Saturday August 16th event

I won't be there.

A federal judge, such as Judge Thompson, has absolutely no business ruling either way in this case. This is an issue for the State of Alabama alone.

The first amendment states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

This case has nothing to do with a law made by Congress. The federal judge should keep his nose within his constitutionally mandated area.

Anyone who thinks the federal government has any business meddling in this case either doesn't understand the governmental framework of the U.S. Constitution or else doesn't care about the U.S. Constitution being adhered to.

 

Unfortunately, that is true.

 

I was born and raised in the South and live here still. I must say that I am glad that the Confederacy lost the Civil War. Had I been alive and a grown man during this time, I would have went north and fought for the Union.

I know that some of you will disagree with me. That's alright.

I believe that even though this was, in my opinion, the darkest time in our country's history, God did see that the outcome was the correct one.

 

How dare He do such a thing? Christ is Deity in bodily form (Colossians 2:9). The body of Christ is His church (Colossians 1:24). If God meddled in the affairs of state(s), that is a gross violation of separation of church and state. How horrible, how unBaptist, and how tyranncial!

 

You might want to study jefferson a littel closer. He changed quite a bit in his later life. He was the first president of the American Bible Society. Also, he did believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ. </font>[/QUOTE]Believing in the teachings of Jesus is not the same thing as believing in the miracles of Jesus. Jefferson discounted the miracles and the resurrection. I don't know about you, but I have a big problem with that.

 

I totally agree with your post.

If we allow this, then anyone can come along and place their cult rules there for others to see, and so on and so forth.

Not only that, but Gods laws are planted in our hearts. We do not need signs.

Sherrie

 

OK, so this is how I see it in jailminister's eyes. I think! Christians should only be involved in church and evanglizism. While non-chirstian's rule the government and close us down. Because if Separation from church and state where the way he reads it. We wouldn't need to worry about christianity at all. We would all be underground because we wouldn have a say and government wouldn't have use for us. Our government was founded on Christian values. Did that come from non-christian people? Do we willing make our government weaker by separating yourselves? That is not what church and state was all about.

 

And I would have been fighting to preserve the Confederacy from Yankee invasion in the War for Southern Independence. We might have even been shooting at each other.

"I will shoulder my musket
And brandish my sword
In defense of this land"
- traditional southern song

 

Whoops sorry Jailminister, I did. I was trying to work out what was being said Please forgive.

 

I think what the simplest thing to think of here is that whatever we do, all other groups such as Satanist, cults, idolaters can also post things. If we can pray in school, then why not other groups. Do you want your Christian Children, or other Family members seeing and being subject to it?


The Ten Commandments were rules to live by. Without them the people would not know they even were doing anything wrong. These are examples that we do need to live by, but as Christians our hearts are convicted. And the Laws are placed there in our hearts. We need no signs to teach us. The Holy Spirit teaches us.

As Christians we are to abide in Christ Jesus. It is there in Christ Jesus that we are living in the joy of His salvation, and the joy of his eternal life, the joy of being intimate with the Father. This is true salvation and we do not need all this other jargon to perserve it. We abide in Christ Jesus! We are alive.

The Ten Commandments were written down for God's chosen people. Now Jesus is written in our hearts.

So simple.

sherrie

 

Abide in him. We are the living stones. Whoever passes by and ask why I am so joyful in such a sinful world, I tell them come here and let me show you all the Lord has done for me. He gave me His son Jesus Christ.

No one can take what is already the Lords. No piece of paper posted or not, will take or give the Lord.

The Word of the Lord has been handed down form Generation to Generation. It has survive the floods and fires, and all other things. It is the same today as yesterday. The Holy Spirit still resides in us, still teaching, and still giving those who are truly saved, His wonderous joy.

Gos Bless
Sherrie

 

Separation of Church and State is proper

Separation of God and State is not

Psalm 90: 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Isaiah 60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

 

Jailminister,

I asked you a pretty simple question earlier. Should we teach Thomas Jefferson's view of scriptures in our schools and post them in government buildings?

You said Jefferson believed in the teachings of Christ. Sure, but he didn't believe in the miracles recorded in the Bible, including the resurrection. Is that belief, by one of our founding fathers, acceptable to be taught in our schools and posted in our gov't buildings?

 

God in body is Jesus Christ. The body of Jesus Christ is His church. If separation of God and state is not proper, and separation of church and state is proper, then it is 'proper' for God to completely separated from the body of Christ, the church. So then we, the church, must be separate from God, who, if separated from the body of Christ, is separate from us; or else the church and God are both separate from the state.

So, is it that binary?-- Church=unified with Christ=unified with God--&gt; separate from state or unified with state? God, Christ, and church are all separated from state, or they are not unified with each other.