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“When it comes to abortion, Scripture is silent, as is Jesus.” What a load of bull! From beginning to end, Scripture affirms the value of human Life. And the greatest testimony of all? God took on flesh and died on a cross, revealing the immeasurable worth of EVERY human... show more
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![In this clip, Peter Beinart says most of the "organized American Jewish Community" has abandoned Judaism and instead practice a different religion. He says: "[in Judaism] ... human beings are created in the image of God & so nothing should be elevated above human beings who are considered to have of infinite value. What Zionism has done, what the state of Israel has done, it has led many people in the organized American Jewish Community to elevate this state above the absolute value of the human beings who live within this state... ...more than half of whom are Palestinian ... who are also created in the image of God ....that is an act of idolatry because Heschel said that there's only one thing that's created in the image of God ...the human being and to act as if anything else is sacred or sacrosanct is to turn it into an idol and to be practicing idolatry ... ....and so you see this phrase again & again & again "does Israel have a right to exist?" ...the Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz said, absolutely not. no state has a right to exist. Human beings have rights. States are just instruments for the protection of human life and human flourishing and human dignity and their legitimacy is entirely based on how good a job they do in protecting the rights and dignity of life of the people."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1863777375239975092/ext_tw_video_thumb/1863776230618628096/pu/img/2-7SPOnOt4yP1cc_.jpg)
![At a Q&A, John MacArthur is asked about Christian nationalism. The kingdom of God is not of this world. Jesus said that. He said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would [fight].” His kingdom is not of this world. The kingdom of this world is a separate world; they’re not linked together. Let me say it another way: Nothing that happens in any nation, whether it’s a Communist nation, a Muslim nation, or a “quasi-Christian” nation, or an atheistic nation—nothing in that nation politically, socially has anything to do with the advancement of the kingdom of God, because the kingdom of God is separate from that system. God, in His sovereignty, is building His church, “and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it,” Jesus said. So the idea that you should link up some political effort, some political process, some social process, some gain of power or influence in a culture as part of the advance of Christianity is alien to Christianity. You never have our Lord approaching anything like that, nor the apostles, and particularly the apostle Paul. He sought to gain no favor with the Roman Empire whatsoever, or for that matter, with any other of the rulers that he ran into during his life. Now, that is not to say that we are indifferent to what happens in the nation. We’ve been talking about that the last couple of Sunday mornings. We have to be the people who uphold righteousness. When we come to vote, we want to vote for that which is the most righteous option. Obviously, we can’t vote in righteousness, but we have to vote in a way that reflects our commitment to the righteousness of God. So we couldn’t possibly elect somebody who was an abortionist, somebody who was LGBTQ or LGBTQ-affirming, or any other deviation from God’s righteous moral standard. So it gets harder, doesn’t it, nowadays, because even sometimes when politicians are more conservative and anti-abortion, they may be sinful and wicked in some other categories, and it’s very hard to find out who is really honest and who is simply dishonest and seeking power. But in the end, we do what we can with the understanding that the responsibility of the church is not to advance the kingdom of this world. That’s a faulty viewpoint. Christian nationalism is usually tied to what is called post-millennialism, and that is the view that the church, somehow, by influencing the culture, can bring in the kingdom of Christ. In other words, it’s the idea not that Christ returns and sets up His kingdom, but that the church establishes His kingdom and then hands it to Him. That is not what Scripture teaches. What Scripture teaches is what we’re learning from the book of Revelation. Things are going to get worse and worse and worse. And the end of human history is not the church triumphant, reigning in the world and taking over the structures of human kingdoms; that’s not what happens. At the end of human history, the believers are persecuted and murdered, and that’s the very opposite of what Christian nationalism would anticipate. So we believe the Bible teaches that things get worse and worse, headed toward the wrath of God, which we’re seeing in Revelation, and then our Lord returns, Himself, to establish His kingdom is clearly what we read in the book of Revelation. OK?](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2075660060995260826/amplify_video_thumb/2075659984059146240/img/-AJFtTo2QCRyxERK.jpg)
