Americans have replaced obedience with their own machinations
"And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt."
Seems to me, that the people of the USA for at least 30 years now, have been inclined to substitute reasoned obedience to God's scriptural commands when approaching a situation, with manipulative selfish disobedience to God's commands. I see this in their approach to personal relationships, and also in their approach to matters such as the growing strength of Islamic nations. For example, many women in the USA, when they meet a man who they wish to marry, will attempt to sabotage the man so as to render him dependent upon them and easily bossed about by them. Whereas if such women were obedient to scriptures that we can semi-psychically tell are inspired, these women would do unto these men, as they would like these men to do unto them, treat them with civility and friendliness and not attempt to sabotage them so as to control them.
The obedient to inspired scripture approach would be to be a helpful friend to such men and let the chips fall where they may. Instead, such women, without any trace of resignation to God's will (I realize persons can be too resigned to the so-called "God's will") in their attempts to force their own will upon the world, disregard scriptural advice. Looking at the post-WW-II approach of the USA to Islamic nations, the USA could have in this time attempted to do God's will based on scriptures we can when we are in an inspired state of mind sense are inspired (the Word of God is God says scripture). For example there have been times in the years since World War Two when the USA was indeed very rich and certain Muslim nations were indeed very poor, and the Muslim nations were experiencing high death and disease rates because they could not afford to implement even inexpensive public health measures. The USA public and private sectors without harming themselves could have helped out with the public health problems--this would have been in keeping with a reasonable interpretation re what scriptures should mean to modern man and thousands of lives could have been saved using a fraction of what the USA spends on tobacco or soda pop or pornography--but instead the USA provided no help dealing with such public health problems. Instead, (IMHO as of now blah blah blah) the USA chose to implement policies that disregarded the advice of inspired scripture, policies of aggression or neglect. The USA could have said to itself, let's just follow God's advice in dealing with these nations and what will be will be, because God rewards the nation the people the individual who does His will; instead they attempted to bend the world to their own will, forgetting about God's will, through the implementation of policies that contradicted a reasoned interpretation of inspired scripture.
True Christianity is not necessarily the same thing as a medieval Crusader's interpretation of Christianity, or a non-Christians confused interpretation of some Christian's befuddled interpretation of Christianity. Doing God's will with regards to Muslim nations, is not the same thing as aping the behaviour of mostly illiterate Crusaders of hundreds of years ago.
The USA's policy with regards to Muslim nations (IMHO blah blah blah), has been to establish a hated Jewish outpost in Muslim territory, as part and parcel of a general supposedly pre-emptive aggression against Muslim nations, designed to seize resources, resources that incredibly, can be replaced by slightly more expensive domestic alternatives from Muslim nations. Where, I wonder, does inspired scripture declare, that the USA of the 20th-21st centuries should do this?
If the USA were to have followed the scriptural model in dealing with Muslim nations, it would (IMHO as of now blah blah blah) have approached the Muslim nations peaceably, like a teacher approaches a student, or like a philanthropist aiding a needy person. Scripture says to teach the nations, to do good to all men, not just to do good to Christian men. Teachers do not abuse students because such generates rebellion and a failure to learn. Based on the scriptural model, the USA would have attempted to promote amongst Muslim nations, governments tolerant of Christianity that were at least behaviorally if not in doctrine, Christian with regards to their conduct vis a vis their subjects. Instead the USA has behaved in unchristian ways designed to promote the finances of special interests.
Elements in the USA have in effect turned their own befuddled interpretations of hard to understand mystically symbolic religious scriptures into a God, as if God was merely a book and a human's interpretation of a book, as if God had no mind--and they have ignored the question of what is in God's mind with regards to the interpretation of scripture. If God is simply a southern preacher's opinion regarding what a difficult to understand scripture means, then there would be many Gods--but Christians pride themselves on their monotheism.
Judging from scripture, the way for the USA to deal with relatively speaking growing weakness in itself and its allies due to the economic and population growth in Muslim nations, would be to peaceably promote and use alternatives to resources sold by Muslim nations, while at the same time building up its own economy/defenses and the economy/defenses of its allies.
Such might include: a robust ability to detect who is behind a given explosion of a bomb; making it difficult for would be bombers to explode bombs without the USA knowing who did it; making it difficult for aggressors to enter the nation and cause mischief; the whole world saw in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, how defensive systems such as bunkers and tunnels, can defeat offensive systems such as aircraft dropping bombs.
It all reminds me of the story of Adam and Eve. Prior to the corruption introduced by the serpent, Adam and Eve were obedient to God. But they chose to replace this obedience, with their own human calculations, the ability reason that the serpent promised to them--likewise (IMHO as of now blah blah blah) the people of the USA, have in various ways chosen to replace a reasonable attempt to apply inspired scripture to various situations, and a passion for seeing God's will done on earth, with attempts to force their own will to be done on earth through the use of methods that contradict the teachings of inspired scriptures.
