Good morning,
This week we will be reflecting on the Scriptural basis for voting. We will look at a comparison of the platforms of the Republicans and Democrats and then look at what the Scriptures say. Then we can choose which platform aligns with the Bible.
This takes out the personalities running for office and puts it squarely on the platform. Then we can objectively choose to follow God’s word or not.
Mentions of God
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Life
Deuteronomy 30:19-20
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Created Male and Female
Genesis 1:26-28
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Definition of Marriage and the Role of the Family
Matthew 19:4-6 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Restoring Education
Psalm 27:11
Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
Psalm 25:4
Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.
Psalm 86:11
Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
Psalm 119:33
Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
Tom Stearns, WASI Chaplain, 907 715-4001 chaplain@alaskaseniors.com
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