God’s blessing or His curse for America?
16 Sunday Oct 2022
Written by dennisghurst in Attributes, Consequences, Godliness, Inspiration, Origins
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Wherefor the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. ~ Romans 8: 29
Clifford C. Nichols, American Thinker: Today, there seem to be two views in the Christian community about what direction God is going to take for America in this battle of good versus evil. One is that God will overcome evil to restore America to its former greatness. You know … take us all back to the good ol’ days, when America used to be one nation under God — patriotic as a whole generally, but not without its faults. The other is that God intends to punish a nation that has come not only to embrace, but also to promote blasphemies on many levels — placing many idols on legal and social pedestals before which we are all being compelled to bend a knee and worship every day, except Sunday … maybe. In light of all that is going on in our culture, you could make a strong argument for God taking either tack.
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DGH: The Apostle Paul, a student of the prophets cited many of those writings to provide proof to mankind that God spoke about his plan for mankind through them. Jesus actually fulfilled over 300 Old Testament prophecies. No one knows this because no one studies the historical Jesus of Nazareth anymore. But let’s not forget the concept of the Messiah who would save mankind from their sins coming directly from (and only from) the Jewish prophets beginning with Moses. All a matter of study.
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Clifford C. Nichols: Certainly, even a casual reader of the Bible cannot avoid the fact that, in God’s economy, either outcome is equally possible. While it is true that God is a loving and forgiving God, He is also clearly a God of justice, and which it will be, in the end, often appears to depend on the choices we make [as in for instance] Deut. 30:11-20; / Matt. 7:13-14; / and Rom. 12:21. In short, the exercise of our free will is almost never free — i.e., without a cost in terms of the consequences our choices bring upon us. Whether the consequences of our decisions are good or bad is a matter God seems to have left largely with us. Atheists and even agnostics might rebuke everything said so far. Follow the science, they say, and everything will soon be all right. But will it? It is doubtful.
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DGH: ”Wherefor the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” ~ Romans 8:29-30 / There is much more… and, yes, those who are in Christ are sealed for eternal life in the kingdom of heaven.
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Clifford C. Nichols: To the chagrin of most who are in possession of a working brain is the fact that their “science” is devoid of any moral anchor. Science does not instruct us on how to discern right from wrong. They would have us turn a blind eye to the fact that science can lead to evil as much as it can to good. Compare the nuclear bomb to penicillin. Perhaps that would explain why our current leaders — i.e., those who prefer science to God — have had no trouble with choosing a path for our country that, in many ways, is immoral to the core. Witness the insistence of these people that to murder our unborn children — even after birth — is a right, while arguing at the same time that their choice to have sex with those children not aborted should also be a right, which they clearly intend to normalize within our society and may soon claim.
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DGH: Science tells us only about the “is.” It cannot tell us about the “ought.” That is where ethics comes in and without God, ethics is just consensus, and consensus is no way to run a world. Forgiveness and justice are mutually exclusive. From the Creator you can receive forgiveness or justice; but not both. The divine law of cause-and-effect ensures that we will receive justice, not mercy or forgiveness. Mercy and forgiveness are human concepts, not divine. God has His “ought”, and it behooves us to heed it.
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Clifford C. Nichols: And all that before we even get to these devotees of “science” entertaining our young children with drag queens in their schools while also attempting to foist upon these children a right to decide for themselves — i.e., without parental consent — whether to undergo an irreversible mutilation of their bodies, before they are even old enough to decide the basics … like whether it’s a good thing to obey their parents and go clean their rooms!
Is this messed up or what? For sure. But that should bring us around full circle to ask a question, not of the secular members of our society, but of all those who are accused today of being science deniers and religious bigots.
Or are we willing to do all that may be necessary to obtain God’s blessing by restoring in America the Judeo-Christian morality of our God, or will we shrink back in the face of these evils and risk incurring God’s curse? The path we choose today will be the product of our free will. It is in this way that God placed on the shoulders of our forefathers the responsibility to decide whether they would choose to obtain His blessing … or His curse. Is that not the same choice we are now being given? [end]
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DGH: If justice is defined as receiving appropriate consequences for sinful actions, then it seems to me some Biblical examples show both the receipt of justice, but ultimately forgiveness. King David had his episode with Bathsheba and did receive punishment for the remainder of his life in the form of strife with his children. But it is clear that he was not eternally condemned. Moses had his problem dealing with the wayward Israelites and his consequence was not being allowed into the promised land. Again though, not eternally condemned. God’s blessing or His curse for America?
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Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. ~ Romans 8:30
- Clifford C. Nichols, American Thinker: America deserving of God’s blessing … or His curse?
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Soli Deo Gloria!
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