Man changes, but God’s word doesn’t change
Comments (...)Steven Lopez’s recent letter on March 6 [“Individuals free to make their own choices”] seriously begs a response. Lopez was “angry” about another writer’s “overly biased … use of his religion as if it … validated his point” on the abortion issue.
Religion and the Bible are often two different things. Regardless of your “religious” beliefs, the Bible is the standard by which both sin and goodness are measured. God’s word is plain and clear.
Contrary to Lopez’s argument, a fetus is a human life from the second of conception. It does not, indeed, “scientifically and legally [lack] qualities that make it an actual human.” Your lack of research here is appalling.
Then to compare an acorn and a chicken egg to a human fetus or embryo? Where is your understanding of science and the sanctity of human life?
Lopez’s knocking of “traditional marriage” also shows lack of understanding. God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. God’s word is clear to me on the sin of homosexuality, and is equally as clear on the sanctity and purpose of traditional marriage between one man and one woman.
I understand that “things change with time and understanding,” but it is the things and morality of this world that change. God’s word and his principles never change. It is the sinful nature of man that causes the changes, and this becomes increasingly evident in American society with each passing year.
This great nation was founded on the principles of Christianity and the Bible, and those principles remained pretty much intact until the Democrats and liberals in our society decided that their principles and desires were more important than those set forth by God.
Comments
Total Comments 44 View/Add Comments |
Most Recent Comment wrote on ...
Mr. Lopez, Bill Maher is probably NOT the most reliable source on the founders! lol
Contextomy: Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
Exposition: This contextomy appears onscreen in comedian Bill Maher's documentary Religulous (2008) during a scene discussing the Founding Fathers and religion with Ray Suarez. Maher asks Suarez:
How did this country get to be a Christian nation? I've read a lot of quotes from all the Founding Fathers. There are a lot of quotes that explicitly say we're not a Christian nation.
At this point, three quotes appear on the screen, including the Adams one (see above) and this one.
Context: Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy,―the most sublime & benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man,―endeavored to crush your well-earnt & well-deserved fame.
Exposure: Even taken out of context, Jefferson's quote does not support Maher's claim that the United States is not a christian nation according to the Founding Fathers. At best, the quote seems to show hostility on the part of Jefferson toward christianity.
However, the quote is taken from a letter to Joseph Priestley, who is best remembered today as a scientist, but was also a minister and author of An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782). It may be this book that Jefferson alludes to in his compliment to Priestley for "simplifying the Christian philosophy", which while "the most sublime and benevolent" is also the "most perverted system that ever shone on man". Jefferson here uses the word "perverted" in its sense of turned away from the right course, which is similar in sense to Priestley's use of the word "corruption".
Both Jefferson and Priestley believed that christianity had been corrupted and perverted from its original, simpler form. Jefferson was, indeed, hostile to this corrupt form of christianity, but he simultaneously believed that the philosophy of Jesus was "the most sublime and benevolent…system that ever shone on man." In a letter to Benjamin Rush (4/21/1803), he explained:
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; and believing he never claimed any other.
A letter to John Adams (4/11/1823) makes the same point as that in the letter to Priestley:
The truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. … But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/contexts.html
|
