Have you been upset by the recent…or maybe not so recent …situation
with the medical insurance fiasco since Obama care came into play? If you are
a Christian, perhaps you should be. Or, should I say, if you care that your
hard earned salary is being used to fund abortions and the killing of the
unborn, it should at least make you cringe, if not take some small measure to
see what you could do to stop participating in these gruesome acts.
Don’t misunderstand me. I am NOT a politically inclined
person. My motto has been, since I became a born-again Christian, which is all
of my adult life, “our politics is in heaven.” But what happens when the
politics of this world encroach upon our beliefs? What happens when what we
hold to as part of our faith gets violated and we are to participate in values
we don’t adhere to, or worse abhor? Even worse, that God abhors! Values which compete
against the grain of what the Bible preaches—like the killing of innocent
babies? What then?
Some people say they are Christians, but pick and choose
what believe as the Word of God from the Bible. Like some movies stars I’d read
about, who proclaim they are Christians but believe in some verses but not some
parts of the bible. They prefer to choose only the “good” parts and throw the
sections they don’t agree with. Personally, I don’t think it’s possible to say
one believes the Bible is the Word of God and do this. Sola Scriptura, as they
say.
If we take the Word of God as a totality then we need to
see and weigh what each part says as important. Take the verses in Matthew
10:16 (NIV) for instance:
16"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.
Most evangelical Christians I know adhere to the ”as gentle as doves” mandate, but some have forgotten, or disregarded, the “shrewd as serpent” part.. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think we should go ballistic like the jihadists but God’s wisdom said we are to be shrewd—as the Expanded Bible illustrates: So be as ·clever [wise; shrewd; cunning] as
snakes [serpents].
So, perhaps when the government puts into law something like
Obamacare which forces us, Christians, to participate to some extent in
abortion we should perhaps look at alternatives.
Honestly, in our family, we have been insuring ourselves for
the longest time and this past year it hasn’t been easy knowing that we are
funding someone’s abortion(s), and in some small way, perhaps also other people’s
licentious lifestyles.
Before November 15 comes around we intend to research
alternatives to partaking in Obamacare. I stumbled upon a Christian option
called mychristiancare.org. Apparently, Obamacare in fact does violate the
first amendment –here is the First Amendment in case you were wondering:
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States
Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of
religion, impeding the free exercise of religion…
In some sense Obamacare does in fact violates a Christian belief
system and Congress actually recognizes that and has allowed Christians to join
organizations such as mychristiancare.org and be exempt from participating in
the insurance situation as it stands today. (I am still hoping that the law would be repealed.)
Of course, our family didn’t know about
this exemption since the secular press certainly seemed hush-hush about the whole thing…hmm..,I
wonder why?
Anyway, I thought I would share this with you today in case
you feel as disgusted as I do about being forced to bestow our hard-earned, God
given income to propagate immoral living and the murder of innocent lives. So
go check out some of these pro-life Christian alternatives and share with
others here if you come across good ones. We Christian, regardless of denominations,
should come together and stand on this, at least.
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