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To: DreamWeaver
Here's just a snippet from the long read:

Six-thousand Christian soldiers, in 284 a.d., took a stand in their legion for Christ, and the emperor Diocletian had them decimated. One in ten had their heads cut off in front of all the other men. Then he did it again. He took one in ten of the rest that were left and said “Now, will you bow down and worship my image and will you kill all the Christians in France?” The Theban Legion, all of them Christians, said, “No, we will not,” and they wrote a declaration of independence saying, “We will do anything for you, emperor, but we will not kill Christians, and we will not bow down and worship your image.” So he had 40,000 men come down and kill all 6,000 men.

Isn't it interesting, though, that exactly six years later Diocletian was dead, Maximian was dead, and the new emperor was a man named Constantine, who found himself worshiping a sun god one morning on the way to a battle and he saw a cross of light over the sun. He said, “I'll put the crosses on my shields,” and he went off to battle, won the battle, and ended up making Christianity the preferred religion of the empire and ended persecution.

The truth is that Christ is the Liberator. You say he wasn't much interested in political liberty. Well, why then is it that as the truth grows wherever this Bible is unleashed, political, economic, educational and moral liberty are the result? That's because covenant keepers win and covenant breakers lose. It's because the Scripture tells us in Deuteronomy 7:9 that for those who love me and keep my commandments, I shall bless them to a thousand generations. The Scripture makes it clear: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Psalm 33:1).

America must remember and Christians must be the leaders in seeing to it that America remembers these truths.

39 posted on 07/13/2002 3:50:06 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
America must remember and Christians must be the leaders in seeing to it that America remembers these truths.

Yes,I agree, however it is getting frightening to me to see many Chrisians that are not really following Christianity, but making political decisions based on " their private " interpretation of Scripture.

Please note that much of the scripture that they quote from is of the OT not the Christian NT. I do agree that the OT and the NT are linked together, but do not be deceived, Christianity ( Christian scripture and it's teachings ) start from the NT. So, I ask you why is it that not many "Christians" quote what Jesus said and quote from the NT ?

53 posted on 07/13/2002 10:38:25 AM PDT by DreamWeaver
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