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1 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16841 | ||
To emote, makes me human. :) | ||||||
2 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16817 | ||
I am in no way trying to emotionalize anything, just trying to help inform people of a lie that has been taught. I am not trying to judge our founding fathers as not being christian, just trying to bring to light what they themselves have said. And many were self proclaimed Deists. | ||||||
3 | COULD A BELIEVER LOSE THEIR SALVATION? | Hebrews | dougboy777 | 16812 | ||
Amen! :) | ||||||
4 | When are we 'securely' saved? | Hebrews | dougboy777 | 16809 | ||
Just a quick, "Praise God" for jg8ball and Charis. Both level-headed and humble souls. | ||||||
5 | I agree with you 100 percent. But... | Hebrews | dougboy777 | 16807 | ||
I will pray for you. | ||||||
6 | I agree with you 100 percent. But... | Hebrews | dougboy777 | 16806 | ||
Wow, again, I couldn't agree more, It is clear the asimilation between the Israelites in the old testiment and us as Christians. We are Gods people, as were they. We can learn alot of lessons and precautions from looking at the faithlessness of the Israelites. After all, this is written to Hebrews, people that are well aware of the faithlessness of the Jews throughout history. | ||||||
7 | COULD A BELIEVER LOSE THEIR SALVATION? | Hebrews | dougboy777 | 16805 | ||
Great Job, I couldn't have said it better myself. It is great so see more people that have this viewpoint and clear understanding of scripture, not just im part, but in whole as a message. This clearly points to the character of God, which is what His hope for us is, to truely KNOW Him. Also a joy to not have responces saying that someone can lose there salvation so easily and then have it back the next time they hit the alter at church. | ||||||
8 | Jesus is the high priest | Hebrews | dougboy777 | 16802 | ||
Also, read psalms 110, David foreshadows the greatness of Jesus' priesthood in the order of Melchizedek. | ||||||
9 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16800 | ||
Thank you for your answer. I appreciate it. I really do feel that we need to focus on the individual. Spend less time worrying about pray in schools and religious agenda in Washington, and focusing on the fruits of the Spirit in our own lives, our families lives, and pray to see them in the individual lives we get to touch each and every day. God Bless you | ||||||
10 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16799 | ||
Wow, you know your CARMAN quotes quite well. By the way, if you want to get technical, only 51 of the 55 claimed affiliation with churches. And of those 51, George Washington seldom attended. | ||||||
11 | Did Jesus spend 3 days in hell? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16798 | ||
Just a brief note On the passage in luke 23. Jesus did not go straight to heaven that day. He went to "abrahms bossom" or "paradise" That is where the thief went with Him that day. | ||||||
12 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16744 | ||
I hope this is the last one. :) First an interesting tidbit: The words, "under God," did not appear in the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954, when Congress, under McCarthyism, inserted them. Likewise, "In God We Trust" was absent from paper currency before 1956. It appeared on some coins earlier, as did other sundry phrases, such as "Mind Your Business." The original U.S. motto, chosen by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, is E Pluribus Unum ("Of Many, One"), celebrating plurality, not theocracy. Now for the rest a piece on Abe Lincoln.: At times religious wording was written into Lincoln's speeches, but such public soothes were brought at the insistance of White House staff members. In 1843, after he lost a campaign for Congress, he wrote to his supporters: "It was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no church, and was suspected of being a Deist." When Lincoln was first considered for the presidential nomination, Logan Hay wrote to his nephew, the future Secretary of State John Hay: "Candor compels me to say that Mr. Lincoln could hardly be termed a devout believer in the authenticity of the Bible (but this is for your ears only)." Interviewer Opie Read once asked Lincoln about his conception of God, to which he replied: "The same as my conception of nature." Asked what he meant by that, he said: "That it is impossible for either to be personal." His former law partner, William Herndon, said of him after his assassination: "[Mr. Lincoln] never mentioned the name of Jesus, except to scorn and detest the idea of a miraculous conception. He did write a little work on infidelity in 1835-6, and never recanted. He was an out-and-out infidel, and about that there is no mistake." He also said that Lincoln "assimilated into his own being" the heretical book Age of Reason by Thomas Paine. Lincoln's first law partner, John T. Stuart, said of him: "He was an avowed and open infidel, and sometimes bordered on atheism. He went further against Christian beliefs and doctrines and principles than any man I have ever heard." Supreme Court Justice David Davis: "He [Lincoln] had no faith, in the Christian sense of the term- he had faith in laws, principles, causes and effects." "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession." -Abraham Lincoln, quoted by Joseph Lewis And a few more quotes from founding fathers. "Experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries hasthe legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolencein the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both,superstition, bigotry and persecution." - "A Memorial and Remonstrance", 1785 . James Madison "God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there will never be any liberal science in the world." John Adams Hope this enlightens you to read more. Christian groups and institutions tend to criticize what is taught in public schools, but then for some odd reason, most of us believe it. Don't you find that odd? |
