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Last week the Democrats, led by the incoherent leader of the House Minority, Nancy Pelosi, denounced President Trump’s assessment of the MS-13 gang members as ‘animals’. Pelosi said that it was wrong for Trump to characterize these vicious thugs as animals because they had the “spark of divinity”. You can see her statements here. I want to respond to this idiotic and demagogic theological doodly squat.
First, I have no qualms with the President’s use of the word ‘animals’ to describe MS-13 gang members. Obviously he was not being literal. But these people are the most vicious criminals you can imagine. They are responsible for hacking and bludgeoning young boys and girls to death with machetes and bats. Here in the U.S. the most celebrated case is that of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas in 2016. The girls were bludgeoned and hacked to the point of being unrecognizable. They were only 15 and 16 respectively. Police said that the killings showed a level of brutality that was “close to unmatched”.
Again, I have no problem with Trump’s strong language to describe them. But my purpose here is to challenge Pelosi’s assertion that the gang thugs should be treated with a certain level of decency and respect because they have the ‘spark of divinity’. I am assuming that she is trying to infer that we are all brothers and sisters and children of God because I heard other Democrats framing it this way. As a Christian, I reject that assertion. It is not Biblical. They are not my brothers. They are not children of God.
“And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.” Ephesians 2:1-3
I am always a little amused and largely insulted when liberal Democrats try to use the Bible to make political points. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. This is the party (what the Democrat platform supports) of sodomites and unborn baby killers, of God haters and family destruction. In the passage above, Paul makes clear that if you are not a Christian, you are a child of the flesh and of Satan, and destined for the wrath of God. You are not a child of God and have no divinity whatsoever. Not even a spark.
No one is a child of God unless they come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.” John 1:12
John says that unless and until you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you are but a child of man, not a child of God. You have no divinity in you until you receive the Holy Spirit, which is given when you repent and believe in Jesus.
“Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.” 2Peter 1:2-4
Until you receive Jesus Christ you are not in the family of God. You are lost. When you accept Jesus Christ and receive the Holy Spirit, THEN you are able to partake of the DIVINE NATURE. This is what Peter explains.
MS-13 gang members clearly demonstrate that they are not in the family of God and they have no spark of divinity.
Dan Baker
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