Reading God's Mind, Witnessing His Improving Judgment

CONSIDERING THE FACT that the evangelical community is solidly supportive of President Trump, considering that there are evangelical ministers who claim that Donald Trump was chosen by God to be president, it is little wonder that some within the evangelical community are now beginning to say that the recent election of a new group of progressives to Congress is the result of god's judgment.In particular, Alexandria Ostacio Cortez (AOC), the rising star within the democratic party who, as a twenty nine year old, was elected to the House of Representatives from Brooklyn, New York, and has been a prominent subject of media attention lately, is supposedly a consequence of God's judgment, meaning that God, dissatisfied with the direction of America, is punishing the United States by sending to government service a liberal, a person who is not an evangelical, a person who by virtue of not being an evangelical will bring destruction to America, merely by virtue of supporting the enactment of progressive policies, such a tolerance for homosexuality, socialism, and science, the combined result of which will be devastatingly to America, and thus justice for America's acceptance for these evils across wide sections of society. Indeed, Americans in recent years have become much more tolerant of homosexuality, transgender people, and they have become much more diverse in religious matters, much more accepting of people who embrace religious views fare from mainstream Christianity. And all this, from the viewpoint of conservative evangelical Christianity, is a sure sign that America is going to hell, perhaps even in a hand basket, and the election of people like AOC are seen as punishment, the punishment consisting presumably of supporters of sin seeking and gaining power, and eventually, bring God's judgment and wrath upon the land. there is, however, another way of looking at God's judgment. Throughout history, throughout humanity's time on Earth, people have suffered mightily, with war, disease, and various other forms of misfortune, all of which apparently with God's approval. Thus, by sanctioning human misery, God, fro the human point of view, has exercised persistent bad judgment. god's bad judgment began almost immediately after creation, when he created a man named Cain, who murdered his own brother, and a woman named Eve, who defied God's instructions a sought knowledge, instead of ignorance. god exercised bad judgment by giving free will to people who abused the gift from the very moment they received it. Throughout the Old and New Testaments God's bad judgment is seen repeatedly, as the creatures of his creation disobey him over and over again, resulting in divine retribution, and human suffering. with better judgment God surely would have instilled within humankind, even within people endowed with free will, a greater tendency towards obedient to God, a greater respect for God's will, instead of allowing beings to populate the earth who repeatedly behave violently and disobediently throughout history. the same God who brought Donald Trump to power also brought Hitler to power, and all the other brutal tyrants with which human history is replete, obviously using bad judgment in elevating demagogues and tyrants to positions of leadership. but, there it, it seems hope. God's judgment, across the centuries, as history moves towards our twenty first century, seems to be improving. god is now giving humanity cures for diseases which formerly decimated the population and inflicted untold suffering. human knowledge to increase, medical knowledge, scientific knowledge, all manner of knowledge which is raising mankind's standard of living, and making life easier and far more pleasant than in previous epochs. God has allowed people to invent democracy, giving more people more opportunity to contribute to the leadership of society, giving society the opportunity to put good ideas into action and to eliminate bad ideas, by allowing more talented people to have an input into the political process.. yes, God still allows brutal dictators and dishonest, corrupt demagogues to come to power and to do societal damage, even in great countries like the United States. but no longer do these evil cruel men have free reign over the lives of millions of people, doing immeasurable harm, without resistance. Now, God is allowing bad leaders, leaders who come to power dishonestly, leaders who constantly lie to their citizens, leaders who engage in all kinds of financial and political and legal corruption - God is allowing the people to rise up against such cruel and evil men, to resist them and their harmful agendas, and allowing people to come to power tho have the power to discover the truth about such nefarious leaders through investigation, and legal due process, and to take action against them, according to a wise and effective system. of laws. God's improving good judgment is evident everywhere, and, as humanity plunges into the future, it may well be that God's good judgment will get ever better, as he brings to power such remarkable, progressive people at Alexandria Ostacio-Cortez, people who thorough their resistance to bad leaders and their presentation of superior ideas, clearly serves as beacons of light and living proof of the ever improving judgment of almighty God.