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But you are saying the Bible is just a Book like any other book. It is not the Word of Redeeming God communicating with the human beings he created.The best-selling book in the American colonies was the Bible.
So what saint ding the Bible is nothing different from any other book written by man. There is no Holy Spirit to write it.Example #43 of America's Christian Heritage
The best selling book of all time in America is the Bible. Which has sold 5 to 7 times more copies than the number two best selling book of all time in America.
Humans can not obtain the position of a Christ, nor do they actually practice being Christians as Christ commanded and taught.I’d settle for an honest assessment from you.
He used that as a counter argument for the opposition to the divine right of kings who claimed they ruled for God and were chosen by God and the common folks were not included."...Thomas Jefferson and many of his contemporaries understood that the natural rights of man depended upon teleological considerations. So viewed, and accepting the premise that man's goal is being with his Creator for eternity, man has the duty to abide by His will and directions, because they are necessary to satisfy man's duties. Jefferson wrote that "the true office is to declare and enforce our natural rights and duties."24 The existence of natural duties and the relationship of rights to duties were quite apparent to Jefferson, and anyone who has studied the man should realize that the only natural duties Jefferson acknowledged were not to temporal kings, but to the Creator..."
Yes, books were rare in the new country since England did not allow anything but mercantilism to exist in the colonies, which included the printing of books was only allowed in England like all finished goods of mercantilism.Example #44 of America's Christian Heritage
The second best-selling book in the American colonies was the New England Primer. Five million copies existed in America in 1776. At that time, there were only four million people in America. Many of its selections were drawn from the King James Bible. The New England Prime was the foundation of schooling that all children studied from at the time of our Founding.
But only one out of five and apparently bought them were Cross of ChristiansFive million copies existed in America in 1776.
But only 17% of the population were Christian. The rest were non-Christians with a belief in nature!’’s god.
Source? Subscribe to Hightower's Lowdown email.Paine’s 47-page pamphlet, Common Sense, was so compelling in its support of the Revolution that it was passed around from person to person – and even read aloud in taverns! But Paine wasn’t content with democratic rhetoric – he actually believed in an egalitarian society, and his post-revolution writings (including Age of Reason, and Agrarian Justice) unabashedly demanded that the new hierarchy of US leaders fulfill the promise of democracy.
Even before the War for Independence, Paine called for slaves to be freed and slavery prohibited. After the war, he terrified most of the gentlemen of means who’d signed the Declaration of Independence by insisting that non-landowners be eligible to vote and hold office (John Adams was so appalled by this that he decried Common Sense as a “crapulous mess”). But Paine just kept pushing, calling for women’s suffrage, progressive taxation, state-funded childcare, a guaranteed minimum income, universal public education, strict separation of church and state, and adoption of some of the democratic principles of the Iroquois Nation.
This is Jim Hightower saying… Don’t tell small-minded, right-wing demagogues like Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott – but Thomas Paine was WOKE! Some 250 years before their push to impose autocracy, plutocracy, and theocracy over us, this revolutionary founder championed social justice and economic fairness. As one historian noted, “we are today all Paine’s children,” for he imbued America’s destiny with democratic impulse and aspiration.
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And yet only 17% of the population were Bible Believing Christians by the time they grew up.Example #47 of America's Christian Heritage
Alphabet rhymes from the New England Primer.
A In ADAM'S Fall;
We sinned all.
B Heaven to find
The Bible Mind.
C Christ crucify'd
For sinners dy'd.
G As runs the Glass
Our Life doth pass.
H My Book and Heart
Must never part.
J JOB feels the Rod
Yet blesses GOD.
R Young pious RUTH
Left all for Truth.
S Young SAM'L dear
The Lord did fear.
Y While youth do chear
Death may be near.
Z ZACCHEUS he
Did climb the Tree
Our Lord to see.