God-given rights
 

Can you name some of our rights that came from God? (And this forum being what it is, perhaps you could cite scriptures for them. ;))

Inspired by this:

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Thanks, D. Interesting.

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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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Is that scriptural?

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:toofunny
Of course not.
You have the right to accept Grace from God,
a free gift held out to every person; if you
give up this right, you have the right,
in contrast to the above, to become a slave,
and to die the sin unto death.

Those are your rights.

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Man has always wanted to usurp God by claiming authority over others for themselves. When they usurp God, they think that they become a god like the Pharaohs of the past ancient Egypt. They do not want people to worship the Creator. It is these people who become tyrants and dictators and get their minions to back them up by lavishing them with the finer material things in life.
Look through the OT and you will see all the various kings who required all to bow down and worship him. They were vain and evil people who somehow did not realize that they were created flesh and blood ...equal as the other human beings they subjected into their "power". heh.

God given rights are throughout the Bible. If one follows the commandment below, all the rest of the laws and rules would fall right into place.


And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

(Luke 10:27)

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Yup. Nice links, Dordt.

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In the second link, it says we have a right to the gifts of the spirit. Is that true? Really?

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The Assemblies of God says that healing is a privilege of the believer. Is that true?