Rights, Rights, Everyone Wants Their Rights

Posted: 29th December 2012 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized
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The United States Constitutional Republic was built on the concept of immutable rights. Nearly all Americans have bought into this idea, believing individual rights are the path to freedom and prosperity. However, “immutable rights” is but another bill of goods that has further enslaved us, both physically and spiritually.

Rights vs. Responsibilities

The Bill of Rights was a compromise between the constitutional framers and the anti-federalists who opposed the Constitution as originally framed. In theory, the Bill of Rights protects the “unalienable rights” of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” among other things. But have life, liberty, and happiness been advanced or protected since the first Ten Amendments were ratified? Since the Bill of Rights was adopted, have we had less government intrusion or has the Constitutional Republic merely licensed and limited those rights?

The Scriptures provide no evidence of God-given (or unalienable) rights. Even life and liberty are not rights, but rather responsibilities delegated by Yahweh.1 Of course, rights are much more popular than responsibilities. Everyone, including homosexuals and infant murderers, demand their rights. Few are interested in fulfilling their responsibilities.

The Puritan idea of rights and liberty was quite different from what the constitutional framers had in mind:

 John Winthrop [first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony] … reminded his fellow-citizens of Massachusetts that a doctrine of civil rights [as in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights] which looked to natural or sinful man as its source and guardian [as in the Constitution’s Preamble] was actually destructive of that very liberty which they were seeking to protect. True freedom can never be found in institutions which are under the direction of sinful men, but only in the redemption wrought for man by Jesus Christ. Christ, not man, is the sole source and guarantee of true liberty.2

R.J. Rushdoony pointed out the sophistry of governments based upon freedom:

 ….[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech. If freedom of press is absolutized, libel will be defended finally as a privilege of freedom, and if free speech is absolutized, slander finally becomes a right. Religious liberty becomes a triumph of irreligion. Tyranny and anarchy take over. Freedom of speech, press, and religion all give way to controls, totalitarian controls. The goal must be God’s law-order, in which alone is true liberty.3

True Liberty

True liberty is found only in the Spirit of the Lord and in the perfect law of liberty:

 …where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. (2 Corinthians 3:17)

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:25)

James was not describing some New Covenant law that freed us to do whatever we wish. That kind of freedom is nothing more than baptized humanism, which eventually leads to anarchism, one of the quickest paths to legal slavery. Instead, James described the same perfect law of liberty—Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments—as did King David:

 The law of Yahweh is perfect, converting the soul…. (Psalm 19:7)

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. And I will walk at liberty…. (Psalm 119:44-45)

Forgiveness (liberty from our personal sins) is realized through Jesus’ blood-atoning sacrifice and resurrection from the grave.4 All other liberty is found in the implementation of Yahweh’s perfect law of liberty. It is never found in the hollow promises of man-made covenants such as the United States Constitution. Yahweh’s grace on the personal level and Yahweh’s law on the community level are our only means to true freedom. When either of these is abused, freedom is also abused:

 Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom…. Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God’s law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly life. Freedom as an absolute is simply an assertion of man’s “right” to be his own god; this means a radical denial of God’s law-order. “Freedom” thus is another name for the claim by man to divinity and autonomy. It means that man becomes his own absolute.5

Constitutional Rights

Constitutional rights are now interpreted to include natural rights, human rights, civil rights, political rights, and women’s rights. They also include the right to openly worship and promote gods other than Yahweh, the right to commit sodomy, and even the right to murder your unborn child:

 Justice William O. Douglas … joined the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe [v. Wade], which stated that a federally enforceable right to privacy, “whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”6

Former Assistant Attorney General Stephen J. Markman confirmed that the unbiblical rights enumerated above are included in the Ninth Amendment’s unidentified enumeration of rights:

 …the Ninth Amendment constitutes a “license to constitutional decisionmakers [sic] to look beyond the substantive commands of the constitutional text to protect fundamental rights not expressed therein.” Rights to abortion, contraception, homosexual behavior, and similar sexual privacy rights have already been imposed by judges detecting such rights in the Ninth Amendment.7

Because the framers failed to expressly establish the Constitution on Biblical ethics, it was inevitable that the Ninth Amendment would be interpreted to include the above list, as well as other Biblical infractions.

The theory of unalienable or natural rights can be traced back to the Age of Enlightenment. The term “natural rights,” as employed by 18th-century men, is not compatible with the Bible. Deuteronomy 28 does not say we have a natural, human, or civil right to anything. Rather, we must serve Yahweh as God in order to receive His blessings:

 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Yahweh thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God. (Deuteronomy 28:1-2)

People who demand their rights are like children, focused only on themselves. People who pursue righteousness are focused on Yahweh and their fellow man. The former promote a government of, by, and for the people; the latter promote a government of, by, and for Yahweh.

