We worship a God that we cannot see.....

We worship a God that we cannot see.  One that we have never heard speak.  We live by faith, belief and hope.

This is pretty much every religion.

By all religious standards it is understood that power over all things are out of our grasp and only in the hands of the gods. This is true in most all teachings and there is nothing that we can do to change something that we as humans did not create from the beginning of time. Whither it be the big bang theory, evolution or Adam and Eve.

 We only have rule over our self's and those that we enslave.  That is the limit to our control.

My God is the living God.  His son is the child of God. A product of God and the daughter of men.  The son of God is also the brother of men. By the death and spilled blood of the son of God.  The sons of mans spirit are conquered from death, even thought the outer body is shed. Because God walked among us, the shed blood of God's son  blinds God of my transactions of my will against his. God's sacrifice of his only begotten son is the grace of salvation.

It is a story filled with everything from murder to infidelity, to mystery and betrayal. My God teaches Love as well as strength to stand against Evil with force. He teaches non judgement of others transactions and humility of heart.  It's a good story of intrigue whether you believe or not. His teaching and laws are sit forth in a book. A book of many writings by many authors that serve as record  from creation to revelation. This book is the word of God. It is where we hear God speak to us. The story connects along with History laid outside of God's word.  Our date system is based on this fact.  World events have been influenced and changed by it. Politics and wars have been fought over and about it.

I therefore challenge you to ask your self.  If God or any other gods created all;  then how and by what reason do we as humans think we can change or influence anything that we did not create?

Some call it Mother Natural.  Some call events in life, such as natural selection.  Some belief in evolution and creativity.  Even with all these things in mind and whether true or not, still how do we, as humans have any ability to change events that are bigger than we?

WE don't.  We only have rule over our self's and those that we enslave in the name of such things.

Leaders are not gods.  Governments are not gods.  They have no control over events that they have not created. Only control of those they have enslaved through the "pretension" that they do.

pre·ten·sion¹

noun

1. 1.

   a claim or the assertion of a claim to something.

   "their pretensions to culture"

   synonyms:

   aspiration, claim, assertion, pretense, profession More
2. 2.

   the use of affectation to impress; ostentatiousness.

   "he spoke simply, without pretension"

WE the PEOPLE are the masters of ourselves and our families.  To live and be judged by only the one we call Master. And a government is not our Master but our servant.

This is what our Founding Fathers knew and this is what they gave us.  Can you keep it or are you going to give it away in the name of things you can't change nor have control over?

John F. Kennedy- The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God

Ronald Reagan- Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible. 

Abraham Lincoln- I am profitably engaged in the reading the Bible.  Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man. 

Theodore Roosevelt- A through knowledge of the Bible is worth mor than a college education.

No one can deny that many of the founding fathers of the United States of America were men of deep religious convictions based in the Bible and their Christian faith in Jesus Christ. Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, nearly half (24) held seminary or Bible school degrees.
These Christian quotes of the founding fathers will give you an overview of their strong moral and spiritual convictions which helped form the foundations of our nation and our government. 

John Hancock
1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence

"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us." 

Benjamin Franklin
Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Unites States Constitution

"Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

"That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.

"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see;

"But I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his displeasure."

Samuel Adams
Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Father of the American Revolution

"And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of tyrants may be broken to pieces, and the oppressed made free again; that wars may cease in all the earth, and that the confusions that are and have been among nations may be overruled by promoting and speedily bringing on that holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and all people everywhere willingly bow to the sceptre of Him who is Prince of Peace." 

George Washington
1st U.S. President

"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian." 

John Adams
2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

"Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God ... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be." 

"The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite, and these Principles only could be intended by them in their address, or by me in my answer. And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: And the general Principles of English and American Liberty, in which all those young Men United, and which had United all Parties in America, in Majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her Independence.

Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event." 

In conclusion, regardless of your belief, there is no question that this nation was and is better off with very least the morality that the Bible teaches and the influence in the creation and sustainability of this great nation.  There is also not doubt that without it we have seen a decline of a nation due to it's absence and influence. 

Tolerance is not the same as belief and neither is thinking we as humans have any control of something such as the weather. 

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