Grant Swank
U.S. Senate chaplain: USA collapse as Rome
By Grant Swank
It's makes moral sense and is frightening.
It reminds me of the Old Testament prophets advocating for God against a rebellious Hebraic culture. They were run out of town. They were slain. They were threatened by the religious charlatans who held the temple captive for the work of the devil.
"U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black says the United States, like past great civilizations such as the Roman Empire, could collapse due to a decline in family values, a decline in religion, a preoccupation with pleasure and overspending on militarism," per AP.
Black offered biblical warnings when he delivers an address such as put to the Montana Faith Community Impact Summit in Kalispell, Montana.
He is forthright while ethically on balance with Scripture.
All the while theological liberals enhance the fall of America with their defense of immoral issues such as homosexual lifestyles divinely blessed and killing womb infants.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, for instance, profess to be religious and boast of their denominational affiliations, the former with the United Church of Christ (Congregational) and the latter with the United Methodist Church. Yet both endorse slaying the unborn and active homosexual relations. These politicians plus the apostate clergy and laity contribute to the nation's collapse.
As Black defended the Judeo-Christian ethic, there were others throughout the nation working hard to create a totally secularized society. That would mean replacing God with man-made religion, such going on aggressively within such denominations as the Episcopal Church, United Church of Christ (Congregational), and Unitarian Universalist Society.
Would that evangelicals could resurrect the Black warnings to ward off liberals within the United Methodist Church, United Presbyterian Church (USA), American Baptist Convention, and Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.
"The Senate chaplain said 'God has to be the foundation' for social progress and justice.
"He said, 'Solutions have to have that transcendence, that ethical force' they had during the 1960s civil rights movement for racial equality."
When Black speaks of "God," it is not just any deity. It must be the God of the Bible, the God of our country's Judeo-Christian backdrop.
Recently President Bush was asked by a Muslim if Mr. Bush believed that Muslims praying to God could be heard. He responded that he believes persons of any religion will find favor with God.
Mr. Bush is incorrect. As a daily-Bible-reading individual who has witnessed to Christ as personal Savior, Mr. Bush should know better than to make such a statement. The media picked up on it and now the whole world reads his words as "gospel truth."
God honors the prayers of the genuinely repentant, regardless of their religion, that is, if they repent of their sins to Christ the Savior. Otherwise, the prayers of the so-called religious outside Christ are not honored by the God of Scripture.
America must return to God's Word, starting with confessing sins to Christ and then living the dedicated Christian life. Only this will renew America's soul. If this does not occur, the nation is in dire peril of collapse, just as the Senate Chaplain cautioned.
© Grant Swank
It's makes moral sense and is frightening.
It reminds me of the Old Testament prophets advocating for God against a rebellious Hebraic culture. They were run out of town. They were slain. They were threatened by the religious charlatans who held the temple captive for the work of the devil.
"U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black says the United States, like past great civilizations such as the Roman Empire, could collapse due to a decline in family values, a decline in religion, a preoccupation with pleasure and overspending on militarism," per AP.
Black offered biblical warnings when he delivers an address such as put to the Montana Faith Community Impact Summit in Kalispell, Montana.
He is forthright while ethically on balance with Scripture.
All the while theological liberals enhance the fall of America with their defense of immoral issues such as homosexual lifestyles divinely blessed and killing womb infants.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, for instance, profess to be religious and boast of their denominational affiliations, the former with the United Church of Christ (Congregational) and the latter with the United Methodist Church. Yet both endorse slaying the unborn and active homosexual relations. These politicians plus the apostate clergy and laity contribute to the nation's collapse.
As Black defended the Judeo-Christian ethic, there were others throughout the nation working hard to create a totally secularized society. That would mean replacing God with man-made religion, such going on aggressively within such denominations as the Episcopal Church, United Church of Christ (Congregational), and Unitarian Universalist Society.
Would that evangelicals could resurrect the Black warnings to ward off liberals within the United Methodist Church, United Presbyterian Church (USA), American Baptist Convention, and Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.
"The Senate chaplain said 'God has to be the foundation' for social progress and justice.
"He said, 'Solutions have to have that transcendence, that ethical force' they had during the 1960s civil rights movement for racial equality."
When Black speaks of "God," it is not just any deity. It must be the God of the Bible, the God of our country's Judeo-Christian backdrop.
Recently President Bush was asked by a Muslim if Mr. Bush believed that Muslims praying to God could be heard. He responded that he believes persons of any religion will find favor with God.
Mr. Bush is incorrect. As a daily-Bible-reading individual who has witnessed to Christ as personal Savior, Mr. Bush should know better than to make such a statement. The media picked up on it and now the whole world reads his words as "gospel truth."
God honors the prayers of the genuinely repentant, regardless of their religion, that is, if they repent of their sins to Christ the Savior. Otherwise, the prayers of the so-called religious outside Christ are not honored by the God of Scripture.
America must return to God's Word, starting with confessing sins to Christ and then living the dedicated Christian life. Only this will renew America's soul. If this does not occur, the nation is in dire peril of collapse, just as the Senate Chaplain cautioned.
© Grant Swank
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