Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Thursday, March 03, 2011 3:00:59 PM
“Marriage is slowly dying in Scandinavia. A majority of children in Sweden and Norway are born out of wedlock...Same-sex marriage has...reinforced an existing Scandinavian trend toward the separation of marriage and parenthood.” -Robert Knight
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2011/03/03/obama_to_god_and_america_youre_wrong_about_marriage/
Thanks to Robert Knight for addressing the cultural war over which world view will dominate our culture. The preachers of unrighteousness appeal to the autonomous wisdom of fallen man; the American Founders and those who would conserve their vision of America appeal to the eternal wisdom revealed in Jesus Christ.
The proverbs of Solomon speak of this wisdom in that 'the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction' [Proverbs 1:7]. The next verse from the wise man says that parental authority is the ordained means the Lord uses to teach His wisdom...'hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother' [Proverbs 1:8].
The commandment is to 'honor thy father and thy mother' [Exodus 20:12]. And with this the New Covenant law of liberty agrees, 'Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right [Ephesians 6:1].
What does it matter what authority we adopt? The context of the proverbs is the profound truth that 'as a man thinks in his heart, so is he'. A man's world view reflects his heart and determines how he thinks and acts.
The culture continues in its undermining of biblical authority. Having undermined parental authority in the public schools by teaching things contrary to home and church, it would now redefine marriage and the family. The culture itself is degenerating into lawlessness and personal irresponsibility as the public schools produce another generation of irresponsible parents. Wisdom begins with a reverence of God and His Word which begins or is undermined in our children with their earliest teachers.
The contrast between Washington and Obama is most evident in comparing the men and the nation who elected them. Our first president paid homage to the Ruler of Nations in his first inaugural address. Here is his reference to Psalm 2 in context...
Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence. [George Washington; from his first inaugural address]