Do We Americans Really Believe The Bible?
By Jim E. Reames (07/23/03)
Do we Americans really believe the Bible? It may sound like an odd question but it is a timely one. The United States of America is in trouble as never before in its history, with government indebtedness, crime, disrespect, divorce, and corruption. It seems as if every foundation that can be shaken is being shaken.
Take, for example, the opening chapter of the Book of Romans, found in the New Testament. In it there is a stern warning. The essence of the warning is mankind has chosen to worship things created rather than the Creator.
For that mistake we have the following outcomes. We have been given over to sinful lusts. We have exchanged natural sexual relationships for unnatural ones. Women now commit unnatural sexual acts with other women and men prefer sex with other men instead of with women, “and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.” Was the author (the Apostle Paul) writing about the AIDS virus, or something else? One does not know for sure.
The warning goes on to state that for worshiping things created instead of the Creator that mankind was given over to a “deprived mind, to do what ought not to be done.” We have been “filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity.” We have even exchanged wisdom for foolishness. My personal thoughts when reading that section is of our United States Supreme Court and of our liberal news media.
When I look back at recent history America’s true troubles began when we threw aside the testimony of creation in academic favor of evolution. Then, in the 1960s, our United States Supreme Court (by way of a very stupid decision) took prayer and bible reading out of our public schools. During the Vietnam War it was the academic think-tank leaders at Berkeley who publicly proclaimed, “God is Dead!” For in their own hearts he truly was. From the foundations of Hollywood came the communication that America is bad, ugly, and destructive because Capitalism was viewed as being bad, ugly, and destructive. Yet, Hollywood grew because of capitalism and all the while hated that which provided itself financial strength and nourishment. At the same time came the push to rid our government of anything associated with traditional Christian truths. Across the land mayors and county commissioners and other government officials were ordered to bring down things like the Ten Commandments from the walls of public buildings. And within a decade we saw our nation become the victim of foreign invasion, now most prevalent on our borders. We saw freedom of expression and the freedom of the press exploited by wicked and perverted minds. Now, we have pornography that is too repulsive to disciple. We have a Supreme Court that simply will not make it illegal for humans to have sex with animals. Yet it is still legal in America to abort (murder) the life of another human being that is still inside the womb. How did all this come about?
In the seventies, the eighties, and into the nineties we saw hundreds of political action committees (those who practically worshiped our natural forests, or animal rights, or the rights of fish in the sea…all things created) grow in number and in strength. Because of these political action committee interests we now have an almost total polarization of our federal and state governments. There is political strife, political division, and political hatreds throughout our land to the point the United States of America is no longer “one nation, under god, indivisible…with liberty and justice for all.” In our deprived way of thinking we now grant official identification to illegal aliens in California, which is the home of liberal perversion and rebellion. We now have cults and mass-murders, and Amber Alerts. We witness and glorify (even emulate on television) acts of atrocity never before matched by modern society. And in our political ranks there are strong and powerful leaders who advocate the United States of America should grant our sovereign power to the United Nations, so that there might be world peace.
On my way to church this morning I drove past a crowded golf course, where men were more interested in hitting and chasing after a tiny ball than in getting down on their knees at the alter, before God our Creator. There were, I knew, hundreds of others out on the rivers and lakes inside boats and tow-tubes. Thousands of others were camping in the nearby mountains to escape our summer heat. There was enough time, it seemed, for anything and everything…all except for getting dressed in order to give God just two simple hours. And in the back of my mind was God’s command, “Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.” (Lev 19:2). When that command was given there was no negotiation. No agreement of condition. There was no room for mankind to strike a compromise with God. We were merely ordered to “Be holy.”
Do I believe whether or not God judges nations? My reply is, God’s Holy Word will not be mocked. And it will not be returned void. Because of the position our nation is now in I have come to think that very few Americans truly believe the Bible as being the Holy word of God. Many ordained ministers, I even fear, do not believe the Bible as being Holy because many of them lack courage to stand up for its principals. It seems they have all become politically correct.
Some people still do believe the Bible though. For example, I think that President George W. Bush does. And I am starting to think Hollywood’s Mel Gibson does, too. There are others. But the numbers seem few. Yes. America has exchanged wisdom for foolishness. And the present condition of America is my evidence.
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