by Gary L. Gregg II at http://www.libertylawsite.org/2017/01/03/no-the-electoral-college-was-not-about-slavery/
But, Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin:
"SIN, v.i. [Sax. singian, syngian.] 1. To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or non-observance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. – Rom. iii. It is followed by against. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. – Ps. li.
2. To offend against right, against men or society; to trespass. I am a man / More sinn'd against than sinning. – Shak. And who but wishes to invert the laws / Of order, sins against th' eternal cause. – Pope.
SIN, n. [Sax. sin and syn; G. sünde; D. zonde; Sw. and Dan. synd; Lapponie, Finnish, sindia; allied perhaps to Ir. sainim, to alter, to vary, to sunder. The primary sense is probably to depart, to wander.]
1. The voluntary departure of a moral agent from a known rule of rectitude or duty, prescribed by God; any voluntary transgression of the divine law, or violation of a divine command; a wicked act; iniquity. Sin is either a positive act in which a known divine law is violated, or it is the voluntary neglect to obey a positive divine command, or a rule of duty clearly implied in such command. Sin comprehends not actions only, but neglect of known duty, all evil thoughts, purposes, words and desires, whatever is contrary to God's commands or law. – 1 John iii. Matth. xv. James iv. Sinners neither enjoy the pleasures of sin, nor the peace of piety. – Rob. Hall. Among divines, sin is original or actual. Actual sin, above defined, is the act of a moral agent in violating a known rule of duty. Original sin, as generally understood, is native depravity of heart; that want of conformity of heart to the divine will, that corruption of nature or deterioration of the moral character of man, which is supposed to be the effect of Adam's apostasy; and which manifests itself in moral agents by positive acts of disobedience to the divine will, or by the voluntary neglect to comply with the express commands of God, which require that we should love God with all the heart and soul and strength and mind, and our neighbor as ourselves. This native depravity or alienation of affections from God and his law, is supposed to be what the apostle calls the carnal mind or mindedness, which is enmity against God, and is therefore denominated sin or sinfulness. Unpardonable sin, or blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, is supposed to be a malicious and obstinate rejection of Christ and the Gospel plan of salvation, or a contemptuous resistance made to the influences and convictions of the Holy Spirit. – Matth. xii.
2. A sin-offering; an offering made to atone for sin. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. – 2 Cor. v.
3. A man enormously wicked. [Not in use.] – Shak. Sin differs from crime, not in nature, but in application. That which is a crime against society, is sin against God.
GOD The Supreme Being; Jehovah; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the Universe. God is a spirit; and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. John iv.
SLAVE-RY, n. [See Slave.] 1. Bondage; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Slavery is the obligation to labor for the benefit of the master, without the contract or consent of the servant. – Paley. Slavery may proceed from crimes, from captivity, or from debt. Slavery is also voluntary or involuntary; voluntary, when a person sells or yields his own person to the absolute command of another; involuntary, when he is placed under the absolute power of another without his own consent. Slavery no longer exists in Great Britain, nor in the northern states of America.
2. The offices of a slave; drudgery."
Only President Washington, his 16-Sided-Barn, and John Adams "Mans Lust for Power", recognize the connections of The Creator in the Declaration is the Same Creator of supreme Law of the Land that is Grace of God in Christ's Oath, The Two Greatest Commands upon which Hang the Whole Law and the Prophets. And in the Bible "the [Mosaic] Law" with Jewish-strict-written circumcised was a very difficult conflict of ideas about God as Christianity, Peter and Paul's The Law, - circumcised or uncircumcised, -- body's physiology, nor inanimate and living objects-scatter/ secular, is not the basis of God's Judgment "neither this world nor the world to come".
When Paul uses The Law that should be obeyed at all times, he is addressing The Holy Spirit - Truth: " 6I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel: 7Which is not another; but there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach any other gospel to you than that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9As we said before, so I say now again, If any man preacheth any other gospel to you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. .."-Galatians 1 Men = Concrete, distinct and palpable mind, arbitrary human precept:
"..Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? 54Jesus answered, If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father that honoreth me, of whom ye say, that he is your God: 55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I should be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his saying. 56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. 57Then said the Jews to him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am. .."Arbitrary human precept cannot comprehend: "We lay it down as a fundamental, that Laws, to be Just, must must give a reciprocation of Right; that, without this, they are mere rules of conduct-force, and not in Conscience"--T. Jefferson.
"Servant of Christ" is the Contents of the Three Sacred Documents - because God Is...Truth and Christ is His Son, Who was crucified to fulfill The Whole Law- Truth - in Force, because in any of its forms or language and communication of deeds any location on His Planet earth, neither God or Christ may be known in Name.:
Connecting to "America's Original Sin" is to pervert the gospel of Christ.
