A lot of Christian conservatives are using the
accusations made against Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter as a way
to say how unsuitable Biden is as a candidate for president. As many of my
friends know I am not voting for either President Trump or Biden, but
nevertheless there is something grossly wrong with Christians using this
accusation. I will explain.
So first of all The
New York Times reporter, Katie Robertson, writing
about the the New York Post story stated,
“Coming late in a heated presidential campaign, the article suggested that
Joseph R. Biden Jr. had used his position to enrich his son Hunter when he was
vice president. The Post based the story on photos and documents the paper said
it had taken from the hard drive of a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter
Biden.” Robertson in her article, “New
York Post Published Hunter Biden Report Amid Newsroom Doubts,” goes
on to explain that Hunter Biden supposedly left a computer at a shop with
documents on it suggesting “that the elder Mr. Biden, as vice president, had
directed American foreign policy in Ukraine to benefit his son, a former board
member of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.”
Continuing Robertson writes, “The article named two
sources: Stephen
K. Bannon, the former adviser to President Trump now facing federal
fraud charges, who was said to have made the paper aware of the hard
drive last month; and Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, who
was said to have given the paper “a copy” of the hard drive on Oct. 11.”
Now there are all kinds of reasons to be concerned
about this story. But for those Christians using the story there is a far
greater reason not to affirm it and it has to do with how we perceive those who
applaud and love those who persecute Christians.
Recently World
Magazine published an article about a man who is persecuting some Chinese
Christians in the United States. The
article, “Pressure
campaign targets Chinese pastor in Texas: A Chinese tycoon’s media blitz has
forced leading Chinese Christian dissident Bob Fu into hiding”, was written by Mindy Belz. She begins her
article:
Protesters
remained outside the Midland, Texas, home of Bob Fu 10 days after law
enforcement placed Fu and his family in protective custody due to threats. The
protesters carry signs claiming the founder of ChinaAid and pastor who once was
forced out of China by its Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government is “a CCP
spy.” They have refused to tell local media where they are from or whether they
are being paid.
As Belz continues she
explains that Guo Wengui, a Chinese business man is the one targeting Bob Fu
and others.
On Bob Fu’s web site China Aid is a statement by China aid
about this persecution. Part of the document states:
On
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, multiple of his followers instructed by Guo showed up
outside Fu’s home in Texas while he was out of town. His family however was
inside and are now fortunately under protection by local law enforcement. In
response, Guo issued another video where
he threatened, “We will send another 100 to 200 comrades to your house
tomorrow. We will see how much power you have in the U.S…. We will not start
another campaign until we are On. Guo’s followers have surrounded Jianmin’s
house in Los Angeles for five days. His wife and two children are too
frightened to leave. Also targeted is Pastor Zhang Boli, a Tiananmen leader
still on the CCP’s “Most Wanted” list.
Bob Fu and the others mentioned in Guo Wengui’s video are under direct threat
by the actions this man. He has mobilized his followers and encouraged violence
against those he loosely and deceitfully deems a “CCP spy.
Now enter the two men who
are the source for the supposed damaging information on Hunter Biden. They both
have ties to Guo Wengui the man persecuting Chinese Christians in the United
States. . Bannon was arrested for fraud while on his business partner Wengui’s 35,
million dollar yacht. And Giuliani is also connected. In a Daily Beast article,
“Chinese
Billionaire’s Network Hyped Hunter Biden Dirt Weeks Before Rudy Giuliani”
there are tweeted pictures of
Wengui and Giuliani hugging and smoking cigars together.
Why
would Christians, those who belong to Jesus the very truth, want to use the
words of people like Bannon, Giuliani and their companion Wengui who within the
confines of the United States would persecute Christians? The Church is
becoming too involved with the world via politics.
I
believe the word of God is calling for more than ‘thinking about’ when it states:
… whatever is
honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is of good repute, if
there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things
(Phil. 4:8).
The
words are calling for a life lived within the confines of what is honorable,
right, pure, of good repute, excellence and what is worthy of praise. Ralph P.
Martin in the Tyndale commentary on Philippians writes, “The present
verse is governed by the verb think, logizesthe, which means more than ‘keep
in mind’ (Moffatt). It is rather ‘take into account (logos), reflect upon
and then allow these things to shape your conduct’.”
Believers
cannot uphold the words of worldly and immoral men and at the same time walk
within the confines of a life attuned to a lowly, truthful and pure Savior.