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13 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16743 | ||
Part 2 of I don't know how many Historian Barry Schwartz writes: "George Washington's practice of Christianity was limited and superficial because he was not himself a Christian... He repeatedly declined the church's sacraments. Never did he take communion, and when his wife, Martha, did, he waited for her outside the sanctuary... Even on his deathbed, Washington asked for no ritual, uttered no prayer to Christ, and expressed no wish to be attended by His representative." [New York Press, 1987, pp. 174-175] After Washington's death, Dr. Abercrombie, a friend of his, replied to a Dr. Wilson, who had interrogated him about Washington's religion replied, "Sir, Washington was a Deist." These ones are attributed to Thomas Paine, consider reading a book he wrote called, "The Age of Reason" "The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.'' "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind "What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty commited debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith." "Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies." "The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar." |
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14 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16742 | ||
Okay, i am tired of researching, there is just too much out there, i'm not sure how much it will let me post, but here goes. Thomas Jeferson "Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced an inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth." - "Notes on Virginia" . "Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. - letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787 "It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one. But this constitutes the craft, the power and the profit of the priests." - to John Adams, 1803 "Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself." -in his private journal, Feb. 1800 "It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism, he preaches the efficacy of repentence toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it. - to Carey, 1816 "The priests of the superstition, a bloodthirsty race, are as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham,of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore." - to Story, Aug. 4, 1820 "It has been fifty and sixty years since I read the Apocalypse, and then I considered it merely the ravings of a maniac." "The truth is, that the greatest enemies of the doctrine of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them to the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. And the day will come, when the mystical generation [birth] of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation [birth] of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." - to John Adams, Apr. 11, 1823 . "I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology." "We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanatacism and fabrication ." "Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the Common Law." -letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, 1814 |
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15 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16741 | ||
Okay, im not trying to create a war here. I am a committed and born again christian. I am also not alone on my convictions, viewpoints and info. I will do some in depth research and post it later on, but for now i leave you with this. Al Gore, the KKK, and many Cults, use scripture and claim to be christian | ||||||
16 | Did Jesus spend 3 days in hell? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16740 | ||
Does 2 Cor. 5:8 really say that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord? I have heard that from churches and people all my life, but when you read it actually, it appears to be saying that we are confident, and hoping to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. Not at all saying that one is the direct result of the other. | ||||||
17 | Are we really "1 nation under God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16735 | ||
Most of the "founding fathers" were deists' not christians, and many were agnostic. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Bejamin Franklin were all Deists'. Thomas Jefferson even rewrote the Bible to his liking leaving out all miracles and claimed himself as a deist, or, just belief in God | ||||||
18 | Where was God? | Bible general Archive 1 | dougboy777 | 16665 | ||
That sounds right to me. Although God may be distant from the nation as a whole for turning away from Him, he is still close to His church, and that is why this is not just a wake up call for America, but a wake up call for the church, it's time to go to work. With so many souls searching for answers and security, the harbest is great! What a great time to go in to action for God. The tragedy of last week is not what we have been anticipating, but a nation desperate for answers and hope and security, is what we've been praying for. Holy Spirit, come and empower your church to do your work. Amen | ||||||