I hope the answer you get is not “change the Bible.”
Hi RLH,
Odd you should say that. What in the world gives you the impression that anyone is ever going to 'change' the Scriptures. We're just all sinners, and my point is that apparently 59% of Republicans are willing, to some degree, to accept that the sin of abortion should be allowed in some instances.
The reasons I say that it's odd, is that there is a saying among many Trump supporters, when faced with some of the wickedness that Trump has practiced in his life and does still exemplify in his daily living, i.e. divorce, fornication, lying, name calling and general meanness, all of which God speaks against in the same Scriptures that you are apparently worried that some people might change because of the abortion issue, they will say that they voted for a president and not a pastor. If they didn't vote for a pastor, then why do these couple of specific sins that the evangelicals seem to get their panties in a wad over, even matter?
I mean, if someone is going to shake their fist at America and say we want a president that is against abortion and/or homosexuality because the bible says so...then why don't we also want a president that is against divorce, fornication, lying and mean temperament because the bible also speaks against those things as being sin? If a man divorces his wife, he causes her to become an adulterer. That means that Donald Trump has caused, in his lifetime, at least two women to become adulterers by divorcing them as his lawful wife. He also knowingly slept with the soon to be second wife while he was married to the first. The Revelation specifically speaks to the fact that no liar will enter God's eternal city. It says that in the very same sentence that it also says that neither shall a homosexual. So why all the noise on the homosexual part, but not the lying part? Pretty much everyone who has ever worked for Donald Trump admits that he lies. Even those who are still on good terms with him and even many who still work for him now. I can't imagine that there is any question in anyone's mind that Donald Trump had sexual relations with Marla Maples while still married to Ivana and I can't imagine that anyone can honestly say that Donald Trump isn't a liar
No one's going to ever change the Scriptures, but we're always going to be sinners and it isn't our job to rate some sins as worse than others. If we're going to condemn one for sin, then we have to condemn all for sin.
God bless,
In Christ, ted