And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? If Yahweh1 be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. (1 Kings 18:21) Identifying Baal Historically, Baal is the name of the chief god of the ancient Canaanites and Phoenicians. But, more importantly, what is Baal? […]
Posts Tagged ‘Preamble’
The Gettysburg Address: Iconic, But is it Biblical? Pt. 3
Posted: 5th December 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Abraham Lincoln, Christian tests, Colonial constitutions, commandments, commandments statutes and judgments, Confederate Constitution, Confederate soldiers, constitution, Constitution of the Confederate Startes of America, Constitutional Republic, framers, Gettysburg Address, humanism, imperialism, Lincoln's War, Preamble, War of Northern Agression
[T]he law is ignored and justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore, justice comes out perverted. (Habakkuk 1:4) November 19, 2013, was the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The speech is iconic, but is it Biblical? Unfinished Work It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated […]
PREAMBLE
Posted: 26th July 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: commandments statutes and judgments, constitution, Preamble
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 […]
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. 7
Posted: 13th June 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Article 6, commandments statutes and judgments, constitution, Judge Roy Moore, Marbury v. Madison, Preamble, sedition, supreme law of the land, We the People
In this article, I address another of the Constitution’s more serious “camels”—which Christians should be choking on instead of swallowing. Article 6’s Seditious Supreme Law of the Land Article VI of the Constitution requires all state and federal officials to support that Constitution as the “supreme Law of the Land.” The America people ask no […]
Swallowing Camels… Pt. 1
Posted: 3rd May 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Baal, constitution, Constitutional Christians, constitutional framers, Constitutional Republic, First Commandment, humanists, idolatry, Preamble, theocracy, We the People
In the previous series, “Straining at Gnats…,” I addressed what is regrettably an all too common malady among people who call themselves Constitutional Christians—that is, the propensity to try to read the Bible into the Constitution or, at least, into the minds of its framers. The extent that some people go in their attempt to […]
Right, Left, and Center: Who Gets to Decide?
Posted: 8th March 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Article 1, ethics, good and evil, lawful versus legal, lawgiver, politicians, politics, Preamble, triune law, unlawful versus illegal, We the People
In politics, everything revolves around the positioning of right, left, and center. You’re either rightwing, leftwing, or a centrist. Politicians and non-politicians alike employ all three terms as if there’s a consensus on the parameters for those designations. Even if this were true, who gets to determine what’s right, left, and center, and how are […]
American Exceptionalism
Posted: 1st February 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: American exceptionalism, Colonial America, constitution, liberty, Preamble, We the People
American exceptionalism is the proposition that the United States is different from other countries in that it has a specific world mission to spread liberty and democracy. It is not a notion that the United States is quantitatively better than other countries or that it has a superior culture, but rather that it is “qualitatively […]