Everyone should get acquainted with Project 25. But here are their four main objectives, and how they connect to the family:
1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.
3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.
4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty".
The entire study is available as a PDF document, and I am surprised that Donald Trump claims that he knows nothing about this. It is really meant for him.
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@Nehemiah6
Well, let's look at these one by one.
Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life.
When was the family some centerpiece of American life, as far as governmental control over us.
Dismantle the administrative state and return to self-governance to the American people.
As far as I'm aware, we are still governed administratively in the same way as the earliest administrations of our government. We have a legislature that makes laws. We have the judicial which defines laws. We have the executive office which stands as the representative head of our government. That's the way it is today, and as far as I'm aware that's the way it's been since the first Continental Congress was called.
Now certainly 'what' we make laws about and how things are handled through lawmaking, things may be different. But the foundational operation of our government is the same as it has always been.
Defend our nation's sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.
Boy, I'm guessing that's all about the word borders, because I'm pretty sure that the other two issues are still about the same as they've always been.
Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely - what our Constitution calls the "blessings of liberty".
I still am amazed by believers who think that because our U.S. Constitution makes mention of God-given rights, there's nothing in the Scriptures that proclaim that a believer has any right, except, if one is born again, that person has the right to be called a child of God. There is nothing in the Scriptures about believers being free to pursue happiness. In fact, if we read the lives of the first apostles, there didn't seem to be a lot of pursuing happiness among them. Many of them gave their lives for the proclamation of the gospel. There is nothing in the Scriptures that would infer that believers have some God-given right to live a life of 'liberty'. In fact, the Scriptures are fairly clear that Paul was imprisoned a number of times for his faith. John was exiled to the island of Patmos for his testimony. Peter, it is claimed, was hung upside down for his testimony. Not a whole lot of pursuing life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness in those testimonies.
But they all knew that there was great joy awaiting those who were martyred for the name of Jesus. That's in the Scriptures.
So, let's keep in mind that just because the U.S. Constitution gives its citizens certain rights, that document is not a part of the Scriptures, and personally I can't find anywhere in the actual Scriptures that make this claim that God wants everyone to be able to enjoy the pursuits of life and liberty, as the Constitution defines it.
God bless,
Ted
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