“Why?!” It’s a common expression from any voter in the political spectrum, when a flash of truth, as if by accident, appears on their chosen media outlet. The crawl on the bottom of CNN might blurb actual news of a vote from your representative you might not approve of rather than reporting on what a pop icon had for dinner. Fox might take a breath, from its fast paced diatribes against “the Left”, for you to notice a contradiction from your representative’s campaign values. This happens to everyone still hoping, or knowing, their democratically elected representative will change the world, or drain the swamp, because, it never happens.

From there we have two roads: The first; blame “the other side”, ignore it, or give them a pass. The second; realize this is the way it is, no matter the decade or the party.

I want to address the second road. As Christians we all believe this world is fallen. That understanding is of course as vast as “Christendom” itself. Some hold to “Total Depravity”, while others believe in varying levels of “I can get by with a little help from my friends.* (*”friends” ranging from other fallen people to the Trinity)

So, as we understand it, Sin is the reason. Most people don’t really want to hear that word. They might prefer “mess up”, or “bad decision”, but, nevertheless, people are sinful, and no badge, or democratically appointed office, changes that. Which is the real quandary for Christians: Why do we expect something different from these people? I think the answer is obvious though. We are sinners too. We make bad decisions. We set up idols. We brush aside man’s fallen state.

There is more to come on how, and historically why we do that in the 21st century, but for now I want us to focus on this:

If we truly believe man is fallen, what makes you think a group calling themselves a government will act outside of that fallen nature?

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