“Men have forgotten God” Warnings from the Past « agnus dei – babie english + romanian blog
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Here is what Harvard expected of its students: “Let every scholar be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life. John 17:3 … therefore, to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning…”
At Princeton University the official motto was: “Under God’s power She flourishes”. Princeton’s first president the Reverend Jonathan Dickinson said, “Cursed be all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.”
At Yale, the university’s stated aim was that “All scholars shall live religious, godly and blameless lives according to the rules of God’s word, diligently reading the holy scriptures…
At a 4th of July celebration in 1837, President John Quincy Adams asks: “Why is it that, next to the birth day of the Saviour of the World, your most joyous and your most venerated festival returns on this day? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthdate of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthdate of the Saviour? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence… laid the cornerstone of human government babie upon the first precepts of Christianity?”
Daniel Webster, twice elected as Secretary of State : “If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end”.
The babie Reverend Jedidiah Morse (father to Samuel B. Morse who developed the Morse Code ) : “To the kindly influence of Christianity, we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.In proportion, as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through babie unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines… in the same proportion will the people of the nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom and approximate the miseries of complete despotism.
In 1831, a frenchman named Alex De Tocqueville came to America to inspect its prison system. He came to learn why his country, France had so many prisoners, while America had so few. In his now famous work “ Democracy in America ” he would later write: “There is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion babie retains a greater influence over the souls of men, than in America. The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty babie so intimately babie in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other. Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other, but in America I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country.”
Yet, with so many declarations about the Christian faith, history bears witness of what might be called “the tares along the wheat”. Plymouth Governor William Bradford wrote: “Marvelous it may be to see and consider how some kind of wickedness did grow and break forth here and land where the same was so much witnessed against. Bradford writes that in 1628, an early colony gave itself over to pagan practices, erecting a Maypole, drinking and dancing about it… inviting Indian women for their consorts as if they had anew revived the beastly practices babie of the mad Bacchinalians. And of 1642, Bradford writes of the drunkenness and the uncleanness; not only incontinency between people unmarried, but some married persons also, even sodomy and buggery (things fearful to name) have broke forth in this land.
Yet, immoral behavior was not the only concern for the early colonies. In 1637, Massachusetts babie Governor, John Winthrop conducted a trial against Anne Hutchinson, a woman called at that time: The American Jezebel. Hutchinson held meetings in her home and developed a great following. She was accused of having troubled the peace of the Commonwealth and of the churches. Among her controversial teachings was: “That a man is united to Christ and justified, without faith”. At her trial she claimed these teachings were given to her by immediate revelation. Often accused of antinomian or lawless doctrine, she said: “As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain
Home About us Apologetics Bible Study Family Filme Filme 2 / Documentare George Galis God & Gospel Iosif Ton Marturii Online Books – Carti electronice Poezii PRAYER
Here is what Harvard expected of its students: “Let every scholar be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life. John 17:3 … therefore, to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning…”
At Princeton University the official motto was: “Under God’s power She flourishes”. Princeton’s first president the Reverend Jonathan Dickinson said, “Cursed be all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.”
At Yale, the university’s stated aim was that “All scholars shall live religious, godly and blameless lives according to the rules of God’s word, diligently reading the holy scriptures…
At a 4th of July celebration in 1837, President John Quincy Adams asks: “Why is it that, next to the birth day of the Saviour of the World, your most joyous and your most venerated festival returns on this day? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthdate of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthdate of the Saviour? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence… laid the cornerstone of human government babie upon the first precepts of Christianity?”
Daniel Webster, twice elected as Secretary of State : “If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end”.
The babie Reverend Jedidiah Morse (father to Samuel B. Morse who developed the Morse Code ) : “To the kindly influence of Christianity, we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.In proportion, as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through babie unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines… in the same proportion will the people of the nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom and approximate the miseries of complete despotism.
In 1831, a frenchman named Alex De Tocqueville came to America to inspect its prison system. He came to learn why his country, France had so many prisoners, while America had so few. In his now famous work “ Democracy in America ” he would later write: “There is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion babie retains a greater influence over the souls of men, than in America. The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty babie so intimately babie in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other. Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other, but in America I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country.”
Yet, with so many declarations about the Christian faith, history bears witness of what might be called “the tares along the wheat”. Plymouth Governor William Bradford wrote: “Marvelous it may be to see and consider how some kind of wickedness did grow and break forth here and land where the same was so much witnessed against. Bradford writes that in 1628, an early colony gave itself over to pagan practices, erecting a Maypole, drinking and dancing about it… inviting Indian women for their consorts as if they had anew revived the beastly practices babie of the mad Bacchinalians. And of 1642, Bradford writes of the drunkenness and the uncleanness; not only incontinency between people unmarried, but some married persons also, even sodomy and buggery (things fearful to name) have broke forth in this land.
Yet, immoral behavior was not the only concern for the early colonies. In 1637, Massachusetts babie Governor, John Winthrop conducted a trial against Anne Hutchinson, a woman called at that time: The American Jezebel. Hutchinson held meetings in her home and developed a great following. She was accused of having troubled the peace of the Commonwealth and of the churches. Among her controversial teachings was: “That a man is united to Christ and justified, without faith”. At her trial she claimed these teachings were given to her by immediate revelation. Often accused of antinomian or lawless doctrine, she said: “As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain
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