The “rights” already mentioned, along with countless other legal immoralities, can be traced back to the United States Constitution. Had the framers provided for a government established upon Yahweh’s moral laws, the constitutional “rights” claimed by so many people today would be recognized and punished as moral aberrations.

 

Related posts:

America’s Road to Hell: Paved With Rights

Rights: Man’s Sacrilegious Claim to Divinity

Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism

Amendment 9: Rights vs. Righteousness

 

1. YHWH, the English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, is most often pronounced Yahweh. It is the principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible and was inspired to appear nearly 7,000 times in the Hebrew Old Testament. In obedience to the Third Commandment and in honor of His memorial name (Exodus 3:15), and the multitudes of Scriptures that charge us to use, proclaim, swear by, praise, extol, call upon, bless, glorify, and hold fast to His name, I have chosen to memorialize His name by using it throughout this blog. For a more thorough explanation concerning important reasons for using the sacred name of God, see “The Third Commandment.”

2. C. Gregg Singer, A Theological Interpretation of American History (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1964) p. 19.

3. Rousas John Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1973) p. 581.

4. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Jesus and forgiven of your sins. For a more thorough explanation concerning baptism and its relationship to salvation, the book Baptism: All You Wanted to Know and More may be requested from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for free.

5. Rushdoony, p. 583.

6. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, quoted in “Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution.

7. Stephen J. Markman, “The Coming Constitutional Debate,” Imprimis (Hillsdale, MI: Hillsdale College, 2010) vol. 39, num. 4, p. 5.

 

Newtown’s Massacre, Today’s Cultural Abyss, and Gun-Free Zones

Posted: 21st December 2012 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized
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The December 14, 2012, Newtown, Connecticut, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has impacted all Americans—but not necessarily in the same way. Nor should we expect it would. Regardless which side of the gun debate we find ourselves on, all of us grieve for the families of those whose loved ones were killed. However, beyond our shared empathy, we will respond to this needless murdering of innocent lives in ways that reflect our individual world views.

What’s Your World View?

As expected, the anti-gun establishment immediately started calling for stricter gun-control measures, while Second-Amendment proponents reiterated their worn-out retorts that “guns don’t kill, people do,” “you can have my gun when you pry it from my dead cold fingers,” etc., etc., etc. We’ve heard it all before. But such posturing and any laws that have resulted from either side’s position didn’t make a lick of difference to the twenty children and eight adults and their families in Newtown last week. For that matter, they haven’t made any difference in any other similar shooting. Something’s wrong with this picture!

While both sides of the debate focus on whether or not we should have guns, the underlying issues are seldom identified, let alone dealt with from a Biblical paradigm. And the genesis of America’s moral depravities is almost never addressed.

The carnage in Newtown is indicative of the devolved sense of personal and national ethics that has led America to the brink of moral destruction. If we hope to ever halt America’s present suicidal course, we must get to the root of our current cultural abyss.

The Genesis of America’s Cultural Abyss

There has to be a defining point in history that’s responsible for where America finds herself today, as compared with the early 1600s. Until we figure out what it is that caused America to abandon her 17th-century moorings and restore her Christian foundations, we are doomed to more of the same and worse:

 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3)

What destroyed our Biblical foundations? The Prophet Jeremiah provides the answer:

 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? …the land perisheth … [b]ecause they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; but have walked after the imagination of their own heart…. (Jeremiah 9:12-14)

When did this occur in America? It occurred when the constitutional framers rejected Yahweh’s sovereignty and failed to expressly establish the United States Constitution and government upon Yahweh’s immutable morality as codified in His commandments, statutes, and judgments. If you accept Yahweh’s perfect law and altogether righteous judgments (Psalm 19:7-9) as the fabric that creates and maintains a righteous society, you can’t escape the fact that 1787 was the precise point in history when America, as a nation, began her fall into depravity.

Because mankind will always continue to operate from a depraved heart, crime will never be completely eradicated. However, if we intend to turn the tide (identified in Acts 17:6-7 as Christians turning “the world upside down”), we must not only identify the Constitution as sedition against our God, we must also point our people back to Him by way of Christ’s blood atoning sacrifice and His law for ourselves, our families, our churches, and government. For the sake of our posterity, please join me in awakening our people to this imperative.

A good place to begin is by teaching Christians how Yahweh’s moral law still applies today. I recommend Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.

