Email on religious liberty
This post was my reply to an email that showed several paintings of Christ and then stated the following:
I'm not ashamed. He is the only one that can save this
country and they want him removed from the government.
Our great nation will not stand if we delete HIM from all
aspects of our government as the atheists want.
Jesus Test
This is an easy test, you score 100 or zero. It's your
choice. If you aren't ashamed to do this, please follow
the directions. Jesus said, if you are ashamed of me, I
will be ashamed of you before my Father. 'This is the
simplest test. If you Love God, and are not ashamed of
all the marvelous things he has done for you..
Send this to ten people...
My reply:
Hello folks,
I am not ashamed of the Lord. But I also believe in the separation of church and state. This email, if you look closely, advertises for the Vatican, and I will not help that cause. God is not and never was “in our government.” We have never had a Theocracy as the papacy tried to be and ended up working to “destroy the mighty and the holy people” and to “scatter the power of the holy people” (Dan. 8:24;12:7). America has always had a civil government, wholly divorced from the church. God is big and strong enough to influence that kind of government according to His wisdom and power. Nebuchadnezzar was a good example of this.
Its the governments that have “God” at their helm that the true God of heaven can do nothing with. So, I cannot of good conscience promote the viewpoint of this email. And if you love this country also, I recommend you steer clear away from these kinds of emails or political issues. Satan is working real hard these days to cause America to breathe life into the papacy of the Dark Ages, as was fortold in Rev. 13:15. He is coming from all angles. God can do nothing with America once it gives its sovereignty over to the Vatican by taking the title she wishes us to accept, Christian America.
I can’t think of a scarier day when we finally label our government as Christian. Then we fall under the spiritual leadership of the pope and his Christendom, and join the ranks of the rest of the world in giving her the power she is been working so hard to regain over the past 200 years. And that day will come. But with it will come “a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time.” (Dan. 12:1). Every honest one of you will fully regret ever helping out such causes as these kinds of emails.
What the Vatican calls religious freedom, as well as all the Protestant denominations of today, is not the way Seventh-Day Adventists define, and George Washington defined, religious freedom. The Catholic version of it is that the government must bow before the church and even legislate in favor of the church, so the church can worship without any trouble. That is how they define religious liberty. That is not how we define it, nor our forefathers.
Historically in America, religious liberty meant simply a complete divorce between government and religion. The church could manage itself and its affairs, and would be corrupted if it dabbled in politics and government affairs. Likewise, our forefathers said that the government could manage itself, and would be weakened if it acted like a church. Both would be corrupted and diluted of their individual powers in leading a nation prosperously.
The historic definition is 180 degrees out from the popular Catholic sentiments. So, if you love your country and its freedoms for the little while longer that they will be around, work against all the modern notions that the government should act like the church.
I say a little while longer, because the Bible says that one day soon, America will repudiate its Constitution in favor of the Church of Rome. Your email is just another sign that that day is very close.
In God We Trust on our coins, God Bless America on our bank signs, prayer in school, abortion, Ten Commandments in public places, etc. all are being used as leverage tools to inch our Protestant nation off of its original platform. We certainly aren’t a perfect nation. But if you want to see something a 100 times worse, let the pope control our affairs. Let the government unite with the church, let it be said that the wall of separation never existed, like James Dobson and James Kennedy have been broadcasting for a while now. And persecution and brutality will run as rampant as it did during Nazi Germany when the Church of Rome made an all out effort to retake Europe and destroy Protestant America.
If that doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what can.
One last word.
In the movements now in progress in the United States to secure for the institutions and usages of the church the support of the state, Protestants are following in the steps of papists. Nay, more, they are opening the door for the papacy to regain in Protestant America the supremacy which she has lost in the Old World. And that which gives greater significance to this movement is the fact that the principal object contemplated is the enforcement of Sunday observance—a custom which originated with Rome, and which she claims as the sign of her authority. It is the spirit of the papacy—the spirit of conformity to worldly customs, the veneration for human traditions above the commandments of God—that is permeating the Protestant churches and leading them on to do the same work of Sunday exaltation which the papacy has done before them.
If the reader would understand the agencies to be employed in the soon-coming contest, he has but to trace the record of the means which Rome employed for the same object in ages past. If he would know how papists and Protestants united will deal with those who reject their dogmas, let him see the spirit which Rome manifested toward the Sabbath and its defenders. Great Controversy p. 573.
And finally,
When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result. Great Controversy p. 445.
