Posted on 09/20/2017 4:26:29 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
CNN is lamenting the fact that GOP frontrunner for the U.S. Senate in Alabama Judge Roy Moore told pastors and Christians in a speech last month that shootings and killings in American society are the result of removing God from schools. Andrew Kaczynski’s KFile on CNN dug up a video of Moore from late August speaking at Citizen Impact USA, making the comments that have CNN and the GOP establishment in Washington similarly freaked out.
“We are losing the acknowledgement of God and I’m standing here talking to Christians and pastors and I’m telling you we’re losing the acknowledgement of God,” Moore said, per CNN’s report.
After, per Kaczynski, Moore began “reciting several verses from the Old Testament book of Hosea that deal with lack of knowledge of God,” the front-running candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alabama argued that shootings and killings in U.S. society today is because of the lack of God in public life.
“You wonder why we’re having shootings, and killings here in 2017? Because we’ve asked for it,” Moore said. “We’ve taken God out of everything. We’ve taken prayer out of school, we’ve taken prayer out of council meetings.”
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A country heavily populated with deep believers won’t even NEED legally ordained civic formalities — it might even disdain them because these folks will be praying and praising everywhere they go and God will be listening with a big ole heavenly grin!
That’s my theology and I’m stickin’ to it.
And Christians need to realize one more thing. There is no system of prayer, ordained or not, that will turn this place into a Shangri-La.
What a really robust prayer and praise life will do is turn the scene into a spectacular fight with the devil and God duking it out and God spectacularly winning these bouts over and over. A theology of supposedly nice Christianity is actually a kind of soft illusory hell that can’t stand up to the constant murmur of inner sin — because it colludes with that sin.
Whatever. Roy Moore is right and he will win.
CARMAN - REVIVAL IN THE LAND
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He is wrong if he thinks Caesar can do more than get out of the way of the church.
Wonderful idea as long as it doesn’t pretend it can be legislated in.
I could care less. It needed to be said.
A lie needed to be said?
Yes, a lie.
Because if we could remove God from a place, we could put Him somewhere too.
No! The problem is our hearts’ disinvitation of Him.
But in a way, lies DO need to be said. Until they are voiced, we can’t know what particular truths need to be borne against them.
God’s omnipresent, folks. We can neither remove Him from a place nor can we put Him in a place.
We can invite or disinvite His love. One way to disinvite His love is to keep on pretending that we can “put” or “remove” God.
I would recommend to Mr. Moore to stop doing that.
No. We removed our hearts from God... and shock, horror, Mr. Moore is reflecting that too.
When one finally yields to the draw of the Lord, one discovers some very amazing things. Such as that we weren’t running this show at all. We were only resisting it.
Don’t back lies! We pulled against God’s love. The original idol was the fictitious “knowledge of good and evil” which is a God sized task and ludicrously too large for any human. And for a season He allowed us our way so that we could understand how unprofitable that was. But God was never removed from a place.
And here is where I will even venture a guess. Luther Strange might be better, theologically, than Roy Moore. Moore will boost some “old time religion” but probably will do little or nothing to make a way for faith.
The problem with Christianity is religion. Religion in a worldly sense, which pretends that it can move God, rather than make a home in hearts where God will desire to move in.
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