Biblical Principles
for the Ballot Box
Because Vision Forum Ministries does not endorse individual candidates, it is our goal to help our readers to develop a distinctively biblical worldview from which they can form their own opinions. Our concern is not for whom you vote, as much as it is that you are faithful to God’s Word in your approach to voting. A vote is an ethical act for which the individual will be held accountable by his God.
- Pro Bush: Coming Homeby Patrick J. Buchanan, October 27, 2004
- Hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. We can not afford a Kerry Administration. Read More
- A Christian Perspective on Just Warby William Einwechter, October 12, 2004
- War by its very nature is a spectacle of violence, destruction, suffering, and death. War is filled with many horrors and is a great human tragedy. War tends to unleash the worst of human passions: hate, vengeance, wicked ambition, cruelty, base desires, and blood-lust. Erasmus was fond of the adage of Pindar: “Sweet is war to him who knows it not.” Or as those who do know war testify: “War is hell.” These things being true, how could a Christian ever be in favor of war? Read More
- Christ is Lord of (Almost) Allby Caleb Hayden, October 12, 2004
- A defining issue of our day is the Lordship of Christ over all areas of life. Most Christians would agree, at least to an extent, that Christ is Lord. After all, does not Scripture teach this? “And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:11, KJV). While it is fine for Christians to profess Christ as Lord in their individual lives, families, and churches, what of their political affiliations? Read More
- Our First Female Justice Argues That Babies May Be Killed So Women Can Work Outside the Homeby Douglas W. Phillips, Esq., July 8, 2004
- Twenty-three years ago today Ronald Reagan became the first president to place a woman on the United States Supreme Court bench. Liberals made it clear that they celebrated the appointment of a woman to the Court. With the exception of a few die-hards like my father Howard Phillips, most conservatives and Evangelical leaders remained utterly silent, willfully ignoring the fact that Mrs. O’Connor had a flagrant pro-abortion judicial record. Read More
- Should Christians Support a Woman for the Office of Civil Magistrate?by William Einwechter, July 8, 2004
- With more and more women entering the political sphere and running for political office, the conscientious, biblically oriented Christian is confronted with the question of whether or not he should give his support and vote to a woman. The following essay seeks to address the larger questions of the acceptability of women magistrates and the Christian’s responsibility before God in regard to supporting a woman for political office. Read More
- Biblical Standards for Choosing Civil Magistratesby William Einwechter, July 7, 2004
- In a true Christian nation, the biblical standards for choosing magistrates will be part of constitutional law. A nation that is in covenant with God through Christ will express this by means of a national confession of submission to God and His law, and by a religious test for office that is based on the biblical qualifications for civil rulers. Read More