JC Report 8: The Standard

Hello and welcome. It's been a long time. Today, I want to blog about the Bible. In Ephesians 6, It talks about the Amour of God. It likens the Bible to a sword. I have previously found it hard to see the Bible and a sword as synonyms. But then I read my history textbook, and it showed many examples of what happens to a nation when they veer from the Biblical principals.

But before I can list some of those examples, I need to explain the title of my blog: The Standard. What is a standard? Think of it this way. In geometry, every theorem and corollary is based on the one before it. And those theorems are based and axioms. Axioms are principles that are assumed to be true. For example, 1 + 1 = 2. Why is that true? How about pi = 3.14159... Why is that true? I can't answer that. It's just true.

What would happen if one plus one didn't equal two? Then every multiplication and mathematical formula would be invalid. If pi didn't equal 3.14159..., then all the formulae about circles would be irrelevant. If these fundamental axioms of math were not true, then all of the mathematical principles that have been established in the past thousand years would fall apart.

With that in mind, think of the Bible as the moral axiom. I mean, really, what is right? And what is wrong? Murdering is wrong. Why? What is it rooted in? What axiom is it based on? The Bible. It's the foundation of everything righteous.

So what are the consequences of removing the Bible as the standard? On a national scale, it's like removing the foundation of a strong castle. The entire structure collapses. Take France, it was full of God-fearing men and women, the Huguenots. The Huguenots where Frenchmen influenced by the Protestant Reformation. When King Louis XIV declared Protestantism to be illegal, almost all of the Huguenots left. Without Christians, what did that leave in France? Humanists. Naturalists. Atheists. People who wanted to replace the Bible with man's fallible knowledge. That was a recipe for disaster. The bloody French Revolution followed shortly thereafter.

A similar situation happened in Great Britain. It was a mighty nation founded on Biblical principals. For about a century it was the example of a Godly nation. Then it opened itself up to humanist ideas. Evolution. Socialism. Modernism. Britain has never experienced the peak of glory it obtained from the Bible since.

But what happens when a nation is founded on a dependence on God? Enter America. Its Constitution was based on Christian principles. Even its currency gives glory to God: In God we Trust. Throughout the centuries, America showed what man could achieve if it acknowledged that he was dependent on God. Sadly, today, Americans are leaving the Standard. That is why I believe that this country needs a revival. Americans need to realize that nothing can replace God. The Bible needs to be restored as the standard for right and wrong.

In conclusion, the Bible is powerful. It can bring up a nation with its presence, and it can destroy it with its absence. It can defend, and it can attack. Like a sword.

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

Mathew 7: 24 -27