Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, March 31, 2008 10:06:00 PM
Are those intolerant Puritans the ones who gave us a Constitutional government? Did they help free us from the tyranny of king and pope? Are they the same ones influenced by the Reformed Baptists who gave us the first amendment that guarantees religious liberty? Yes! They are the ones on whose labor we stand.
Our religious and political liberty has it origin in the Reformation and Reformed Theology. Modernism wants to deny it and disparage it, but this is the historical record that cannot be denied.
Many think that we have outgrown the beliefs of our forefathers, and many more are ignorant of their beliefs except that which is disparaging, but the Reformed Theology is what made the statesmen and the common man alike love his liberty and his integrity.
What would the Constitution look like today if it were written by the ‘tolerant liberals’? There would be no Constitution, nor a Bill of Rights. We would have a rule of tyranny by the elites. They have no concept of the sovereignty of God and government of a free people because they have no concept of the source of liberty.
For example, ‘in Christ the divine compassion showed heart-winning sympathy with the weak, but the modernist in this respect takes the opposite ground that the weak must be supplanted by the strong. Such they tell us, was the process of selection to which we, ourselves, owe our origin’ [Lectures on Calvinism by Kuyper, 1898].