Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, November 16, 2009 8:38:54 PM
‘Rather than recognizing that every human being is unique and free, created in God's image, socialism tries to turn us into laboratory rodents, pretending to manage our lives according to predictable formulas.’ –Star Parker
http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/11/16/abortion,_health_care,_and_socialism
The socialist separates what Star Parker has joined together because he has no basis to see that a man’s liberty is sacred because it is associated with his special creation as an image bearer of God. Man was created ‘in true righteousness and holiness’ and what sin has ruinously impaired, grace restores through the gospel.
The colonial Americans understood the origin of their liberty. That is why they would not be subject to a king who was an unlawful minister of God’s Law. Liberty is the casualty of the spiritual warfare in our culture. While we debate abortion and sexual perversion our income is confiscated to fund a state that is actively opposed to the Law of Liberty.
The enemy of liberty is not the abortionist or the sodomite. The enemy of a free people is clearly stated in Romans 1…
‘And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind…’ [Romans 1:28]
Unrighteousness is the product of the reprobate mind, and the origin of the reprobate mind is godlessness. God says that He reveals His wrath by giving the truth suppressors over to self-destruction.
Will those who believe the self-revealed God when He says that we are His image bearers also believe Him when He says that the whole creation reveals His glory and all that exists was created for the praise of the glory of His grace? Can we not also identify the great enemy in our midst as that vain philosophy masquerading as science called Darwinism?
Until the enemy of liberty is correctly identified, then the origins of liberty will remain hidden, for in Christ all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are revealed, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is liberty. He cannot abide where there is mixed loyalty. As it is written…
“How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” [1 Kings 18]
The only difference between then and now is that America has a different idol.