Bible Faith & Politics

For the disciple of Jesus, your trust cannot be in the politics of this broken and sinful world system. Jesus says, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm” (John 18:36). Jesus speaks these words to Pontius Pilate (a politician) during His trial, explaining that His rule is spiritual and from heaven, not an earthly, sinful, and corrupt political power. Case in point: Chief Justice Roberts has completed his campaign to undermine and eliminate the bedrock principle that all people have equal access to the polls and to representation in our democratic republic. In effectively overturning the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has ensured that no law can protect against efforts to deny Black voters and other marginalized groups a voice at the ballot box. As it did in its decision against affirmative action, the Court has perverted logic itself to suggest that simple efforts to protect against racial discrimination are somehow, themselves, ‘racist.’ Just like the racist literacy tests and poll taxes of the Jim Crow era, states are once again free to discriminate under the guise of neutrality.

~Dr. R. L. Taylor, Bible Expositor, Teaching With God’s Grace & Power