Much that is happening today is a violence aimed at provoking a violent response. Once a violent response happens, the provokers have a justification to escalate into more violence.
This is another classic leftist tool. The purpose is to create a scenario that seemingly or can be claimed that it requires suppression. The end of this effort is when a “savior” dictator comes to power to reestablish peace and order. This action happens because humans naturally & violently resist when attacked with violence.
It is a classic leftist tool to create a path to total political power. The ones who are tasked with suppressing violence are today being used in Canada to create the justification for more power by Trudeau. This is not normal for free countries. It is mostly like Communist dictatorships like Russia and China in the name of the Communist Party!
When provocation happens in peaceful demonstrations, it is an attempt to create a violent response. With humans, violence is the only answer to violence against us. For free people who are Christians, praying to GOD about it and working to remove the perpetrators in legal manners are the proper responses. We have been indoctrinated to think that prayer is meaningless and useless and that we need to do something more immediate. This is leftist oriented thinking.
Paul’s Romans 13 passage was from a time when an emperor was in power. An emperor is an all-powerful dictator with the power of life and death on a whim. His words were careful with that consideration. His words assumed a righteous government which they did not have.
This is a time of increasingly hard responsibilities for humans. It will go on into total persecution if it is not stopped. Americans do have the responsibility and power together to stop much that is happening. For Christians, our first response is to take the problem to GOD in prayer. Even as the problem gets worse, this is the continuing response. There is much good happening today because many of us have been praying about it.
Too many people have been asleep at the wheel on too many issues. We do not know the root cause of the things that are happening. Christians know that it is “spiritual wickedness in high places.” We often will not be able to identify which places. Many people need to be better informed. A clue: the media are part of the problem. They are also the immediate problem that happens every hour and day.
We have been encouraged to go along to get along. I cannot go along with untrue things! Much of what we hear today is flawed and not true, or some combination of that sold to us by supposed experts. We must seek balanced truth because we are not being given any really
balanced truth. We are being given leftist dogma as our hourly indoctrination. Each modern issue has this problem.
Balanced, correct, fair views today are labelled “misinformation.” Too many of us do not know the difference! Politically powerful elitists are calling the tune as the media, bureaucracy in government and our schools are dancing along with many of us humming and dancing to the tune! You will not like the end of this song, America! When this fun is over, it becomes a funeral dirge!
GOD often leaves an apostate nation to its own consequences. We must pray for that not to be allowed by HIM! HE is the savior of humans, not leftist or any other kind of government.
We each and all have relationship responsibilities. These are defined by GOD, not government.
Government should reflect and protect GOD’s laws. We must pray first and then do the necessary things to further godly governments at all levels.
Squishy, irresponsible Christians are much of America’s problems today by our absence at the throne of Grace! We make the problem worse by our absence at the voting booth. We have been educated out of our awareness of our responsibilities. Much is being done by our schools, much by our pastors and our media. It doesn’t have to be this way.
“Love GOD, love one another (love your neighbor as yourself)” summarize the Ten Commandments. Government, schools and media are sort of low on the list of “one another!” These are distant things for most of us. Our relationships with GOD one another are the question overall. Another quote is this: “Know GOD, know peace; no GOD, no peace!”
Leftists today are teaching us to give them more power because of our issues. They are promising and teaching us to love their utopia which is all butterflies and unicorns. Their political power, total political power, is their GOD-replacing vision and dream. It doesn’t work with humans without suppression and absolute force! This is the lesson that we can see by looking at Russia, China, Cuba and Venezuela!
I ask you, MUST WE SEE IT AGAIN PERSONALLY IN AMERICA?
CHRISTIANS: PRAY for
#1 a new GREAT AWAKENING (a nationwide revival) &
#2 A RESTORATION REFORMATION IN OUR NATION!
Pray for salvation for those who deny GOD and who claim that they hate the American System of government (as founded—we aren’t using it today!) It is very hard today to pray for your enemies. Practicing grace, mercy and justice requires this of us! Our mission today is to accept this HIM-possible mission. It really is GOD’s Power that is needed at this point in our history!
LET ME PROVOKE YOU to pray for our nation and one another, especially our families and personal associates! To me, my families are by blood and law (direct family), my church family, my work family and my national family. Why wouldn’t I care for all of them?
This is one of my meditations and themes for the last several years. It is like a unfathomable, universe-wide subject. This is a good starting discussion of this subject. It is packed with meaning.
Humans are made in GOD’s Image and HIS likeness.
That Image in humans is this: our individual spirit & attributes.
The reason is so that we can relate to HIM. Our excuse that GOD isn’t human and a figment of our imagination is totally destroyed by Jesus. Freedom is in this discussion.
GOD created humans to be able to relate to HIM. Jesus came to be our individual, sinless Lamb of sacrifice. He will come again as the Messiah that the Jews are expecting but it will be to return believers (all those who have chosen to believe forever) to the Eden relationship with GOD. {The Biblical book of Leviticus is what perfect obedience would look like.
I finally understand its meaning and use.}
What GOD and a human creates are reflections of themselves. They are alike enough for the ...
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While it is humanly impossible for humans to be totally good, we always can do much better than we have been doing if we individually want to do so! There is no concept that humans can totally achieve in this life. This applies individually, in groups or collectively.
The pathologies of today’s culture are apparent. However, they are called benefits & loudly proclaimed. They must be clearly seen as dangerous & wrong to our once-free country!
They are deliberately destroying Christianity, our country, our families, our individual personhood & our individual freedoms. Does this seem to be too extreme a statement?
Our media are calling evil “good” & good “evil”. Should that be totally right & silently allowed? Free speech & opinions must not live there? Freedom of speech is not absolute. This severe problem should be curtailed & limited within the proper bounds & situations!
Is it possible or allowed to seek those limits that do not destroy freedom of speech itself?
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I do not support ANY, ANY political personality cults!!!! Left, Right, middle, it doesn’t matter! If you take the political part out, it is still so! Is this clear enough? I don’t support cultish “groupyism”!
My expectation is that any American who wishes to serve America in a political office would speak and act in support of our cherished American principles that are reflected in the best writings of our founders and all sensible people since then!
I am disgusted by the pragmatic politics and the excessive partisanship that the media love, especially for Democrats, it seems. I am disgusted with the pro-to-total leftism in our media. They do not represent thinking, peaceful citizens’ views! Individual humans are all over the belief spectrum with the issues. That is why discussion is necessary!
The people that I enjoy watching and reading at least attempt to tell the truth as they see it and are willing to listen to varying opinions and discuss them! From libertarian to center ...