As for the Gun Debate:

In case you’re wondering, Yahweh’s law settles the gun debate:

 It is imperative we understand the authority to arm ourselves comes from Yahweh. Nearly all gun enthusiasts point to the Second Amendment as their authority for possessing firearms, which means their authority to keep and bear arms can be traced back to 1791. Where did the men living in America prior to 1791 get their authority to be armed? Do you suppose they might have gotten it from Exodus 22:2-3; Deuteronomy 22:23-24; Psalm 149:6-9; Luke 11:21, 12:39, 22:36; and 1 Timothy 5:8. Carrying a weapon was already lawful by Yahweh’s standards, so why, in 1791, did we need the authorization of the Second Amendment?

If your authority to keep and bear arms is derived from the Second Amendment – from the god WE THE PEOPLE – it is unlikely you will react any differently from the British and Australians who surrendered their weapons when required to do so by their respective governments. On the other hand, if your faith is in Yahweh’s sovereign authority, you will be far less likely to turn over your weapons to any civil government unauthorized by the omnipotent Supreme Ruler of the universe.1

The Bible knows nothing of rights, only responsibilities.2 Rights are easily licensed and limited (consider what has occurred with the Second Amendment since its adoption by the States). Responsibilities remain unchanged, regardless what the government says or does:

 But if any provide not for his own [including protection], and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. (1 Timothy 5:8)

We don’t need the Second Amendment (which merely recognizes a right) when we have Psalm 149 (which charges us with a responsibility):

 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword [or today’s equivalent] in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye Yah. (Psalm 149:6-9)3

Implicit in this Psalm is that only the righteous are to be armed. However, since the Second Amendment was added to the Bill of Rights, the “right” to bear arms in defense of ourselves, our families, and neighbors has been incrementally taken away from the unrighteous and righteous alike. The Second Amendment has actually facilitated gun control, including gun-free zones such as Sandy Hook Elementary School:

 All of our mass murders in the last 20 years have occurred in Gun Free Zones [even Fort Hood, Texas was, for the most part, a gun-free zone]…. Hopefully the Connecticut tragedy will be the tipping point after which a rising chorus of Americans will demand elimination of the Gun Free Zone laws that are in fact Criminal Safe Zones…. Gun Free Zones are a lethal insanity….4

Better yet, may Yahweh use this tragedy to start a movement back to Him and His law for all society.

Unlike today’s constitutional form of government, the Bible does not sanction gun-free zones. Moreover, after being convicted in a Biblical court, murderers are not put away in tax-funded prisons or psychiatric wards, nor are they tried again and again for the same crime at tax payers’ expense. They are quickly put to death (Ecclesiastes 8:11), ridding society forever of their evil influence and deterring others from joining their wicked lifestyle. These are but a few of the advantages of a society based upon Yahweh’s perfect law and altogether righteous judgments.

Related posts:

The Second Amendment: A Knife in a Gunfight (an audio message)

You Can’t Win Bringing a Knife to Gunfight

Amendment 2: Constitutional vs. Biblical Self-Defense

Firearms: Scripturally Defended

5 Reasons the Constitution is Our Cutting-Edge Issue

 

1. Chapter 12 “Amendment 2: Constitutional vs. Biblical Self-Defense?” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective. See also “Firearms: Scripturally Defended.”

2. Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” and Chapter 18 “Amendment 9: Rights vs. Righteousness.”

3. Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, agrees. You can listen to his views here.

4. Larry Pratt, “They Have Blood on Their Hands,” 15 December 2012, http://gunowners.org/a12152012.htm.

 

 

Today’s Mount Carmel Christians

Posted: 14th December 2012 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized
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Humanity’s eminent question is never that of god or no god, but which god: Yahweh or Baal (1 Kings 18:21), God or Caesar (Matthew 22:21), or God or mammon (Matthew 6:24)? “How long halt ye between two opinions? If Yahweh be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.” (1 Kings 18:21) This was Elijah’s challenge to the double-minded Israelites on Mt. Carmel.

What is today’s Mount Carmel? As individuals, we may each have several personal Mount Carmels to be scaled and conquered. However, as a nation, America’s Mount Carmel is unequivocally Yahweh versus We the People (a modern form of Baal).

I can understand humanists’ choosing We the People. We the People is just a collective form of a majority doing what is right in their own eyes (Judges 21:25). What I cannot understand is that Christians would choose to serve Yahweh as God on one hand and We the People on the other. What’s even more paradoxical is that “conservative” Christians are the greatest advocates of We the People and its humanistic government built upon the traditions of men.

