The Christian and Politics
“No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” 2 Timothy 2:4 You would think that after reading a verse like that, no further commentary would be necessary concerning politics or many other matters. However, in light of increasing involvement of professing Christians in politics it has become necessary to expound more specifically this and other texts related to our subject. First of all, every true Christian is a soldier and servant of the Lord, and like it or not, is engaged in warfare. And one reason why so many don’t even show up in the fight, or wage an ineffective spiritual warfare, being unable to “fight the good fight of faith,” is their entanglements. This world system, (gr. kosmos), organized and headed by the devil, dedicated to the purpose of keeping men happy without God, dangles before Christians various lures of entanglement. Politics is simply one of those allurements and en