. Yes, these sought out Jesus and Peter.
However, the Lord Jesus sent his followers to “make-disciples-of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to keep all that I commanded you (Matthew 28) and not just to Jews who sought Jesus.
Answer: Yes
Question: Under what circumstances can Christians agree with politics?
Answer: When the political issues support biblical teaching.
Question: Under what circumstances can Christians oppose politics?
Answer: When the political issues are contrary to biblical teaching.
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Question: May the politics of a person be an excuse for withholding the Gospel message?
Question: May the country of birth be an excuse for withholding the Gospel message?
Question: May the crimes committed be an excuse for withholding the Gospel message?
Question: May the risk to your life be an excuse for withholding the Gospel message?
It is well if the answer is no to each of these questions.
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Question: How fiercely did the Jews in the 1st century dislike the Roman occupation forces and government control?
Answer: Extremely
Question: Did Jews believe it was by divine right that Judea was subject to Rome?
Answer: There is not any record of a Jew approving of the Roman subjection.
Question: Did Jews think it was politically acceptable to under Roman subjection?
Answer: There is not any record of a Jew approving of the Roman subjection.
Question: Do you think any Jew thought Rome ruled Judea by some legal process?
Answer: History records that Rome ruled Judea by military conquest not through a legal right or process.
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Question: What did the Lord Jesus teach his disciples about their relationship to Roman soldiers?
Answers:
Matthew 8 & Luke 7
The Lord Jesus heals the slave of the Roman centurion in Capernaum of Galilee.
Question: How did the apostles respond to Roman soldiers?
Answer: Acts 10
The Apostle Peter travels from Joppa of Judea to Caesarea of Samaria and enters the house of a gentile, which by the Law of Moses makes him unclean, and presents the gospel to the Roman centurion Cornelius and his household.
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Question: As a Christian in America is it politics or the teachings of scripture which rules your attitudes or beliefs?
Question: Is there any group of people you despise?
Examples:
Christians
Evangelicals
Conservatives
Cults
Liberals
Republicans
Democrats
Moslems
Race
Abortionist
Illegal aliens
If so, consider them as if a Roman centurion in 1st century Galilee or Samaria and have the attitude of the Lord Jesus or the Apostle Peter. Yes, these sought out Jesus and Peter.
However, the Lord Jesus sent his followers to “make-disciples-of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to keep all that I commanded you (Matthew 28) and not just to Jews who sought Jesus.