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To: Paladin2

....”The slippery slope of moral compromise that we warned about for so long has now become a free fall into debauchery and dissolution”........The pressure on Christians from ‘ungodly leaders’ and a ‘depraved culture’ will only continue to increase.”.......


6 posted on 01/05/2023 3:49:52 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

... At an exponential rate.


9 posted on 01/05/2023 4:28:11 PM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: caww

I disagree with Franklin Graham. I don’t feel any obligation to pray for Joe Biden or his Marxist cadre. One of the elders in my church each week offers a prayer for our leaders who he claims have been put over us by the Almighty—that we should honor and respect them and not oppose them. In other words, sit down and shut up.

So, Hitler, Mao, and all of the tyrants who have killed hundreds of millions were put in authority over us by the Almighty and we should honor them??? Really? How about the notion that Satan is at work in the world and that these leaders and the likes of Joe Biden are doing his bidding?

I believe my churchman is reading out of context the chapter in Romans that talks about leaders and rulers and our obligations under them. A number of theologians have contended that Paul is referring to leaders in the synagogue, not government rulers and that he is giving new Christians instruction in how to obey the Biblical law and honor the traditions of their Jewish brothers and the synagogue.

What explains the determination of the Black Robe Regiment of the Revolutionary War to support armed resistance to the British government? Were they as clergy disobeying Scripture? They were calling for armed rebellion. They often preached with a musket propped up against their pulpit.

I will not honor nor pray for Joe Biden. We need to oppose him through all peaceful means not subjugate ourselves to him and his immoral government. Americans are not slaves or helpless sheep or servants of the government. The government serves us.


11 posted on 01/05/2023 5:01:01 PM PST by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender!)
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