Elections and voting are ideas that came from God. The Bible indicates that after Israel was released from slavery in Egypt that Moses gave to the people the right and duty to vote for their local city governors (called “judges” – Deut 1:9,13). This democratic component of Israel’s government began about a thousand years before democracy was attempted in pagan Greece.
It was God’s idea for holding government leaders accountable and empowering citizens. In the New Testament era the right to vote was only available among the Greeks and so the Apostle Paul seems to encourage Christians in Corinth to use this freedom to find better judges (1 Cor 6). And one of Paul’s assistants named Erastus became an example of this when he became treasurer of the city through an election (Rom 16:23).
If God’s people today have the freedom to vote then they also have a duty to use this for the best possible good in the governments of ...
