Hey friends, welcome to my first quick response episode in which I respond briefly to popular

claims I see online that sound good and draw in a lot of Christians but fail from a biblical

and or logical perspective. For our first one, I want to respond to a tweet from

Reverend Benjamin Kramer, a progressive Christian on X who has quickly been gaining influence with a lot of

people. Here's the post. He says, quote, Dear Christian, if your religion is really about saving souls,

then you wouldn't demand for it to be legislated. Because making

someone follow your religion by force of law against their will is an extremely effective way to

ensure they reject your God in their hearts. End quote. Well, let's break this down. Kramer's short

post has a trifecta of errors in logic, civic understanding, and biblical

understanding. First, in logic. Saying that if your religion is really about one thing, then it

wouldn't be about something else is a false dichotomy. Any given religion is really about many

interrelated claims regarding the nature of reality.

One might say, for example, that Christianity is about a sovereign and holy God who created

the universe in mankind, that mankind was created with the ability to choose between right

and wrong, and that we chose to rebel against God, that God himself entered the world to reconcile

us to him through

the cross, and much more. To boil Christianity down to being really about saving souls

is a gross oversimplification of many interconnected truths taught in Scripture that can't

be pitted against one another. God's concern for the righteous functioning of society

runs throughout the Bible and is part of what Christianity is about.

That's not logically at odds with Christianity, also being about salvation.

So this is just a logic issue.

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