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Post Is voting a "Christian duty"? bonnie knox
In different places, I'm seeing phrases such as "God requires Christians to vote," or that voting is a "Christian duty" or some such. Can a Christian be a conscientious objector when it comes to voting?
I can see arguments for why a Christian might want to exercise the privilege we have as US citizens to vote, but to say God REQUIRES it is sticking in my craw, to be frank.		 [Insert Acts Pun Here]
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Post Brandon Bohannon
I am with you.

This "argument" goes with all of the other things that people claim that God requires...

I'll stick with what He actually requires. It's enough to keep my plate full and to cause me to pound my chest, saying, "God have mercy on me, a miserable sinner!"
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Post Eddie Robbins
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Post UncleJD
Being salt and light in society IS a Christian's duty. That could include voting, but it might just as easily include not voting if the choice seems to be between Baal and Beelzebub.

What is NOT a Christian's duty is to be Holy Spirit Jr. and try to convict other Christians of what they should do with choice (or lack thereof), when they make it clear that they don't trust either candidate more than the other.		 Golf Cart Mafia Consigliere
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Post Change Agent
Some on here would have you believe it is your Christian duty to vote for Trump. Laughing Acts Enthusiast
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Post Cojak
Change Agent wrote:
Some on here would have you believe it is your Christian duty to vote for Trump. Laughing


Shocked Shocked YOu mean it Ain't???? Well I'll be dogged! Sad ............... Wink
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Post Quiet Wyatt
The Christian's universal prime duty is to love God supremely and one's neighbor as oneself. All choices subordinate to that ultimate benevolent choice necessarily flow from this law of love, also known as the moral law of God. Whether voting for a particular candidate or not is in fact benevolent (promotive of the highest good) would depend on the particular facts relevant to the case. I would say it is difficult to see how voting for Trump OR Hillary would be even remotely promotive of the highest good. [Insert Acts Pun Here]
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Post Da Sheik
Quiet Wyatt wrote:
The Christian's universal prime duty is to love God supremely and one's neighbor as oneself. All choices subordinate to that ultimate benevolent choice necessarily flow from this law of love, also known as the moral law of God. Whether voting for a particular candidate or not is in fact benevolent (promotive of the highest good) would depend on the particular facts relevant to the case. I would say it is difficult to see how voting for Trump OR Hillary would be even remotely promotive of the highest good.


Agreed. My grandparents never voted because they always felt it would violate their Christian conscience to vote for those who didn't align with biblical values. I don't think they were any less devoted to God or that they somehow failed to uphold their "Christian duty".

I plan to vote in this election and I'm voting for Trump. I may have to ask for forgiveness later Laughing . But I'm still of the persuasion that God is Sovereign over the affairs of mankind and that the powers that be are ordained of God. So in the end, His will shall be done.		 Acts Enthusiast
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Agreed. My grandparents never voted because they always felt it would violate their Christian conscience to vote for those who didn't align with biblical values. I don't think they were any less devoted to God or that they somehow failed to uphold their "Christian duty".

I plan to vote in this election and I'm voting for Trump. I may have to ask for forgiveness later Laughing . But I'm still of the persuasion that God is Sovereign over the affairs of mankind and that the powers that be are ordained of God. So in the end, His will shall be done.


Good points and well said. Thanks. Cool
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