The choice between gods comes down to which god’s law is paramount:

 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. (Acts 5:29)

And when they [disbelieving Jews] … drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also … and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. (Acts 17:6-7)

 The Supreme Law of the Land

Nowhere did the constitutional framers acknowledge Yahweh (except perhaps as their document’s timekeeper in Article 7) or His morality as codified in His perfect law and altogether righteous judgments (Psalm 19:7-9). Compounding the problem, Article 6 of the United States Constitution brazenly pronounces the Constitution and all laws and treaties made in pursuance thereof as the supreme law of the land. Marbury v. Madison (1803) added, “…a law repugnant to the Constitution is void….”

The framers were fully cognizant of the word “supreme” and its meaning when they declared the supremacy of the Constitution. In so doing, they made the law of Yahweh subservient to the law of We the People, thereby making null and void any of Yahweh’s laws not in accord with the Constitution:

 Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Matthew 15:6-9)

The framers and today’s political leaders and Constitutionalists pay homage to the traditions and commandments of men as the supreme law of the land. Even the Pharisees of Jesus’ day weren’t so brazen as to call their man-made traditions supreme.

 The Supreme Being

A supreme law can only be created by a supreme being. Proclaiming (or even acknowledging) the Constitution as the supreme law of the land demands that the creators of that law are god to those who so regard the Constitution. Vox populi, vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of god.

Consequently, Christian Constitutionalists (an oxymoron if ever there was one) are as double minded as were the Israelites on Mount Carmel. The question remains, “How long halt ye between two opinions? If Yahweh be God, follow him: but if We the People, then follow them.” Choose carefully!

For more on this issue, go to Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution.

First Commandment Violators: Framers and Bloggers Alike

Posted: 8th December 2012 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized
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Christian bloggers beware! Could you be guilty of the same First Commandment violation as were the constitutional framers? You are if you allow commenters on your blog to promote or justify non-Christian religions (such as Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism), including atheism and cults (such as Catholicism, Mormonism, and the Jehovah Witnesses).

 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house [or onto your blog], neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. (1 John 1:7-11)

There is only one true God and, therefore, only one standard for good and evil. “To have none other gods, means to have no other law than God’s law….”1 To allow those who post on your blog to promote lifestyles condemned by Yahweh’s2 law (such as homosexuality, women’s liberation, pro-choice, etc.) is another way by which the First Commandment is violated.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. (Ephesians 5:11)

First Commandment Basics

 I am Yahweh thy God…. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:2-3)

The word “before” in Exodus 20:3 (KJV) seems to imply an inclusion of other gods, indicating primacy but not exclusivity. However, the word is best understood to mean Yahweh will not tolerate other gods before His face. Consequently, the First Commandment is better understood, “thou shall have no other gods besides me”:

 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that Yahweh he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. (Deuteronomy 4:39)

This claim to exclusivity puts Yahweh in conflict with any person, religion, or political system that acknowledges or serves other gods (Jeremiah 10:10-11). There is no other god but Yahweh—the self-existent, eternal, omnipotent Creator, the exclusive sovereign over His creation, answerable to no one. He is the source of life, all blessings, salvation, and the ultimate judge of those who refuse to recognize and honor Him as the Creator and only God. He is the same God who became poor that we might become rich (2 Corinthians 8:9). By emptying Himself into “the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men … He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:7-8, NASB).

First Commandment monotheism

 Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God is one Yahweh: And thou shalt love Yahweh thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (Deuteronomy 6:4-5)

At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, even Benjamin Franklin, who admitted he was not a Christian, urged his fellow framers to call upon the “God [who] governs in the affairs of man.”3 Although he did not refer to Yahweh by name, there is no doubt to which God he referred:

 I therefore beg leave to move that, henceforth, prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberation be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business.4

Shamefully, everyone “except three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.”4 Not only did the majority of framers think soliciting God’s assistance unnecessary, they officially rejected Christian monotheism when they adopted Amendment 1’s freedom of religion provision, which protects and facilitates the open worship and proliferation of any and all gods in defiance to the First Commandment. Invariably, a nation follows where its government leads. In the aftermath of Amendment 1, America has become progressively less Christian. We have become the most polytheistic nation to ever exist, with the possible exception of the Roman Empire.

 Political pluralism has consequences. It leads directly to polytheism: many moral law-orders; therefore, many gods. Polytheism (all gods are equal) leads to relativism (all moral codes are equal); relativism leads to humanism (man makes his own laws); and humanism leads to statism (the State best represents mankind as the pinnacle of power).5

Should Christians promote Amendment 1 and freedom of religion?

Christians have gotten so caught up in the battle over the misuse of the Establishment Clause – the freedom from religion – that they have overlooked the ungodliness intrinsic in the Free Exercise Clause – the freedom of religion.

