tolerance of serious
wrong by leaders sears conscience
God’s judgment results …
Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestrained immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God’s judgment.
Be it finally RESOLVED, That we urge all Americans to embrace and act on the conviction that character does count in public office, and to elect those officials and candidates who, although imperfect, demonstrate consistent honesty, moral purity and the highest character.
Adapted from Southern Baptist Convention Resolution on Moral Character Of Public Officials passed on June 1, 1998.
Oh well, it wasn’t carved in stone now was it and it wasn’t like anyone thought that back in those years of Bill Clinton in 1998, those folks voting on the resolution ever thought they might be called upon to actually follow through on what they were saying for themselves.
Be fair, who ever … WHO EVER … thought the SBC would ever have been called upon to support a leader who, while imperfect (Boy howdy!) COULD NOT demonstrate consistent honesty, moral purity and the highest character.
Unless … you don’t think … they DO think this feller DOES demonstrate consistent honesty, moral purity and the highest character?
BOY HOWDY!
Whoever thought that the flexibility of their faith would prove to be … so flexible?
Seems to me that we all grew up singing a song about the houses built on rocks and houses built on sand.
Soft sand.
Blow with the prevailing wind sand.
Here today and wiped away with the tide TWICE a day sand.
Houses built on sand.
You know what Bible story comes to mind?
Jacob cooking in the kitchen and Esau asks for a bowl of soup.
Jacob says nope … unless … you give me your birthright.
“Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
So Esau despised his birthright and he gave it up … for a bowl of soup.
The SBC had a role, a place, a birthright, but the SBC could see that THEY could lose an election and if the election was lost, what good was their birthright and the SBC despised their birthright for hope of gaining not much more than a bowl of soup.
What did Jesus say?
What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
I have a copy of the New Testament translated in the Gullah language of the South Carolina Low Country.
That translation puts that verse, Mark 8:36, this way.
De poson wa git ebryting een de whole wol
an den dead an gone ta hell,
e done loss de true life, ainty?
E ain git nottin!
E ain git nottin!
Nottin!
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