"It's Official...USA No Longer a 'Christian Nation'"

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"We are a nation of 
Christians and Muslems..."

-President Barak Obama, Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009

 

IT'S OFFICIAL!  According to the new president of the United States, America is now,

 

"One nation, under gods...
in gods we trust."

 

Lest you question the correctness of my interpretation of President Obama's inaugural address, please study and see for yourself, the resources that I have provided for you below.  President Obama has clearly declared in other venues,

 

"Whatever we once were, 
we are no longer 
a Christian nation..."

-Barak Obama

 

We are now a fundamentally different nation than we were under former President Abraham Lincoln who rightly warned,

 

'It is the duty of nations, 
as well as of men,

to own their dependence 
upon the overruling

power of God...and to recognize 
the sublime truth

announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, 
that those nations only 
are blessed whose 
God is the Lord." 
(bold and underline mine)

 

Please understand what this means practically.  The Bible clearly teaches,

 

"Blessed is the nation 
whose God is the Lord."

Psalm 33:12

 

Lest there be any more doubt among sincere seekers of truth,

 

-the United States of America is no longer blessed by God.*

 

-the United States of America is currently cursed of God.*

 

And my heart breaks to tell you that, as of this moment, according to the Bible...

 

The President of the United States of America is cursed of the Lord (see Jeremiah 17:5).

 

As you will study (see below), President Obama admonishes us to "Let's read our Bibles now..."

 

Unfortunately President Obama...

 

I HAVE BEEN.

 

*see Galatians 3:10; Jeremiah 17:5; Proverbs 14:34; 16:12; 20:28; 25:5

 

 

For further Study click on:

 

President Obama mocks Sermon on the Mount

 

President Obama says "We are no longer a Christian Nation..."

 

Why Barak Obama is NOT a Christian:  Reason #1

 

Why Barak Obama is NOT a Christian:  Reason #2

 

Why Barak Obama is NOT a Christian:  Reason #3

 

Why Barak Obama is NOT a Christian:  Reason #4

 

Why Barak Obama is NOT a Christian:  Reason #5

 

Why Barak Obama is NOT a Christian:  Reason #6

 

Why Barak Obama is NOT a Christian:  Reason #7

"Life's Greatest Secret"

THE MOST IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORLD

 

Part 6:  PARABLE I:  The Garden

 

"A man's mind may be likened to a garden...whether

cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth."

-As a Man Thinketh, p. 9

 

And the mind is a garden.  A garden with the capacity for flowers and weeds as numerous as the stars.  As with any garden, we cannot always control every seed that the winds bring.  Nonetheless, it is our responsibility to deal directly with ALL seeds.  The seeds of no value MUST BE DISCARDED!  Why?  Weeds left unchecked destroy the garden.

 

"Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into

the mind, and to take root there, produces its own

blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing

its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance."

-As a Man Thinketh, p. 11

 

And the seeds that take root determine the extent of the garden.  To think is to become.  What plowing, digging, and cultivating is to the land; meditation, reflection, and self-examination is to the mind.  The soil is rich.  The harvest is up to us.

 

"For as he thinks within himself, so he is."  -Proverbs 23:7*

 

 

 

*New American Standard.  The King James translation:  "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he."  The Amplified translation:  "For as he thinks within his heart, so is he."  And then, the NIV's poor transmutilation:  "For he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost."  For further study on the terrible "translation" otherwise known as the NIV, click on: New International or Non-Inspired.

"Life's Greatest Secret"

THE MOST IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORLD

 

Part 5:  Personal Responsibility

 

"A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile,

and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life."

-As a Man Thinketh, p.19

 

It is not what happens to us that makes the difference.  What happens to us, for the most part, happens to us all.  For every woman that excuses her life of waste on the curses of her Grandmother, there are ten other ladies that had it ten-times worse, yet chose to use the sins of their ancestors as a springboard to life and victory.  No, it's not what happens to us...it's how we RESPOND to what happens to us that makes all the difference.

 

"Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results;

bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.

This is but saying nothing can come from corn but corn...

Men understand this law in the natural world, and work with it;

but few understand it in the mental and moral world,

though it's operation there is just as simple and undeviating."

-As a Man Thinketh, p.19

 

One of the greatest evidences of emotional maturity is the willingness to take personal responsibility for our own lives and actions.  The maturity to know that what is happening today is largely the result of seeds that were planted yesterday.  That for things to change, we must change.  That for life to get better, I must get better.  Here's some wisdom:  "All that we have at any given moment...we have attracted by the people we have become"(GodThoughts, Volume 1, p. 202).

 

"The way to change your life is to change your thought...

The mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character

and the outer garment of circumstance."

-As a Man Thinketh, p.x, xvii

 

Becoming an outstanding individual is not something to be wished for...it is something we choose to become.  As philosophers of the past have said, Don't hope for a better wind, learn how to set a better sail.

 

"Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at

the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life."

-As a Man Thinketh, p.20

 

"For as he thinks within himself, so he is."  -Proverbs 23:7*

 

 

 

*New American Standard.  The King James translation:  "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he."  The Amplified translation:  "For as he thinks within his heart, so is he."  And then, the NIV's poor transmutilation:  "For he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost."  For further study on the terrible "translation" otherwise known as the NIV, click on: New International or Non-Inspired.

"Life's Greatest Secret"

THE MOST IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORLD

 

Part 3:  Life's Greatest Discipline

 

"We are taking every thought captive

to the obedience of Christ."

2 Corinthians 10:5

 

It is one of the most important admonitions in all of scripture; the exercise of the will to "take every thought captive."

 

"As the physically weak man can make

himself strong by careful and patient training,

so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong

 by exercising himself in right thinking."

-As A Man Thinketh, p. 35

 

God created the body to be the servant of the mind, not the other way around.  Life's greatest discipline is the willingness to "take every thought captive."  The man ruled by his lusts is a slave.  "By what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved" (2 Peter 2:19).

 

While we cannot always control what comes in to the mind, we most certainly can control what we do it once it's there!  Thus the biblical warnings are of inestimable value:

 

"He who walks with the wise will become wise,

but the companion of fools suffers harm...

Do not be deceived, bad company corrupts good morals...

Leave the presence of a fool,

or you will not discern words of knowledge."

Proverbs 13:20; 1 Corinthians 15:33; Proverbs 14:7

 

So just how import are our thoughts?  And why is "taking every thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ" considered "Life's Greatest Discipline?"  Well, consider this:

 

"Our destiny is determined by our actions.

And our actions...are the result of our thinking."

-GodThoughts, Volume 1, p.51

 

"For as he thinks within himself, so he is."  -Proverbs 23:7*

 

 

 

*New American Standard.  The King James translation:  "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he."  The Amplified translation:  "For as he thinks within his heart, so is he."  And then, the NIV's poor transmutilation:  "For he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost."  For further study on the terrible "translation" otherwise known as the NIV, click on:  New International or Non-Inspired.