{"id":53718,"date":"2022-10-31T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53718"},"modified":"2022-11-02T01:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:02:49","slug":"christian-nationalism-misrepresents-jesus-so-we-should-reject-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53718","title":{"rendered":"\u201cChristian Nationalism\u201d Misrepresents Jesus, So We Should Reject It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best I can tell, folks these days use the phrase \u201cChristian nationalism\u201d and \u201cChristian nation\u201d in one of two ways. Some mean that Christianity should <em>influence <\/em>the nation and its laws. Others mean that the nation and its government should actually <em>identify <\/em>as Christian. The problem is, many people, Christian and non-Christians, advocates and critics, don\u2019t recognize the difference, which is one reason I believe we should drop the label altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates of Christian nationalism in terms of <em>influence<\/em> have in mind Christians opening their Bibles; doing their best to understand what God requires of a nation; and then stepping into the public square and seeking to pass laws, establish practices, and encourage traditions in keeping with a biblical view of justice and righteousness. Let me label this first group The Influencers. They want a Christianity<em>-influenced<\/em> nation. Though I think The Influencers need to drop the \u201cChristian nationalism\u201d or \u201cChristian nation\u201d label posthaste, as I\u2019ll argue in a moment, you can count me in with this group. To deny the role of Christian influence in the public square is to deny the Lordship of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates of Christian nationalism in terms of <em>identity <\/em>mean all of this but more. Let&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian nationalism doesn\u2019t push forward toward the eschaton, but backward toward the old covenant. It\u2019s anti-new covenant. It nominalizes Christianity and, within a generation, undermines it altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[327],"class_list":["post-53718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-life-together","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53720,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53718\/revisions\/53720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}