Is God Silent?

ICTURE THIS: A candidate for the office of President of the United States stands up 
in a South Carolina megachurch one Sunday morning and declares: “We’re going to keep on praising together. I am confident that we can create a kingdom right here on earth.”¹

Or this: Another candidate advertises their faith-based outreach in a state’s churches by quoting Esther 4:14, which reads in part: “. . . who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?”²

And how about this one? A third contender says they believe the Bible is the Word of God, but “I don’t believe every single thing in the literal sense of Jonah being in the belly of the whale.”³

All three items took place in the fall of 2007 as candidates for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations barnstormed the early primary and caucus states. Interestingly, however, it was two Democrats—Senators Barack Obama (Ill.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.)—who, separately, invoked the “kingdom” and quoted Esther’s uncle Mordecai, while it was a GOP contender, former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who expressed doubts about Jonah’s story.

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*Source: Adventist Review Online.