So God loves me? Big deal. That's a story for little children. What good is that to me?
Well, there is this one thing he gave me and everybody else called
"Freedom." It's founded on the freedom to decide what's right or not
right for me and those who are close to me. And that gift is
unconditional, even if I decide not to follow him, but to follow my
human default programming that I was born with, instead. Nobody can take that away from me, except for him - and he won't.
THAT, to me, shows who God really is. It shows his character, and his
character is Liberty, and I appreciate that more than I could tell you.
THAT's how I know he loves me. So I love him back. Simple.
Then we get into the story of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was God himself
who became man (roughly the equivalent of you and I choosing to be born
as a common slug to save all slugs!) to take my sins upon himself so
they could be judged in him, not in me, and so I could be with God for
eternity - if only I accept his offer. That offer, once accepted, is
also unconditional. What an awesome God! Why should I not believe in
him?
Was Jesus real? Is God real? No way to prove either with
mathematical or scientific (or even historical) accuracy. There's enough
evidence around to believe it, but no way to prove it. These are just
stories - as is the story of the "big bang" and the stories ("theories")
of what came before, or how life on earth sprang from an electric spark
hitting the "primordial soup" and how we developed from that into first
monkeys and then humans. Both stories sound pretty fantastic to me.
Can't prove or disprove either one. But I am free to DECIDE to believe
either one. I know what I choose - and why. I just told you why.
So here I am, loving God and looking around me, seeing the whole
country going to hell. I know why it does. Too many of the people no
longer believe God's story. They decided to believe the other
story/stories and they started to behave accordingly. They elect leaders
who reflect their convictions (or lack of any). Liberty is their
ultimate target. They hate Liberty. It's troublesome! It comes from him.
If we deny him, we deny Liberty - and vice versa.
I look
around some more and see tons of Christians who say they love God and
say they put him first, but vote the opposite way and allow people to
rule them and me who hate Liberty. Those people want control. They work
for the other guy, and Christians keep putting them in office. What a
pisser! What happened to them?
They listen to their pastors
who teach the devil's gospel: "Obey the state in all things, because God
wants you to. "Give unto Cesar what is Cesar's" and things like "vote
for those with a certain letter behind their name because those with the
other letter behind their name are even worse." Then those with that
first letter behind their name turn around and pass laws that overturn
everything the Founders had built for us with God's help and blessings.
Surely, we are in a mess.
How do we turn this around? How do we
reconvert the Christians in this country so they can come back to God
in deed (voting and acting in the public sphere), not just in word?
THAT is the challenge - for they will never admit to you, or
themselves, that they have fallen far, far away from the God of Liberty,
Love, and Justice..
Then there are the anti-God libertarians.
They love Liberty - but they hate God, mostly because they have
observed Christians live and vote and decided they want none of that.
They are judging the book of God by its cover (Christians). Can they
succeed in promoting Liberty when they deny its source? Can they come to
love God in spite of the Christians, just because Liberty quite
obviously comes from God and they appreciate it? Is there a
non"christian" way of believing in Christ and following his Word so we
can all have that true Liberty again in this country?
I would really like to know.
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