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."

 

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."

-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.