Yes. And it says “render unto Caesar.”
When properly interpreted, the Constitution will not violate biblical principles.
My Answer to the idiot reporter...
The Bible would have authority over the Constitution if we were a Theocracy...
Since we are not and we are a Republic, why would ask such a stupid question ?
Are you that dense ?
How would Martin Luther King answer that question? (not that the MSM would ever ask *him*).
My answer to the question is that evidently, Carson has taken “Art of Weaseling 101.”
Answer of corse is yes.
But it’s asked as a gotcha question. Car sons answer was not bad - “that’s not a simple question”.
We can see the pattern shaping up. They are going to try to ask conservatives gotcha questions about religion.
Meh on the gotcha question. If you’re going to run for POTUS, that’s not even a point to be made.
Thought he handled it perfectly.
How to answer this question???
I think I would say how the Founding Fathers established our system to have a secular government. Our government is a constitutional republic. The US constitution guarantees that every state shall have a republican form of government. The government is involved with secular matters, not with religious doctrine.
The Bible is the governing force for the lives of believers ,and for providing guidance in matters of faith. The Constitution is the governing force for the functioning of our government.
The Constitution overrides the Bible when it comes to matters of our secular government. The Bible overrides the Constitution when it comes to matters of faith.
The Bible is the rock upon which the foundations of our national constitution rest.
Question for Hillary and/or Sanders:
Does the Communist Manifesto have authority oover tyhe U.S. Constitution?
Romans 13:1-7
So “journolistas” like Todd are now getting their questions from Facebook trolls?
More proper answer is use both the Constitution and the bible. Just render to God that which is God's, and to America that which is the written law of the land. That will please God, I think.
I answer it this way:
1. will you ask democrats the same question?
2. what you really want to ask is if I would select a passage from the bible and consider it to have overridden a specific sentence in the constitution.
The answer to that is no.
3. no part of my value system conflicts with any part of the constitution, but the ROP belief system is explicitly incompatible with the constitution. Would you ask a ROP member this question?
The two govern different aspects of human life - legal and moral.
My answer would be:
In my own personal life, yes. But the Constitution provides the rights and responsibilities of the government of the United States and is not the guide that God gives each of us to live our lives.
The Constitution gets its power from the people. The people gets their rights from their Creator.
Does the Creator have authority over the Constitution. hmmmm no so hard.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”
Yes it does.
Nothing is Ceasers, it all belongs to God.
I would ask Hillary, Bernie, or any other lib candidate if Das Kapital or the Communist manifesto have authority over the Constitution.
After you ask Hillary a tough question, I will have more respect for your right to play “gotcha.”