Well I agree - but not just about prayer. I do not think the government should prescribe education at all.
Public education has gone a long way in promoting functional and moral illiteracy.
and government mandated curricula controls what teachers can and cannot or must and must not teach children as truth. Public mores and public acceptance of deviant life styles are promulgated by the government mandating what is taught.
Someone said the reason the 10 commandments cannot be posted in a court room is because there are so many lawyers there, and they don't want to be told not to lie or steal.
It's good to see apostolic brethren who have not changed the sabbath in their minds from Saturday to Sunday! Although concerning the commandments and the law of the land I remember, when I was SDA, we feared that the 4th commandment would be implemented legally, but that Sunday would be the day of rest/worship, and those refusing to honor Sunday (Sunday being "the mark of the beast") would be persecuted...
Anyways, I'm looking forward to remembering and keeping this Sabbath holy (but obviously not as a Jew would).
These words from Isaiah are good to remember on the Sabbath:
If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable and shalt honor HIM, not doing thine own way
Nor seeking thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words, Then thou shalt delight thyself in the LORD, and I will cause thee to ride upon high places of the earth, and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father, for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Not what I am talking about. Take him out of the text and the applicable points made are absurd..
You said...
"The laws of the land are not for the purpose of legislating morality."
How many of the laws are based off of the idea to protect society?
Protecting society and legislating morality are 2 different things.
As I have said before... to say that the 10 commandments should not be made the law of the land is not to say that some of the precepts touched upon will not be dealt with by the law of the land. But... when the law deals with those precepts it will be for the purpose of dealing with a person who has infringed upon the the life, rights or property of another. That is... by definition... protecting society.
But another good way to protect society is to make sure that our government doesn't get into the business of legislating morality.
Protecting society and legislating morality are 2 different things.
As I have said before... to say that the 10 commandments should not be made the law of the land is not to say that some of the precepts touched upon will not be dealt with by the law of the land. But... when the law deals with those precepts it will be for the purpose of dealing with a person who has infringed upon the the life, rights or property of another. That is... by definition... protecting society.
But another good way to protect society is to make sure that our government doesn't get into the business of legislating morality.
You would agree that abortion should be illegal? Seems to me the term "legislating morality" is thrown at anyone who is not a liberal PC advocate.
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Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
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You would agree that abortion should be illegal? Seems to me the term "legislating morality" is thrown at anyone who is not a liberal PC advocate.
Absolutely.
There is no greater infringement upon a persons life, rights or property than to take the life of anyone... especially an innocent who is helpless and cannot defend themselves.
First of all the 10 commandments were written for Israel and Israel only. To place the commandments as the law of our land is foolish. Those that fight for the 10 to be placed at the courthouses of America are unlearned. God did not give them to America. The Law of Moses was ended with the death of Jesus including the 10 commandments.
Rom 10:4] For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
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