Biblical Literacy, Same Sex 'Marriage,' and a Virus in Our National System
Biblical Literacy, Same Sex 'Marriage,' and a Virus in Our National System
Another state legislature approves same-sex "marriage."
COMMENTARY
by Dr. Michael A. Milton.
http://www.christiannewswire.com/
Feb. 22, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C., - Another chip in the foundation of civilization. Another moment closer to a death sentence for a nation, and not even ObamaCare will be able to stop it. But the trials that we face in this nation, and in the West, are not about healthcare or even a constitutional crisis, but a crisis of ethics and morality.
Legislatures concoct bills to allow for violations of the Law of God because they either do not know the Law of God or they oppose it or they are simply apathetic toward it. Governors sign these laws for the same reason. And the yoke of moral bondage is then placed back on the children and grandchildren of our citizens. But the process of passing bills into law, in this case codifying what the Bible and thousands of years of human civilization clearly abhors, reveals the fatal flaw that our founders saw could happen: to uninformed or unconcerned citizens placing people into office who do not meet necessary conditions to serve. The first condition being moral.
The government of the United States was not devised on a whim, as Senator Smith told the leadership at the National Religious Broadcaster's dinner this year. Madison, Washington, Adams and the others, whatever their differences on religion (there was comparatively little space between them), were firm in their conviction that the representative government of the U.S. could work, but, and this is a large condition, only if the citizenry was committed to electing representatives with religious (and they referred to at least the broader tenets of Judaeo-Christian religion) morals that could exercise wise moral (and they for the larger part meant biblical) decisions in their stead. Thus John Adams would write:
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Another state legislature approves same-sex "marriage."
COMMENTARY
by Dr. Michael A. Milton.
http://www.christiannewswire.com/
Feb. 22, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C., - Another chip in the foundation of civilization. Another moment closer to a death sentence for a nation, and not even ObamaCare will be able to stop it. But the trials that we face in this nation, and in the West, are not about healthcare or even a constitutional crisis, but a crisis of ethics and morality.Legislatures concoct bills to allow for violations of the Law of God because they either do not know the Law of God or they oppose it or they are simply apathetic toward it. Governors sign these laws for the same reason. And the yoke of moral bondage is then placed back on the children and grandchildren of our citizens. But the process of passing bills into law, in this case codifying what the Bible and thousands of years of human civilization clearly abhors, reveals the fatal flaw that our founders saw could happen: to uninformed or unconcerned citizens placing people into office who do not meet necessary conditions to serve. The first condition being moral.
The government of the United States was not devised on a whim, as Senator Smith told the leadership at the National Religious Broadcaster's dinner this year. Madison, Washington, Adams and the others, whatever their differences on religion (there was comparatively little space between them), were firm in their conviction that the representative government of the U.S. could work, but, and this is a large condition, only if the citizenry was committed to electing representatives with religious (and they referred to at least the broader tenets of Judaeo-Christian religion) morals that could exercise wise moral (and they for the larger part meant biblical) decisions in their stead. Thus John Adams would write:
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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