This article is not at all honest about Dominion Theology. Any deceptive person can pick just the good apples and place it on top of a basket of rotten apples and sell the whole basket to someone as if it were all good. It was not too long ago that the Catholic Church did exactly that. They had Christian Dominion theology in practice. Remember the Inquisitions that followed?
Who is going to define what the values and practices of Christianity are in your modern new Christian world? The Pope, Baptists, UCC, Mormons, Masons, Rick Warren’s Global Peace Plan, the Christian Patriot Movement, Robert Schuller, Oprah’s Secret, Jimmy Carter, Benny Hinn, George Bush, Rodney Howard Brown, Ron Paul, John and Paul White, Ted Haggard, the KKK? Just who did you have in mind?
True Christianity has always been a small segment of even those who identify themselves as Christians. So it this tiny minority in the world now going to make a overwhelmingly evil world conform to biblical law through politics? Get real!
If anyone wants to know more about Dominion Theology they can read my rather long article on the subject.
https://www.thepropheticyears.com/comments/The%20woman%20on%20the%20beast%20in%20end%20time%20prophecy%20has%20dominion%20theology.htm
I for one get tired of reading articles from “American patriots” that wrap their Dominion Theology beliefs in Biblical clothing and then bad mouth those who are carrying out the great commission, God’s way.
They equate a past and future America with the promised land as if somehow we are going to be there by just returning to the US Constitution through politics, force or both. America never was the promised land and it never will be.
Sure Christians should take part in the political process in their nations and most do. We do so because we know it is to our benefit to have noble leaders who will not hinder us in our commission. However, we are not under some delusional that we are going to make any nation a Christian nation through politics. There is only one way anyone will become a Christian and that is by hearing the Word of God and believing it. Our commission from God is to preach the “good news” not to continually flame those we might disagree with. These people run the Bible up the flag pole along with the American flag and play their own anthem “God Bless – American Pie”.
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worldNetDaily: Should Christianity, politics mix?: “He’s not the only pastor with serious reservations about Christians in politics. Rev. Mel White, the former ghostwriter of the late Jerry Falwell’s autobiography and now an ex-Evangelical, is also deeply troubled by Christians in the public square.
Seaking to RollingStone Magazine, White said: When most people hear… talk about a ‘Christian nation’ they think, ‘Well, that sounds like a good, moral thing.’ What they don’t know… is that ‘Christian nation’ means something else entirely to these dominionist leaders.
‘Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.‘ Church and State have their own distinct place and roles to play in society and allowing them to merge is unbiblical if you ask me.
I often hear Christians in the U.S. saying the Founding Fathers were God-fearing Christians that were inspired by the Bible when they wrote the Constitution. Uhm, come again?
I respect America’s Founding Fathers, the visions they had and the noble ideas they upheld. But I don’t believe for a moment they were wanting to found an exclusively Christian nation. Just take someone like Thomas Paine, for instance. And isn’t it a fact that many important and influential Founding Fathers were actually Deists and often involved in Freemasonry?
Many of the things Christian conservatives in the U.S. propose and defend, I support. But it appears to me that the whole idea of the Founding Fathers being almost infallible and some kind of ‘super-Christians’, is being used as an excuse to enforce their vision of Christian morals on others. And that is precisely what I believe Christanity should NOT be about.
Say you’re a Christian and you’re asked as a private individual why you oppose gay marriage. Are you going to give the exact same response when asked in Congress why gay marriage should be banned? If yes, I think that’s quite ridiculous. It’s like saying ‘Okay, I simply don’t actually know why God is so much against it either and I agree there’s no apparent logical reason why we should oppose it but, hey, our Founding Fathers were strong Christians too and they’d have opposed it. And besides, I just never liked gays anyway. But I hate to admit.‘
Tell me, how can you be so sure all Founding Fathers would have opposed it, especially if the Founding Fathers were not all Christians in the first place?! And God prohibited homosexuality but you have no idea why? So basically you want to ban gay marriage just because you don’t like gays and for no logical reason? Then what kind of an insane man are you and who is this cruel God we’ve been worshipping?!
‘Ah, so you’re saying that God’s Word isn’t enough of a good reason?‘ Yes, that’s right, it’s not a good reason in your role as an elected official of a secular government. The majority of your citizens is godless and living unbiblically and you should have understood that government is not the right means to try converting the people when you ran for office or Congress because all you’re going to end up doing is imposing Christian morals on those who do not believe. If you really want to lead your people to Christ, do so as a private individual. In your role of government official, however, you can display publicly that you are a Christian by living according to your faith and be a an example to others in your moral conduct, sincerity, humbleness and sense of honor and duty.
So what should a Christian politician do as far as social issues are concerned? Forget about the Bible for once? No. Just accept that God is not unreasonable and that His commands are not illogical but make perfect sense. Explain to the people why certain values are virtuous and require preservation if they want a society free of chaos and the ability to live in liberty. Do so because you love and care for your people. But get rid of the idea you’re doing any good and are serving God by imposing His laws on unbelievers. That is not what Christianity and or even Conservatism are all about. In the end, the only thing you’re going to have accomplished is that they’ll hate you and the God you claim to represent even more than before.
Later,
Ruben
You made a good point that I left out. If you impose Christian morality (if we can even define what morals Christians actually have) Non Christians will hate you and you will have set the stage for a counter revolution.
Many of our founding fathers were Christians but many were deists as well.
We actually have some Christian preachers here who believe the Constitution of the United States was inspired. Just like the Bible.
These same people might also think that the United States is the promised land, New Israel and that white people are the lost tribes of Israel.
Many in the Christian patriot movement do not believe all that but they do not realize that a lot of the rhetoric they use comes from these Christian identity nut cases.
They also have this view that America was so Christian and moral in the past. They conveniently overlook our history. With our witch hunts, slavery, Indian wars, civil war, the roaring 20’s the KKK, various insurrections and on and on. Many of these people are simply delusional.