What Does Separation of Church and State Mean?
There is a lot of confusion about the words “separation of church and state”. People, through the miscommunication of the history of that phrase, have taken it to mean that God should not be mentioned in political affairs or in the public square. That comes from a lack of understanding and a mis-teaching of history.
Thomas Jefferson used that phrase in a letter to some Baptists to indicate that the separation would be there to prevent the state from interfering with the church. The United States had been started in response to a requirment in England that “everyone join one church”. These people who came to this nation wanted to worship God. They were Christians who actively involved God in their lives, including government. They were not fleeing from God, they were fleeing for the right to worship God.
The separation of powers (judicial, legislative, executive branches of government) in the Constitution, is modeled after:
Isaiah 33:22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
One definition of religion is: a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance Source
Here is another definition of religion: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith Source
The definition of religion can be extended to anything. People who believe in the new green deal with “ardor and faith”, can be said to be practising a religion. People who believe in anything with “ardor and faith” have a sort of religion, with their own idols and gods that take their time and money. People burning down cities in the name of socialism and communism are operating with “ardor and faith”.
But back to the question of the separation of church and state… most of the Founding Fathers were Christians. Those who were not were deists, the difference being that Christians believe in a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ and deists believe that God exists, but in a more impersonal way. He winds up the clock of the universe and lets it run, so to speak, but is not as personally involved. In any case, the original view of God in this country was intimately involved with Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of Heaven. People came here for a chance to extend the kingdom of heaven.
Because of the perverted idea of taking God out of society and schools, we now see cities burning, businesses destroyed, the nation being destroyed, and all manner of evil because the idea of God, morality, and law has been espunged from the national consciousness.
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Bible Study on Work
Exodus 20:9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
2 Thessalonians 3:10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
I Timothy 5:8 But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
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Who is the thief?
John 10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
The thief is satan.
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Jonah and the Whale
Jonah 1:17 Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
People ask, could that happen?
Actually, there was an instance when something similar did happen during the whaling days.
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Good Samaritan
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Who is Terah in the Bible?
Genesis 11:24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah. 25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. 28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive. 29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. 30 Sarai was barren. She had no child. 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. 32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
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Bible Verse 70X7
Matthew 18:21 Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
22 Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.
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