The American crisis explained

[Esaias]

(begin quote)


A Parting of the Ways

What we find in the final decades of the second millennium afterthe birth of Jesus Christ is a growing realization on both sides of the political cease-fire line that the traditional ideological synthesis of political pluralism is collapsing. What we are witnessing is a slow but sure breakdown of the political cease-fire between humanism and Christianity. On each side, the defenders of the compromise sys-tem can no longer hold their own troops in line. Guerilla skirmishes are breaking out continually. The humanists are beginning to act like humanists, and a tiny handful of Christians are beginning to act like Christians.

The confrontation over the life-and-death issue of abortion is one obvious example of this irrepressible conflict. On the abortionist’stable, there is no neutral position between life and death. This is why the inescapably political debate over abortion is so frustrating for those who want to steer a middle course. There is no middle course. There is no neutrality. The politician’s left foot is being held to the fireby the pro-death forces, and his right foot is being shoved in the coalsby the-pro-life forces. He has only one choice: accept the political fact of either one burned foot or two. He, like the political pluralist,deeply resents being forced to make this choice. He wants no burned feet: He longs for the simpler, cooler world of yesterday, when the common morality was implicitly Christian and officially neutral. He is not going to get that world; it is gone forever. So are at least 25 million dead babies, all executed legally in the United States.

Another example is Christian education. The humanists on theUnited States Supreme Court in 1963 banished prayer in the tax-supported public schools. This aided the cause of the more consistent Christians, who could then plausibly begin to call for the banish-ment of all public schools. For those in the middle — defenders of public education, and defenders of government subsidies to private education — the skies grew dark. With the government subsidy comesthe iron fist. There are no free lunches, not even school lunches.There is no neutrality.

(end quote, from Political Polytheism by Gary North)

The simple fact is America has officially abandoned God and His Word. The reason is because several generations have been taught the satanic lie that "God's Law is irrelevant to us and to America." (And the primary purveyors of that lie have been the government approved 501(c)3 "churches" with their 'God's Law is dead' routine.)

The ONLY ANSWER to our national troubles is national repentance. If Ninevah could repent and be spared, then so can America.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Esaias

The ONLY ANSWER to our national troubles is national repentance. If Ninevah could repent and be spared, then so can America.

[Esaias]

(quote)

The theological root of our present political crisis is this: God demands unconditional surrender of all His enemies at the final judgment, and also the progressive, conditional, external surrender of Satan’s people to His people in history, while Satan demands unconditional surrender of his enemies in history, for he cannot gain this in eternity. There is a war going on, and it will not end until judgment day. Each side is required by its respective covenantal head to seek a victory over the other side in every area of life. There is no neutrality.

Christians, however, for the most part no longer believe that continual conflict between mutually exclusive covenantal standards is in fact inevitable in the civil realm, so they have signed a temporary cease-fire which they hope will last until the final judgment. They hope and even occasionally pray that this will be a permanent cease-fire in history. They have voluntarily surrendered the fundamental principle of the sovereignty of God, as revealed by His covenantal law, as this law and its specified sanctions apply in the civil sphere. (Incredibly, this is frequently done in the name of the sovereignty of God. These people are masters of deception.) Having surrendered the doctrine of the sovereignty of God in civil government, they are now in the process of surrendering it in the first two areas, family and Church, piece by piece. The rise of “Christian” counseling courses in our Bible-believing seminaries — courses based on pagan psychology texts and principles – is one example, and the practice of registering churches with the government in order to receive tax-subsidized mailing permits is another. “Peace, peace" in fact means "surrender, Christians, piece by piece.”

(end quote, from same work, pp 3-4)

[Evang.Benincasa]

What is the name of the book?

[Esaias]

The book is Political Polytheism, by Gary North.

http://freebooks.entrewave.com/freeb...s/21f2_47e.htm

There is both a PDF and a page by page HTML edition at the link.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Esaias

The book is Political Polytheism, by Gary North.

http://freebooks.entrewave.com/freeb...s/21f2_47e.htm

There is both a PDF and a page by page HTML edition at the link.

Thank you

[thephnxman]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

"Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but
their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons
nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor
daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, asI live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither
son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
"

IT'S TOO LATE FOR THE U.S. AS A NATION.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by thephnxman

"Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but
their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons
nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor
daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, asI live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither
son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
"

IT'S TOO LATE FOR THE U.S. AS A NATION.

Nonsense.