CLARITY
A Biblical Response to Current Events -6-29-19
When Was Experience a Negative?
What’s Happening: “There’s racism, nationalism, sexism…and now ageism – prejudice against someone because they’re too old – apparently this was the charge by Eric Swalwell in the Democrat debates this week. He made a not-so-vague reference when he recommended that the torch be passed to younger politicians – it was covertly aimed at Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, who will be in their seventies when 2020 rolls around – California Representative Swalwell is just 38 (https://www.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-claims-apos-ageism-144244719.html). ‘I think that’s kind of ageism, to tell you the truth, Judge people on the totality of who they are: what their ideas are, what their experience is, what their record is,” said Sanders.”
Knee-Jerk Response: “Won’t those guys be in their eighties during their Presidency…I mean, if they get elected?”
Biblical Response: “Yes .but when has experience ever been a negative?! Our Founding Fathers wisely put a minimum age requirement – 35 – in the Constitution, but no upper limit (and that is when the average life expectancy was much less). I don’t think age should be a consideration at all – being too young or too old. Read what the Scripture has to say about it;
‘…but it is not mere age that makes men wise. Rather, it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty that makes him intelligent.’ (Job 32:8-9)”
“Christians? Rabbis had to be thirty to serve (Numb. 4:2-3); that’s the only age requirement I see in Scripture. Not to defend Bernie Sanders (his socialist agenda is unbiblical), but experience should never be a disqualifier.”
Here’s a Prayer You Can Pray: “Heavenly Father, our leaders need Your Spirit directing them…help us only to promote those who promote You…and have Your Spirit in control; in Jesus’ Name, amen.”
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