http://paulmoreland.com/2010/03/23/healthcare-bill-some-thoughts/ Faith, Family, Friends, Firearms Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://paulmoreland.com/2010/03/23/healthcare-bill-some-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-309 paul Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:06:10 +0000 http://paulmoreland.com/?p=323#comment-309 Think about history a bit. Who controlled government, charities and hospitals for the first 100 years of our nation's existence? The church did. Not a specific denomination, but all these institutions were run by churches in one way or another. Our founding fathers ALL had a belief in God because that is how people thought in those days. BUT the church took some heavy blows over the years and did not know how to fight back effectively. This is not a sudden problem, it's been building up over time. Darwin's theories gave a lot of people cause to drift even further away from the core beliefs that founded our nation. Interaction with France had already allowed their humanist ideas (look at the differences between the French Revolution and the American Revolution) to permeate our land. German philosophies and the notion that the Bible is only "yet another ancient, fallible document" permeated our churches from the pulpit. Harvard, Yale, Princeton - they drifted from institutions founded to produce Bible teaching preachers to generators of liberal minded deniers of anything divine. All these things laid the grownd work for the fiasco now known as "Healt Care Reform" or "Obamacare". The humanists did not force the churches to give up their control of the social aspects of our nation - the churches gave them over to them freely over the last century. It is time for the church to start being the church again and to become the hands and the feet of our Savior. For example - this next Saturday we are having a medical day for poor folks, right here "in the church" as some would say. It is our first such effort, but Lord willing it will not be our last. We're still just a small congregation but we're doing our best with the limited resources we have, because God has everything we need to carry out His commandments. Think about history a bit. Who controlled government, charities and hospitals for the first 100 years of our nation’s existence? The church did. Not a specific denomination, but all these institutions were run by churches in one way or another. Our founding fathers ALL had a belief in God because that is how people thought in those days. BUT the church took some heavy blows over the years and did not know how to fight back effectively. This is not a sudden problem, it’s been building up over time. Darwin’s theories gave a lot of people cause to drift even further away from the core beliefs that founded our nation. Interaction with France had already allowed their humanist ideas (look at the differences between the French Revolution and the American Revolution) to permeate our land. German philosophies and the notion that the Bible is only “yet another ancient, fallible document” permeated our churches from the pulpit. Harvard, Yale, Princeton – they drifted from institutions founded to produce Bible teaching preachers to generators of liberal minded deniers of anything divine. All these things laid the grownd work for the fiasco now known as “Healt Care Reform” or “Obamacare”. The humanists did not force the churches to give up their control of the social aspects of our nation – the churches gave them over to them freely over the last century. It is time for the church to start being the church again and to become the hands and the feet of our Savior. For example – this next Saturday we are having a medical day for poor folks, right here “in the church” as some would say. It is our first such effort, but Lord willing it will not be our last. We’re still just a small congregation but we’re doing our best with the limited resources we have, because God has everything we need to carry out His commandments.

]]> http://paulmoreland.com/2010/03/23/healthcare-bill-some-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-308 FrozeRose Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:21:41 +0000 http://paulmoreland.com/?p=323#comment-308 This didn't happen because the church stopped being the church. This happened because the secular humanists are jealous of what makes the church effective, so they use government to force from us the resources to provide education, charity to the poor, and health care from the churches through high taxes and onerous regulation and then give these out in their own name instead of God's. This didn’t happen because the church stopped being the church. This happened because the secular humanists are jealous of what makes the church effective, so they use government to force from us the resources to provide education, charity to the poor, and health care from the churches through high taxes and onerous regulation and then give these out in their own name instead of God’s.

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