Posted on 07/04/2018 7:22:43 AM PDT by OneVike
God is not a respecter of nations (Amos 1:3 and 2:16). However, Acts 10:34-35 tells us “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.” America’s future success is not guaranteed. It is clear that the best political system to assure America can survive the challenges before her is one that is based upon repentance and gratitude toward God and is one that embraces Judeo-Christian principles. The founders knew this. Bible believing Christians know this. The key is what the majority of voting Americans will do about it.
God bless America, God bless Donald Trump, and God bless each and every one of you.
The preamble to the constitution says "and secure the Blessings of Liberty", the word "blessings" refering to divine favor.
The signing page reads "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 and of the Independance of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,
Great article. Thanks for posting and bringing this to our attention.
A Safe and HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY to you and yours!
Great article. In the Declaration, rights come from our creator and are the natural state of man. But in the constitution, government is a human creation, best regarded with endless suspicion and was literally designed to be held at gunpoint.
See another very recent FR thread from reply 54 to the end of the thread for Scalia v. Napolitano on this point.
Very strongly concur.
Post of the Decade.
Don’t stretch the point beyond credibility. Liberty can have its “blessings” all by itself in modern English, and citing the “year of the our Lord” as proof of intentional theocracy is ridiculous.
It is in there. Maybe they just considered that as understood?
First thing that comes to my mind is...
The DoI is a statement of Principles,
The Constitution is a set of rules/procedures.
Under a system of popular government there will always be those who will seek for political preferment by clamoring for reform. While there is very little of this which is not sincere, there is a large portion that is not well informed. In my opinion very little of just criticism can attach to the theories and principles of our institutions. There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes. We do need a better understanding and comprehension of them and a better knowledge of the foundations of government in general. Our forefathers came to certain conclusions and decided upon certain courses of action which have been a great blessing to the world. Before we can understand their conclusions we must go back and review the course which they followed. We must think the thoughts which they thought. Their intellectual life centered around the meetinghouse. They were intent upon religious worship. While there were always among them men of deep learning, and later those who had comparatively large possessions, the mind of the people was not so much engrossed in how much they knew, or how much they had, as in how they were going to live. While scantily provided with other literature, there was a wide acquaintance with the Scriptures. Over a period as great as that which measures the existence of our independence they were subject to this discipline not only in their religious life and educational training, but also in their political thought. They were a people who came under the influence of a great spiritual development and acquired a great moral power.
No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren scepter in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=408
Calvin Coolidge, just 4, 1926
We the People ordained and established the Constitution to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.
Blessings come from God, and Liberty is one of the unalienable Rights endowed by their Creator. Ordaining the Constitution made it Holy.
-PJ
At least we know God is in the Constitution.
And we know the phrase “year of our Lord” is the right way to think of and refer to the general timeline.
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 and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,
Why?
Do you see a difference between the use of "blessings" and the capitalized "Blessings?" Didn't writers of the time capitalize words that referred to God, like they did in the Declaration with Creator, and the unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and Happiness, and in the Constitution with Blessings and Liberty?
-PJ
Ordaining the Constitution made it Holy.
I don’t buy that for a second.
Jesus’ life was the only event in human history to prompt everyone on the planet set their watches. It is significant.
-PJ
Most excellent and clear words and thoughts - thank you.
And happy Independence Day.
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