{"id":108709,"date":"2022-01-13T12:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108709"},"modified":"2022-01-13T17:26:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T22:26:46","slug":"ct-russell-moore-why-christians-should-support-our-government-staying-out-of-religious-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108709","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Russell Moore&#8211;Why Christians should support our government staying out of religious affairs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We believe in religious freedom not because we believe in freedom on its own terms, but because we believe in the exclusivity of Christ and in the power of the gospel. We believe there is one name under heaven whereby we must be saved\u2014and that name is not \u201cCaesar\u201d or \u201cAyatollah\u201d or \u201cassistant secretary for civic affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We believe in religious freedom because we know what Jesus has given us to fight against the kingdom of darkness\u2014the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. We believe in religious freedom because there\u2019s no civil substitute for the gospel of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>We believe in religious freedom because we want to persuade our neighbors to be reconciled to God\u2014not so they won\u2019t be fined by the earthly government, but so they will find eternal life in the heavenly kingdom. So that they won\u2019t end up in hell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2022\/january-web-only\/john-macarthur-russell-moore-religious-freedom-hell.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;We believe in religious freedom because we want to persuade our neighbors to be reconciled to God\u2014not so they won\u2019t be fined by the earthly government, but so they will find eternal life in the heavenly kingdom. <\/p>\n<p>So that they won\u2019t end up in hell.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CRatpK89z5\">https:\/\/t.co\/CRatpK89z5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1481730405606862852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We believe in religious freedom not because we believe in freedom on its own terms, but because we believe in the exclusivity of Christ and in the power of the gospel. We believe there is one name under heaven whereby<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108709\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,209,114,108,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-religious-freedom-persecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108712,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108709\/revisions\/108712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}