It is well said that ‘liberals just don’t get it’. Take this question to John McCain for example. The question presumes that the things of God are less than good as defined by liberals. We already knew that liberals think they know better than other men what is best for them, but now they think they know better than God what is for the greater good of men.

The view that human government is ordained of God for the good of man in the restraint of human depravity as a result of man’s sin is vigorously denied. This scares them because they do not want to be restrained. What they want is licentiousness and freedom from the precepts and commands of God. They will deny our heritage and tear down our culture to get what they want.

The pursuit of happiness as understood by the first Americans was the well known result of a virtuous life, not a libertine freedom or license. As self government is necessary for limited government and personal liberty, even so licentiousness leads to corruption and intrusive government control.

They seek a freedom from God’s Law and end up given to lawlessness and friends of tyranny. The ways of autonomous men seem right, but in the end they all lead to destruction.

History has taught us that liberty that emancipates man from sin is what contributes to a high level of political freedom. As the Founders put it, man must be self-governing before he can enjoy the liberties of limited government. The folly of modern liberalism is that they are clueless to the condition of man not knowing that an all encompassing government is the enemy of self-government and its precious fruit of liberty under God’s Law.

“By nature man’s will, affection and practice are all affected by Adam’s sin. Thus the unredeemed perspective did not and could not appreciate God’s perfections…The natural tendency of man is to fly from God, and to keep at a distance from him, as far as possible. A natural man is averse to communion with him.” –Jonathan Edwards

So, the ideals of the Founders instituted in the Declaration and the Constitution and rooted in Biblical Theology regarding man and government and church are trampled under foot. Biblical Christianity is disparaged while naturalism is elevated to the state sponsored religion.

On most part their ideology has blinded them to the founding principles of America. But like all tyrants the ends justify the means…

The folks with their Bibles are just too ignorant to know any better. They need protection from the influence of those who view science from a Biblical framework as part of the redemptive process of man reclaiming dominion over the creation. They need protection from the sovereign God who does whatever He pleases [Psalm 115:3]; the One who upholds all things by the Word of His Power [Hebrews 1:3].

The autonomous man cannot know truth, but the darwinite knows there is no God and even if there were a God, He would have nothing to do with science. Pure science must be pursued apart from the knowledge of God. The universe is ordered according to natural law because that’s just the way things happened. There is no evidence of design in the universe or in living creatures. It all happened by chance guided by unintelligent processes.

The fossil record contained in the geologic column proves that macro-evolution occurred because how else could it exist. How could anyone but the insanely ignorant possibly disagree? There is absolutely no evidence of a worldwide flood. That is just another myth that must be refuted by force of intimidation and fraud.

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you…” [John 15:18-20]

Men hate God even though He gives them what they want…

‘And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind…’

The debased mind is characterized as a ‘hater of God’ and an ‘inventor of evil’ [Romans 1:30].

1. Law of Biogenesis – Life originates from pre-existing life.

2. Law of Genetics - Variation within species has fixed boundaries.

3. Law of Thermodynamics – Intelligent energy/work is necessary for system order to increase (raw energy won’t do).

4. Law of Probability – No chance that DNA is a product of anything other than intelligent design.

Now the darwinites would have us believe that their theory trumps these laws. Law doesn’t matter to them because their new definition of science presumes naturalism. Therefore, anything that refutes their theory is ignored or explained away or worse.

Many darwinites are panspermians who believe the origin of DNA is extraterrestrial. We can agree with them here, and we can agree with the emergence faction that believes in something beyond what is seen. Some secular scientists are looking for the impersonal transcendent, while denying the personal transcendent God of the Bible that has revealed Himself in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Modern science was born from the presupposition that God exists and His governing laws of the cosmos may be found out. This is part of man’s duty as image bearers to investigate and discover the Creator’s handiwork. What is the motive behind Darwinism?

Evolution agrees with man in his rebellion against the kingdom of God. As a vain philosophy dressed up as science it denies the revelation of God in nature and the revelation of the Word of God made flesh. If evolution is true, then there is no sin or moral guilt and no need of redemption; the gospel is nothing but myth and foolishness. As it is written, ‘we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness…’ [1 Corinthians 1].

Since evolution theory denies the truth and substitutes its own, it is no better than any other false religion and should be regarded as such and resisted, especially by Christians.

The Psalmist says that the ‘heavens declare the glory of God and the earth shows forth His handiwork’ and ‘that we are fearfully and wonderfully made... and my soul knows it very well.’

