THEY THAT HATE YOU SHALL REIGN OVER YOU (Lev.26:14)
The liberal, the evolutionist tells us and teaches in the classroom, that "the only constant is change". But the Lord makes it clear that there are absolutes which must be obeyed by men and nations who wish to be free. In Leviticus 26:14,17 He warns, as He does throughout the scriptures: If ye will not harken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; I will set my face against you...: they that hate you shall reign over you;...
Christians and those who believe the biblical account of creation and the origin of life in all kingdoms, believe the Old and New Testaments: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the word of the Lord [his truth] endureth to all generations. (Matthew 24:25; Psalm 100:5)
Events change. Circumstances change. But our Creator's laws of liberty do not change. Thus after thousands of years of brutal tyranny and bloody history and struggle between nations of the world, America's Christian founding fathers searched the holy scriptures for the divine laws of liberty as revealed by our Creator and by Christ Himself, and against seemingly impossible odds gave birth to a nation whose Constitution became the envy of the world.
Thomas Jefferson, who penned the Declaration of Independence, opened it with: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, ....".
Note his term "truths". According to the Bible, Christ is truth (John 14:6). Next he acknowledged that there are divine, fixed, eternal, unchanging absolutes: "They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights..." (Inalienable means unchanging, unchangable).
That is to say, our right to freedom is not granted by the state, which can change from tyranny to tyranny. Rather, it is an eternal God-given right which must be jealously fought for, and defended against the ever present evil in our world described in Romans 3:15-18: Their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Jefferson, reflecting the collective faith of the founding fathers as well as his own, proclaimed these words which can be found inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.: "God who gave us life gave us liberty ".
The bonding agent in the American Revolution and the U.S. Constituition was the belief of the people that the God of the Bible, manifested through Jesus Christ, was(is) the Author of liberty, and that political freedom and spiritual freedom are inseparable.
John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, summed it up on July 4th, 1821:
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity".
By contrast the French Revolution had a high sounding purpose of freedom, but ended in a bloodbath and in a succession of unstable freedom-destroying governments. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions."
America's founding fathers in no way advocated the establishment of a theocracy. They wrote a Constitution guaranteeing freedom of religion. They stressed the imperative for the influence of the God of the Bible, the Author of liberty, in every dimension of civil and personal life. Thus, lest future generations forget, they engraved Bible verses on all of the federal buildings including the Capitol, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court, and upon completion the Washington Monument - all the way up the stairs and on the its cap. Lest we forget, they even imprinted "In God We Trust" on our coinage. In 1892 the U.S. Supreme Court declared: "This is a Christian nation".
Yes, ours is a nation structured on the absolute unchanging laws of liberty set forth in the Bible.
The "liberal" in proclaiming "the only constant is change", represents the antithesis of the greatness of America. The Christian proclaims "the only constant is the truth of Jesus Christ".
Today many Americans learned in world history are increasingly alarmed about the apparent calculated attacks by President Obama and his liberal democrat administration upon our fundamental institutions of freedom. They are slapping their heads in despair over the apparent weakness and confusion of the voting public. For decades the Christian foundations of our God-given country have been allowed to erode under the relentless attacks of Godless secular humanists. There is a parallel in recent history:
At the end of WWII British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reflected upon how that horrible war, which claimed 50 million lives, could have happened at all. He wrote in "The Gathering Storm",
"The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous".
The key word is "reinforced", which means emboldened, encouraged. No wonder Obama is
increasingly in the attack mode, even declaring his destructive (to freedom) political objectives.
Note: most quotes taken from the book America - A Call To Greatness
Christians and those who believe the biblical account of creation and the origin of life in all kingdoms, believe the Old and New Testaments: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the word of the Lord [his truth] endureth to all generations. (Matthew 24:25; Psalm 100:5)
Events change. Circumstances change. But our Creator's laws of liberty do not change. Thus after thousands of years of brutal tyranny and bloody history and struggle between nations of the world, America's Christian founding fathers searched the holy scriptures for the divine laws of liberty as revealed by our Creator and by Christ Himself, and against seemingly impossible odds gave birth to a nation whose Constitution became the envy of the world.
Thomas Jefferson, who penned the Declaration of Independence, opened it with: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, ....".
Note his term "truths". According to the Bible, Christ is truth (John 14:6). Next he acknowledged that there are divine, fixed, eternal, unchanging absolutes: "They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights..." (Inalienable means unchanging, unchangable).
That is to say, our right to freedom is not granted by the state, which can change from tyranny to tyranny. Rather, it is an eternal God-given right which must be jealously fought for, and defended against the ever present evil in our world described in Romans 3:15-18: Their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Jefferson, reflecting the collective faith of the founding fathers as well as his own, proclaimed these words which can be found inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.: "God who gave us life gave us liberty ".
The bonding agent in the American Revolution and the U.S. Constituition was the belief of the people that the God of the Bible, manifested through Jesus Christ, was(is) the Author of liberty, and that political freedom and spiritual freedom are inseparable.
John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, summed it up on July 4th, 1821:
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity".
By contrast the French Revolution had a high sounding purpose of freedom, but ended in a bloodbath and in a succession of unstable freedom-destroying governments. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions."
America's founding fathers in no way advocated the establishment of a theocracy. They wrote a Constitution guaranteeing freedom of religion. They stressed the imperative for the influence of the God of the Bible, the Author of liberty, in every dimension of civil and personal life. Thus, lest future generations forget, they engraved Bible verses on all of the federal buildings including the Capitol, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court, and upon completion the Washington Monument - all the way up the stairs and on the its cap. Lest we forget, they even imprinted "In God We Trust" on our coinage. In 1892 the U.S. Supreme Court declared: "This is a Christian nation".
Yes, ours is a nation structured on the absolute unchanging laws of liberty set forth in the Bible.
The "liberal" in proclaiming "the only constant is change", represents the antithesis of the greatness of America. The Christian proclaims "the only constant is the truth of Jesus Christ".
Today many Americans learned in world history are increasingly alarmed about the apparent calculated attacks by President Obama and his liberal democrat administration upon our fundamental institutions of freedom. They are slapping their heads in despair over the apparent weakness and confusion of the voting public. For decades the Christian foundations of our God-given country have been allowed to erode under the relentless attacks of Godless secular humanists. There is a parallel in recent history:
At the end of WWII British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reflected upon how that horrible war, which claimed 50 million lives, could have happened at all. He wrote in "The Gathering Storm",
"The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous".
The key word is "reinforced", which means emboldened, encouraged. No wonder Obama is
increasingly in the attack mode, even declaring his destructive (to freedom) political objectives.
Note: most quotes taken from the book America - A Call To Greatness
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