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THEOLOGY IN THE NEWS

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What does ecclesiology have to do with the election?

Collin Hansen | posted 11/03/2008 09:39AM

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Collin Hansen is a CT editor at large and author of Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists.

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Emmy	Posted: November 05, 2008 4:33 AM


The only thing that doesn't change is change. The bible is a standard and if we have to do things the bible way then both candidates go through. We cannot insist we are right being conservative or are right being democratic but are right obeying christ and his word. Jesus christ dined with sinners but this did not mellow His word or what He stood for!!

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Posted: November 04, 2008 6:35 PM

Evangelicals need to form their own party because neither o0f the two major parties fully represent their beliefs. In fact, the Republicans have successfully USED this group in the past. Why settle for half a loaf if you can have the whole loaf. I voted my conscience and it wasn't for either Mccain nor Obama. I don't want to be associated with either party which perpetrates innocent killings. Please don't pick out one issue - look at the whole picture.

jeri	Posted: November 04, 2008 12:52 PM

How sad that you consider that Christian voters are "inflicting" our choices on the rest of the world. One of the few and most precious rights left in this nation is the right to vote our conscience. For those of us who believe, and try to live by Biblical teachings, it means we cannot vote for a candidate who condones the slaughter of innocents both inside and, if they survive, outside the womb, vote for a gentleman regardless of how "articulate, intelligent and contemporary", whose record reveals his propensity to readily change his political positions following the publication of various poll results on various issues, who speaks easily-detected lies fluently and convincingly, continually rewrites his past, and has a long list of associates whose agenda contradicts everything many Americans hold dear. Since you are a reader of this site, I'm assuming you may be a fellow believer; therefore I remind you that while you may dislike our choices, you have no choice but to forgive us.

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