US Obamination Inauguration And Atonement
I can’t help to be amazed at all the fodder going on for new President Barak Obama’s presidential Inauguration. Some of the things I’m hearing and seeing from people, well to put it simply has me in once sense grieving, and in another in complete amazement. How quick we are to elevate someone who can speak well and is black to Savior status in the United States, as if “black” is equal to “right” or “righteous.” Blind faith in a man who is only a hero because of the color of his skin and how well he orates. He has captivated the American people in a hypnotic and charismatic fervor which tickles the ears of so many who are satisfied with a cheap imitation of a man of character in place of the real thing.
As long as we tell the American people can give them more, it matters little to us “more of what,” we are settled in the hypnosis of his speeches. We have come to judge this man based solely on the color of his skin and speech rather than the content of his character? This is a far cry from what Dr. King would have suggested when he gave his, “I have a dream speech,” and spoke of a man’s character.
Obama’s character tries to teach that sinful sexual choices are on an even playing field with racism and racial divides, changing complete categories from homosexuality to race. There is only one race and it’s the human race, and I do long for a day when we may not see the color of someone’s skin but see men as sinners all on the same ground before a Holy God, and in need of repentance and faith.
Obama’s character promotes the wholesale Holocaust of the unborn. These compartmentalization’s in order to settle our own consciences(Romans 1) before God are sometimes overwhelming when we examine truthfully that location of a baby does not take away its personage, we know deep down in the quietness of our hearts that there is something wrong here. It takes a man of character, such as Abe Lincoln, to stand up against such a thing as slavery and challenge the sinful yet popular view of long held wrong beliefs of a nation. In the same way it would take a man of character to stand up against a sinful ideology which allows murder for self-preservation’s sake. We guard self and will die only for self. This is the character of Obama.
There are some senses in which I am proud of a nation in which could overcome prejudice in the initial and original spirit of civil rights, and vote for a black man to be in the office of the President of the United States. However as I have been hearing the commentators, and professing Christians, it is as if people believe that the wrong done in America’s early history can be rectified. As if in someway there can be an “ATONEMENT” for the sin of our country. We do not understand that there is no atonement or healing for our nation for which any man other than the God man Jesus Christ can atone. He is the only one that can bring healing, and reconciliation yet we once again have elevated a man to ‘God status’, or rather in this case the vocabulary of so many is frightening, it would seem as if so many see Obama as the savior of mankind.
So yes Christians pray for our President, pray for Obama’s conversion and pray for our country, pray for the many deceived professing evangelicals who have voted for this man not for the content of his character but by the color of his skin. Pray that our nation would stop seeing groups and see one race, and know that Jesus Christ is the only one who can atone for the sins of a nation, He paid the penalty for sin on the cross once for all for those who believe, but those who do not believe…. they are condemned already. John 3:16-17
Obama has let it be known his political agenda for abortion and homosexual rights. This is distinctly un-Christian (Matthew 7:13-28). He’s demonstrated these extreme points to America, may God use this time to call those who are his to himself as a tidal wave of sin is about to move over a nation, and we sit idly by with no repentance toward the God that created us.
Repentance begins with me.
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Provocative observation re: atonement. If our countrymen wish to make atonement for past national sins, there is only one Sacrifice by which atonement is possible.
That said, restitution is also a part of the whole of salvation (see Jesus and Zacchaeus). The Gospel is the good news that Jesus is Lord, but as Lord, Jesus has some commands we must obey. If you have defrauded your neighbor, the Gospel says you may be forgiven by faith, but the forgiven heart knows what justice is, and so he seeks to restore what he has stolen. Applying this to groups of people, or whole nations, is another matter, “collective responsibility,” etc., and I’m still unsettled on that issue, but the principle that an individual must restore what he has stolen stands.
But graceless men don’t see it that way, of course. They’re on the works treadmill, and there is a group of leaders who want to keep us all on that treadmill; they have made it their lives’ work to be a condemning Law to the guilty consciences of Americans. There will never be enough “atonement.”
Well, not for them, anyway. “But we have a better High Priest….”
Let me ask you this question how can Obama give back to the American people that which was stolen from them in slavery, his mother was white and his father never an American slave? He cannot give back what he never took away. If you then refer to the office of the presidency as giving back to a people what was stolen from them, it will never be sufficient and therefore will never be truly rectified.