John 8 from Dr. Webster's KJV: "And the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman taken in adultery: and when they had set her in the midst, 4They say to him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned; but what sayest thou? 6This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 7So when they continued asking him, he raised himself, and said to them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9And they who heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even to the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. .."
"..The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou testifiest concerning thyself; thy testimony is not true. 14Jesus answered and said to them, Though I testify concerning myself, yet my testimony is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. 15Ye judge after the flesh, I judge no man. 16And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. 17It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. 18I am one that testifieth concerning myself; and the Father that sent me, testifieth concerning me. 19Then said they to him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also. 20These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him, for his hour was not yet come. ...President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address: "...It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished
...Whither I go, ye cannot come. 23And he said to them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. 24I said therefore to you, that ye will die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye will die in your sins. 25Then said they to him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith to them, Even the same that I said to you from the beginning. 26I have many things to say, and to judge of you: but he that sent me, is true: and I speak to the world those things which I have heard from him. 27They understood not that he spoke to them concerning the Father. ...As he spoke these words, many believed on him. ...
...Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him, If ye continue in my word, ye are my disciples indeed; 32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33They answered him, We are Abraham's offspring, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? ...
....Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin.....
...Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 46Which of you convicteth me of sin? And if I speak the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47He that is of God, heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God."
citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it
through many perils, and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of
the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.
I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert
that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to
execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being
impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Again: If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of
contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One
party to a contract may violate it--break it, so to speak--but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is
perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself.
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774
It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the
faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles
of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the
Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union."
But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less
perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity.
It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that
resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States
against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of
my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part, and I shall perform
it so far as practicable unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means or
in some authoritative manner direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the
declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. ..
....That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad
of any pretext to do it I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love the Union may I not speak?
Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so
desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence?
Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from, will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?
All profess to be content in the Union if all constitutional rights can be maintained. Is it true, then, that any
right plainly written in the Constitution has been denied? I think not. Happily, the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this. Think, if you can, of a single instance in
which a plainly written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied. If by the mere force of numbers a
majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view
justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case. All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guaranties and prohibitions, in the Constitution that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever
be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions
for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or by State authority? The
Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say.
From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease. There is no other alternative, for continuing the Government is acquiescence on one side or the other. If a
minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and
ruin them, for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by
such minority. For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily
secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish
disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this.
Is there such perfect identity of interests among the States to compose a new union as to produce harmony only and prevent renewed secession? Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A
majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it
does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. ....".
President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: "...On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war--seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. ...
... Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."[Matt. 18] If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?.... Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." ...".
Since January 20, 2009, an oligarchy of the vain-idol-god's forms of 'bigger number' - delusional-democracy's socialist-people-by-groups-of physical and environmental characteristics, 'Person of Independence not only ostracized/ Lucifer Alinsky's 'frozen', but also, strictly forbidden; where Oath - Person directly to God in His Eternal-Soul, because our Founder's chose, with full Wisdom-Knowledge of Truth-to follow Christ-The New Testament with The Old, including the Apocrypha - Pledge is so subjugated that God, The Creator and Christ with The Apostles, including those that came during the interim of "Papal authority-over-even Kings, Emperor's, and all people, reigns as Matt. 4 in John 8's complete absence of The Three Sacred Documents - Wisdom Knowledge for Truth in Trust, Faith in Promise... Collective-people serve their masters-arbitrary human precept's rules of conduct - tyranny -- including all inanimate objects - time, $$$, votes, consensus-committee-think-bigger number-decisions - because they do not know their Soul is judged, not their living-object-physiology among other physiologys; and notably the absolute - despot-'yes is no--no is yes - if the tool demands' even though written by an unknowable-unaccountable-homo sapiens as the working tyrant, or rather, also, the 'slave' to the limits of a binomial-think-tool. That, those persons becoming completely non-functioning when, inevitably, the yes/ no tool cannot function.
What President Lincoln is addressing in the "Independence" of Person composing just the Southern States, where he starts out by protecting their "property" of "fleshie-physiology-skin color", though Northern States have white-skin-servants, and in manufacturing of clothes, shoes, women and children, as a State's right: "their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered: "There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. "; then moves to the threat to the Whole System of Oath-Bible, Declaration - Constitution by the smaller number-Southern States, being much worse a reality, than the issue of slavery, what 'sins' are in "separate and equal station", even through 156 years ago; and including, about 1,931-1,936 A.D in John 8 and 1,979 A.D. in Matt. 12, nonetheless all are connected by..among other Books and Chapters - especially "Captivity":
" 31Wherefore I say to you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men [Christ knew Abraham..thus all His Father Is, so forgiving sin and blasphemy is not the crucifixion, but Truth]: but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. 32And whoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whoever [Singular] speaketh against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. ..."; with, "man serving man in commands of arbitrary human precept "Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned".----Jesus didn't answer for several moments-- did He! Would you?
