US: I have to take a break

Founding Fathers.

I need to move on from this......I am getting obsessed. I do that sometimes -- just keep on wringing it out until either I am worn out or the material is. BUT
I always come back, because American history is so important to me.

So why am I so obsessed with the Founding Fathers, especially, right now, Thomas Jefferson?

Does it matter if our Founding Fathers were beginning this nation on Judeo-Christian philosophy? Does it in any way affect my own faith?

No, it doesn't affect my own worldview in any way. But it does affect my understanding of our nation's history--especially its beginning and its early years.

I can understand our nation's history so much better if I can view it as much as possible through their eyes, through their minds.

There are nations in the world today who are cruelly hostile to the message of Jesus Christ. And the church in some of those lands is growing fast. So having a government favorable to our faith is not a prerequisite for letting our light shine.

I guess what bothers me the most is why historians and teachers would lie about our history -- is it to promote their own agenda? Is it specifically to discredit our Christian faith and its influence on our leaders? Is it ultimately to destroy Christianity? Is it to internationalize our nation and lead us to involvement in a one-world government?

Remember John Lennon's song Imagine?

I think too many of our leaders today grew up on those words and have never yet really thought them out.

Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try.
No hell below us, above us only sky.
Imagine all the people living for today...

[is he nuts? if everyone lived only for today?]

Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion, too.
Imagine all the people living life in peace.

[a world where nothing was important enough to die for -- everything trivial -- and they would live in peace -- only if they are all stoned out of their heads!]

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world

[oh yeah, like that's what will happen! People do not share! They hoard! Did he just sleep through history class? Did he ever look around at society?
Doesn't he understand that the purpose of government is to restrain the evil that men do to each other? Did he ever read Shakespeare? What kind of zombies did he live around?]

Here's the clincher:

You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.

Looks like some of our leaders did join him...

We have been taught so many lies.

Thomas Jefferson was not a deist. He deplored deism. He criticized some Jews of his day because they were deists. He did not mean the Jews of the Old Testament -- he cherished the Jewish scriptures -- he meant the Jews he knew -- and most Jews then, as now, are atheists or agnostics as far as religion goes. They are ethnic Jews and proud of their heritage, but most have given up their faith. (There are groups of Jews of course who still read and study the Torah and worship God, but that is a minority).

Was he a Christian? I don't know. He claimed to be, often. All of that is between him and God.

Jefferson did not like John Calvin. He did not believe in the Trinity -- he considered that heresy. But in his later years he began calling Jesus "Our Savior."

It appears he considered God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit as one God with just 3 forms, or faces. He did not think they had distinct personalities.

Did he cut up the pages of his Bible and remove all the miracles of Christ from the gospels? What he did was to take out all the words of Christ from the evangels (the gospels) and arrange them chronologically -- he said it was the words of Christ that were of supreme importance, not the miracles. I don't know whether he believed the miracles. It appears he did. But he felt the words were far more important and said on several occasions that if Christians went back to the words of Christ and taught them all over the world there would be peace and liberty for everyone. He said often that the words of Christ could change the whole world.

He wrote the words of Christ in the chronological order he favored in Greek, Latin, French and English. It was this small booklet that he read every night, his family said. They didn't know what was in the book until he died. He was generally very private about his faith.

Much of our information about him comes from his correspondence. It is estimated, based on his journals and existing letters, that he wrote and received at least 40,000 letters in his adult life. And remember these were all by hand, with pen and ink.

Often he says he wrote 10 to 11 letters a day. He answered every letter he received. (Remember, he invented a copying machine he called a polygraph -- it was strapped to his wrist and when he wrote a letter it would form one or two copies, using its "arm" and "pen.")

So why try to remove all of this from history?

I can't really think of any reason except this: Secular humanists are so frightened of the power of God and His Word and the reality of the gospel message and its influence on human culture that they have to try to destroy it -- is it the same lie as always -- the one that begins in Genesis 3 and ends in Revelation?

Those who look toward a one-world government are partially right: in the future there will be one nation/world under One Sovereign Lord and King -- but it doesn't happen at all like they "Imagine."

No temple could be seen in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its light.

The nations of the earth will walk in its light, and the rulers of the world will come and bring their glory to it.

Its gates never close because there is no night. And all the nations will bring their honor and glory into the city.

Nothing evil will be allowed to enter--but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Revelation 21

And praise God that the grace of the Lord Jesus is with us all......