The Lord’s richest blessings on you,
David Burdick
I'm not ashamed. He is the only one that can save this
country and they want him removed from the government.
Our great nation will not stand if we delete HIM from all
aspects of our government as the atheists want.
Jesus Test
This is an easy test, you score 100 or zero. It's your
choice. If you aren't ashamed to do this, please follow
the directions. Jesus said, if you are ashamed of me, I
will be ashamed of you before my Father. 'This is the
simplest test. If you Love God, and are not ashamed of
all the marvelous things he has done for you..
Send this to ten people...
My reply:
Hello folks,
I am not ashamed of the Lord. But I also believe in the separation of church and state. This email, if you look closely, advertises for the Vatican, and I will not help that cause. God is not and never was “in our government.” We have never had a Theocracy as the papacy tried to be and ended up working to “destroy the mighty and the holy people” and to “scatter the power of the holy people” (Dan. 8:24;12:7). America has always had a civil government, wholly divorced from the church. God is big and strong enough to influence that kind of government according to His wisdom and power. Nebuchadnezzar was a good example of this.
Its the governments that have “God” at their helm that the true God of heaven can do nothing with. So, I cannot of good conscience promote the viewpoint of this email. And if you love this country also, I recommend you steer clear away from these kinds of emails or political issues. Satan is working real hard these days to cause America to breathe life into the papacy of the Dark Ages, as was fortold in Rev. 13:15. He is coming from all angles. God can do nothing with America once it gives its sovereignty over to the Vatican by taking the title she wishes us to accept, Christian America.
I can’t think of a scarier day when we finally label our government as Christian. Then we fall under the spiritual leadership of the pope and his Christendom, and join the ranks of the rest of the world in giving her the power she is been working so hard to regain over the past 200 years. And that day will come. But with it will come “a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time.” (Dan. 12:1). Every honest one of you will fully regret ever helping out such causes as these kinds of emails.
What the Vatican calls religious freedom, as well as all the Protestant denominations of today, is not the way Seventh-Day Adventists define, and George Washington defined, religious freedom. The Catholic version of it is that the government must bow before the church and even legislate in favor of the church, so the church can worship without any trouble. That is how they define religious liberty. That is not how we define it, nor our forefathers.
Historically in America, religious liberty meant simply a complete divorce between government and religion. The church could manage itself and its affairs, and would be corrupted if it dabbled in politics and government affairs. Likewise, our forefathers said that the government could manage itself, and would be weakened if it acted like a church. Both would be corrupted and diluted of their individual powers in leading a nation prosperously.
The historic definition is 180 degrees out from the popular Catholic sentiments. So, if you love your country and its freedoms for the little while longer that they will be around, work against all the modern notions that the government should act like the church.
I say a little while longer, because the Bible says that one day soon, America will repudiate its Constitution in favor of the Church of Rome. Your email is just another sign that that day is very close.
In God We Trust on our coins, God Bless America on our bank signs, prayer in school, abortion, Ten Commandments in public places, etc. all are being used as leverage tools to inch our Protestant nation off of its original platform. We certainly aren’t a perfect nation. But if you want to see something a 100 times worse, let the pope control our affairs. Let the government unite with the church, let it be said that the wall of separation never existed, like James Dobson and James Kennedy have been broadcasting for a while now. And persecution and brutality will run as rampant as it did during Nazi Germany when the Church of Rome made an all out effort to retake Europe and destroy Protestant America.
If that doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what can.
One last word.
In the movements now in progress in the United States to secure for the institutions and usages of the church the support of the state, Protestants are following in the steps of papists. Nay, more, they are opening the door for the papacy to regain in Protestant America the supremacy which she has lost in the Old World. And that which gives greater significance to this movement is the fact that the principal object contemplated is the enforcement of Sunday observance—a custom which originated with Rome, and which she claims as the sign of her authority. It is the spirit of the papacy—the spirit of conformity to worldly customs, the veneration for human traditions above the commandments of God—that is permeating the Protestant churches and leading them on to do the same work of Sunday exaltation which the papacy has done before them.
If the reader would understand the agencies to be employed in the soon-coming contest, he has but to trace the record of the means which Rome employed for the same object in ages past. If he would know how papists and Protestants united will deal with those who reject their dogmas, let him see the spirit which Rome manifested toward the Sabbath and its defenders. Great Controversy p. 573.
And finally,
When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result. Great Controversy p. 445.
The Lord’s richest blessings on you,
David Burdick
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