Dr Paul Allen

Earlier this week, one of the most well-known news anchors in America was explaining why monuments and statues to America’s “founding fathers” are problematic. He then tried to make a theological argument and declared on national TV, “Jesus Christ, if that’s who you believe, if that’s who you believe in, admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth.” His point was that if Christians have no problem with recognizing Jesus’s imperfections, we should be ok with an honest discussion of Jefferson and Washington. Now, I love it when people use theology to influence their politics. It is true that if people had better theology, they would have better politics. I’m also very grateful to have a person usually known as a political liberal grant that theology should have a role in public deliberations of politics. But in this case, the declaration that Jesus “admittedly was not perfect when he was here on earth” represents a huge contradiction to what the Bible teaches abo...