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Infiltration Scenario – The Absolute Necessity of Church Discipline for Public Officials

Infiltration Scenario

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I’ve written a good bit about the corrupting of the civil justice system by defying the God of the bible. However, this particular writing discusses my concern about the corruption of the Church should it not discipline those members in its ranks who go along in their official duties with the corruption of the State. In other words, how does a Biblical Judicial System work within the Church and its authorized, biblical disciplinary system? Continue reading “Infiltration Scenario – The Absolute Necessity of Church Discipline for Public Officials”

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Time for Public Officials to Take Their Stand One Way or the Other

Time for Public Officials to Take Their Stand One Way or the Other

Download pdf: Time for Public Officials to take their stand one way or the other – 2017

I wrote the attached document on June 26, 2017, the day the U.S. Supreme Court perfidiously & unconstitutionally ordered all States of the Union to approve homosexual sodomy marriage. I had awakened that morning with the distinct sense while praying that I should write something, not knowing it was the day that Court would issue its opinion. I was actually attempting to write something fairly conciliatory, something akin to a Christian “respect-the-authorities” type of essay.

However, while I was writing it, someone called me to tell me that the Supreme Court had ruled for homosexual marriage. A year and a half of study, prayer, & righteous anger came boiling out. I had delayed about six months after reading the Windsor opinion, issued June 2013, in which 5 Justices had told the federal government it could not state that there is Continue reading “Time for Public Officials to Take Their Stand One Way or the Other”

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Criminal Justice 1

Criminal Justice 1

Interestingly, the first reference in the law of Moses to the eye-for-an-eye principle is with respect to a law that could apply to abortion.

“If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.” Exodus 21:22-25.

This passage combines God’s concern for the protection of innocent human life, created in His image, as well as the Dominion Covenant’s (Gen. 1:28) concern for the propagation of humanity, & the protection of the helpless. The Continue reading “Criminal Justice 1”

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Oaths 9 – Does God Forget?

Oaths 9 – Does God Forget?

As mentioned in a previous post on Oaths (Oaths 2), the first colonists arriving on the shores of the American continent were Christians, some more explicit in their commitment to a biblical system of civil government than others. The forms of government ranged from that of the Puritans, who explicitly sought to set up a biblical commonwealth, to that of the Pilgrims, who also sought to set up a civil government on Christian principles, to the Virginia settlement, which simply sought to continue the political Christianity of Great Britain. The most compromised of versions would put modern, 21st century America to shame with respect to commitment to the true God of the bible.

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Oaths 8 – The Real Constitution?

Oaths 8 – The Real Constitution?

So, how can we process this history of religious test oaths in America? We must use the bible. Conservatives accuse liberals of regularly departing from, even forgetting, the principles of the U.S. Constitution. And rightly so. However, what if the U.S. Constitution were not the founding document of America? You ask, “What do you mean? Of course, it’s the founding document!” Remember, we decided we must look at this issue biblically.

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Forsaking God & Higher Taxes

Forsaking God & Higher Taxes

Through Moses, God commanded limits upon the king.

“When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.”

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Oaths 7 – A Change in Faith

Oaths 7 – A Change in Faith

The decision to switch from a Trinitarian oath to an oath to the Constitution must have been based on a fundamental change in beliefs. The colonies had recognized that a Christian oath is essential to a Christian republic. Unless the authors of the Constitution didn’t really understand the importance of the oaths, why would they have inserted them into their founding documents? If they were committed to a Christian form of government before the debates at the Constitutional Convention, then something must have changed at some point. How did it happen? What fundamental change had occurred in their thinking, their faith, their philosophy? Continue reading “Oaths 7 – A Change in Faith”

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Oaths 6 – Debating the Test Oath at the Constitutional Convention

Oaths 6 – Debating the Test Oath at the Constitutional Convention

So, you might ask, “Didn’t the Constitutional Convention have a point in stating that a religious test oath wouldn’t work?” Here’s a portion of the debate on the matter.

One of the arguments at the Convention was that religious test oaths are ineffectual.

“In one of his famous letters of ‘a Landholder,’ published in December, 1787, Oliver Ellsworth, a member of the Federal Constitutional Convention and later Chief Justice of this Court, included among his strong arguments against religious test oaths the following statement:

” ‘In short, test laws are utterly ineffectual; they are no security at all, because men of loose principles will, by an external compliance, evade them. If they exclude any persons, it will be honest men, men of principle, who will rather suffer an injury than act contrary to the dictates of their consciences. . . .’ ”

But was this a logical & consistent position to take in regard to an oath? What about an oath to the Constitution? Couldn’t we, no, don’t we have people today who fraudulently take an oath to uphold the US Constitution? And don’t we want to exclude “honest men” who don’t hold to faith in the bible & Christ?
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Oaths 5 – Torcaso v. Watkins

Oaths 5 – Torcaso v. Watkins

Evidence of the pervasive effect of allowing the federal government to forbid religious test oaths in the States of the Union as completely as is the case for federal government offices was the 1961 U.S. Supreme Court case, Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961), is touted as the opinion that settled whether the Article VI religious test clause ban applies to the States after the Fourteenth Amendment. I’ve copied the Wikipedia article on the matter because it sums up the opinion and the lack of resolution of the issue by that opinion. The opinion actually never addressed Article VI because it applied the First Amendment to decide the case. Continue reading “Oaths 5 – Torcaso v. Watkins”

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Oaths 4

Oaths 4

In Alabama, a judge entering upon the duties of the office must swear the following oath:

“I, _______, solemnly swear (or affirm as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Alabama, so long as I continue a citizen thereof; and that I will faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter, to the best of my ability. So help me God.”

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