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The Bible Says
"Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 22:35-40 NKJV).
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this will all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:34,35 NKJV).
Is To Do Away With The American Way Of Life! Our Founding Fathers had their Bibles open to the Ten Commandments when they framed the Declaration Of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States and they were neither afraid nor ashamed to acknowledge our dependence, as a nation, upon Almighty God. To emphasize their faith in God the TEN COMMANDMENTS are carved in stone on the walls of our Capital Building in Washington D.C.
whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!
Does Not Make One A Christian, We Are Saved By Grace We are told several times in the New Testament that the Law in itself does not save. "I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain" (Galatians 2:21 NKJV). "But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, 'Abba, Father' (Papa). Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, then an heir to God through Christ" (Galatians 4:4-7 NKJV).
And To Our Beloved Flag Makes One A Good Citizen Of The United States Of America. "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Not armored ships that gird the world, Not hoarded wealth nor busy mills, Not cattle on a thousand hills, Nor sages wise, nor schools, nor laws, Not boasted deeds in freedom's cause - All these may be and yet the state In the eye of God be far from great That land is great which knows the Lord, Whose songs are guided by His word; Where justice rules 'twixt man and man, Where love controls in art and plan; Where, breathing in his native air, Each soul finds joy in praise and prayer - Thus may our country, good and great, Be God's delight -- man's best estate.
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