Land of the Free and Home of the Brave
Rev. Jesse Amiel A. Ramoso
American can no longer protect his people? Bombing in Boston raises a question if America can still protect his people?
America's official Motto “In God We Trust” was inaugurated in 1864 and It is codified as federal law in the United States, “title 36 of the United States code”. Use of the motto on circulating coinage is required by law. It is clear for us now that American government “laws, values system and principles” was established by Christians. Today, their national anthem “LAND OF THE FREE HOME OF THE BRAVE” and their motto “In God We Trust” was already lost in its original meaning and intention. America, I guess, is not anymore the land of free, home of the brave, because neither it's not free nor they're no home and not brave anymore. They're not free to public worship of the God of their forefathers or Christians of today's generation are not brave to fight for their religious rights. Their forefathers fight for their rights and they paid it with blood. The American today does not want get involve in fighting religious rights because the denounce their faith or they're dominated by ungodly people. The conquest in America was not under by military power but by the philosophies of the ungodly. This is sad, because America was founded by Christians. The American freedom is widely benefited for evil intentions and self expression of the individualistic philosophy without principles and guidance of the Bible. This massive denouncing their faith to God reflects to denouncing their trust to God. The result, they killed almost million of babies a year and broke many homes and families. The people that enjoyed the so called freedom are not the original American by birth, these are people from East who dominated America; at least in my personal view. Why these things happen? My opinion to this, is because Christians failed to unify and fight for their rights. The individualistic philosophy is killing their culture of "Trusting God". What made America united was not the states but their foundation of Philosophies that is base on their faith to God "In God We Trust". In God we trust is not a religious statement but a philosophy of those who founded America based on their relationship and faith in God. This statement is intertwined with their religious and state philosophies. The moment they undo this statement they also disunited themselves and strongly indorse individualistic philosophy. This philosophy, transgress the will of God that is reflected in statement "In God We Trust".
I think, today it is difficult for them to unite because of strong influence of individualistic philosophy they end up in different views. They are politically united but mentally or philosophically divided. Only Martin Luther king was the last person who reversed the culture of racial discriminations. I think time will come that they will change the line of “In God We trust” to any motto that they think fit to their condition today. Recently, they championed on war in Middle East, now they help South Korea against North Korea. I thank American people for their heroic act for other country. “Long live to you and we still love even you reject your God”. We embrace your system, theology and even culture, then latter on we will not trust God any more. We are allied therefore “IN your GUNS WE TRUST” instead of your God. We will deny that we also embrace the same theology that paralysed your theologians in fighting religious rights against unconstitutional bills that remove God and kills babies and destroy homes and families. While, you allow this philosophies progressed to your land, you also brought this to us.
We, Filipinos were proud, as we're known to be the only Christian nation in Asia. Today, South Korea and China would say “REALLY!” Philippines is following the same steps of America, gay rights and reproductive health bill, abortion and divorce is creeping into our houses. In our family we are divided in views and principles because of the influence of individualistic doctrine.
There are western doctrine which is not applicable in our country and that we should be vigilant and carefully study before application, however it's already in our churches today. We are now into dilemma of which one should be prioritize in our preaching and in our bible studies, THEOLOGY or PRACTICALITY? If we preach more on the THEOLOGY “like this article” people got bored and angry at the speaker/writer, if we preach PRACTICALITY then we are no difference to the talk show of Ellen and Oprah why don't we bring our church to their shows? However, only a good theology that is practically applied in people will transformed us into maturity.
Religious culture in Asia are strongly SACRED and SOLEMN, why we get pressure ourselves to put coffee bars, amusement and entertainments in sanctuary? We deliberately junk the SANCTITY of our sanctuaries and altars to chose to the so called contemporary approach. Therefore we unintentionally pre-conditioned the mind of the congregation for entertainment and amusement on Sundays. Congregations demand the best, humorous and most entertaining speakers in our sanctuaries even they are theologically BANKRUPT! Then latter on then they will complain why our members do not want to get involve in sacrifice in giving or to do evangelisms and do missions? The early Christians clearly understood that when they follow Jesus they will literally die. The church in New Testament was founded with the blood of Jesus and the blood of the MARTYRS. Today no wants to be a martyr, because of this stigma that if you suffer you are not truly Christian, it's a LIE! Therefore, no body today want to go to mission and suffer, or even die. Nobody wants to be a pastor because pastors are living in poverty and in a loser situation against luxury and comfort. However, Filipinos has a strong patriotism and nationalism because even in our national anthem “Ang Mamatay Ng Dahil S'yo” Filipino is worth dying for is the result of our natural reaction to invaders like Lapu-lapu to Magelllan.
