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On God's Election of Obama
Parchment and Pen Blog ^ | November 7, 2012 | C. Michael Patton

Posted on 11/09/2012 9:29:40 AM PST by Arkansas Toothpick

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This is tough medicine, but the encouragement and hope that it gives me has helped make this a wonderful Friday! Let us unite as Believers in Christ to be faithful followers of the King of Kings regardless of what perplexes these mortal frames of clay.
1 posted on 11/09/2012 9:29:41 AM PST by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

God gave us free will. Obama is on us, not God.

God did not put Stalin or Hitler in power as part of His plan. He gave man free will, and man chose a path divergent from God.

When an adult allows their child to take the car, after specifically forbidding speeding and alcohol, it is not part of the adults greater plan that the child gets drunk, rolls the car, and dies.

We (America) own this.


2 posted on 11/09/2012 9:35:45 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

This is the biggest bunch of crap.

Read this and educate yourself:

http://jillology101.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/god-elected-obama-and-other-lies-that-christians-tell/


3 posted on 11/09/2012 9:37:14 AM PST by DrewsMum
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

Dear Mr. Patton,
Oh do rejoice. Yes, God is in control. I believe that. I know that.

I also know that some seasons are awful. The Holocaust was awful. WWI and WWII were awful. Some people’s assignment from God are really terrible assignments. I think we are called to faith always, but not rejoicing always. We are called to know the seasons, to have eyes to see and ears to hear.

I suspect your friends who are leaving the country are called to do so. I suspect your friends shutting things down in their life are called to do so.

In fact, I have more trust in how they are walking out their faith that I have in you rejoicing. Having said that, maybe that is your call. I just submit that perhaps you not assume that is everybody’s assignment.

Just sayin...


4 posted on 11/09/2012 9:37:48 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright ("WTF?: How Karl Rove and the Consultant Class Have Destroyed America")
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To: DrewsMum

I am a born again Christian, who always votes, and I am disgusted with Obama, and very worried we will soon not have a country left. I think a civil war is coming, I just do not know when. I do not plan to go quietly into the night.


5 posted on 11/09/2012 9:45:20 AM PST by Mark17 (California, where English is a foreign language)
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To: SampleMan
God gave us free will. Obama is on us, not God.

Exactly. I get sick to death of hearing, "How could God have let this happen?"
"Why did God let such a good person die?"
...ad nauseum.

There is a Supreme Being folks but quality of life on this rock is up to us. Just get your arse and your soul ready for life after this rock. Then you will see the much bigger picture. Many will not like what they see that awaits them.

6 posted on 11/09/2012 9:45:20 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 1)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
Well said. This pretty much aligns with my gut instinct that we are approaching an Old Testament level tough love period from our Father.

Re-reading the OT may be give us some perspective. Repeatedly, God would allow Israel to suffer when they lost their way.

I would say that the moral decline we have in the USA is close to the declines in Israel that caused them to head into bondage, defeat and destruction.

There is an old saying: "the only way some people will look up is when they are knocked on their back".

7 posted on 11/09/2012 9:45:48 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
I agree that God is in control and His plan will go forth no matter what insolent man will do. However...

This election tells us exactly where the American public is. It has turned it's back on God. It once again has turned from God's principles and moral law. They cheer everything that God calls evil. They have made the golden calf once again. They sit down to feast and rise up to play. We are now in the wilderness and the promised land is out of view.

What next? God sends them 'great delusion' that they would believe the LIE that have rejected the TRUTH. Read 2 Thess. 2. Obama is just a symptom of the underlying moral cancer. Give us a King. Here he is. Reap what you sow. The wicked shall wax worse and worse. This is a time for Christians to really reflect on what being a follower of Christ means. Time to take up your cross and follow HIM.

9 posted on 11/09/2012 10:00:32 AM PST by BigFinn (The King is coming and He isn't riding a donkey this time.)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

Sorry God did not elect Obama Satan did. If God put Obama in power then he put Hitler in power too...

The God of Israel turned his back on Israel when they forsook him. He is doing the same to America . You cannot sanction the murder of 50 million babies and assume Gods grace. We live in a country amoung a people that made Hitler look like an amateur.

