It's Thursday, August 31st, 2023. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing. A daily analysis

of news and events from a Christian worldview. Christians seeking to think faithily, which

is to say seeking to think Christianly, trying to operate on the basis of a consistent biblical

and Christian worldview. Sometimes we come to an understanding that on issue A, there

is a right or wrong answer, and we can get to that pretty quickly. On issue B, takes

us a little more time to get to where we understand what's right and what's wrong,

what's true and what's false. On some issues, Christians have to acknowledge there

can be genuine disagreement, and sometimes we reach an issue that is just extremely

vexing. Even a moral issue can operate this way. But still, there has to be a decision

made one way or the other. There has to be some policy determined one way or the other,

and that's going to come with moral consequences one way or the other. So let's think about

a story right now in the headlines. This is not one of those issues in which you look

at it and you can say, okay, that's absolutely right or that's absolutely wrong, but it

is absolutely urgent and some decision is going to have to be made. And even when we think

that the decision that say the Biden administration is making is wrong, we need to think through

why it's so and what kind of alternative policy could be put in place. I want to start

this issue by saying I think the Biden administration is doing the wrong thing. In this case, it's

not about an issue so clear as abortion or say same sex marriage or something like that.

It is about whether or not it is morally right and it is politically just to relieve Iran

of certain restrictions on six billion dollars of its oil funds that have been held because

of Iran's misbehavior to give them access to those funds to secure the release of five

hostages in Iran. You look at that and you say, well, if you can rescue those people, if all

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