We are born to die, like Ninoy Aquino was the last Born Again Christian who died because of fighting for our rights and freedom. Yet, we forget his effort and his sacrificed and his EXAMPLE instead exulting and building a wrong monument idolized them. You and I will agree that without the blood of Ninoy it is impossible for us to have freedom. Ninoy was the lone servant of God for building new constitution that frees us from bondage. Then who will be our next blood donor, who is willing to fight for our rights and die? We don't expect a none Christian to fight for the HB 634 and RH bill and other bills to come which is unconstitutional and corrupt our value system. We Christians are commanded in the Bible to die with our self, this include physical death.
It's time for us Christians to get involve, to do a sacrificial thing even to death. Death for our personal comfort and luxuries, death for our selfishness, greediness and corruptions. Let's start do something concrete. Let's extend our hand to help our neighbours, our society and even our communities. Let's have a long term commitment of helping the poor by giving them small amount of capital for their livelihood, funding a student/s for school, helping educating them in Christian values or reaching them for Jesus. Let us cut off the short term period involvement to our society like one day medical mission, mission outreach, one day evangelisms and one time donation. This is not Christian way of doing ministry this is what the politicians are doing before election day. Shame on us if we are doing the same thing. This is a test to know where is our confidence came from? Is it from GOLD, GOODS OR GOONS or God? Let us unite one another in restoring a Filipino values, a values that is a true Godly Christians. We need to protect the Filipino values which is founded in the Bible through Spaniards and Christians long time ago. If there is one major thing that we need to get and embrace from American culture is this alone “In God We Trust”. Let's trust God that this article will be pass to all Christians until we realized that we are theologically bankrupt because we trust on “GOODS, GOLD or GUNS” more instead to GOD. Pass this article to respond God's call for us to be his servant. God bless us all.
Author's Email: jesse_amiel@yahoo.com
Previous Article: http://chrisitinagaymarriage.blogspot.com/ :
Philippine Christians Voted Gay Marriage By Default
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust : “America's official Motto “In God We Trust” was inaugurated in 1864 and It is codified as federal law in the United States Code at title 36 of the United States code.”
http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/flag/main.htm : “LAND OF THE FREE HOME OF THE BRAVE” and their motto “In God We Trust”
http://lyricsondemand.com/miscellaneouslyrics/nationalanthemslyrics/americanationalanthemlyrics.html : American National Antheme
http://www.cirtl.org/abfacts.htm : American Statistics for Abortion Site
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American can no longer protect his people? Bombing in Boston raises a question if America can still protect his people?
America's official Motto “In God We Trust” was inaugurated in 1864 and It is codified as federal law in the United States, “title 36 of the United States code”. Use of the motto on circulating coinage is required by law. It is clear for us now that American government “laws, values system and principles” was established by Christians. Today, their national anthem “LAND OF THE FREE HOME OF THE BRAVE” and their motto “In God We Trust” was already lost in its original meaning and intention. America, I guess, is not anymore the land of free, home of the brave, because neither it's not free nor they're no home and not brave anymore. They're not free to public worship of the God of their forefathers or Christians of today's generation are not brave to fight for their religious rights. Their forefathers fight for their rights and they paid it with blood. The American today does not want get involve in fighting religious rights because the denounce their faith or they're dominated by ungodly people. The conquest in America was not under by military power but by the philosophies of the ungodly. This is sad, because America was founded by Christians. The American freedom is widely benefited for evil intentions and self expression of the individualistic philosophy without principles and guidance of the Bible. This massive denouncing their faith to God reflects to denouncing their trust to God. The result, they killed almost million of babies a year and broke many homes and families. The people that enjoyed the so called freedom are not the original American by birth, these are people from East who dominated America; at least in my personal view. Why these things happen? My opinion to this, is because Christians failed to unify and fight for their rights. The individualistic philosophy is killing their culture of "Trusting God". What made America united was not the states but their foundation of Philosophies that is base on their faith to God "In God We Trust". In God we trust is not a religious statement but a philosophy of those who founded America based on their relationship and faith in God. This statement is intertwined with their religious and state philosophies. The moment they undo this statement they also disunited themselves and strongly indorse individualistic philosophy. This philosophy, transgress the will of God that is reflected in statement "In God We Trust".
