The political meaning of ChristmasAmerican Thinker, Dec 25, 2019, Mike Konrad
Most of us, myself included, do not often reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. Christ came to earth to save flawed human beings. We tend to think of this on a personal level, but it applies to every facet of history. Some of the greatest men in history have been seriously flawed.
Peter was an emotional coward who denied Jesus three times. Yet Peter was an elder in the church at Jerusalem, and wrote epistles. Even then, Peter remained so flawed that Paul had to rebuke him on matters of doctrine, dogma, and morals.
And who was this Paul? He had been a persecutor of the church. Yet, after Paul was saved on the road to Damascus, he went on to author most of the New Testament. Paul remained a seriously flawed man, as any who have read his epistles can see. He considered himself the chief of all sinners, and suggested that we all adopt the same view of ourselves.
If one is Jewish, Moses the Lawgiver was a murderer, as was David. Many of the prophets and heroes in the Jewish portion of Scripture were horribly weak. Jeremiah was a crybaby.
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An honest appraisal of history shows that many of our heroes were scoundrels. So what?
And this is what is going on with Trump.
It is not that Trump is perfect. But his critics are sanctimonious, and often worse than Trump -- at least on a moral plane. And even here, the Christmas story has a point, Jesus came to save sinners, not the perfect. The only ones that Jesus ever condemned were the clergy of his day… for being sanctimonious.
I am not inclined to say Trump is God’s anointed, as some Evangelicals do. That title is properly left only to Christ. But I am inclined to think that God has his hand on Trump, who, as flawed as he is, is a lot more humble than many of his sanctimonious critics.
All human beings are flawed. That is why Christ had to come.
Merry Christmas.
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