Posted on 09/19/2019 7:46:54 AM PDT by Heartlander
A liberal reading scripture is like a drunkard with car keys.
Big Religion is nearly all hard left now. It’s a massive political shift in little more than a generation and does not portend well for the future.
America’s Declaration of Independence is as much a declaration of dependence on Divine Providence as it is a declaration of independence from an oppressive monarch.
The Continental Congress in its first session on September 6, 1774 passed this resolution: “Resolved , that the Rev. Mr. Duché be desired to open Congress tomorrow morning with prayer, at Carpenter’s hall, at nine o’clock.”
Duché’s prayer on September 7, 1774 pleaded: “O Lord! our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth, and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all kingdoms, empires, and governments. Look down in mercy, we beseech thee, on these our American States who have fled to thee from the rod of the oppressor, and thrown themselves on thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on thee … All this we ask in the name, and through the merits of Jesus Christ thy Son and our Savior. Amen” (Thatcher’s Military Biography, p. 121).
The Declaration of Independence begins by attributing the States’ “entitlement” to become a “separate and equal station” to “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” and concludes with an appeal “to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of [their] intentions.”
While it certainly declares the founding fathers’ intent “to dissolve the political bands” to a despotic British sovereign and lists his “repeated injuries and usurpations,” it does so on the basis of “unalienable rights” and principles endowed to them by Almighty God; their Creator, the Supreme Judge of the world.
The major founding personalities—despite their varying individual beliefs regarding religious matters—acknowledge that the success of their seemingly fragile endeavor rested firmly on the grace of God.
Benjamin Franklin stated in a speech to the Continental Convention: “We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House they labor in vain who build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring Aid, we shall succeed in this political Building no better than the Builders of Babel” (The Works of Benjamin Franklin, by John Bigelow, p. 377).
John Adams confirms decades later in an 1813 letter to Thomas Jefferson the original intent of those formative years: “The general Principles, on which the Fathers Achieved Independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite…Now I will avow, that I then believed, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence and Attributes of God” (John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 28th, 1813, from Quincy in The Adams-Jefferson Letters).
The founders’ unabashed declaration of dependence on Divine Providence both for the justification of their cause and for the success of their endeavor should give us pause to ponder 233 years later.
https://www.ucg.org/beyond-today/blogs/americas-declaration-of-dependence-on-divine-providence
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Christianity is quickly devolving into a cult called liberation theology. Could explain why Christianity is losing ground here in America and across other western styled countries.
Speaking of necrophilia, is Lenin’s rotting corpse still on display in Red Square?
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And God killed all the fags in Genesis 19.
Logic dictates that, if that fraud billy barber is correct, we offer health care free to everyone and also kill all the fags.
Or, is billy like every other fraud in denominationalism? Too stupid to know truth?
Yep. That's what happens when mortals invent their own religions.
Matt 15:9: But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
bkmk
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