Elephants in the Room

Jito463 · #3 05-05-2020, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by votivesoul

Elephant #2

Every Christian I know, have met, or heard of, founds all that they are and all that they believe, on the Holy Scriptures of God, the Bible.

And yet, nowhere, in any place in all 66 books of those Holy Scriptures, does God ever quote Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.

What Mr. Jefferson called rights, we know from the Scriptures are privileges. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness are ONLY granted to us by God if and when we obey Him and make Him the sole King and Savior of our souls. If we do not obey Him and make Him the sole King and Savior of our souls, God promises us death, slavery, and yielding up of happiness.

So, in times like these, or in any other times for that matter, why do Christians clamor for their "Rights" when if God Himself decides to pluck up a nation, and gives that nation over to the ungodly heathen to rape, pillage, and destroy it, do we think calling upon Thomas Jefferson is going to save us?

Is not the Declaration of Independence then, or the Constitution of the United States, just a piece of paper, to be dispensed with as the conquerors have need?

I would like to address this one aspect. I don't believe most God-fearing Christians who stand for what America was founded on, doesn't acknowledge that God has the right to take any of it away from us as He chooses. As Jesus said, 'not my will, but thine be done'.

Rather, we believe that only God has that right, not any man. So when we cite the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's in the sense that no other man has the right to take them away.

Obviously, if it's God's will, it will happen regardless of our preparations (for evidence, we need only look to Job), that doesn't mean we shouldn't endeavor to fight for those rights, regardless. That's why a common phrase is, that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We must be on constant watch to keep our rights from being taken away by man, while still acknowledging that God is in control.