[AlbionGirl]

10 Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11my persecutions, and my suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

D, following is a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin:

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

You will find no bigger fan of the Founding Fathers than me. And while I don't want to speak for God; I believe they were Providentially sent. No matter how they departed from any attachment to organized religion or Christianity in particular, the Hand of God is everywhere around them.

Jefferson, that good old slave owner, creates a bill of rights that is and becomes a rebuke unto himself. I see God's hand in that. Jefferson and Adams both died on the same day, the 4th of July, in the same year.

As I see it, the founding of the U.S. testifies to God's will that His people be free from tyranny, so that the only tyranny they could encounter would be a yoke of their own making.

[Forest Keeper]

Jefferson, that good old slave owner, creates a bill of rights that is and becomes a rebuke unto himself. I see God's hand in that. Jefferson and Adams both died on the same day, the 4th of July, in the same year.

Hi AG! What's even weirder is that both died to the day on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. What are the odds? :)