Introducing the Bill of Rights

  The Bill of Rights reflects the Christian heritage of our nation. The idea of human dignity, that we are created in the image of God, forms the basis for human equality and our core value of liberty (Genesis 1:27 and Mark 12:31). The fundamental basis of religious freedom in human nature secures our rights and limits government. There is a higher authority than civil authority, the laws of God (Acts 5:29). The Declaration of Independence recognizes God, the Creator, that there is a Supreme Judge. His Divine Providence is from where we receive certain inalienable rights, that of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The moral teachings of the Bible is the guide for the common standards of right and wrong required in ourselves and in government to guide private and public life. The rights and responsibilities of citizenship are learned in the primary institutions of civil society which were the family, church, and the community. This was true when God and His teachings were the center of huge population of Bible believing citizens.
     Our founding fathers were also influenced by the philosophers John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu. John Locke, from England, wrote in his "Two Treatises on Government" of 1690: "God, as King David says (Psalm 115:16), has given the earth to the children of men, given it to mankind in common". Locke knew that people were born with certain natural rights to life, liberty, and property. Also, that governments are formed to protect the rights of the people. When governments fail to protect these rights, tyranny results, and the people have the right to rebel. The political philosopher Baron de Montesquieu, also of France, in his book "The Spirit of the Laws" in 1748 wrote of the best form of government would incorporate a separation of powers into executive, legislative, and judicial branches and would be based on the natural law. Both of their ideas were evident in all three of our Freedom Documents - the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. 
  The Bill of Rights was ratified as part of a gentleman's agreement among our Founding Fathers. There was resistance to the approval of the United States Constitution by Thomas Jefferson because too much power was given to the Federal Government, and American citizens were unprotected. To protect the rights of individual citizens, George Mason had composed the Declaration of Rights, which was passed by the Virginia assembly on June 12, 1776. James Madison of Virginia submitted amendments to the Constitution on June 8, 1789. The Federalists kept their word and on September 25, 1789, the First Federal Congress of the United States approved twelve amendments to the Constitution to be submitted to the states for ratification. The Preamble of the Bill clearly states the Bill of Rights is to prevent abuse of the powers of the Government. By December 15, 1791, all the states ratified ten amendments which became known as the U. S. Bill of Rights to protect the individual rights of American citizens.
  Read the Preamble for yourself. You don't see this part of the Bill of Rights in most teachings anymore but is very important to read and understand what our rights and freedoms are.
                                                         PREAMBLE 
 The Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution.

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution.

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution. 


 

  We the people hold the power to take back our freedoms that are being taken away one law at a time. The key to doing this is our coming to terms with what our Founding Fathers were thinking. In coming to the point of setting up the greatest government in the history of the world, they relied on prayer to the one true God as evidenced in many historical documents. I made reference to Ben Franklin in an earlier post of how the prayed. Any rational human being can see we are far from where we began and very far from when we became great.

    
        And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. (2 Corinthians 3:17)

  This is where we belong, we must get back to allowing the Spirit of the Lord to guide us. Our society is so full of hate and judgment and a very few live a Godly life. Everyone is screaming to make their godless ideas policy that they are eroding the freedoms of another. Nobody wants God in their life, many "Christians" included that every person's freedoms will be taken from them. EVERY PERSON'S! As you give more power to federal government, your power over your own life is being taken. God was the center of society at our beginning, lets put Him back in His proper place and I promise you that our enemies will flee instead of advancing. Our anger will turn to peace. Our confused children will find straight paths to follow. Our broken marriages will become a pillar of strength. Our addictions will turn to healthy living. All our faults will turn to blessings! Don't we all truly want this??

  To gain this all back there are steps. The very first step is to get right with God! We must look into what He told in His Word, the Bible. Turn from our wicked ways instead of trying to rationalize them. Accept His free gift of eternal salvation found only is Jesus Christ, God's only Son. Then follow Him! Can you pour gasoline on a rose bush and put dirt into the gas tank of your car and hope all will be well? NO! The rose bush will die and the car won't even start. It Is the same for people. We were created with certain needs to have us healthy both physically as well as spiritually. Those needs are only met by our Creator.

                           WON'T YOU OPEN YOUR EYES AND COME?

OUR FUTURE CHILDREN'S FATE IS IN THE DECISIONS OF TODAY.