Written by Maurice A. Petty
This article is very important to me as it expresses the foundation of my beliefs, and the purpose for my living.
From Wikepedia:
The separation of church and state is a philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the state. Conceptually, the term refers to the creation of a secular state (with or without legally explicit church–state separation) and to disestablishment, the changing of an existing, formal relationship between the church and the state.[1] Although the concept is older, the exact phrase “separation of church and state” is derived from “wall of separation between church and state”, a term coined by Thomas Jefferson.
With the upcoming elections, I’m very concerned for our future as God’s creation. I’m concerned for our leaders, for my neighbors, my family, friends and peers. I’m concerned about the music industry and the Church. I’m concerned about out children, our schools, and our labor. I’m concerned for those who don’t know God, and I’m concerned for those who know God, but struggle with faith.
I titled this article Church and State because I believe it’s important to incorporate God and the Bible into the Presidency once and for all. It is my belief that when Thomas Jefferson initiated the principle on January 1st 1802 when our country was at the peak of Slavery and the Slaves weren’t allowed to read, let alone read the Bible. Perhaps when he made the declaration, he did not realize the ramifications of removing God from the State. The same way the Church was removed to respect the next man’s religious views, the same can be applied by the unification of the Church with State. Although I only know the basics of the principle, I do not wish to get caught up in the details of the Separation between Church and State. There is no room for debating this cause. We need God! I do not know whether you believe in God or believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of all, but by the time you finish reading this, I pray that you will come to know the significance of incorporating God and Jesus Christ into our constitution. Jesus was love, and without Him, we will continue to live in a world of hate, and a world where a portion of the population knows God, and the rest could care less. If you unite the Church for the Majority, then God will open the door for the remaining lost sheep. They will hear his voice, and they will follow, and they will learn the true meaning of love. The world will know love and know Jesus.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letter_to_the_Danbury_Baptists_-_January_1,_1802
It is appalling to me that we would make this separation and take God out of the equation considering our currency states “In God we Trust” and our legal systems are based around biblical principles. We cannot continue to leave God out of our schools and out of our constitution because this hinders the World from receiving Jesus Christ in it’s entirety.
I’ve come to the conclusion that once we unite God with the State, bring Bible studies to our schools, and incorporate the Word of God into our constitution; the troubles of the world would disappear. There would be no more hate, no more poverty, no more war, no more death, and there will be an abundance of resources for all because each of us have been equipped with the talents and gifts necessary to serve one another, and contribute to God’s creation in it’s entirety.
This is beyond a racial issue, and beyond Slavery, as Slavery is only Biblical History repeating it’self since Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt to the promised land. If you don’t know the story of Moses, it’s in the book of Genesis. By now, everyone should know the Book of Genesis, we should all know about Slavery and the trials and tribulations the Children of Israel suffered in slavery and thru the desert for 40 years. The same amount of time that Blacks in America were enslaved, while the major and minor prophets of today led us thru the desert of Civil rights movements and social justice causes. The modern day American Promise land has been tainted by systemic racism, and systematic mental and physical slavery. Not to mention, the land has completely taken the creator of the land out of the equation.
There is no room for scientific or theological debate here people. The Lord put it on my heart to give America a warning that we MUST incorporate the church with the state. There is no other way around incorporating Biblical principles into the Land that God created. We are God’s creation! Who are we to remove him from our legal systems and schools when we need the intervention of God the most in all aspects of daily living.
You see, the reason why Satan would allow Thomas Jefferson to create this “principle” is because of the spiritual warfare that comes along with taking God out of the equation. Satan can have his way with our minds, our children’s souls, our leadership, and everything else that makes our beautiful world go around. Satan enabled us not to love our neighbors like we love ourselves when he caused the seperation of Church and state. Many of us don’t even know that this is a “golden rule” in the Bible, and most of us don’t live by this rule for living.
In conclusion, I wanted to make this article short and sweet because it’s quite obvious what needs to be done to make this world a better place. God, the father, or whatever language you want to use to describe the Creator of Mankind would never want the Church to be separate from the State. These are worldly views and not what God intended for his creation.
Please see the word of God below from the Book of Isiah chapter 65.
Isaiah 65New International Version
Judgment and Salvation
65 “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me.
To a nation that did not call on my name,
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
2 All day long I have held out my hands
to an obstinate people,
who walk in ways not good,
pursuing their own imaginations—
3 a people who continually provoke me
to my very face,
offering sacrifices in gardens
and burning incense on altars of brick;
4 who sit among the graves
and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,
and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
5 who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me,
for I am too sacred for you!’
Such people are smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that keeps burning all day.
6 “See, it stands written before me:
I will not keep silent but will pay back in full;
I will pay it back into their laps—
7 both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,”
says the Lord.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
and defied me on the hills,
I will measure into their laps
the full payment for their former deeds.”
Thank you for taking the time to read this article. Please feel free to leave your thoughts and opinions on the Separation of Church and State.
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Maurice A. Petty
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