September 26, 2011 from GBTV video-interview with Pastor Jim Garlow, Skyline Church, LaMesa, CA (on my FB page also)
Important definitions from Noah Webster's "1828 American Dictionary..." to add basic, history lessons:
POLITICS: " The science of government; that part of ethics which consists in the regulation and government of a nation or state, for the preservation of its safety, peace and prosperity; comprehending the defense of its existence [including the enemy within] and rights against foreign control or conquest, the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals. Politics, as a science or an art, is a subject of vast extent and importance.”
1. “RELIGION in its most comprehensive sense, includes a belief in the being and perfections of God, in the revelation of his will to man, in man's obligation to obey his commands, in a state of reward and punishment, and in man's accountableness to God; and also true godliness or piety of life, with the practice of all moral duties. It therefore comprehends theology, as a system of doctrines or principles, as well as practical piety; for the practice of moral duties without a belief in a divine lawgiver, and without reference to his will or commands, is not religion.
2. Religion, as distinct from theology, is godliness or real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men, in obedience to divine command, or from love to God and his law. James 1.
3. Religion, as distinct from virtue, or morality, consists in the performance of the duties we owe directly to God, from a principle of obedience to his will. Hence we often speak of religion and virtue, as different branches of one system, or the duties of the first and second tables of the law.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.
4. Any system of faith and worship. In this sense, religion comprehends the belief and worship of pagans and Mohammedans, as well as of Christians; any religion consisting in the belief of a superior power or powers governing the world, and in the worship of such power or powers. Thus we speak of the religion of the Turks, of the Hindoo, of the Indians, &c. as well as of the Christian religion. We speak of false religion, as well as of true religion.
5. The rites of religion; in the plural.”.
The Rule of Law words from 1776: “Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an ESTABLISHMENT of religion, OR PROHIBITING the free EXERCISE THEREOF;..”.
In 1954, 2011, or any date in the future for the definition of politics and religion as the basis of whether a “person” or “persons” as members or leaders of religious organizations qualify’s for deductions or tax exempt status by the Federal Government’s IRS, is a coercive use of regulations to dictate both “establishment” and “free exercise thereof”: Either the religion (person) matches the IRS definition of religion; or the exemption from paying taxes shall be removed. The coercion extends further into our Nation Under God, because a Federal Government agency gets to define how the word “politics” is used which in “modern” usage-definition is important for the loss of a religion’s role relating to Divine Law as Justice - versus Law by man or temporal law. While temporal law, man’s definition of law without God via today’s open-society-socialism, it is not a religion by any sense of the word -even though it can write regulations against the practice of obedience and accountability to God’s Laws. The IRS is attached to this current Administration. Peter in Romans Chapters 4,5,6 spends time between these two uses of the word “politics” as lessons from Jesus. Of course not limited to Romans, any more than the Entire Bible defining religion as obedience to God’s Laws with accountability by each “person” to God and to our Nation’s Supreme Law named Constitution. “The individual component of the polity is the person,.. (Declaration of Constitutional Principles)”.
Religion does not include those “persons” with their organizations which are disobedient to God’s Laws such as, Reverend Wright; Mr. Phelps, the Baptist Minister of “God Hates the U.S.A.” fame versus the “exercise” of a Catholic Ceremonies; or Radical Jihad-Islam as examples of violations of “The Ten Commandments” most commonly “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” with “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” and “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, the most common crimes of omission, commission, and positive transgression. Allowing disobedience to God’s Laws with allowing continued tax-exempt status for that church or organization, adds to the violation of the 14th Amendment of equal protection under the law. See, a whole bag of man as homo sapiens with the ability to “deprive others of those (Natural) rights (Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of happiness - your happiness isn’t my happiness) one-person-at-a-time.....just like accountable to God is one-person-at-a time, appears. In open-society, all manner of regulations are required to fill the gaps between the establishment-exercise with the extension of “modern” which might include the “..moral duties without a belief in a divine lawgiver..”.
No matter how a “person” of “Rule of Law” looks at the IRS coercion versus the establishment-exercise of religion, the IRS as government doe not belong in any manner of money in regards to God’s Laws “..For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38,39 (“American Patriot’s Bible, the word of God and the Shaping of America” by Richard Lee; Thomas Nelson and Son publisher; NKJV).
God in THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT: “In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-written, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc.
Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves.... “11 November 1620. We were “America”.
God in our Declaration of Independence: “When in the course of human events...and assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of nature’s God entitle them...”..all men are created equal..” “..that to secure these rights Governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...” and most important of all because it reflects yesterday, today, and the entirety of our posterity: “..And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor. It is very hard for many Americans to realize, for it takes a lot of Research, Reading, Reflecting, and Relating, that our Declaration of Independence is “The Second Covenant with God”. We became “The United States of America”. Mayflower Compact identify’s itself as the First Covenant of God.
God in our Constitution: “The individual component of the polity is the “person”, which is defined as ANY BEING consisting of or having the essential cognitive attributes of a member of the species homo sapiens, including BOTH the capacity to compete with others for the means to exercise the natural rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and the capacity to regulate its competitive actions to avoid depriving others of those rights and to sacrifice itself for the greater food of the polity as a whole or for their common posterity.” AND “The natural rights of persons are inalienable, preceding the social contract and the constitution, and persons may not be deprived of them even with their consent, since they do not have the power to surrender those rights, and therefore do not have the power to delegate the deprivation of those rights to others.” AND “Whenever any person is confronted with a situation in which two or more official acts are in conflict, he has the duty to know which is the superior one, and to obey or help enforce the superior one, which, if one of them is the constitution, means to obey or help enforce the constitution. This duty cannot be delegated to another person: not to a superior, a court, or a legal advisor. It is not a defense that one was ignorant of the law or just doing one’s job or following orders. This is sometimes called the Principle of Nuremberg.
These choices, among “The Declaration of Constitutional Principles”, are made because religion as obedience to God’s Laws is taught by the exercise of the religion especially relating to our Posterity represented by young persons who shall enter into the privilege, duties, and immunities of citizenship as an American. Church and religion have distinct responsibilities to impart the Lord’s instructions contained in every Book of both New and Old Testament of The Bible which, you’ll remember was, and should remain, the first textbook of reading and learning. Our spirit of our testimony to Living God in Christ, now in this moment reading this essay, is reason enough for government with its insatiable appetite for the earnings of citizens as taxes via IRS regulations, to leave the First Amendment alone... and simply stop...any 501 of any description. For the rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of each person’s happiness is unique to that person as One with God — as well as One with our Nation through our Constitution of the United States of America.
God in our daily lives: as we pursue life, liberty, and happiness in love of God, Truth as part of life’s challenge, and love of all the Natural Rights represent to each One-Person-One-at-at-a-time represent — with its unique application of law to life from all the above which is inherent to the duties of establishment and exercise of religion and its expression via Freedom of Speech #2 of 5 parts of the First Amendment.http://web.gbtv.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=19659171&topic_id=24584158&tcid=vpp_copy_19659171&v=3
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