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What Brought Great Things to America? - 7/7/2008 8:55:09 PM
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galadriel2
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The Gospel of Christ Jesus did. With the God of universe in Christ stooping down to make the ordinary man extraordinary through the Gospel America received grace upon grace from God. It wasn't the elite (who in rejecting God in Christ, profess themselves to be wise but are fools [Rom. ch. 1])...it wasn't the elite telling everyone what to do, how to think, who we get to vote for. It was God in Christ doing that.
There have been so many spin-offs - the great public school system the Puritans set up in America that is declining greatly now that the secular elite are at the helm; a prosperous middle class; no aristocracy (not yet anyway - Is Rush right about Obama having an aristocratic outlook?); ordinary men made extraordinary through the Word of God; great universities which were founded by outstanding believers - Harvard, Princeton (now, again, taken over by the secularists), a strong family unit with low divorce rates until the psychologist and psychiatrists took over.
...The Apostle Paul...an elitist I can live with.
God bless all abundantly,
Galadriel2
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RE: What Brought Great Things to America? - 7/7/2008 9:52:25 PM
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BerianAardvark
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“We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.” —Calvin Coolidge
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The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted - Martin Luther
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RE: What Brought Great Things to America? - 7/11/2008 5:05:30 PM
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DreadPirateRandy
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What Brought Great Things to America?
A nation found on its Creator.
That nation has subsided and has become independent on their own freedom, turning their backs on "In God We Trust" and looked ahead to their own liberty.
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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