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lees1975

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4. One of the difficulties in attempting to debate MAGA politics with Evangelicals using Biblical theology is that their
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 12:45 PM
Sep 2024

theology is generally not based on the Bible. As the article states, it is based on whiteness, capitalism and power.

Ironically, it was in a university affiliated with an Evangelical denomination where I learned that what is preached and taught in most evangelical churches is actually contrary to the Bible, when it is interpreted using the linguistic tools, the historical and cultural context in which it was written, and consideration of the teachings of Christ in the four gospels as the interpretive standard for developing any theological point in the Christian gospel. What comes from that is completely different than what presents itself in popular religious media as "conservative evangelicalism."

It's impossible to sustain support for a political candidate with the character, temperament, lack of morals and ethics, and the political policy of Trump and remain committed and obedient to the kind of faith practice that is derived from Christian theology. The Bible's writers describe that kind of political loyalty as idolatry. And several of them wrote descriptions of this kind of intrusion into the church that makes it seem as if they were experiencing it themselves, what we see happening is so similar to what they experienced with political intrusion in the first century.

I've been frustrated on many occasions attempting to point out to people who claim to be the pillars of their church and who think Trump is sent by God to save America how flawed their reasoning is, according to the theology and doctrine of their own church, of which they are completely ignorant, or deliberately ignorant.

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