Obama's moral clarity deficit

by Matt Barber
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Indeed our debonair young Commander-in-Chief sees the world through the murkiest of gray-colored glasses. Though evidence of this abounds, I can think of no starker example than his opposition to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

Born Alive very simply requires that when a baby survives an attempted abortion – when she is "born alive" – further attempts to kill her must immediately cease and steps must be taken to save her life.

In 2002, Born Alive passed the U.S. Senate with unanimous, bipartisan support. Yet Obama, while serving in the Illinois Senate, vehemently opposed its Illinois twin. He complained that "adding an additional doctor" (read: an actual doctor) to save the child's life is "really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion."

Did you get that? To require that a doctor save the child survivor of a botched abortion would "burden the original decision" of the mother to kill her. The not-so-subtle implication, of course, is that they should, instead, put her aside until she dies. Or – as I attempt to hone that moral clarity, passé though it may be – deliberately kill her through wanton neglect.

This is infanticide by any objective measure; but not to the moral relativist, and not to Barack Obama. There is no such thing as an "objective measure," you see, only a subjective "choice."

So here it is in black and white -- Black: It's always wrong to kill babies. White: Doctors should make every effort to save the life of babies born alive. Gray: To require such would "burden the original decision" of a mother to kill her baby.

Black: It's always wrong to kill peaceful protesters. White: The U.S. demands the killing stop or we will stop it. Gray: We're monitoring the situation to see how it plays out.

Then again, I ask: Why should we expect moral clarity from this president? How can we expect him to value the lives of innocent Iranians halfway around the world when he doesn't even value the lives of the most innocent of his fellow citizens?

We can't.

But we can hold him accountable for it.

Calvin vs. Chesterstreet on 2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Calvin - 9. But the Lord is not slack, or, delays not. He checks extreme and unreasonable haste by another reason, that is, that the Lord defers his coming that he might invite all mankind to repentance. For our minds are always prurient, and a doubt often creeps in, why he does not come sooner. But when we hear that the Lord, in delaying, shews a concern for our salvation, and that he defers the time because he has a care for us, there is no reason why we should any longer complain of tardiness. He is tardy who allows an occasion to pass by through slothfulness: there is nothing like this in God, who in the best manner regulates time to promote our salvation. And as to the duration of the whole world, we must think exactly the same as of the life of every individual; for God by prolonging time to each, sustains him that he may repent. In the like manner he does not hasten the end of the world, in order to give to all time to repent.

This is a very necessary admonition, so that we may learn to employ time aright, as we shall otherwise suffer a just punishment for our idleness.

Not willing that any should perish. So wonderful is his love towards mankind, that he would have them all to be saved, and is of his own self prepared to bestow salvation on the lost. But the order is to be noticed, that God is ready to receive all to repentance, so that none may perish; for in these words the way and manner of obtaining salvation is pointed out. Every one of us, therefore, who is desirous of salvation, must learn to enter in by this way.

But it may be asked, If God wishes none to perish, why is it that so many do perish? To this my answer is, that no mention is here made of the hidden purpose of God, according to which the reprobate are doomed to their own ruin, but only of his will as made known to us in the gospel. For God there stretches forth his hand without a difference to all, but lays hold only of those, to lead them to himself, whom he has chosen before the foundation of the world.


Chesterstreet - I humbly submit, God's will can mean two different things. One which is moral and the other is Sovereign. In other words, God desires (moral will) obedience, holiness, salvation, and life. His eternal plan (Sovereign will) is always made certain and that includes evil, wickedness, hell, and sin.

Daniel 4:35 makes it utterly clear God does whatever He wants, His will is unmovable as the world's history plays out, and not a single thing can stop it.

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
But He does according to His will in the host of heaven
And among the inhabitants of earth;
And no one can ward off His hand
Or say to Him, 'What have You done?'

Pretty clear, eh?

However, if God's will is only Sovereign, He must be the author of evil the way I see it, and man's disobedience takes on a whole new meaning (or no meaning at all) - disobedience becomes impossible since God ordained it. In addition, morality becomes insignificant if the only will of God is His Sovereign will.

Is this without difficulties? No, but I rest here today.

What a judgeless nation looks like

A nation that makes no moral judgments is doomed for destruction. The absolute necessity of making moral judgments is built into creation itself. No man is without excuse.

The do not judge crowd has but one alternative; allow evil to flourish and call that which is utter wickedness and evil - good.

Here’s a nation, among others, that has not heeded such truths:

Sweden rules 'gender-based' abortion legal

Swedish parents keep 2-year-old's gender secret

Swedish national library in child porn scandal

Sweden pays man after sex with 14-year-old

Police: Swedish teens offering sex for booze

Man raped in Stockholm suburb

Woman charged for raping another woman

Man sentenced to eight years for child rape

The book of Job and God's Value

One question that is not often addressed about the book of Job, is the question about God's Value. We often hear about God's Justice; why does a "blameless" man suffer, but what about the Value of God in and of itself?