That which you do unto the least of these you do unto me.....


10 posted on 11/09/2012 10:10:00 AM PST by Breto (The Establishment party is killing our country)
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To: SampleMan

I’m sure Romans chapter 13 kicks in somewhere here.


11 posted on 11/09/2012 10:11:18 AM PST by MachIV
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

God will NEVER do for us what we can do for ourselves. We have brought this on our selves true enough. Praying for Romney to win is an interesting response....what did you DO to defeat the destroyer in chief???? I am so tired of the Christian who is meek and mild and says ‘Oh well it must be God’s will so I’ll just sit here and wait for what’s next.”

Jews who thought of themselves as good Germans found themselves in the same concentration camps as others. They went meekly and mildly saying oh well it must be God’s will.

This is bad theology on sooooo many levels


12 posted on 11/09/2012 10:15:41 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

I’m sure you’re a very nice person, but I wish you not publish this stuff. If this is God’s will, then everything is God’s will. Then we can’t punish people who murder others because IT’S GOD’S WILL. Understand?


13 posted on 11/09/2012 10:24:29 AM PST by driftless2
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

The article is half right. Obama’ reelection was ordained by God. Scripture indicates God’s sovereignty over everything, including elections. And the powers that be are ordained by God whether they be personally righteous or not. Still, the idea that we are to be silent in the face of evil is not biblical. Where at all possible live in peace, stand for the truth even if the stars fall, and you’re doing God’s work.


14 posted on 11/09/2012 10:27:43 AM PST by Blogger
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

The article is half right. Obama’ reelection was ordained by God. Scripture indicates God’s sovereignty over everything, including elections. And the powers that be are ordained by God whether they be personally righteous or not. Still, the idea that we are to be silent in the face of evil is not biblical. Where at all possible live in peace, stand for the truth even if the stars fall, and you’re doing God’s work.


15 posted on 11/09/2012 10:27:53 AM PST by Blogger
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

The article is half right. Obama’ reelection was ordained by God. Scripture indicates God’s sovereignty over everything, including elections. And the powers that be are ordained by God whether they be personally righteous or not. Still, the idea that we are to be silent in the face of evil is not biblical. Where at all possible live in peace, stand for the truth even if the stars fall, and you’re doing God’s work.


16 posted on 11/09/2012 10:28:07 AM PST by Blogger
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

The article is half right. Obama’ reelection was ordained by God. Scripture indicates God’s sovereignty over everything, including elections. And the powers that be are ordained by God whether they be personally righteous or not. Still, the idea that we are to be silent in the face of evil is not biblical. Where at all possible live in peace, stand for the truth even if the stars fall, and you’re doing God’s work.


17 posted on 11/09/2012 10:28:36 AM PST by Blogger
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To: 5thGenTexan

That’s exactly right. When Israel spent 200 years worshiping other gods and were being attacked, they THEN cried out to God. And He said “Go get the other ones that you loved so much.”


18 posted on 11/09/2012 10:33:41 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
My favorite theologian and philosopher, Bono, once said in a song about Christ’s death

Tactfully expressed, nothing else needs to be said about the author. He has already summarized his position.

19 posted on 11/09/2012 10:39:24 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

It is ENTIRELY possible that we DID NOT re-elect Obama. As each story is posted about serious voter fraud -— drip, drip, drip -— it is becoming more and more obvious that the election was stolen instead of won.

The saddest thing of all is that our elected leaders who CLAIM to be CONSERVATIVE will brush all this off and not do a single thing about it. The Republican Party should SUE each and every voting district where Obama received 99%-100%-108% of the vote. Surely there are TRUE PATRIOT lawyers who would take up this gauntlet pro bono.

I will watch and wait to see if anything is done -— but I must confess my expectations are low. Like many others, the criminal element of the Democrat party has tried us and pushed us, and found us to be a soft target. Who can blame them for taking advantage of an adversary who refuses to fight back from even the most blatant provocation!?!


20 posted on 11/09/2012 10:40:07 AM PST by LTC.Ret (You'd think I would know better than to volunteer!!! www.sendmetocongress.us)
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