The Election
Dilemma
By:
Dr. David R. Reagan
Over
the past few months we have been inundated with inquiries about the
presidential election. All of these have expressed a great sense of frustration
about the choice we are faced with. And that is understandable when you
consider the fact
that neither of the two main candidates is a Christian.
Mitt
Romney
Mitt
Romney certainly is not a Christian. He has been spiritually deceived into
giving his heart to a false religion that masquerades as Christian.
Since
its founding back in the 1830’s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints (the Mormons) has taken the position that it is the one and only true
church and that all the rest of Christendom, both Catholic and Protestant, is
apostate.
The
Mormons teach and preach a false Jesus who is not God in the flesh. Instead, He
is portrayed as one of thousands of subordinate gods who were created by the
super god of this planet, who is an exalted man.
The
Mormons thus deny the trinitarian concept of God that is revealed in the
Scriptures. They reject the truth that Jesus was God in the flesh, and they
view the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force.
The
Mormons teach salvation by good works, in direct contradiction to the Bible’s
teaching that salvation is by grace through faith, and not by works (Ephesians
2:8-10). And the Mormons teach that their most faithful followers will become gods
themselves with their own planets to populate and rule. In short, Mormons are
polytheists.
Mormonism
thus presents “another gospel” that is foreign to the gospel of the Bible. And
the Apostle Paul declared that all non-biblical gospels are an anathema and
that those who proclaim them are to be “accursed” (Galatians 1:8-9).
Barack
Obama
President
Barack Obama is also not a Christian, despite his claims to be one. I proved
this conclusively in the third edition of my book, America the Beautiful?
(2009).
In
an interview he gave in 2004, Obama stated point-blank, “I believe there are
many paths to the same place [Heaven].” To the contrary, Jesus said there was
only one, and He was it (John 14:6)
When
Obama was asked, “Who’s Jesus to you?” he responded that Jesus was an
“historical figure,” “a bridge between God and Man,” and a “wonderful teacher.”
There was no expression of Jesus as God in the flesh, the Savior who died for our
sins.
Obama
shocked his interviewer by saying that there was one thing in particular about
Christianity that he had difficulty dealing with — and that is the tendency of
many Christians to engage in evangelism! He said he believed the desire to
proselytize was
based on a belief that if “people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their
personal Savior, that they’re going to Hell.”
Obama
has obviously never heard of Jesus’ Great Commandment to preach the Gospel to
all the world (Mark 16:15-16). Because of highly unorthodox comments like these
about Christianity, and because of his obvious enthusiasm for Islam, many have
concluded that Obama is a closet Muslim. I don’t think so. Based on his
statements and his policies, I have concluded that Obama is a classic Humanist,
meaning that he is a person who believes in the essential goodness of Man and
his ability to achieve fulfillment on his own through the power of reason.
Remedial
Judgments
One
of the main points I made in my book, America the Beautiful?, is that when a
nation blessed by God turns its back on its Benefactor, God will place remedial
judgments upon the nation in order to call it to repentance. And one of those
judgments can be that of giving the nation the kind of leaders it deserves.
That
was certainly the case in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected president.
The
continuing judgment of God upon our nation can be seen in the choice for
President we are now presented with. For the first time in U.S. history,
neither candidate is a Christian.
A
Clear Choice
But despite that fact, we are confronted with a real choice. It is not a matter of Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
On
one hand, we have a candidate who is a non-Christian Mormon. He believes in
traditional family and moral values, he respects the heritage of America, he
supports Israel, he recognizes Islam as our nation’s enemy, and he believes in
Capitalism.
On the other hand, we have a candidate who is a non- Christian Humanist. He rejects traditional family and moral values, he despises our nation’s heritage, he holds Israel in contempt, he loves Islam, and he believes in Socialism.
The
choice is not an ideal one. But there is a clear choice.
