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My identity for this blog is James Klein, however that is not my real name. I am a Christian of 35+ years with sufficient life experience and Bible training to answer questions. I am not a pastor or church leader, but I regularly attend and participate in a church located somewhere in the United States of America. Details...

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

In Response to Dr. James Dobson's Recent Comments...

Dr. James Dobson has recently made some statements that might be interpreted as though he is encouraging Christians to vote for a 3rd party candidate if certain candidates are nominated by the republican party. See the article here.

This is a sensitive topic about which I am greatly concerned. As Christians, our responsibility is to seek God’s guidance on who we should vote for, through prayer.

I understand that a position for life and the sanctity of marriage and Godly family values is important, but we can only influence our candidates by supporting them, and praying for them, not by abandoning them.

Beware of placing too much focus on the issues instead of the person’s character. In the past I have heard such outlandish statements as "I would vote for the devil himself if he was against abortion." My friends, this is not right. We have the ability to chose whom God would chose, but we also have the ability to rise up in our own self-righteousness and say "I won’t vote for you because of this…", and go against the will of God.

In the past, self-righteousness has caused many Christians to abandon their schools, government and fellow citizens, and turn inward to their churches and private programs, leaving the world in the hands of the enemy to corrupt and spoil. Christians have been reaping the consequences of this for many years.

Dr. Dobson is right that we should not "compromise" our Christian values, but we need to be careful that we don't confuse "self-righteousness" with "not compromising".

The truth is that there is not one candidate who does not error somewhere in the position they express. We will not find a candidate in some 3rd party who is any more perfect than the ones we are discussing, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). Don’t forget that God is able to turn the erring heart. Let God guide your vote.


James :)

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