Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:40:06 PM
‘…for the Episcopal leadership, biblical references no longer have the power to persuade, much less compel them to conform.’ –Cal Thomas
We commend Mr. Thomas for standing up for Protestantism; that is, the priesthood of every member of the New Covenant. We thank the Protestant Reformers for giving us an open Bible so that more Christians can exercise their high privilege of examining the Scriptures for themselves and holding their church leadership accountable…
‘[The Bereans] were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so’ [Acts 17:11].
We thank Cromwell and his Puritan army for giving us the rule of law by putting to death the tyrannical and seditious king Charles I and stopping his allies, both foreign and domestic. And we thank the New England children of the Puritans for giving us American constitutionalism, establishing a free church and a free state among men free to govern themselves according to the law of God.
Jesus Christ prayed, “Sanctify them by Thy truth; Thy word is truth” [John 17:17]. The Scriptures sanctify the church and the church is the only sanctifying influence on the state. When the church departs from the Scripture, there is nothing to replace its sanctifying influence. The church and the state both revert to lawlessness and tyranny.
Some who profess Christ feel relieved of the command to love their neighbor when he is their theological opponent. The preachers of unrighteousness are ignorant of the history of redemption and its relationship to the history of liberty. How shall we recover our liberty apart from knowledge of its origin?