No doubt you have noticed; we in the USA are in the homestretch of a presidential election year. So let me see if I understand the current reality...er, dilemma for many evangelicals:
On one side we have a sitting president and candidate who openly professes his love and commitment to Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior...but, who is persistently painted by some, many of them Christians themselves, to be a closet Muslim, an insinuation he repeatedly denies.
Why do they overlook his claims?
On the other side, we have a candidate who openly and proudly displays his devotion, service and leadership in the Mormon faith, a cult with its own scripture, the Book of Mormon, which is in direct opposition to biblical Christianity.
Why do they overlook his claims?
Hmmm...awkward.
Syncretism, the blending of truth with error, is not strictly an overseas, tribal phenomenon. I observe the political rhetoric in the USA as bleeding over into the thought processes of we who hold to the Scriptures. One could say it is a local, tribal phenomenon as well. What has happened to our perspective that we would doubt the testimony of a believer young in the faith, accusing him of essentially lying. I doubt we would do such in our local church; we would instead pray for the growth in maturity of that believer. Politics has tweaked the brotherly love of many evangelicals.
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