U.S. CONSTITUTION: WHO LOVES IT? WHO HATES IT?

Our country has long been referred to as "America - an oasis of light and life in a world of darkness and death."

That is not a static condition. In fact, considering the rate at which our freedoms are being extinguished, the above statement may become: "America - once an oasis of light and liberty, now part of a world of darkness and death."

In over 30 prior blog essays I have written about the forces in conflict; which of them have long been attacking America's God-given freedoms; and who, beginning with the clergy, have abandoned their duty to be watchmen on the wall and sound the alarm (Ezekiel 33:6) to their millions of followers and church members.

The purpose of this blog essay is to offer a simple, basic summary statement defining the nature and objectives of the forces long in conflict.

The forces of darkness, evil, tyranny and death are founded upon atheism, secular humanism, evolutionism and Marxism. Their objective was summed up by Karl Marx:

"My objective in life is to dethrone god, and destroy capitalism."

That is to say, to them MAN is GOD, and in government Man, not God, must be supreme.

In the early 1920s Columbia University professor Dr. John Dewey, Father of "Progressive Education" summarized: "There is no god and there is no soul, hence there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes."

Those are the people who hate the U.S. Constitition - because it subordinates the rule of man to the rule of God. They believe in the supremacy of man. Thus their record of governing is drenched in centuries of blood, agony, slavery, and death under cruel dictatorships such as Nazism (Hitler) and communism (Mao Tse Tung, Stalin, Pol Pot), which murdered more of their own citizens - hundreds of millions - than military deaths in all of their wars combined.

Those who love the Constitution
Man under God

"Our Constitution is a government of laws, not of men". Whose laws? A: God's laws; NOT man's laws.

America was founded on the Old and New Testaments; on the Ten Commandments (a/k/a the "pillars- the laws of liberty") and on the teachings of Jesus Christ. Two sections of Christ's mission statement statement are"

[He] hath annointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; ...to preach deliverance to the captives, and the recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are oppressed (Luke 4:18);

The Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8).

Christians the world-over recognize Christ as the Author of liberty. In fact, that very term has long been at the heart of America's sacred hymns such as "My Country, 'Tis of Thee...Sweet land of liberty...Our fathers' God, to Thee [Christ], Author of liberty... .

The New Testament sums it up: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (II Cor. 3:17).

The Founding Fathers

America's Founding Fathers, beginning with the Declaration of Independence, were overwhelmingly devout Christians, scholars of the Bible, historians, and in general learned intellectuals including doctors, lawyers, and businessmen.

Samuel Adams, known as the Father of the American Revolution, declared, as the Declaration of Independence was being signed: "We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come."

John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, declared 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."

The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution fit hand-in-glove together. In a word, the Declaration established the divine purpose for government in which individual citizen's personal freedoms were considered sacred; the Constitution established the legal framework to achieve that end.

Man's fallen nature

The Constitution is unique and without precedence in the history of governments in that whereas personal freedom is its centerpiece, the founders and signers recognized, as Christians, the fallen nature of man and his propensity to enslave his fellow man if given power ("power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely").

Our Constitution - protecting man from himself

Thus a system of checks and balances was adopted a/k/a Legislative, Executive, Judicial (Isaiah 33:22) which would make degeneration into tyranny impossible. That is, unless the voting public (by concept the REAL government, the political government being their servant) did itself degenerate, and fall away from awareness of, and obedience to, the duties and responsibilities mandated of them by the Author of Liberty Himself, Jesus Christ. This eternal vigilance begins at the door step of the clergy. Thus the expression, "As goes the church, so goes the nation."

Freedom is anchored in obedience to Christ

There's no getting around it: the life and death struggles today - the conflicts between freedom and tyranny, essentially boil down to the concepts of man-over-man vs the God of the Bible over man.

The Constitution is not a secular instrument.

All of its Articles and its Bill of Rights were subject to the biblical test before they were considered for incorporation in the Constitution.

In fact, the Constitution concludes with the phrase "the year of our Lord":

Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven."

NOTE: The above constitute the views of the author, John W. Chalfant. If the reader's views differ, please submit them.

Most of the quotes have been taken from the author's two books: Abandonment Theology, and, America - A Call To Greatness.


John W. Chalfant
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