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The dying mother called her young son to her side. The nine-year-old boy would remember these words the rest of his life. She said to him, “Son, I want you to live as I have taught you; to love your Heavenly Father and keep His Commandments.” Later, after her memorial service had just ended and everyone was walking away from the grave, the little boy ran back and threw himself down on her grave sobbing, crying out to God to help him live like she had requested. That little boy was Abraham Lincoln. He would later say, “All that I am, my angel mother made me.” (Abraham Lincoln: The Man and His Faith, Frederick Owen (Tyndale House, 1976), p.5) His earliest memory of her was her teaching him to memorize the Ten Commandments as he sat as her feet (Ibid, p.6).
This was the kind of education that produced generation after generation of respectful, productive, people who made America the most prosperous nation in world history. This way of educating produced government that was the freest in the world. In fact, it is attributed to Abraham Lincoln to have said, “The philosophy of education in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” No nation can be greater than its method of education.
America’s early education system was Continue reading
For starters, it is not logical: Not in origin, not in practice. No matter what kind of surgery you have on the body, you cannot change the genes. We are internally what God made us to be, either a male or a female. This cannot be changed. Change on the outside does not change what is inside, in the genes or internal organs. Neither can we change the way we go about doing things. All established order in this earth recognizes a male “approach” to things and a female “approach” to things. Thus, you can be a “transvestite” (meaning you can dress like the opposite sex) but you cannot be “transgendered”.
Socialism and Christianity do not mix! Karl Marx, the father of modern day socialism, knew this. Concerning his goal to establish communism, he listed his first goal as being…
God teaches us that He has given to man a system by which his physical and material needs can be met. It’s quite simple, but very, very effective. God releases into us at the moment of conception certain abilities which, if we follow His leading, He will later direct into a calling through which our needs will be met. A surgeon gets thinking and motor skills which will enable him to remove harmful things and reset body tissue so that God’s natural healing can take place. An automobile mechanic gets the understanding in his mind and skill in his hands by which to diagnose and repair your vehicle. God then intends for us to be taught by parents, pastors, and other teachers how to work with those skills to better the lives of others. They, in turn, pay us for our services, which betters our lives. God’s Kingdom gets advanced in both parties because each realizes that God’s way works; which encourages faith in God’s Word and His calling in other areas of life.