The apostle gives us the full light of the New Covenant revelation in Romans 1 and 2. Even in our depravity we are without excuse before our Creator because God has revealed Himself in the creation and testified of His Law written on our conscience.

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."[Deut 6:5] In this manner the Bible commands the chief of all duties. No reasons are assigned for the requirement. No proof is adduced that God exists, or that he possesses such perfections as entitle him to the supreme love of his creatures. Jehovah steps forth before the subjects of his government, and issues his command. He waits for no formal introduction. He lifts up his voice with majesty. Without promise, and without threat, he proclaims his law, and leaves his subjects to their responsibility.

From the manner of this announcement, we may derive instruction. It is not necessary that we should enter into a formal demonstration that God exists, or a formal investigation of his attributes, before we begin the duty of loving him. We already know enough of him for this; and to postpone the performance of the duty until we have completed our investigations, is to commence them with unsanctified hearts, and in rebellion against God. From the dawn of our being we have had demonstrations of God's existence and character, blazing around us like the light of noonday. The heavens and the earth have declared his glory; his ministers and people have proclaimed his name; he is not to us an unknown God, except so far as our minds are wilfully blind to the displays of his glory.

If, therefore, we withhold the affections of our hearts, we can have no excuse in the plea that more evidence is needed. And with hearts so alienated from God at the outset, all our religious inquiries are likely to be unprofitable. What probability is there that further proof will produce its proper impression and effect on our minds, if that which is already in our possession is unheeded or abused? If, from what we already know of God, we admire and love him, we shall desire to know more of him, and shall prosecute the study with profit and delight; but, if we have already shut him out of our hearts, all our intellectual investigations respecting him may be expected to leave us in spiritual blindness.

[Manual of Theology by Dagg] http://www.founders.org/library/dagg_vol1/bk2i.html

In the book of Hebrews we are given the dramatic result when faith comes to a man…

‘By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible…But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him’ [Hebrews 11:3&6].

Faith puts reality to the things that are unseen. Reason has nothing to say about the mechanisms of creation and the origin of life. God has given us necessary revelation on this subject so our knowledge rises out of our belief in that revelation.

This is a classic Ann Coulter quote that exposes the Left for who they really are behind their presumed intellectual superiority. They have suppressed the moral Law for themselves, but are quick to point out the failings of others who oppose them. This is the characteristic of the hypocrite.

They are without mercy because they have never felt their own need of mercy. The one who doesn’t know what it is to receive mercy has no ability to show mercy.

They play the role of the accuser of the righteous. They are the sons of disobedience doing the work of their father [Ephesians 2:2].

In the context of John 8, Jesus was accused of being the son of fornication. This is His reply…

Jesus said to [His accusers], “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it…” [John 8:42-44]

A prayer of hope and grace for the Palin family from the Scriptures…

The motto, ‘One cannot give what he does not possess’ captured the consensus among colonial Americans. When government presumed authority over private realms the early Americans cried tyranny and acted against it.

The context of the phrase “the least of these” has been neglected…

We are to do good to the hungry and naked and to strangers and prisoners, especially to those of the household of faith. These are the ones from whom nothing can be expected in return. We freely give as those who know what it is to receive mercy in abundance.

Is this the motive of the social gospel advocates? Hardly, they hand out benefits paid for with other people’s money in the expectation of buying votes and political power. This is nothing but the soft tyranny of a false compassion.

What motivated the Pilgrim Fathers? What is the Great Awakening and how did it influence colonial America? What was their foundation for civil law? What was their foundation for government? Why does the religious freedom clause exist? Why is there no national church of America?

It is the Reformed Christians that influenced these things, and that is a matter of the historical record for anyone who would look past their prejudices. There are many secular historians who misunderstand and hate Calvinism, but will acknowledge its influence in America’s founding. The gospel they believed and practiced is the spring from which liberty flows.

How does an American not know that colonial Americans were linked spiritually and politically with the Protestant Reformation and that American constitutionalism grew out of their influence? We must concede that the admins of the public education systems have been effective in their program of historical revisionism.

Yes, the Christian claims a righteousness and an authority, but it is ignorance to say these things are derived from self. The Christian’s righteousness is in Christ alone. The Bible says that righteousness is imputed or accounted to the believer by faith as in the example of Abraham [Romans 4].

In the same way a Christian’s authority is not in himself, but in the Scriptures alone. Without a belief in the authority of divine revelation there is no foundation for truth in morals or law and the concept of absolute truth is lost, as evidenced by postmodernism whose motto is that ‘there is no truth’.

