Was Jesus more of a leftest or a right winger?

Yeah, the Right can be cruel. The Left can be so open-minded that their brain falls out.

All Becomes New said:

Yeah, the Right can be cruel. The Left can be so open-minded that their brain falls out.

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The left is not "open-minded" at all. They just make a different choice of who to be cruel to.

We cannot assign the Lord with politics; our faith could end up compromised. We must put the Lord’s commandments first ( Romans 13:1-14 etc., John 14:15-18 etc.) and make our political stances as best we can within them.

While few of us can fulfill the Lord’s instructions to His disciples in Matthew 10:1-42, we should read the chapter carefully ( the central point is Matthew 10:16 of course). The Lord speaks of us putting Him above all else around us & that this leads to divisions among us. I believe He wants us to always love our family, neighbors etc. but He is first. In fact, I believe compromising our faith with politics would undermine His commandments to us ( Matthew 22:36-40) towards ourselves & others ( Matthew 7:12, per Matthew 7:1-12).

The ways of God are not our ways & a careful read of Isaiah 55:1-13 tells us this ( especially Isaiah 55:6-10). Proverbs 11:1-31 is also helpful in this.

All Becomes New said:

I'll take that as, "I can't actually think of anything."

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That's assumptive.

Here's one thing.....When they support expansive government spending despite advocating for limited government which can also undermine core principles of fiscal restraint.

Your turn, tell me one thing the right is wrong about.

I remember when the church stayed right away from politics. It was a case of parliament consulting the churches views as a seperate and moral conscious for society. Though sometimes ignored and today completely ignored. But it was never part of politics in my nation Australia.

Even in other nations. It was controversial for the Pope to be commenting on social issues. Now we see priests making political statements at political rallies. Instead of the gospel.

I would imagine the early church the Christians formed a seperate social community in worship. They then went out into the world and did business or worked and preached.

But they were not involved in the worlds politics I don't think. Or rather never went looking for it to start a culture war. Though preaching the gospel did become controversial and the disciples were chased out of a few places. In fact during the early growth Christian had to escape Jerusalem and find refuge. They were always a seperate community from the world and its politics.

Some political issues do have spiritual significance, but neither party has a monopoly on Truth.