As Easter approaches, let us remember the role that Jesus Christ and God play in our lives. Let us also remember that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in God, and while there are ideological differences in who Jesus was, we should find peace in the fact that we are all God’s children. Jesus is my role model, and he preached love, he preached acceptance. He also was a man of values and principles, and he ended up being crucified for it. But, he rose again to advocate godly principles of loving our fellow man, caring about our neighbors, developing our God-given talents to the utmost so that we become valuable to the people around us, and maintaining high ideals that govern our lives. We must make certain that people of all types of faith are respected by one another. Let us remember that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution is one of the basic pillars of our system of governance and a founding principle of our nation, as it protects religious freedom. It is critical that we allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while also ensuring that no one’s beliefs infringe upon those of others.
Throughout the globe we must serve as champions of freedom of religion. As people across the world are persecuted by religious fanatics who perform hateful acts of ignorance, we Americans have a duty to denounce these acts of persecution. By standing up to such intolerance, we are defending the root of our freedom. I enjoy the following quote from the second Chronicles 7:14, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.”
From Dr. Ben Carson’s Facebook page
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The quotes keep coming. First was the attack on the 2nd amendment, then the statement on homosexuality and now the 1st amendment.
David DeGerolamo
this doctor doesnt get it….but many will continue to follow
If one is not willing to stand up for God and His truth, His 7th day Sabbath, he is controlled by the devil. God’s Sabbath is on the 7th day Saturday which God instituted at the time of Creation. Sabbath and marriage started in the Garden of Eden before sin and it will continue in the new earth Isaiah 66:22-23. Satan hates Sabbath and he made man change the Sabbath to Sunday and he hates marriage between man and woman and he made it between same sexes. Those who do not teach this precious truth are guilty than the sinner who ignorantly follow any life style. Jesus never ever condemned sinners but loved them but He hated sin especially selfishness and greed for money and power.
Carson is an idiot!
God does not want us to call names. He is a child of God too. Let God open his eyes and bring him back to the truth which he embraced until he started thinking of the high position. May the Lord have mercy upon all of us.
Not an idiot – a traitor whose veil has begun to slip.
Cain was the first man in recorded history to commit all seven deadly sins; for this God placed a most severe curse upon him and all of his descendants, that they would be vagabonds and fugitives, without the society of men, throughout all of time. This is the curse. It was only after Cain pleaded with God for fear of his very life that God put the mark upon Cain, to protect him.
It is only in the most profound ignorance that anyone would consider electing a son of Cain to any office of trust or profit, renowned as they are for deceit, treachery, theft, and general malfeasance.
But we have “evolved” into a society which refuses to believe in the mark, let alone to discipline ourselves to the honest recognition of it.
Proverbs 6:16-19New International Version (NIV)
There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him:
haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
WE HAVE BEEN WARNED
In the great cosmic struggle, mighty men are just as vulnerable as the person of he lowest rank, yet, God is willing to work with all who truly repent. This reminded me of a quote I have always referred to when dealing with political issues – one whose sentiment I believe this article echoes. The govt. under which Jesus lived was corrupt and oppressive; on every land were crying, abuses and extortion, intolerance and grinding cruelty. Yet the Savior attempted no civil reforms. He attacked no national abuses, nor condemned the national enemies. He did not interfere with the authority or administration of those in power. He who was our example kept aloof from earthly governments. Not because He was indifferent to the woes of men, but because the remedy did not lie in merely human and external measures. To be efficient, the cure must reach men individually and must regenerate the heart. This is from Ellen White.
Hearts that have been the battle ground of the conflict with Satan and that have been rescued by the power of love are more precious to the Redeemer than one those who have never fallen Christ’s Object Lesson p.44.
[…] Another Ben Carson Memorable Statement […]
“The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects [denominations] and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government.”
-Joseph Story, Founding Father, Congressman, Professor of Law at Harvard, and Supreme Court Justice.
The Bible clearly states there is a hell where there is torment forever and forever
There is a torment until the person turned to ashes. If we burn something it will not burn forever. It will burn until there is nothing left. Sodom and Gomorrah is not burning now. Malachi 4:1 says …. and the day which is coming shall burn them up says the Lord, that will leave them neither root nor branches.
People do not like this man because he stands up for what is right. The Lord was crucified for the same reason. I am a humble Seventh Day Adventist and preach and practice the Ten Commandments including the forgotten Sabbath on Saturday the 7th day. Great peace have those who love your Law nothing causes them to stumble Psalm 119:165. 35,000 denominations came from the devil not from God. All Adventists will suffer persecution when National Sunday Law is enforced which will bring the destruction of the world and the Lord’s second coming for His faithful children.