1. Licking the hand that feeds you

    ... , that many Americans today have forgotten Ben Franklin's maxim, "Resistance to tyrants is obedience ... Most Americans no doubt think of themselves as law-abiding, God-fearing people. However, when ... obedience to human law violates a man's inner conscience, the only moral alternative left him

  2. Christians abandoning America?

    ... of Pennsylvania, when he famously said, "Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants ... . Without Christianity, he said, there would be no God-given unalienable right of the individual ... ." "We are in a war for our God-given nation and freedoms, and the workers of iniquity are winning

  3. Obey? Bible says yes, if government's 'good'

    ... the pleasure of God, are the ordinance of God. But how is this an argument for obedience to such rulers as do ... for WND. "God commands our obedience not to ungodly, despotic rulers, whose 'authority', according ... imposed upon individuals, by God's Word, with respect to obedience – or resistance

  4. How tea party can go bad

    ... at the massive, historic 9/12 rally in Washington: "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" "It's not about ... ; and if it is not fought in the spiritual realm, with prayer and fasting and obedience to God ... individual rights under God. And this is the vision today's tea-party movement needs to re-create

  5. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God

    Bradlee Dean

    ... , "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Let's look at the primitive church's actions through ... it with a false grace and in so doing, teach their congregants to war against a just and holy God (Micah 3:5 ... hand and unblanched cheek and heart of flame. God needed not reeds shaken by the wind, not men clothed

  6. Passover lesson: Freedom – and responsibility

    ... standing on the beach of the Red Sea, watching the Egyptians drown. "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience ... . "We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt," Jews read each year in the Passover Haggadah, "but God took ... to God," the seal would have read. The exodus from Egypt provided the rallying image to black slaves

  7. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God

    Bradlee Dean

    ... , "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Let's look at the primitive church's actions through ... it with a false grace and in so doing, teach their congregants to war against a just and holy God (Micah 3:5 ... hand and unblanched cheek and heart of flame. God needed not reeds shaken by the wind, not men clothed

  8. When the godly govern

    ... of the acts of tyrants. The larger question, however, is not about the tyrants. It is whether, as Penn challenged us, we will be governed by God. ... readers properly took me to task, so let me assert that Scripture is clear. God guided Samuel, and in His ... is that the entire process was a result of the people rejecting the authority of God over the nation and God

  9. Question Obama's faith? You bet we should

    dean120224

    ... who coined the phrase, "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" (Ben Franklin). Nowhere ... in Scripture can you find God commanding His people to subject themselves to decrees that run contrary ... to His will. What? Obey a tyrant and disobey God? It doesn't work that way in America. When we look

  10. Question Obama's faith? You bet we should

    ... who coined the phrase, "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" (Ben Franklin). Nowhere ... in Scripture can you find God commanding His people to subject themselves to decrees that run contrary ... to His will. What? Obey a tyrant and disobey God? It doesn't work that way in America. When we look

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