We have ALL "fallen short of the glory of God"--and what "wretches"--to use Paul's own desription of himself--we are. And yet, while we were still sinners, God "so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son"--and this so that:
"Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death." (Eph. 8:1-2)
Man--those words just give me a lot of comfort--and COMFORT--on this rather dismal morning! And they remind me of what my precious husband (known here as 1John until his untimely death in 2002) loved to say: "Our snakes can eat their snakes"! Amen and AMEN!
yes—i agree with all that you wrote and had even considered “the fall” before i wrote my post on the Progressive Education Movement... however, i was aiming to be more specific in pinpointing the downfall of our nation... and in my opinion, it began somewhere in the 1880s... now i know other things before that led to the point in time in the 1880s when good Americans handed over our most precious resource to the controls of the government...