Instead He wrote something in the dirt/ sand: "Slavery is 'wealthy superior to negro' devoid the other forms of slavery including a collective-group-think-control and manipulation of a man, a woman, a child's mind/ heart/ will-conscience.
There is no hierarchy of sin, wickedness, lie; anymore than there is for following the Love of God, our Nation and our neighbor as our Self/ Soul by performing "Do unto others as your would have others do unto you (society's plural) -- after respecting another's Person's singular.
The Three Sacred Documents are not about 'name-Personality of any-one-person elected, appointed, commissioned, contracted'; or the inanimate objects of the vain-idol-gods meaningless as that idol-god is, of untruth - $$$ - scattered/ secular and divine isolated, dispersed; to dissipated; to separate or remove things to a distance from each other for the purpose of destroying "Whole System of Created 'Things'", i.e., An Orange is an Orange, but when quartered or peeled, will Never Again be a Whole Orange. "AnyOne who is not for me is against me, and anyOne who does not gather with me scatters... Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit. 34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. 35A good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, bringeth forth good things: and an evil man, out of the evil treasure, bringeth forth evil things. 36But I say to you, That for every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account in the day of judgment. 37For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.".
Example, It isn't the 'CA Secretary of State by his name, that steps down --- it is the entire legislative and executive with its administrative-police-state -- that requires removal, and if when this is a true statement, actions to correct or remove must occur, else even the good become wicked by their silence:
">Each level and jurisdiction of government has been delegated the power to punish as crimes the deprivation of constitutional and civil rights of persons by agents of government, and some governments the power to punish deprivation of rights by individuals not agents of government. Statutes to implement those powers have been enacted in almost every jurisdiction, and they cover almost every such deprivation.
>Any act performed by an agent of government which is unconstitutional is illegal, and while performing that act the person ceases to be an agent of government or to have any official status, regardless of what trappings of office or color of law he may project. It is also almost certainly a deprivation of the civil rights of someone, and therefore also a violation of one or more of the constitutional criminal laws against doing so.
>Any citizen who becomes aware of an illegal or unconstitutional act of an apparent official, which is a criminal deprivation of rights, has the duty to disobey that act, to report it as a crime, and to arrest the offender and deliver him to a court of competent jurisdiction for prosecution;" and these are true for Any Elected Official
>An unconstitutional statute is not a law, no matter how vigorously it may be enforced. Enforcement does not make what is enforced the law. What is enforced is a regime. In a constitutional republic, the law and the regime should coincide. If they do not, the regime is not law but anti-law.
>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 Bible, The Declaration, The Constitution, means to obey or help enforce The Bible, The Declaration, 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. at http://www.constitution.org/consprin.htm
Because of our God and our Nation as a Republic, this President is not elected to office on Jan. 20, because 17 of his fellow-country-persons were eliminated from Truth, Trust Promise of The Three Sacred Documents-- by the vain-idol-god's lie in $$$, collective- mass people forbidden knowledge of our Republic under God--- even that Religion and morality are universal of The Creator -- so totally absent that they are voting against their own person in God, Christ - The Holy Living Trinity of President Washington's 16 Sided Barn" in both President Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses - their legacy's which is OATH OF OFFICE, IN PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. He can serve his part of the 320 + million of Americans among the now 70Billion world population, by some of what he has already proposed, but way to short...in the administrative-police-state; and he should move to just stop any $$ with any form of Legislation relating to Climate Change -- Labor -- the destruction of American Art and Science of Medicine...and bring home our industry by labor -- energy -- nuclear- magnetism for high speed rail -- electric cars -- and all forms of media's FCC - Arts Council or any 'thing' connected to a person's ability for Enterprise in "Ideas".... and start using Dr. Webster's AMERICAN DICTIONARY .
Hence, besides the fact of "We have seen an unprecedented campaign to try to get electors to vote against their pledge [a person among his fellow-country-person's Soul traveling in physiological body, those he knows and obviously, those he will never know-- Truth in duty-service, lives fortunes and sacred honor] - by Fellow-Country-Person Gregg, II; the proof of the untruth of 2015-2016 anti-Republic under God Regime's work to overthrow You, Me, and our Posterity's AMERICAN GOD IS LAW, enemies within and without are completely unable to know or understand -- for they are blind from blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.. and yes it does last thousands of years.
Fellow-Country-Person, where are all of US(A) when we fail our Love of God, Our Nation, and in that, Service to God in Christ by following the Instructions, Lessons, Commands, of "But when a long train of abuses and usurpation's, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is Their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