@2006 David Virgil Hobbs
Seems to me, that the people of the USA for at least 30 years now, have been inclined to substitute reasoned obedience to God's scriptural commands when approaching a situation, with manipulative selfish disobedience to God's commands. I see this in their approach to personal relationships, and also in their approach to matters such as the growing strength of Islamic nations. For example, many women in the USA, when they meet a man who they wish to marry, will attempt to sabotage the man so as to render him dependent upon them and easily bossed about by them. Whereas if such women were obedient to scriptures that we can semi-psychically tell are inspired, these women would do unto these men, as they would like these men to do unto them, treat them with civility and friendliness and not attempt to sabotage them so as to control them.
The obedient to inspired scripture approach would be to be a helpful friend to such men and let the chips fall where they may. Instead, such women, without any trace of resignation to God's will (I realize persons can be too resigned to the so-called "God's will") in their attempts to force their own will upon the world, disregard scriptural advice. Looking at the post-WW-II approach of the USA to Islamic nations, the USA could have in this time attempted to do God's will based on scriptures we can when we are in an inspired state of mind sense are inspired (the Word of God is God says scripture). For example there have been times in the years since World War Two when the USA was indeed very rich and certain Muslim nations were indeed very poor, and the Muslim nations were experiencing high death and disease rates because they could not afford to implement even inexpensive public health measures. The USA public and private sectors without harming themselves could have helped out with the public health problems--this would have been in keeping with a reasonable interpretation re what scriptures should mean to modern man and thousands of lives could have been saved using a fraction of what the USA spends on tobacco or soda pop or pornography--but instead the USA provided no help dealing with such public health problems. Instead, (IMHO as of now blah blah blah) the USA chose to implement policies that disregarded the advice of inspired scripture, policies of aggression or neglect. The USA could have said to itself, let's just follow God's advice in dealing with these nations and what will be will be, because God rewards the nation the people the individual who does His will; instead they attempted to bend the world to their own will, forgetting about God's will, through the implementation of policies that contradicted a reasoned interpretation of inspired scripture.
True Christianity is not necessarily the same thing as a medieval Crusader's interpretation of Christianity, or a non-Christians confused interpretation of some Christian's befuddled interpretation of Christianity. Doing God's will with regards to Muslim nations, is not the same thing as aping the behaviour of mostly illiterate Crusaders of hundreds of years ago.
The USA's policy with regards to Muslim nations (IMHO blah blah blah), has been to establish a hated Jewish outpost in Muslim territory, as part and parcel of a general supposedly pre-emptive aggression against Muslim nations, designed to seize resources, resources that incredibly, can be replaced by slightly more expensive domestic alternatives from Muslim nations. Where, I wonder, does inspired scripture declare, that the USA of the 20th-21st centuries should do this?
If the USA were to have followed the scriptural model in dealing with Muslim nations, it would (IMHO as of now blah blah blah) have approached the Muslim nations peaceably, like a teacher approaches a student, or like a philanthropist aiding a needy person. Scripture says to teach the nations, to do good to all men, not just to do good to Christian men. Teachers do not abuse students because such generates rebellion and a failure to learn. Based on the scriptural model, the USA would have attempted to promote amongst Muslim nations, governments tolerant of Christianity that were at least behaviorally if not in doctrine, Christian with regards to their conduct vis a vis their subjects. Instead the USA has behaved in unchristian ways designed to promote the finances of special interests.
Elements in the USA have in effect turned their own befuddled interpretations of hard to understand mystically symbolic religious scriptures into a God, as if God was merely a book and a human's interpretation of a book, as if God had no mind--and they have ignored the question of what is in God's mind with regards to the interpretation of scripture. If God is simply a southern preacher's opinion regarding what a difficult to understand scripture means, then there would be many Gods--but Christians pride themselves on their monotheism.
Judging from scripture, the way for the USA to deal with relatively speaking growing weakness in itself and its allies due to the economic and population growth in Muslim nations, would be to peaceably promote and use alternatives to resources sold by Muslim nations, while at the same time building up its own economy/defenses and the economy/defenses of its allies.
Such might include: a robust ability to detect who is behind a given explosion of a bomb; making it difficult for would be bombers to explode bombs without the USA knowing who did it; making it difficult for aggressors to enter the nation and cause mischief; the whole world saw in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, how defensive systems such as bunkers and tunnels, can defeat offensive systems such as aircraft dropping bombs.
It all reminds me of the story of Adam and Eve. Prior to the corruption introduced by the serpent, Adam and Eve were obedient to God. But they chose to replace this obedience, with their own human calculations, the ability reason that the serpent promised to them--likewise (IMHO as of now blah blah blah) the people of the USA, have in various ways chosen to replace a reasonable attempt to apply inspired scripture to various situations, and a passion for seeing God's will done on earth, with attempts to force their own will to be done on earth through the use of methods that contradict the teachings of inspired scriptures.
@2006 David Virgil Hobbs
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