This is Viewpoints for Tuesday, June 21, 2016

‘Bumper Sticker Christian’

It is amazing! The mummy walks! Someone found enough tanna leaves to revive Sen. Johnny Isakson so he could make a television commercial for his re-election campaign. In this commercial he highlights the accomplishments of his current term to justify his continuing in office: opposing anything President Obama supported. What a surprise.

And our other senator, David Perdue, demonstrated his vast knowledge of the Bible by asking his audience to pray for President Obama and quoting a Psalm that implied they should be praying for the death of the president. (To be fair, he is not the only alleged Christian to pray for Obama’s death since 2008.) One of Perdue’s spokespersons later said he really didn’t mean it that way. Perhaps we should give him a break on this one. “Bumper Sticker” Christians don’t always understand what they are saying, or perhaps he was attempting to be the other David Perdue (see Google).

Based on race

Reference “Charter school faces another delay in opening.” A charter school is a public school of choice, meaning families choose them for their children and in return have a greater accountability for performance.

In my opinion racial discrimination and racial divide will never end because the federal government prides itself on discrimination, racial profiling, granting biased educational programs, free programs based on race, etc. It is sickening that the government is willing to punish a Bryon-Peach charter school due to the fact not enough blacks enrolled. What happens to the students of the white and black families who did enroll? Our government uses our tax dollars to force their discrimination to punish white and black families who chose to be concerned about their children’s education to enroll them in a charter school. However, not enough of black families chose to move their children from the public school they were attending; therefore, no charter for any.

Are the families calling the government a racist organization? Yet some people call me a racist for speaking out against how the government forces its empowerment over students and schools using our tax dollars, all based on race.

Amazing, not indiscriminate

God’s love is amazing — beyond comprehension. He loves all types surrounding the globe — regardless of color, ethnicity, intellect, skill level, or economic status. Yet one fundamental error in Dr. Bill Cummings’ June 12 entry is assumption that God is exactly like man. He is not (Ps. 50:21; Is. 55:8-9). Even so, God condescends to man and reveals aspects of his nature in ways understandable, such as parent/child relationship (Matt. 7:9-11).

Further consideration of the mother/child analogy can bear fruit that Cummings’ cherry picking doesn’t yield. A mother’s special love for her child isn’t applied indiscriminately to other children. She has general love for and goodwill toward her neighbor’s child, while God surpasses this by demonstrating his kindness toward rebels (Gen. 4:15; Jonah 4; Matt. 23:37). Cummings rejects Christianity by universally applying the mother/child analogy (Heb. 12:8; John 8:42-47; Romans. 9:8; 1 John 3:10). A mother’s love certainly does know law. In wisdom she gives rules and boundaries for her child’s well-being. She disciplines, and her child is safe under her love and law. Likewise, in Christ’s law is found protection, liberty and consequences for transgression.

The summary of Christ’s law is love for God and neighbor. Omar Mateen had neither. With Cummings’ universalism, God doesn’t act as Mateen’s judge. He is now safe in God’s loving arms.

Cummings is amiss for his silence that God not only provides that “sinful, unrepentant and arrogant, murderous son” a loving mother, but provides also the civil magistrates and ordinances that exact justice when this man is executed (Romans 13:1-4, Gen. 9:6). He asks what God is like — a “just judge,” or a “loving mother?” Precious Christian believers know the answer is not an either, or. It is a “both and an and.

How much property?

Now that the Bibb Board of Education is in the news wanting to raise property taxes by 2 mills, only $80.00 on a $100,000 house, a mere pittance, since it’s all for “the children,” I have a question I would like for someone to answer. Does anybody have any idea how much property the BOE owns? How much is being used and how much is just sitting there? If you know, please let us know because I’m probably not the only one who has that question.

Figure it out

The shootings in Orlando were just horrible. I find it interesting that the first thing the president did was to call for more gun control. He did not mention at all that we need to find the reason behind this mass murder. All the mass killings have been done by young men. Is anyone trying to figure out why and what these young men have in common?

The liberals say we have to have more gun control. Would gun control have stopped the killing on 9/11? Would gun control have stopped the killing and mayhem in Boston at the marathon? We have real problems in this country. We have taken God out of schools and public forums. Do you suppose Satan has come to fill the void? I am horrified at how this has become a political football. Let our country come together and find out why these things are happening. If Islamic extremism is the answer, then let us do something about it. If it’s young men with social problems, let’s figure out how to help them before it is to late. Let us become “One Nation Under God” again, and let us not be ashamed of it.

Presidential authority

On The Telegraph’s Letters page of Friday, June 17, Michael Collins states that “No one man can launch a nuclear strike.” It has been my understanding that the United States president does in fact have the authority to order a nuclear strike. If I am wrong about this, I would much appreciate being brought up to date about exactly how a nuclear strike could be launched.

This story was originally published June 20, 2016 at 9:00 PM with the headline "This is Viewpoints for Tuesday, June 21, 2016."