If you love liberty... than you need to be able to discern between the Religious Right wingers, and REAL bible believing Christians ! Sometimes it is very hard to discern between the Religious Right wingers, and REAL bible believing Christians because they have so much in common ! There are two core believes that discern between the two groups: First, is that a persons rights are from God and NOT the government. Second, is that through the gospel and faith in the bible is the way to return a nation back to God, and NOT through laws forced upon us as a nation. America was NEVER a Christian nation, it was a Nation made up of Christians ! I was not more than thirteen years old, when in my loneliness and destitution I longed for some one to whom I could go, as to a father and protector. The preaching of a white Methodist minister, named Hanson, was the means of causing me to feel that in God I had such a friend. He thought that all men, great and small, bond and free, were sinners in the sight of God: that they were by nature rebels against His government; and that they must repent of their sins, and be reconciled to God through Christ. I cannot say that I had a very distinct notion of what was required of me, but one thing I did know well: I was wretched and had no means of making myself otherwise. I consulted a good old colored man named Charles Lawson, and in tones of holy affection he told me to pray, and to “cast all my care upon God.” This I sought to do; and though for weeks I was a poor, broken-hearted mourner, traveling through doubts and fears, I finally found my burden lightened, and my heart relieved. I loved all mankind, slaveholders not excepted, though I abhorred slavery more than ever. I saw the world in a new light, and my great concern was to have everybody converted. My desire to learn increased, and especially, did I want a thorough acquaintance with the contents of the Bible. Douglass, Frederick (1882); The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882. 3rd edition by John Lobb. Christian Age Office. p. 63 It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible George Washington The Bible ... is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed. Patrick Henry, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, p. 402 “All men are made in the image of God; all men are brothers; all men are created equal; every man is heir to a legacy of dignity and worth; every man has rights that are neither conferred by nor derived from the state, they are God-given.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. Patrick Henry, The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p. iii. “The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!” Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush, pp. 165-166. “I do declare to the whole world that we believe the Scriptures to contain a declaration of the mind and will of God in and to those ages in which they were written; being given forth by the Holy Ghost moving in the hearts of holy men of God; that they ought also to be read, believed, and fulfilled in our day; being used for reproof and instruction, that the man of God may be perfect. They are a declaration and testimony of heavenly things themselves, and, as such, we carry a high respect for them. We accept them as the words of God Himself.” William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, Treatise of the Religion of the Quakers, p. 355. “I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance equal in power and glory. That the scriptures of the old and new testaments are a revelation from God, and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him. Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution, The Life of Roger Sherman, pp. 272 God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others... I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented... Jeffersons separation of church & state letter written to the Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut on January 1, 1802 “The right of the individual against the State has ever been one of our most cherished political principles. The American Constitution has set down for all men to see the essentially Christian and American principle that there are certain rights held by every man which no government and no majority, however powerful, can deny. Conceived in Grecian thought, strengthened by Christian morality, and stamped indelibly into American political philosophy, the right of the individual against the State is the keystone of our Constitution. Each man is free.” President John F. Kennedy You can not surrender, sell or transfer unalienable rights, they are a gift from the Creator to the individual and can not under any circumstances be surrendered or taken. Unalienable: incapable of being alienated, that is, sold and transferred. Blacks Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 1523 So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society... John Quincy Adams “I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.” The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 385. By conveying the Bible to people thus circumstanced, we certainly do them a most interesting kindness. We thereby enable them to learn that man was originally created and placed in a state of happiness, but, becoming disobedient, was subjected to the degradation and evils which he and his posterity have since experienced. The Bible will also inform them that our gracious Creator has provided for us a Redeemer, in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; that this Redeemer has made atonement for the sins of the whole world, and thereby reconciling the Divine justice with the Divine mercy has opened a way for our redemption and salvation; and that these inestimable benefits are of the free gift and grace of God, not of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve. John Jay, First Chief Justice of the United States, In God We Trust—The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers, p. 379.
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