NEW BEGINNINGS- Jack E. Albright

	NEW BEGINNINGS
Words to Encourage Positive Living in a Negative World
Visit our Library Bookstore Archived Messages Below: View previous columns in PDF format by clicking here. *You are the* *visitor to this page* *Visit our Friends:* 1^st Christian in Atchison The Newsleaf	NEW BEGINNINGS REINVENTING RIGHTEOUSNESS by Jack E. Albright Readers may find it interesting to learn that we had outlined this column while we were in Canada, before we discovered that ABC had aired a program about religion in America. My writing companion, Steve Kagin, appeared on ABC News, with his atheistic father, Edwin Kagin. For those interested in viewing this interview go to this web site: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/atheists-conduct-de-baptisms/story?id=11109379. In Canada we had an interesting conversation with a cousin who lives in Australia. His wife is a volunteer teacher in the public school system. She does not have a teaching certificate. She teaches a required subject that every student must take. What makes this story interesting is that the required subject is the Bible. This comes as a surprise to citizens of the USA since for years there has been pressure to provide God-less public education. Now Australia is trying to provide God-less education. The evolutionists seem to be leading this movement. Their methods of reinventing righteousness is to replace Bible classes with ethics classes. God and his ten commandments are causing dissatisfaction among atheists, so Satan and his faithful followers are trying to eradicate God from the equation. They tout that this would remove any religious controversy and duplicate the same moral, spiritual and social values that God and the Ten Commandments have provided. Hey Aussie friends, that human ingenuity is sucking the USA down the drain. Our politically correct society tries to silence our belief that there is a literal Devil or Satan. They teach that Satan is only the personification of the evil influence in our own heart. Jesus had no evil influence in his heart and He stood face to face with Satan and put him down. He ultimately put him down from the cross. The Bible teaches that Satan is the literal devil who is alive and well on planet earth. Satan is the fallen angel who is in direct warfare with God and God’s people. On ABC Nightline, Dan Harris said to Edwin Kagin, who is American Atheist’s national legal director, “It sounds like you are in a direct warfare with religion in America.” Kagin agreed and said, “Atheists have no chance whatsoever of prevailing in a direct confrontation with believers. There are too many of them. I call this America’s Religious Civil War.” Open blasphemy and mockery are their main tools of warfare. He calls our Lord’s supper, communion or Eucharist, “Swallow the Leader.” This to me is ludicrous (so ridiculous that it is humorous) and almost harmless. The only ones who will be drawn toward this kind of showmanship are those who desire to be drawn. Edwin Kagin’s war is mostly distractive. He is popping firecrackers to distract us from the nuclear weapons Satan is using against God. “Our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Eph.6:12 NRSV Jesus warned the young and boastful Simon Peter who thought he was strong, “Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” In his older years, after Simon Peter had been sifted and tumbled by the devil, he writes: “Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.” 1Peter 5:8 NRSV The Bible is clear. We are in a spiritual war with Satan. We are to put on the whole armor of God; fight the devil; and stand firm. Ephesians 6:10-17

NEW BEGINNINGS

Words to Encourage Positive Living in a Negative World

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Bookstore

Archived Messages Below:

View previous columns

in PDF format by clicking here.

You are the

visitor to this page

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1^st Christian in Atchison

The Newsleaf

NEW BEGINNINGS

REINVENTING RIGHTEOUSNESS by Jack E. Albright

Readers may find it interesting to learn that we had outlined this column while we were in Canada, before we discovered that ABC had aired a program about religion in America. My writing companion, Steve Kagin, appeared on ABC News, with his atheistic father, Edwin Kagin. For those interested in viewing this interview go to this web site: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/atheists-conduct-de-baptisms/story?id=11109379.

In Canada we had an interesting conversation with a cousin who lives in Australia. His wife is a volunteer teacher in the public school system. She does not have a teaching certificate. She teaches a required subject that every student must take. What makes this story interesting is that the required subject is the Bible.

This comes as a surprise to citizens of the USA since for years there has been pressure to provide God-less public education. Now Australia is trying to provide God-less education.

The evolutionists seem to be leading this movement. Their methods of reinventing righteousness is to replace Bible classes with ethics classes. God and his ten commandments are causing dissatisfaction among atheists, so Satan and his faithful followers are trying to eradicate God from the equation. They tout that this would remove any religious controversy and duplicate the same moral, spiritual and social values that God and the Ten Commandments have provided. Hey Aussie friends, that human ingenuity is sucking the USA down the drain.

Our politically correct society tries to silence our belief that there is a literal Devil or Satan. They teach that Satan is only the personification of the evil influence in our own heart. Jesus had no evil influence in his heart and He stood face to face with Satan and put him down. He ultimately put him down from the cross.

The Bible teaches that Satan is the literal devil who is alive and well on planet earth. Satan is the fallen angel who is in direct warfare with God and God’s people.

On ABC Nightline, Dan Harris said to Edwin Kagin, who is American Atheist’s national legal director, “It sounds like you are in a direct warfare with religion in America.” Kagin agreed and said, “Atheists have no chance whatsoever of prevailing in a direct confrontation with believers. There are too many of them. I call this America’s Religious Civil War.” Open blasphemy and mockery are their main tools of warfare. He calls our Lord’s supper, communion or Eucharist, “Swallow the Leader.”

This to me is ludicrous (so ridiculous that it is humorous) and almost harmless. The only ones who will be drawn toward this kind of showmanship are those who desire to be drawn. Edwin Kagin’s war is mostly distractive. He is popping firecrackers to distract us from the nuclear weapons Satan is using against God. “Our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Eph.6:12 NRSV

Jesus warned the young and boastful Simon Peter who thought he was strong, “Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” In his older years, after Simon Peter had been sifted and tumbled by the devil, he writes: “Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.” 1Peter 5:8 NRSV

The Bible is clear. We are in a spiritual war with Satan. We are to put on the whole armor of God; fight the devil; and stand firm. Ephesians 6:10-17

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