We the people of Almighty God—known Biblically by His memorial name Yahweh,1 the one and only Sovereign over all creation2—humbly submit ourselves as individuals, families, churches, and communities to His rule3 as Judge, Lawgiver, and King.4 Because all power and authority resides with Him,5 we acknowledge that liberty, justice, domestic tranquility, and general welfare for […]
Archive for July, 2013
PREAMBLE
Posted: 26th July 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: commandments statutes and judgments, constitution, Preamble
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The Preamble: How Would You Write It?
Posted: 12th July 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: commandments statutes and judgments, constitution, constitutional convention, Constitutional Republic, framers, posterity, Preamble
There are, at least, two Biblical reasons why the Constitutional Republic is one day doomed to fail like all previous man-made governments (Daniel 2:44, etc.): 1) The framers failed to expressly establish government and society upon Yahweh’s immutable morality as codified in His triune law (His commandments, statutes, and judgments). As a result, the handwriting […]
Swallowing Camels… Pt. 10
Posted: 5th July 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Amendment 8, Bible's civil judgments, capital punishment, constitution, cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty, humanism, living document, righteous judgments, stoining, Supreme Court
In this concluding article, I address another of the Constitution’s more serious “camels”—which Christians should be choking on instead of swallowing. Amendment 8’s Denunciation of Cruel and Unusual Punishments Amendment 8 prohibits cruel and unusual punishments. But what did the framers mean by “cruel and unusual”? No one knows because the framers never defined this […]