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If you could interview any or every political candidate, what would be important enough to ask?

There is quite the (justified) mockery of the new Supreme Court Justice nominee because she could not (or would not) answer the question of how to define “woman.” This is extremely concerning as anyone should be able to at least identify the anatomical differences that make a man a man and a woman a woman. A high court judge needs wisdom exceeding this embarrassingly simple test.

Asked about when life begins she verbally danced around the question saying that she has a religious view (without identifying which “religion”) that she sets aside in her decisions in court. From a biblical perspective, i.e., Christian, this would mean that, practically, she has no such “belief” or she sees herself as greater than her god because, in the courtroom, she overrules her god.

R.J. Rushdoony said, “It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.”

If the laws rule the people, then the maker of the laws is the ultimate ruler. The Supreme Court is not supposed to be the maker of laws in our society. Their job is to interpret laws according to the Constitution of the United States to rule that a law does, or does not, fall under the constitutional order.

The world is doing just fine at determining for themselves what they think of the current nominee. As Christians, should we be thinking about what we would ask her and what our own responses in the same situation might be? How often do we claim religious convictions and then back off under pressure or in places that we believe our faithful stances will be rejected?

Taking dominion of the earth is a commandment from God that seems to have been lost. Dominion does not stop with tilling land and making good products. Government, education, biology, chemistry, medicine, and the way people spend their recreational time – all these and more should be considered areas of life where we should take dominion for the LORD.

Every time there is a new Supreme Court Justice nominated there is an outcry from pro-life Christians about the abortion issue. Roe v Wade was passed with a republican majority on the Court. Since then, it has not mattered who has been appointed to the Supreme Court; abortion laws stand. Oh, you can get a “safer” (though not for the baby), cleaner, abortion in a building with wider hallways, but at the end of the day you can still kill the baby. So, does it really matter who gets appointed as the new justice?

Another Rushdoony quote that needs to be understood is this one: “There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.”

What would happen if we began to encourage Christians to take dominion of their own town councils and county boards? Spreading the influence of the Almighty God over small sections of our states would have a domino effect when Christianity is seen for what it is and does for a people (borough, town, county, etc.). (Check out, “How Christianity Changed the World,” by Alvin Schmidt).

We lost ground in the war against the culture slowly over time as we got complacent (Isaiah 32:9-11) and quiet about the good moral values and Christian influences being removed. The only way to win it back is to start small and work for the influence of the gospel of Jesus Christ to do its work on individual after individual. First, they will observe the changes (even if they object) of applying God’s Word, they may even dust off a Bible in order to verify what they have been told and are seeing. Then, they may tell others about the positive affect it had, and hopefully, they will want to implement similar changes to their own spheres of influence.

The greatest hope is that seeing things done according to the Word of God will make them turn to it, see for themselves and experience the grace of God in salvation from a nation that has lost its way.

So what is the more important question for any political candidate:

“What’s the difference between a man and a woman?”

or

“Who or what is your source to determine right and wrong?”

The answer tells us what we need to know about that candidate.