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The Faith of our Fathers

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"It cannot be emphasized too

strongly or too often that this

great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."

PatrickSlide4

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Samuel

"We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

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George

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."Slide6

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Thomas

"The reason that Christianity

is the best friend of govern-

ment

is because Christianity is the only religion that

changes the heart."Slide7

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Benjamin

"In the beginning of the contest

with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered… do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?"Slide8

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Blessed is the nation whose God is the

Lord

,

The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.

Nation

~ goyim – Gentiles Slide9

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Calvary Chapel OKCCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

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"

Our

sentiments are uniformly onthe side of

religious liberty: that religion is at all

times and places a matter between God and individuals,that

no man ought to suffer in name, person, or effectson account of his religious opinions, [and] that the legitimate power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbor. But sir, our constitution of government is not specific. . . . [T]herefore what religious privileges we enjoy (asa minor part of the State) we enjoy as favorsgranted, and not as inalienable rights."Danbury Baptist AssociationOctober 7, 1807Slide12

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"The

affectionate

sentiments of esteemand approbation which you

are so

good as toexpress towards me on behalf of the Danbury

Baptist Association give me the highest satisfaction … Believing with you that religion is a matter which liessolely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respectingan establishment of religion or prohibiting Thomas JeffersonJanuary 1, 1802 the free exercise thereof,' thus building awall of separation between Church and State.adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall seewith sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father andCreator of man, and tender you for yourselves andyour religious association assurances of myhigh respect and esteem."Slide13

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"On every question of

construction

(of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves

back

to the time when the Constitution wasadopted, recollect the spirit manifested in

thedebates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented againstit, conform to the probable one in which itwas passed."Thomas JeffersonJune 12, 1823 Slide14

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So God abandoned them to do

Whatever shameful things their heartsdesired. As a result, they did vile and degrading

things with each other’s bodies.

25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.

26 That is why God abandoned them to their shamefuldesires. Even the women turned against thenatural way to have sex and instead indulgedin sex with each other. Romans1:24-27 (NLT)27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.Slide15

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mployment

H. B. 3685

Rep. Barney Frank

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iscrimination

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"I was born a sinner – yes, from the moment my mother conceived me."Calvary Chapel OKC

Psalm51:5 (NLT)Slide17

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Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you… Calvary Chapel OKC

Jeremiah

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Deliver those whoare drawn toward death, And hold back those stumbling to theslaughter.

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Proverbs 24:11Slide19

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reedom

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I will bless those whobless you, And I will curse

him who curses you; And inyou all the families of theEarth shall be blessed.

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Genesis

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And the Lord said to Abram,

after Lot had separated from him:“Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are— northward, southward, eastward, and westward;

15 for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.”

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Genesis

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For thus says the Lord

ofhosts: "He

sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple ofHis eye."

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Zechariah

2:8