Ironically, many Christians hang their religious hats on Amendment 1 as if some great Christian principle is found therein. In fact, it marked the beginning of America’s fall from an exclusive commitment to Yahweh and His law. Upon its adoption, America was transformed from what was predominately one united nation under God to a divided nation under many gods.

Part of the judgment for First Commandment violations is provided in Deuteronomy 13:

 If there arise among you a prophet [or your brother, son, daughter, wife, friend, or neighbor, as per verses 16-18] … saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them … that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from Yahweh your God … to thrust thee out of the way which Yahweh thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5)

Yahweh does not tolerate the proliferation of other gods, such as found in the First Amendment’s provision for the freedom of religion. Exodus 23:13 admonishes us to not even “mention the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of thy mouth.”

The First Amendment’s freedom of religion and speech may appear innocuous. But is it harmless to give sodomites, infanticide advocates, and Satanists the right to promote their wicked agendas? Is it harmless to provide a platform for non-Christians and even antichrists to promote their heresies?

 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! (Matthew 18:6-7)

It’s naive to think people have not lost their faith to atheists or been converted to cults as a result of providing them the opportunity to proselytize. Christian bloggers need to consider carefully the serious implications of allowing such people to proliferate their agendas on their sites in disobedience to the First Commandment and its judgment.

 

1. Rousas John Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1973) p. 47.

2. YHWH, the English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, is most often pronounced Yahweh. It is the principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible and was inspired to appear nearly 7,000 times in the Hebrew Old Testament. In honor of this, His memorial name (Exodus 3:15), and the multitudes of Scriptures that charge us to use, proclaim, swear by, praise, extol, call upon, bless, glorify, and hold fast to His name, we have chosen to memorialize His name by using it in this document. For a more thorough explanation concerning important reasons for using the sacred names of God, “The Third Commandment” may be read online.

3. Robert Yates, “Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787,” Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention 1787, entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1838 (Hawthorne, CA: Omni Publications, 1986) pp. 197-98.

4. Benjamin Franklin, quoted in William Templeton Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin (London, UK: Henry Colburn, 1818, 3rd ed.) p. 195.

5. Gary North, Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989) p. 158.

 

5 Reasons the Constitution is Our Cutting-Edge Issue

Posted: 17th November 2012 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized
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I’m often asked, “Why is the Constitution such a big issue to you?” My initial response is, “Why isn’t it a big issue to you?” Let me provide a short list of reasons why the Constitution and what it represents should be important to all of us:

  1. It defies Yahweh’s sovereignty and morality in nearly every article and amendment.
  2. It’s the reason America is teetering on the precipice (or, actually, already falling into the chasm) of moral depravity and national destruction.
  3. Every problem America faces today can be traced back to the fact that the framers failed to expressly establish a government upon Yahweh’s immutable morality as codified in His commandments, statutes, and judgments. (Would infanticide and sodomy be tolerated, let alone financed by the government, if Yahweh’s perfect law and altogether righteous judgments were the law of the land? Would Islam be a looming threat to our peace and security if the First Commandment had not been replaced with the First Amendment? Would Americans be in nearly as much debt if usury had been outlawed as a form of theft? Would crime be as rampant if “cruel and unusual punishment” had not been outlawed and criminals were instead punished with Yahweh’s righteous judgments? Would we be on the fiscal cliff if we were taxed with a flat increase tax rather than a graduated income tax?)
  4. Identifying and repenting of the Constitution, as the national idol it represents, holds part of the answer for restoring America to her 17th-century Christian roots.
  5. Any hope of a future generation establishing a government of, by, and for Yahweh depends upon our exposing the Constitution’s heresy and instilling Yahweh’s law in the hearts and minds of our children and grandchildren.

On February 27, 2009, James Dobson conceded that we have lost the culture wars. This is the consequence of Christians having spent the last two centuries lopping at the rotten branches of our culture’s corrupt tree while watering and fertilizing its roots.

We should lop away at the tree’s corrupt branches (infanticide, sodomy, the economy, etc.). However, until the root of these problems is Biblically addressed, we will never shut down the infanticide mills, we will never defeat the sodomites, and we will never fix the economy. In short, we will never win the culture wars. This issue is more than important for anyone concerned about God, our nation, and the future of our posterity, it’s the cutting- edge issue of our day.1

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)

For more on this issue, go to Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution.

Related Posts:

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

Today’s Mount Carmel Christians

Time For Pronomians to Come Out of the Closet

1. The issue of the Constitution pales in comparison with the importance of the remnant’s individual salvation in Christ (although the two are ultimately intertwined), which is the foundation upon which a Christian society is erected (1 Corinthians 3:11).

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