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- God Desires Us To Seek Him - Not Be Against Him
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"But to the wicked, God says: 'What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips? You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you. When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers. You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit. You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother's son. These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you. But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face. Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue....' "
- Psalm 50:16-22 (NIV)
- John Quincy Adams
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"[T]he Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth.... [and] laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."
- John Quincy Adams: Diplomat, Attorney; son of John and Abigail Adams; U.S. foreign ambassador under President George Washington to the Netherlands and Portugal, under President John Adams to Prussia, under President James Madison to Russia and England, member of Massachusetts legislature, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State under President James Monroe, sixth President of the United States, member of U.S. House of Representatives, member of Massachusetts Bible Society, Vice-President and member of the American Bible Society, gained reputation for his intense opposition to slavery.
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 170: originally quoted from Adams, John Quincy, An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport at Their Request on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4 1837 (Newburyport: Charles Whipple, 1837), 5-6.
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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