Originally Posted by
Bringthetruth
GOD IS NOT A PRODUCT OF AMERICA
The goals of the Puritans who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony was to establish a theocracy that would allow the state to force all people to live and worship in an orthodox way. The theory was based on the teachings of John Calvin.
Source(s):
American History - Ray Allen Billington
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn,
Notice....this would be a theocracy that would allow the state to FORCE ALL PEOPLE TO LIVE AND WORSHIP IN AN ORTHODOX WAY.
It is this mindset that is at the root of Christian Conservativism. When the Puritans were in the Netherlands the society there was too liberal for them. These Puritans wanted a place where they could worship God freely, out from under the rule of England.
They came to what would become America, and proceeded to establish a theocracy which was really no more than a religious cult whose main aim as a part of advancing their interpretation of the Bible was to FORCE all people to live and worship in an orthodox way.
Today the same false misconception of what a theocracy (God ruled government) really is, has dominated the landscape of Christiandom and politics. Even non-Christian conservatives wanted to get in on the prospect of controlling others and thereby also being able to control and foster the concentration of the wealth among themselves.
This quest was so desired by Christian Conservatives that it was easier to join with a Mormon to help accomplish their quest. No doubt some Conservative Republicans only wanted to protect their wealth and that of many corporations, but then there were indeed Christian Conservatives that believed that somehow they could legislate righteousness. Their aim, a Christian nation under the mistaken belief that a nation can be righteous without being born again. America had become a long time referred as One Nation Under God, because the Founders believed and said so. Yet the Word of God teaches us that the "individual" in the New Testament is either a "child" of God or a child of the Devil. There is no middle of the road.
Its' impossible to have a Christian nation without the nation being Christian, which can only come about by a nation becoming Born Again.
So what was the quest of Christian Conservatism today; to FORCE Christianity just as the Puritans aimed to do on an increasingly more liberal society. There were many Super PACs attempting to force the vote, even to the point of conspiring with those who would collectively spend more than $1 Billion to [buy] an election, and practice voter suppression techniques in certain minority and other ethnic communities.
No doubt the notion of a Christian nation, one nation under God is indeed eroding. But this is not because of Abortion and Same Sex Marriage. The notion of a Christian nation is eroding first because you cannot legislate righteousness, never could and it was never the plan of God, and because there is an erosion of the Kingdom concept of evangelism where every Believer is a soul winner charged with the responsibility of reconciling man back to God in the same way that Christ was in God reconciling man back to Himself.
In the place of a Kingdom evangelistic community, has been the development of a Christian narcissism where everything is about "me" the individual and little to no dying to oneself that others might be able to live through your personal sharing of the gospel of the Kingdom and Christ.
Challenge your thinking! Challenge your theology!
Have you been seduced to believe that America is a Christian nation without evangelism? Ask yourself what a Christian nation really is, and then ask yourself how does a Christian nation Biblically come about?
You will find that there is no nation that is Christian that has not been evangelized, where the people have been first reconciled, and made to be a nation of Kings and Priest by the blood of Jesus, as John the Revelator tells us, and a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation and peculiar people, who are called to show forth the praises of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light according to the Apostle Peter.
Paul the Apostle told us that we were transferred out of the dominion (kingdom) of darkness, into the Kingdom of the Son of God's love. He (Paul) said that the Kingdom of God is not meat or drink (has nothing to do with dietary laws) but is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. These three elements (righteousness, peace and joy) of the Kingdom of God are irrespective of any nation and only take up residency in those who become the people of God no matter where you live.
So the next time someone tries to convince you that America is supposed to be a Christian nation, say no, a Kingdom nation of believers who have submitted themselves to the sovereignty of the King. But then also ask yourself, what is your contribution to evangelism, personal evangelism, so that others would have the opportunity to become a citizen of the Kingdom of God just as you have. Remember, you can't legislate righteousness. That is not how we advance the Kingdom and it is not how we become a Christian nation, no matter who tells you otherwise. Please, no longer attempt to blend the ideals of a Christian America with the Puritan politics that would seek to establish it.