I think, today it is difficult for them to unite because of strong influence of individualistic philosophy they end up in different views. They are politically united but mentally or philosophically divided. Only Martin Luther king was the last person who reversed the culture of racial discriminations. I think time will come that they will change the line of “In God We trust” to any motto that they think fit to their condition today. Recently, they championed on war in Middle East, now they help South Korea against North Korea. I thank American people for their heroic act for other country. “Long live to you and we still love even you reject your God”. We embrace your system, theology and even culture, then latter on we will not trust God any more. We are allied therefore “IN your GUNS WE TRUST” instead of your God. We will deny that we also embrace the same theology that paralysed your theologians in fighting religious rights against unconstitutional bills that remove God and kills babies and destroy homes and families. While, you allow this philosophies progressed to your land, you also brought this to us.
There are western doctrine which is not applicable in our country and that we should be vigilant and carefully study before application, however it's already in our churches today. We are now into dilemma of which one should be prioritize in our preaching and in our bible studies, THEOLOGY or PRACTICALITY? If we preach more on the THEOLOGY “like this article” people got bored and angry at the speaker/writer, if we preach PRACTICALITY then we are no difference to the talk show of Ellen and Oprah why don't we bring our church to their shows? However, only a good theology that is practically applied in people will transformed us into maturity.
Religious culture in Asia are strongly SACRED and SOLEMN, why we get pressure ourselves to put coffee bars, amusement and entertainments in sanctuary? We deliberately junk the SANCTITY of our sanctuaries and altars to chose to the so called contemporary approach. Therefore we unintentionally pre-conditioned the mind of the congregation for entertainment and amusement on Sundays. Congregations demand the best, humorous and most entertaining speakers in our sanctuaries even they are theologically BANKRUPT! Then latter on then they will complain why our members do not want to get involve in sacrifice in giving or to do evangelisms and do missions? The early Christians clearly understood that when they follow Jesus they will literally die. The church in New Testament was founded with the blood of Jesus and the blood of the MARTYRS. Today no wants to be a martyr, because of this stigma that if you suffer you are not truly Christian, it's a LIE! Therefore, no body today want to go to mission and suffer, or even die. Nobody wants to be a pastor because pastors are living in poverty and in a loser situation against luxury and comfort. However, Filipinos has a strong patriotism and nationalism because even in our national anthem “Ang Mamatay Ng Dahil S'yo” Filipino is worth dying for is the result of our natural reaction to invaders like Lapu-lapu to Magelllan.
We are born to die, like Ninoy Aquino was the last Born Again Christian who died because of fighting for our rights and freedom. Yet, we forget his effort and his sacrificed and his EXAMPLE instead exulting and building a wrong monument idolized them. You and I will agree that without the blood of Ninoy it is impossible for us to have freedom. Ninoy was the lone servant of God for building new constitution that frees us from bondage. Then who will be our next blood donor, who is willing to fight for our rights and die? We don't expect a none Christian to fight for the HB 634 and RH bill and other bills to come which is unconstitutional and corrupt our value system. We Christians are commanded in the Bible to die with our self, this include physical death.
It's time for us Christians to get involve, to do a sacrificial thing even to death. Death for our personal comfort and luxuries, death for our selfishness, greediness and corruptions. Let's start do something concrete. Let's extend our hand to help our neighbours, our society and even our communities. Let's have a long term commitment of helping the poor by giving them small amount of capital for their livelihood, funding a student/s for school, helping educating them in Christian values or reaching them for Jesus. Let us cut off the short term period involvement to our society like one day medical mission, mission outreach, one day evangelisms and one time donation. This is not Christian way of doing ministry this is what the politicians are doing before election day. Shame on us if we are doing the same thing. This is a test to know where is our confidence came from? Is it from GOLD, GOODS OR GOONS or God? Let us unite one another in restoring a Filipino values, a values that is a true Godly Christians. We need to protect the Filipino values which is founded in the Bible through Spaniards and Christians long time ago. If there is one major thing that we need to get and embrace from American culture is this alone “In God We Trust”. Let's trust God that this article will be pass to all Christians until we realized that we are theologically bankrupt because we trust on “GOODS, GOLD or GUNS” more instead to GOD. Pass this article to respond God's call for us to be his servant. God bless us all.
Author's Email: jesse_amiel@yahoo.com
Previous Article: http://chrisitinagaymarriage.blogspot.com/ :
Philippine Christians Voted Gay Marriage By Default
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust : “America's official Motto “In God We Trust” was inaugurated in 1864 and It is codified as federal law in the United States Code at title 36 of the United States code.”
http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/flag/main.htm : “LAND OF THE FREE HOME OF THE BRAVE” and their motto “In God We Trust”
http://lyricsondemand.com/miscellaneouslyrics/nationalanthemslyrics/americanationalanthemlyrics.html : American National Antheme
http://www.cirtl.org/abfacts.htm : American Statistics for Abortion Site
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