The Bible answers the fundamental question of any culture: How do we know that what we know is truth? The early Americans had the right answer and acted on it. The history of America can only be called myth by delusional or deceived men.

A characteristic of the deceived is that they cannot discern or they deny spiritual things. Now, those who assume an autonomous righteousness and authority think they know what is good for everyone else based on arbitrary law, not revealed or natural law. These are the folks who deny and hate our heritage and are enemies of liberty.

Why would an evolutionist assume that intelligent design could ever be used to improve genetics or to repair genetic errors? Why would he assume that scientific law exists? How could the product of random processes become an intelligent designer? How could the product of materialism even think at all?

Even though his world view has no answers, he lives and works in an ordered universe as an image bearer of the creator. He assumes the laws of logic and he reasons using antithesis while maintaining his naturalism…

Spiritual life begins when the Spirit quickens men who are dead in their sin. It is written of these men that they are known before the creation of the world. Their persons are foreknown…

‘And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world’ [Revelation 17:8; 13:8].

This is something also known by the Old Covenant church…

 ‘Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
  And in Your book they all were written,
  The days fashioned for me,
  When as yet there were none of them’ [Psalms 139:16].

Persons and everything about them are foreknown. If men believed this doctrine of the sovereignty of God in life, then we would honor the unborn child as an image bearer of the Creator of life and do what is necessary to preserve their life.

Those who are of Israel according to the flesh have every right to testify of their rich heritage rooted in the testimony of Moses, the Psalms and the Prophets. To them ‘pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Messiah came…’ [Romans 9]

As it is written in the prophets and quoted in the NT many who were outside the commonwealth of Israel have been brought near…

 “I will call them My people, who were not My people,
  And her beloved, who was not beloved.
  And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
 ‘You are not My people,’
  There they shall be called sons of the living God.” [Hosea 1&2; Romans 9]

All those who partake of the New Covenant offer a powerful argument for the existence of God. The promises to Abraham recorded in Genesis are being fulfilled in spiritual Israel. By faith we are descendants of Abraham having the blessings of the forgiveness of sins and the Law written on the heart.

No Excuse Argument

If God is there why doesn’t He reveal Himself? How does a loving God condemn men to everlasting punishment? The lost condition of men renders them unable to see His revelation. He justly condemns those who reject His revelation. He lovingly saves all those who are in Christ.

The most powerful argument for the existence of God must be the creation. The New Covenant prophets tell us that men are without excuse because they suppress the truth of God in what He has made…

‘…[T]he wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.’ [Romans 1]

Why does the apostle begin his letter to the Ephesians with the doctrines of election, predestination, adoption and sealing of the Holy Spirit? We think that he considered these doctrines important. How often do we hear teaching on these doctrines? Do our teachers consider them as important as the apostle?

Consider that the doctrine of salvation is incomplete without these doctrines. They put content to the doctrine of redemption. The apostle considers it crucial for the Christian to understand these things. The plan of salvation is an eternal covenant of cooperation and harmony in the Godhead. Herein is the Christian’s great hope.

The Holy Spirit is said to seal believers as a ‘guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession.’

As we read over these words, will we consider carefully their meaning? Believers from all nations and every generation are the ‘purchased possession.’ They are given the Spirit as earnest money indicating that that belong to God. They are the given ones purchased by precious blood. The Spirit comes at the right time to regenerate them and give them the assurance of faith until the time their faith becomes sight.

The apostle would have us know these things. He reveals them that we might embrace this hope in order to persevere in our faith.

How can we obey the commands for practical Christian living given in the following chapters of the letter? How can we remain faithful? These doctrines are for our encouragement that we might rest in the goodness and sovereignty of God.

Indeed, where truth comes and abides, it comes not as the tenant, but as the landlord, the master of the house who will dispose and order all according to his own rules. Now this no sinful heart can agree with. He would take in truth to serve him, but not to serve truth; he would live on truth, but truth shall not live on him. To speak plainly, he will entertain truth no further than it will maintain him. This is a corrupt heart, and will not long be the receptacle of truth. Such a man is on the highway of being carried away with error.

He who will not be God’s servant shall be the devil’s slave; he who will not be a servant to truth shall be a vassal to error. We say that he who will not be under the sovereignty of Christ shall be under the tyranny of sin; he who will not be under the command of grace shall be under the power of lust. So he who will not be subject to truth shall be enslaved to error. You have something of this expressed by the apostle…

‘Because when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God…for this cause God gave them up to vile affections’ [Romans 1:21-26].