American Politics and Jesus
I'm sick. I don't have COVID-19 or any other illness, but I am so sick. I am sick and tired of people using the Bible and Jesus to promote or defend their agenda. Jesus didn't go to the cross for us to distort his words. The Bible isn't a moral code for us to throw in one another's face. None of this narrative is about us. Jesus is not a Republican. Jesus is not a Democrat. Jesus is the son of God who came to seek and save the lost. Fun fact: the lost people are all of us. Jesus died for everyone. He died for the Democrat, Libertarian, Republican, Socialist, Whig, Federalist. God created humans to be in perfect community with Him. Adam and Eve ruined that for their descendants when they stopped trusting God and ate the fruit. We were then cast out of the Garden of Eden and separated from God. In His love and mercy, God promised a descendant of Eve would rise up and crush the head of the snake. This is Jesus. He came to Earth as a baby, lived a perfect an