If we as a nation had been following God's law all along, this situation would never have arisen. Bet that woke everybody up.
As God set it up from the very beginning, everything works together, always has, and even has a spiritual counterpart that applies now, after the ultimate sacrifice of the Messiah. In concert with that, God gave us instructions to abide by that would cause us to prosper. We are not the first nation to depart from those instructions, but we seem to have totally ignored the whole idea of learning from the mistakes of others. After all, it is written in God's Word what happens when a people live as God has told mankind and the blessings awaiting an obedient people. In one chapter alone - Deuteronomy 28 - there are over twenty-five blessings enumerated for the obedient! That should be incentive enough, but God was kind enough to forewarn us of the over sixty curses for disobedience, and we ignored it all.
I've heard the foolish arguments like everyone else has. "Separation of church and state" is so grossly misinterpreted that it is sickening to anyone with a brain and a heart for God. The phrase isn't in our Constitution and on top of that has been misconstrued to mean something akin to 'freedom FROM religion' - and we claim to be educated people.
I guess I'll step down off my soapbox now - I just thought I would indulge in a rant like the "law is abolished" faction in here. What is so sad is that those people refuse to take responsibility as God has told His followers to do, and when they refuse this and other teachings long enough, He turns them over to a reprobate mind. That SHOULD scare the socks off them. Why can't they make the connection between what God has said and everyday life, like voting for decent moral leaders? Hard to come by these days since we have strayed so far a way as a nation, sad to say.
It seems as though the more we claim to be led by the Spirit, the more carnally minded we really are.
