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Live as free people … 1Peter 2.16

People need to live free. That’s the idea behind the US Constitution. Because freedom without limits devolves into might-makes-right, the Constitution’s legal guardrails were established to protect liberty.

Compromises in the Constitution allowed slavery; because some had the power to hold slaves they claimed the right to own slaves. And the Constitution ignored women. Still, it launched a
nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Twenty-seven times the Constitution has been amended. Slavery prohibited. Former slaves elevated to citizenship. Women gained the vote. The impetus behind every amendment: people need to live free.

The
Woke believe people need to be controlled. Racists and polluters and deniers (of global warming, Covid vaccines, transgenderism) must be shunned, made liable to economic penalties, even deprived of liberties.

Yoram Hazony does not believe people need to be controlled. He claims we need to repent. He says only national repentance can save Constitutional government. A practicing Jew, he opines that the USA will only survive if Christianity regains its place as America’s civic religion.

Yoram Hazony insists Christians must stop being afraid to be Christian in public. He believes religious revival is coming, but is concerned that fearful Christians could sabotage revival.

The Bible still influences our common psyche. Because the Bible is a revolutionary treatise, America remains a revolutionary culture. Regardless of contemporary exhortations to do whatever makes you happy—to honor no one beyond yourself, Americans cling to remnants of a biblical worldview. For example, the Woke among us believe in the
original sin of racism.

The Bible presents humans as empowered for self-government because each person is imprinted with the image of God. Christ revealed a God who can be present in every individual. That divine revelation dignifies the common person; prepares them for liberty … alerts them to eternity.

Over the recent years our culture has increasingly denied
Imago Dei—humans bear the image of God. Increasingly our culture denies the very existence of God. If that is correct, then people do need to be controlled. And if that is true, we are ripe for tyranny.

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God. ~ 1Peter 2.16

Blessings,
Dan Nygaard