Augusta
Puritan Board Doctor
Originally posted by kevin.carroll
I know you feel you have made your case, but I don't see it that way. Frankly I remain unimpressed by yout appeal to the Covenanters for a variety of reasons. First, this isn't Scotland. It's the USA. Second, we do not have a state church so the paradigm is vastly different. Third, history has shown from the Edict of Nantes down to Plymouth Colony that state/church marriages do not work. Even if they could work, all the state can do is compell outward compliance but they cannot change hearts. One can observe blue laws and go to hell. But you know this. Fourth, no one is disagreeing with you about what a government should do. But what they should do and actually do are not necessarily the same. Fifth, I haven't seen one shred of clear bliblical evidence (without having to play hermeneutical acrobat) to suggest that the Constitution is the sinful document you claim it to be. It is outwardly secular, to be sure, but a careful inspection of the document will find it to be firmly, if implicitly, rooted in the Judeo-Christian heritage. Finally, our forefathers (American that is) wisely recognized the model you espouse as being unworkable. It relies on outward compliance but fails to touch the heart. Of course, the real problem with the Constitution is that the seeds of its own demise does lie in the pluralism it allows.
I'm afraid that I am going to have to see this as an issue of Christian liberty, of freedom of conscience. Swearing an oath to the Constitution would be a sin for you. But it isn't for me, and I have proudly (and sinlessly) done it three times.
Guess we will have to agree to disagree...but my did I learn a lot in the process!![]()
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