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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Depends on your view of the terminology.

The Bible, in my belief, is a step beyond “inspired” or “divinely inspire”, but is the very real Word of God, penned by men, but lead by God Himself.

The use of the term “divinely inspired” can correctly be attributed to more than the Bible. Have you ever been inspired by anything to take a course of action? To write a letter? To DO something?

Further, has God ever inspired humans to do anything beyond penning the original manuscripts of the Bible (the only complete and perfect version of the Bible is that which was originally penned, but now has been lost)?

Some of our founding fathers and even later leaders called the foundation of these United States as being from Divine Providence. When you consider that the odds were overwhelmingly against the young American nation in her war for independence, one can see that the eventual victory came at the hand of God.

Is it a stretch that God could “inspire” men to write the founding documents of a nation His Divine Hand lead to independence? After all, many of the authors of the Constitution were Christian, or at minimum, held to a firm belief in deity and HIS providential hand.

Now - to say that the Constitution is the infallible Word of God - yes that would most definitely be blasphemous.

But the term “divinely inspired” does not necessarily = “God-breathed”. I hold the “God-breathed” view of the Bible, but believe HE has inspired people to take courses of action (maybe even including to put together the best constitution a nation has ever been formed under).

Glen Beck was not trying to equate the US Constitution with scripture in any way - just demonstrating that God had to have had a guiding hand in the writing of it. Nothing blasphemous about that.


91 posted on 01/11/2010 7:33:48 AM PST by TheBattman (They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
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To: TheBattman; CondoleezzaProtege

But the term “divinely inspired” does not necessarily = “God-breathed”.

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Entemologically, that is EXACTLY what it means. Inspired - from O.Fr. inspiration, from L.L. inspirationem (nom. inspiratio), from L. inspiratus, pp. of inspirare “inspire, inflame, blow into,” from in-”in” + spirare “to breathe”,

Divine means God. Therefore, while the term may be misused in Modern English, “divinely inspired” literally means “the divine (God/gods) breathed in”.

Also, Becks theology allows (even insists) that the Constitution is literally “God breathed”. This comes from the LDS idea of Replacement theology, that the Latter Day saints are God’s new chosen people and the US is God’s promised land. This is also seen in their doctrines that Zion will be built here in America and that the Garden of Eden is located in Missouri.


97 posted on 01/11/2010 12:17:10 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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