Christians and government

This is another topic I am preparing to delve into deeply on this blog in the coming months. There are many different views throughout the evangelical world on what a Christian's role is in government and the political process. Most of these viewpoints have little or no Biblical foundation.

As an appetizer for this I'd like to offer the following take on checks and balances in government from the Believe to Reason blog:

Why so much accountability? The Founding Fathers believed what Lord Acton famously said: “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And, built into an engrained Biblical worldview, the Fathers understood that the reason why power corrupts people is because the people themselves are corrupt. The idea that corruption comes from within is uniquely a Biblical concept. No other religion in the world gives such a poor view of the present state of man than the Bible. Jeremiah 17: 9 says, “The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it?” Jesus said in Mark 7:22-24, “For from within out of the heart of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man.” In Romans 3:10-12 it says, “There is none righteous, no not one. There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. There are none that do good.” Isaiah 64:6 says, “our righteous deeds are as filthy rags in the eyes of God.” Even our best is tainted by sin and deceit!

Check out the entire article here.

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