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Roughsoul1991

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Freedom isn't free. You have liberty, or you have slavery. You can not have both. Liberty takes special responsibility to keep and maintain. The utmost delicate of ideas to sustain takes excellent diligence, patience, sacrifice, and hard work.


Americans have fought to establish and protect liberty at home, but many have given their lives to try and develop independence for others on foreign lands. The 1st Amendment lists a few very crucial human rights for sustaining liberty.


Religious Freedom, the right to conscience, and freedom of speech are foundational to such liberty. This is why the foreign policy under Republican administrations has been focused on religious freedom as all other rights come out of respect for believing differently.


Of course, to believe differently without violating the rights of others.


History has supported this truth while also showing us the evident truth of the second amendment. Evil exists, and quite often, to secure these rights, it took the sacrifice of blood, the shedding of tears, the sweat of our brow, and the thirst for freedom. All united on the idea of liberty and self-preservation for generations to come.


We must always speak to these rights as God-given and inalienable. We were not given by any government, which provides the government with no rights to take them away. The fireworks are to never forget the sounds of distant explosions or the small firecracker sounds of gunfire. We are never to forget the sacrifice of securing liberty.


The beautiful color of the firework reminds us of victory and hope for all generations who look up to see as long as the fire of liberty is held within the hearts of humanity, it can never be quenched.



 
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Freedom isn't free. You have liberty, or you have slavery. You can not have both. Liberty takes special responsibility to keep and maintain. The utmost delicate of ideas to sustain takes excellent diligence, patience, sacrifice, and hard work.

RoughSoul, are there not scriptures that have always had a bearing on the attitude of true Christians toward involvement in political issues and activities?

  • John 17:16: “They are no part of the world, just as I [Jesus] am no part of the world.”
  • John 6:15: “Jesus, knowing they [the Jews] were about to come and seize him to make him king, withdrew again into the mountain all alone.” Later, he told the Roman governor: “My kingdom is no part of this world. If my kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not be delivered up to the Jews. But, as it is, my kingdom is not from this source.”—John 18:36.
  • Jas. 4:4: “Adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend of the world is constituting himself an enemy of God.” (Why is the matter so serious? Because, as 1 John 5:19 says, “the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” At John 14:30, Jesus referred to Satan as being “the ruler of the world.” So, no matter what worldly faction a person might support, under whose control would he really come?)
Just food for thought about the issue on Christian neutrality...
 

Roughsoul1991

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RoughSoul, are there not scriptures that have always had a bearing on the attitude of true Christians toward involvement in political issues and activities?

  • John 17:16: “They are no part of the world, just as I [Jesus] am no part of the world.”
  • John 6:15: “Jesus, knowing they [the Jews] were about to come and seize him to make him king, withdrew again into the mountain all alone.” Later, he told the Roman governor: “My kingdom is no part of this world. If my kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not be delivered up to the Jews. But, as it is, my kingdom is not from this source.”—John 18:36.
  • Jas. 4:4: “Adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend of the world is constituting himself an enemy of God.” (Why is the matter so serious? Because, as 1 John 5:19 says, “the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” At John 14:30, Jesus referred to Satan as being “the ruler of the world.” So, no matter what worldly faction a person might support, under whose control would he really come?)
Just food for thought about the issue on Christian neutrality...
All spiritual and yet physically Jesus and the apostles were part of the world.

For example,

James 1:27 ESV
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Luke 12:33 ESV
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Notice it calls us to still be involved but not let the world stain us.