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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
"An...Obama-Nation"
Monday, February 16, 2009
Understanding Today's America"
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"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..."
Hosea 4:6a
In his third "Law of Motion," Sir Isaac Newton stated that "for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction."* In other words, every action has a consequence. Newton identified the universal principle of "sowing and reaping" (see Galatians 6:7) in the natural world.
Well, the 3rd Law of Motion, or the principle of"sowing and reaping" applies to the spritual world as well. In other words, there are spiritual or "supernatural" consequences that are set in motion determined by how we respond to the laws of God. In 1963, Abington v. Shempp, the United States Supreme Court ruled that voluntary reading of the Bible in public schools was "unconstitutional." They said,
"If portions of the New Testament were read
without explanation, they could be and have been
psychologically harmful to the child."
without explanation, they could be and have been
psychologically harmful to the child."
What was once considered a vital part of the healthy develeopment of every american child since the founding of the country had suddenly become "psychologically harmful." Tragically, now more than 40 years since, the subtle slide of Christianity away from the public square has become a spiritual avalanche.
The Bible says, "You will know them by their fruit"(Matthew 7:20). So, what's the fruit? According to a recent TIME magazine:
"Only half of U.S. adults know the title of even one Gospel. Most can't name the Bible's first book.
The trend extends even to Evangelicals, only
44% of whose teens could identify a particular quote as coming from the Sermon on the Mount."
The trend extends even to Evangelicals, only
44% of whose teens could identify a particular quote as coming from the Sermon on the Mount."
-April 2, 2007
"We have become "a nation of biblical illiterates." -George Gallup
"Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children." -God
*Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis, 1686.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
"Understanding Today's America"
On May 15, 2001, CBS News Anchor Dan Rather appeared on a show called The O'Reilly Factor. In an explanation that he gave as to why he thought Bill Clinton to be an upright man Rather said, "I think you can be an honest man and lie about any number of things."
Those who are deceived
don't know they are deceived because they are deceived.
don't know they are deceived because they are deceived.
In order to truly understand today's America, we must first become students of our history. Only then can we see how far we have "drifted." In 1778 the 4th president of the United States, James Madison said,
We have staked the whole future
of American civilization...
upon the capacity of each and all
of American civilization...
upon the capacity of each and all
of us to govern ourselves according
to the Ten Commandments of God.*
to the Ten Commandments of God.*
102 years later "sin" had taken away our understanding. In 1980, the "delusion of sin" was in full effect at the highest level of our legislative branch of government, the United States Supreme Court. Literally ignoring 150 YEARS! of precedents, the Supreme Court ruled in a Kentucky case, Stone v. Graham, that the Ten Commandments could not be posted in schools:
"If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments
are to have any effects at all, it will be to induce
the school children to read, meditate upon, and
perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments...
This is not...a permissible...objective."
Tragically, we have forsaken the warnings of our forefathers:
"Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
The great enemy of the salvation of men...
never invented a more effectual means
of extirpation (removing) Christianity
from the world than by persuading mankind
that it was improper to read the Bible at schools."**
The great enemy of the salvation of men...
never invented a more effectual means
of extirpation (removing) Christianity
from the world than by persuading mankind
that it was improper to read the Bible at schools."**
-Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence
*James Madison. 1778. Beliles and McDowell, Providential History, p.221.
**Benjamin Rush. Letters of Benjamin Rush, Princeton, New Jersey: American Philosophical Society, 1951.
Monday, February 9, 2009
"It's Official...USA No Longer a 'Christian Nation'"
3 " Even if we expelled every Christian in America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools...which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?Should we go with, uhh, Leviticus, which uhh, suggests slavery is ok?Or we could go with Deuteronomy which suggests stoning your childif he strays from the faith. Or should we just stick to the sermon on the mount, a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own defense departmentwould survive its application...Now I may be opposed to abortion forreligious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice I can't simply point to the teachings of my churchor evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates someprinciple that is accessible to people of all faiths including thosewith no faith at all. Now this is going to be difficult for some whobelieve in the inerrancy of the Bible as many evangelicals do, but in apluralistic society we have no choice." -President Barak Obama
(bold mine) Beloved, it is REALLY important that you take the necessary time to understand what the new President of The United States believes and teaches. I implore you to take the necessary time to study and ponder what the above quotation means for the future of the United States. "If I seek to pass a law...I can't simply point to...or evoke God's will." The student of United States history will immediately recognize how contrary and divergent these statements are. Consider the words of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison, "We have staked the whole future of Americancivilization...upon the capacity of each and allof us to govern ourselves according to the TenCommandments of God."+ And signer of The Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush, "Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. The great enemy of the salvation of men...never invented a more effectual means of extirpation (removing) Christianity from the world than by persuadingmankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools."** "When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice,encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful,applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe." -Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1848* "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whoseheart turns away from the Lord...Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a disgrace to any people...It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness,for a throne is established on righteousness...Loyalty and truth preserve the king, and he upholds his throne by righteousness...Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness."Jeremiah 17:5; Proverbs 14:34; 16:12; 20:28; 25:5 *Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before-and immediately following-the revolution of 1848, a period when France was rapidly turning toward complete Socialism, much like the United States of America today. +James Madison. 1778. Beliles and McDowell, Providential History, p.221. **Benjamin Rush. Letters of Benjamin Rush, Princeton, New Jersey: American Philosophical Society, 1951.
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" Even if we expelled every Christian in America,
whose Christianity would we teach in the schools...
which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?
Should we go with, uhh, Leviticus, which uhh, suggests slavery is ok?
Or we could go with Deuteronomy which suggests stoning your child
if he strays from the faith. Or should we just stick to the sermon on the mount, a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own defense department
would survive its application...Now I may be opposed to abortion for
religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice I can't simply point to the teachings of my church
or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some
principle that is accessible to people of all faiths including those
with no faith at all. Now this is going to be difficult for some who
believe in the inerrancy of the Bible as many evangelicals do, but in a
pluralistic society we have no choice."
-President Barak Obama
(bold mine)
(bold mine)
Beloved, it is REALLY important that you take the necessary time to understand what the new President of The United States believes and teaches. I implore you to take the necessary time to study and ponder what the above quotation means for the future of the United States. "If I seek to pass a law...I can't simply point to...or evoke God's will."
The student of United States history will immediately recognize how contrary and divergent these statements are. Consider the words of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison,
"We have staked the whole future of American
civilization...upon the capacity of each and all
of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten
Commandments of God."+
And signer of The Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush,
"Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. The great enemy of the salvation of men...never invented a more effectual means of extirpation (removing) Christianity from the world than by persuadingmankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools."**
"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice,encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful,applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe." -Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1848*
**Benjamin Rush. Letters of Benjamin Rush, Princeton, New Jersey: American Philosophical Society, 1951.
Monday, February 2, 2009
"It's Official...USA No Longer a 'Christian Nation'"
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