Why should Christians vote?
Because God says so.
As a Christian living in a Democracy, we owe a duty to our country to vote and serve jury duty, as well as pay our taxes. God ordains who our leaders will be, but that doesn't relieve us from the obligation to vote. Its very much like a picture of Salvation, God has chosen his children from before time began, but we must make the choice to receive God's forgiveness. Likewise we are actively charged to bring the Word to our neighbors. The fact of the one (God has chosen his elect) does not lessen the duty given to us (of accepting personally and spreading the Good News).
If voting is truly a picture of Salvation then Christians should be afraid to not vote! Moses broke a picture (by speaking to the rock, it would have been an example of asking Jesus for Salvation Numbers 20:7-13) at Mirabah and the consequences were great. (Moses was disqualified from leading the people into the promised land Numbers 20:12).
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
(Romans 13:1-8)
As a Christian living in a Democracy, we owe a duty to our country to vote and serve jury duty, as well as pay our taxes. God ordains who our leaders will be, but that doesn't relieve us from the obligation to vote. Its very much like a picture of Salvation, God has chosen his children from before time began, but we must make the choice to receive God's forgiveness. Likewise we are actively charged to bring the Word to our neighbors. The fact of the one (God has chosen his elect) does not lessen the duty given to us (of accepting personally and spreading the Good News).
If voting is truly a picture of Salvation then Christians should be afraid to not vote! Moses broke a picture (by speaking to the rock, it would have been an example of asking Jesus for Salvation Numbers 20:7-13) at Mirabah and the consequences were great. (Moses was disqualified from leading the people into the promised land Numbers 20:12).
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