In fact, let's review what God's word says about governmental authority:ġPE 2:13 Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority, or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. But many need to sober up to the fact that it is faith in God, and not faith in men and governments, that pleases God, and that we owe our temporal freedoms to God, who in reality institutes government leaders and leadership, as testified in Romans 13. I can understand how one can be lured into giving the credit for the freedoms that we enjoy in America to men and human governments. I am also saddened that these people choose to give undue praise, adoration, and exaltation to that group of people that they refer to as "The Founding Fathers". I am saddened that so many professing Christians have such an ungodly infatuation with political democracy, the American Revolution, the U.S. (Originally posted July 4, 1999, "men not created equal" removed, "hell" ref.
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