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To: SeekAndFind

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.


12 posted on 08/03/2015 7:44:48 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

If you take a look over the founding fathers...particularly Thomas Jefferson...he had issues and ended up rewriting or editing the Bible, and the Jefferson Bible is well known today. I think if any Republican went out and did the same thing....he’d be chased around in circles by the news media and religious figures.


27 posted on 08/03/2015 7:53:29 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Th constitution was written for people who already accepted the authority of the Bible. I don’t think that question would have even been considered.


75 posted on 08/03/2015 9:46:46 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That would have been my answer as well - although you said it a lot nicer than what I had stumbling along in my brain. Good job.


89 posted on 08/03/2015 11:53:14 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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