In the beginning of Job we are witnesses to a conversation between Satan and God. Satan is fundamentally making an accusation against God, not simply accusing Job. Satan is basically saying - 'hey God, you know there is nothing about you that's worth serving, other than man being afraid of you and man worrying that you might withhold blessing.'

Is there any reason of value enough for a person to love and serve God if God takes away everything?

Is there any reason to value God for just who He is?

If you truly know God, you will serve and praise Him in all circumstances, why?

Job 19:25 "as for me, I know my Redeemer lives," and 19:27 "and whom my eyes will see"

These verses are utterly astounding in light of the Old Testament's time period and the limited knowledge of life after death. God's sovereign power is reflected in His creation and His care for it. We have no idea, as God's answer to Job reveals, how great the forces of chaos and evil are in this world. Nor do we have the right to know God's detailed eternal plans, although we most certainly have the right and priveldge to ask Him. What we should and must know is that God is in complete control of all, and not one of His children will be snatched away. This God-Satan conversation is not a water cooler wager over what Job will do; it does however tell us human wisdom will never answer all the issues of life - only God can do that.

Our eyes, like Job's eyes, will one day see this in the presence of our creator and redeemer.

So, why value God for just who He is? He is God, and we are not.

Job 38:8-11 - in a nut shell says - The raging forces of evil and chaos are but a little baby infant that God puts a diaper on and sets in a play pen and says "stay put."

Until you recognize God's wisdom; wisdom built into creation itself (btw man is the only creature created in HIS image); you'll continue to make idols out of scarecrows, place them in your melon patch of half truths, get your neighbors to follow your lead, and you will worship a false god until it's too late.

God is in complete control, and God's gifts are never earned; and true knowledge of God is indeed a gift, His act of grace.

The White House Issues Benefits to Same-Sex Partners of Government Employees

lc.org update:
On June 17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed a presidential memorandum granting benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. President Obama’s action follows closely behind his proclamation declaring June to be “LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgendered) Pride Month” as a second official action favoring the homosexual community. As a result, for the first time in our nation’s history, homosexual partners of federal employees will receive benefits just short of health insurance and retirement funding.

Relared artice [A matter of pride?
R. Albert Mohler, Jr. - "Morally serious persons must take the president's proclamation as a morally serious act. As such, it demands a response. Evangelical Christians dare not respond with a claim of moral superiority as if we are not ourselves sinners. But we must be clear that we cannot find pride in sin, whether these are our own sins or those of others. The Gospel of Christ simply does not allow us to see sin -- any sin -- as a matter of pride." ]

Traditional marriage is the building block of a stable society and a foundational Biblical principle. With a stroke of his pen, the President has single-handedly undermined the foundation of marriage with no input from the legislature, judiciary or the people of the United States.

Responsible citizenship requires action. One of the most effective ways to express your displeasure over President Obama's action is to politely call the White House through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

What homosexual activists in schools do with children

MassResistance update: Transcripts and audio tapes are now PUBLIC for all the nation to hear and read! Please pass along.

NOTE: Kevin Jennings, the founder of GLSEN has just been appointed by the Obama administration to run the Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools in the US Department of Education! Jennings was running GLSEN at the time of this conference and defended it..
"Fisting [forcing one's entire hand into another person's rectum or vagina] often gets a bad rap....[It's] an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with...[and] to put you into an exploratory mode."

Have you wondered what homosexual activists do when they are alone with kids in the tax-funded “gay clubs” in schools and other activities? It’s not pretty. In fact, it’s very disgusting. Now you can hear for yourself.

The above quotation comes from Massachusetts Department of Education employees describing the pleasures of homosexual sex to a group of high school students at a state-sponsored workshop on March 25, 2000.

We have the actual audio recordings of what went on at one such event in March of 2000. Children as young as 12 were instructed by adults (state employees!) how to perform a range of dangerous and perverted homosexual sex acts.

These included: homosexual oral sex techniques, inserting one’s entire hand in someone else’s rectum, sado-masochism techniques, girls using “dildos” and rubbing their sex organs together for pleasure, and much more.

Lukewarm vomit

Pastor DL Foster posts a commenter's questions:


1. Other than tolerance of Homosexuality, what other sinful topics or behaviors do you see the church participating in?


2. Do you see this same sinful behavior at the Churches that you attend regularly?


3. How do you feel that this topic relates to the different denominations within the church ie.(Baptist vs. Apostolic vs. Catholic etc?


Luke 11:47-51 NASB reads:

47 "Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.


48 "So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.


49 "For this reason also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute,


50 so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,


51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.'



So, what does this have to do with answering the questions?


Think about it folks. Jesus is saying you have already KILLED the righteous prophets!


Why?...


because you HATE the Truth and not only have you killed all those prophets who have delivered the Truth, you hate the Truth so much you are ready and willing to kill God Himself - this Christ Jesus.

When we leave our first love (God's word) we are preparing ourselves for judgement, and that judgement is coming with Christ's second return. No amount of "love" or dialogue with differing "faiths" will stop it. Nor will our "feelings" or our "intentions" about such Truths be considered even for a moment.


