{"id":1436894,"date":"2022-04-14T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436894"},"modified":"2022-04-14T08:01:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:01:21","slug":"its-because-of-the-resurrection-that-the-culture-war-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-because-of-the-resurrection-that-the-culture-war-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Because Of The Resurrection That The Culture War Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-because-of-the-resurrection-that-the-culture-war-matters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436894&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pxfuel.com-15-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Gone are the days when politics focused mostly on arguments about defense budgets, tax cuts, or the gold standard. Today, it seems like each new hot-button political issue is infused with more and more spiritual significance \u2014 and spiritual threat. <\/p>\n<p>Left and right aren\u2019t just debating whether kids would benefit from government-subsidized preschool; they\u2019re waging a war over whether children should be groomed to hate their divinely designed bodies and biological telos and reject both for deceitful promises that mutilating their organs will bring self-satisfaction. <\/p>\n<p>In tandem, society is grappling with whether children should be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1442997263601750018\">raised<\/a> and disciplined by their parents or by representatives of the state. Our culture tells young people that marriage is oppressive and that having children is a blot in the way of self-actualization, and my generation is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/06\/marriage-makes-you-happier-better-and-more-successful-but-fewer-americans-are-even-willing-to-date\/\">listening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re fighting over whether a mother should be legally allowed and socially encouraged to kill her baby \u2014 and the pro-abortion side is no longer chanting \u201csafe, legal, and rare\u201d but openly trying to legalize the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/12\/california-bill-openly-admits-abortion-was-always-about-killing-babies\/\">murder<\/a> of full-term babies who survive botched abortions.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re embattled with a false gospel that says the evils of this world are not caused by the rebellion of mankind against his Creator but by \u201cinequities\u201d that could be solved with enough reverse discrimination. Rejecting God, our post-liberal society has constructed its own religion with mortal sins, repentance, and faux justice \u2014 but no grace.<\/p>\n<p>The culture war matters in ways that are more obvious, and more theologically drawn, than ever before in our collective memory. <\/p>\n<p>Without the resurrection that we celebrate this Easter Sunday, however, the culture war doesn\u2019t matter. Without the hope of the risen Christ, we\u2019re simply fighting to rule a fallen kingdom. It\u2019s only because of his resurrection that we\u2019re fighting for souls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world passeth away, and the lust thereof,\u201d we\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_john\/2-17.htm\">reminded<\/a> in 1 John 2:17. Some Christians, most famously in the fundamentalist movement of the early 20th century, have taken this truth as notice not to waste our efforts on influencing our political or cultural regimes. Our eternal salvation is secure, and it\u2019s true that no presidential election or policy platform can endanger that or bring it about.<\/p>\n<p>We do well to remember that our fight is not for earthly power \u2014 nor is it against earthly powers. But we make a similarly grave mistake if we let our own salvation coddle us out of caring for the souls around us.<\/p>\n<p>Our great commission is to evangelize, to bring the gospel to all people. No cultural-political fight should ever replace that calling. <\/p>\n<p>Yet part of proliferating that gospel is defending parents\u2019 freedom to instruct their own children in it. It\u2019s ensuring that a baby gets the opportunity to be born, to experience a human demonstration of God\u2019s love from his parents, and to allow the knowledge of Christ to live in his heart. It\u2019s advocating for pastors\u2019 ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/cwn\/2021\/october\/yet-another-canadian-pastor-jailed-for-holding-outdoor-worship-were-fighting-against-spiritual-wickedness\">speak<\/a> the truth to their flocks.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s protecting children, the likes of whom Christ himself took into his arms and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Mark%2010%3A13-16&#038;version=NIV\">blessed<\/a>, from lies that rejecting your sex and deforming your body will fix your soul. That lie is straight from hell, as is anything that promises to offer what only Christ can give.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s speaking out against false gospels and false prophets, who say that our sin stems not from rebellion against God but from the Marxist power struggle of man against his fellow man, and can be redeemed not by God\u2019s sacrificial mercy but only by racial reparations and self-flagellating.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible doesn\u2019t command Christians to run for office or to vote. But it does command us to <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_thessalonians\/5-21.htm\">hold fast<\/a> to what is good, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John%2013%3A34-35&#038;version=NIV\">love<\/a> one another as Christ has loved us, and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%207%3A15-20&#038;version=KJV\">beware<\/a> of false teaching. <\/p>\n<p>When we see what Paul in Ephesians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ephesians%206%3A12&#038;version=KJV\">calls<\/a> \u201cspiritual wickedness in high places\u201d using political tactics to tear down the example God has established of his own love in the family, to urge salvation-seeking people to seek spiritual fulfillment in rejecting their created selves, or to teach children to hate each other based on their skin color, we should certainly rally against it \u2014 not in spite of our heavenly citizenship but because of it.<\/p>\n<p>If Christ had never risen, our sins would still enslave us, and we would have no hope to cling to when we face evil. Any battle we fight in this life would have no consequences except to decide a violent earthly power struggle. But because Christ is risen, we engage with evil in this world with the hope that Christ might use us as instruments in his salvation of souls, for his glory and our good.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone are the days when politics focused mostly on arguments about defense budgets, tax cuts, or the gold standard. 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