"The most important issues facing America are pro-life issues... That's what I vote on." Pro-life issues, including abortion and stem cells indeed are very important issues. America murders more unborn babies annually today than the number of Jews the Nazis murdered annually during the Holocaust, and even kills born alive abortion babies. But pro-life issues still are not the most important issue America faces. Neither is it our economy. The most important issue America faces today is our rebellion against God, and the continuing fight over pro-life issues are one of the major symptoms of that rebellion. Focusing on the symptom instead of the most important issue itself risks unintended idolatry because Satan cunningly tempts Christians to consider the elements and people close to the Lord, like Mary, Peter's supposed heir and pro-life issues as important as the Lord Himself. If pro-life issues were most important to us, how will we respond if Satan offers to overturn Roe v Wade? If Satan offers, "All this I will give you," [Satan] said, "if you will bow down and worship me." (Matthew 4:9), should we bow to Satan? For example, Muslims are pro-life, as are the Mormons. Muslims deny that Jesus is God, while Mormons blaspheme Jesus by calling Him the brother of Satan. Voting for them may support pro-life issues but also supports their blasphemy and therefore is a betrayal of the Lord. The most important issue for Christians must remain Christ Himself and His honor. We exist to glorify and honor Jesus. If made to choose His honor or the lives for millions of innocent babies - even our own lives - we must still obey the "first and great commandment" and choose the Lord: "Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’" (Matthew 22:35-39)
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