God hates lukewarm faith, it is worse than vomit as a thirst quencher. It seems to me these questions seek a luke-warmness that are comfortably found in the gay christian movement; a movement that is utterly political and temporal - a drink of lukewarm vomit at its best.

Revelation 3:16 'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

These questions imply, in my opinion, - there are other sins the church must deal with other than homosexuality ya know!

Yes there are - but no other movement within the church has been more successful at destroying the word of God as the gay christian movement. Why? Because like the ancient Israelites, we are being guided and seduced by the prevailing attitudes of the culture we live in; we want God but we want Him on our terms, not His. We might as well go make scarecrows and set them in a melon patch and go worship them!



The church has been delivered the Truth and is without excuse.


Make no mistake, the righteous will indeed suffer. Proper worship starts and ends with the heart, mind, body and soul. Obedience is an act of worship and is fueled by faith.


My question to you - have you suffered since you became saved, or are you still asking the same asinine questions, answering these questions yourself without God's word, and are you living the same way you always have?


Revelation 3:18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

19 'Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.


20 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.


21 'He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.


22 'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"

Don't Pray for America

WASHINGTON -

In a speech to the group on Saturday, Clinton said that given the growing numbers of Muslims, Hindus and other religious groups here, Americans should be mindful of the nation's changing demographics, which led to the election of Barack Obama as president.

Clinton said by 2050 the U.S. will no longer have a majority of people with European heritage and that in an interdependent world "this is a very positive thing."

Jack Kelley, founder of www.gracethrufaith.com, recently wrote an excellent article about this very thing. In it Jack says: "According to no less an authority than our President (and he's right) America is not a Christian nation. The only connection between God and America today is that a bunch of us who believe in Him happen to live here. . . . America is a secular gentile nation that will soon be no more comfortable a home for the church than pre-war Germany was for the Jews."

Jeremiah 7:13"And now, because you have done all these things," declares the LORD, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer,
14 therefore, I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
15 "I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim.
16 "As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you.

Part One: The Fundamentals on being a Fundie (aka a flat earther and Saved)

Some times we get too comfortable and forget the obvious; by "obvious" I mean that which is fundamental towards either being God's enemy or one of His own - i.e. Salvation verses Hell. Yes folks (self professed Christians), you should question yourself about whether you are saved or not. I know this concept is not popular these days, but it is absolutely necessary if you truly care where you spend eternity.

Salvation Fundamental Number One: 1 John 4:1-3

Test the spirits! In other words if you are open minded and tolerant of any idea - you are God's enemy.

2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world.

Example: You have accepted the spirit that speaks to you and says "God is love and no love can ever be wrong" - count yourself among the dead and hear God's warning; "woe to you" - a funeral term indicating your death before it has happened; AND you accept any idea that Jesus was not who He said he was; God in flesh.

to be continued...

Students Rebel at Graduation Against the ACLU’s Bullying Tactics

Santa Rosa County, FL - Nearly 400 graduating seniors at Pace High School stood up in protest against the ACLU and recited the Lord’s Prayer during their graduation ceremony on Saturday. Many of the students also painted crosses on their graduation caps to make a statement of faith. This event follows a lawsuit the ACLU filed against the Santa Rosa County School District, claiming some of the teachers and administration endorsed religion. Liberty Counsel represents Pace High School Principal Frank Lay and school teacher Michelle Winkler.The graduation prayer protest by the students was preceded by a lawsuit filed six months ago by the ACLU. The school district entered into a consent decree, which essentially bans all Santa Rosa County School District employees from engaging in prayer or religious activities. The ACLU alleges that during a dinner event held at Pace High School, Principal Lay asked the athletic director to bless the meal. In another incident, the ACLU alleges that Michelle Winkler’s husband, who is not a school board employee, offered prayer at an awards ceremony. Leading up to the graduation ceremony, the ACLU demanded the school to censor students from offering prayers or saying anything religious. The ACLU then charged Principal Lay and Ms. Winkler with contempt of court.

The students at Pace High School were furious with the ACLU hijacking their free speech rights and decided to take a stand at graduation. As soon as Principal Lay asked everyone to be seated at the ceremony, the graduating class remained standing and recited the Lord’s Prayer. The ACLU has not taken any legal action yet but has stated that something should have been done to stop the prayer.

Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: “Neither students nor teachers shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate. The students at Pace High School refused to remain silent and were not about to be bullied by the ACLU. We have decided to represent faculty, staff and students of Pace High School, because the ACLU is clearly violating their First Amendment rights. Schools are not religion-free zones, and any attempt to make them so is unconstitutional.”

Smile!

Recently Michelle Obama went to serve food to the homeless at a government funded soup kitchen .

Cost of a bowl of soup at homeless shelter $0.00 dollars.

Having Michelle Obama serve your soup $0.00 dollars.

A homeless person who is receiving government funded meals while taking a picture of the first lady using his $500 Black Berry cell phone $$$$ Priceless!