Adding to the Law – As Bad as Subtracting

Adding to the Law

When he was president, I was thinking about what I would have said to President Barack O’Bama. You know how you think when you think you’re smarter than everybody else. I would like to explain the danger of politics. One of the dangers is the contrast with faith. Faith seeks to be right with God, and He will give power to that faithful one. Politics is the attainment of power without any need to be right with God. When you’re poor and weak and God gives you power, you know you’re on the right track, not perfect, but on the right track. But with politics, how do you know you’re using power rightly? Do you need faith? Do you help the poor? Who are the poor? Is it those without means, or is it those who are pursued for their means? I mean, can you vote the largesse of those with means so that you can enjoy the product of their work? Does “Thou shalt not steal” not apply as long as a majority says it’s okay? Can you steal by using the ballot box?

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Adam knew the universe was created in six evenings and mornings

Adam knew the universe was created in six evenings and mornings or he would have told his descendants otherwise.

Genesis is history, not science.  Genesis 1 says that Adam was created the sixth day according to Genesis 1. God rested the seventh day. Does it make any sense that God would leave Adam in the dark about the creation time period? There are two reasons in the text that show that Adam would have known the time period – the Sabbath day and Eve.

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