Posted on 06/20/2011 12:02:03 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Can a nation, conceived in liberty, protect and sustain that liberty without the beliefs of its founders? Clearly if the ensuing beliefs are superior it can. The beliefs of our current age, however, are profoundly inferior. We have sacrificed a national commitment to the principles of a God centered creation and replaced them with a muddled set of so called scientific ideas that do not translate into a behavioral code. The founders gave us as their heritage an ethical system based on ancient Biblical and cultural wisdom. We have replaced that philosophy of thought with whatever feels good and whoever screeches the loudest about their right to inflame the passions of the electorate. This is no way to run a country. Without a set of objective standards we are left with the idiocy of Sheila Lee Jackson and the labyrinthic manipulations of Obama. We are guided by the predominant standard designed by humans to be both murderous and incompetent, Marxist socialism. The solution is simple. We must return to a God given world view in which man is not the sum of his imagination but is a sinner in the hands of an angry yet curiously loving God. We are not the last best hope for mankind. We are fools who think ourselves superior to all of creation. A nation on its knees in supplication to the Father of Creation can be a safe harbor for the humble and a living hell for the wicked. Let it be so.
How about stupid questions? I can be very angry with my kids, but I love them no less than when I am giving them blessings.
Um, just how old are you? :-)
Ancient
Not bad.
God is incapable of allowing us in His presence in our sinful state. That is why he became a man and suffered the pain of sin that we might be reconciled to Him. We literally hide in Christ in God's presence. The old hymn about hiding in the cleft of the rock speaks to this.
Christ's forgiveness through His blood removes the sin from our lives and makes it possible for us to be reconciled to our Father.
To be capable of forgiveness, however, we must be utterly humiliated by our sin and kneel, trembling before the mighty and powerful God.
God hates our sin. While we are in this sinful state we receive the glare of His hatred, hence, we are all sinners in the hands of an angry God.
Until you hear Him you will never know.
Yes, and I do for those who can hear my heart. If you were listening you would know.
Interesting.
In the final stages of denial insults are rampant.
Thank you
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