Joe Biden is my president: Responding biblically to leaders with whom we disagree
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The hashtag #NotMyPresident began trending when Joe Biden was inaugurated Wednesday. Today's podcast explains why this sentiment is so dangerous, then we explore the historical context of this issue and identify four biblical responses.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum. This podcast is narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | As a non-partisan ministry, we do not endorse candidates or adopt partisan agendas. |
| 0:26.2 | However, I need you to know that I did not support Joe Biden's positions on abortion, |
| 0:31.6 | religious liberty, and sexual morality in the 2020 presidential election. |
| 0:36.9 | I plan to address these crucial subjects and offer |
| 0:39.7 | biblical responses next week. Nonetheless, I need to say to you that, despite my biblical and |
| 0:46.3 | personal objections, Joe Biden is my president. If you are an American citizen, he is your |
| 0:52.8 | president as well. I'm making this statement in |
| 0:55.8 | response to comments our ministry has received that condemn Mr. Biden in terms too malicious |
| 1:01.4 | for us to publish. Moments before the president-elect took the stage for his inauguration on |
| 1:07.2 | Wednesday, the hashtag, not my president began trending on Twitter. By 11.30 a.m. Eastern Time, |
| 1:14.7 | there were over 21,000 tweets that included this hashtag. This is not the first time we have seen |
| 1:20.9 | such vitriol. When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, the hashtag, He's Not my president, was used more than 180,000 times |
| 1:31.0 | within a few hours. After he was inaugurated in 2017, Not My President Day rallies were held |
| 1:37.9 | across the country. Now we are seeing the reverse. Both reflect the sentiments of those disappointed by a presidential election, |
| 1:46.3 | but both are unbiblical and truly dangerous to the future of our democracy. |
| 1:54.2 | According to the latest polls, only 16% of Republicans view President Biden favorably. This news is not surprising. Only 10% of Democrats |
| 2:04.7 | viewed President Trump favorably after he was elected in 2016. Since 76 to 81% of white |
| 2:12.6 | evangelical and born-again voters supported Mr. Trump in the 2020 election, their disappointment with the |
| 2:19.4 | outcome is understandable. However, if you are an American citizen, Joe Biden is now your president. |
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