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Mammamel
10-21-2008, 04:25 PM
Just like the folks who think I am Miss Maggie, and Baptist they are wrong.

I am an independent, and until a few months ago I was undecided. Well probably only 2 months, I run my days together badly.

I knew I did not want Hilary. I actually liked Thompson and Huckabee best. (One is a fantastic actor, much like my beloved Reagan, the other lost over 100 lbs, something Beloved and I are working on ourselves! Both are solid Christians)

I thought about voting for Obama. However I didn’t know much about him. So I began listening. Some think I listen only to the conservative pundits. Some are again wrong.


I heard Obama say a woman should not be punished with a child… God says children are blessings.

Obama says killing infants, before and just after birth is ok. God says Deuteronomy 30:19 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=5&chapter=30&verse=19&version=31&context=verse)
This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live



Obama says gay marriage is ok, and should be the law of the land. Every one deserves to be happy right? God says
1 Cor. 6:8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.


Obama says share the wealth. This engenders greed, see above verse on greed. However God also addresses this directly as well.
Galatians 6:3-5 (King James Version)

3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
5 For every man shall bear his own burden.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 (King James Version)


11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.


2 Thessalonians 3:9-13 (King James Version)

9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.



Obama is a slick talker, very fun to hear, and very pleasant to the ear. God says:
Proverbs 26:24-26 (New International Version)

24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips,
but in his heart he harbors deceit.
25 Though his speech is charming, do not believe him,
for seven abominations fill his heart.
26 His malice may be concealed by deception,
but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.


Obama is adored by the masses, called messiah by many, including the Islamists. The world says he is wise.
God says: 1 Corinthians 1:19-21 (King James Version)

19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.


Conversely McCain says life begins at conception. God says:
Jeremiah 1:5 before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee. Before you came out of the womb I sanctified thee and named thee a prophet.


McCain says marriage is between a man and a woman.
God says: Gen 2:18 It is not good for man to be alone I will make a helpmeet for him. 21 and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the Adam and he slept and he (the Lord) took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh there of. 22 and the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made He a woman and brought her to the man.


McCain says set taxes lower so business will flourish and jobs will be created.

God says. Mark 12: 13And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
14And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
15Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
16And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
17And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marveled at him.

McCain says he is a man who has made mistakes. He says he has turned to Christ as his Savior.
God says
Mat 10:22 (http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Mat&c=10&v=22&t=KJV#22) And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
Act 2:21 (http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Act&c=2&v=21&t=KJV#21) And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

There are many more scriptures I could use to show my position. These should be sufficient starting places for others to study on their own though.

Many people will be insulted, perhaps even offended because I back my vote with my Faith. They will call me uneducated, say I am listening to “the wrong” people. That is fine. I am listening and measuring what these men who would lead me say, by God’s word in HIS book. To do anything else, to listen to anything else, is in fact listening to the wrong people.

There is a choice. The Bible is very clear. Either you are with God or against Him. Mat. 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad.

Thank you Mr. Brown for getting my mind off the arguing of men and once again into the quiet of right thinking with God.

teakettle
10-21-2008, 05:00 PM
very well put mel....and your scripture is amazing...thank you for helping us to understand....this will truly be an election of conscience :)

Ginger
10-21-2008, 05:30 PM
Very well put.

Momofthree
10-21-2008, 08:01 PM
Mel,
You said what is in my heart. Thank you for putting it into words and backing it with scripture.

ManyBlessings
10-21-2008, 10:33 PM
Very well said and biblically based. You are wise to be able to back up your beliefs with scripture. There is no better authority than God and the handbook that He has provided us.

My3Boys
10-24-2008, 02:15 PM
Thank you Mel. Very encouraging.

ThursdaysChild
10-26-2008, 03:43 AM
Oh, I love this post! Thank you for sharing with us.

mrsroyer
10-26-2008, 10:37 PM
Wow! I love it! Now why can't I come up with that kind of thought provoking stuff on my own! You should call that into The Rush Limbaugh Show! Can I copy and paste (giving you the credit) and send it to my friends and famliy...ESPECIALLY the ones who just like to listen to the "feel good" words some candidates like to spew. BTW, who is Mr. Brown?

Mammamel
10-26-2008, 10:47 PM
Yes Mrs R you may copy and share it. It is just the musings of an unimportant homemaker though.

Mr Brown wrote a thought provoking essay that is posted here some where, on why he as a black man can not vote for Obama. It made me see I was going about my decision all wrong. However when i began to pray and research the candidates from scripture, it became clear I could still not serve Christ and vote Obama.