The Decline in Belief in God and the
Bible Will Kill Democracy
The
reason that our Democratic Republic flourished can be traced to its citizens
believing in the God of the Bible and His Word. Scripture served as a standard
for morality and ethical behavior. True democracy will not work without an
absolute standard for right and wrong that upholds the rights of the weak and
limits the power of the strong.
Today,
our country is departing from belief in absolute morality and specific
standards for behavior based upon the “perfect law of liberty” (Ja2:12). Joseph
Kostesich related a statement he had heard why democracy would not work without
the “moral underpinnings” of God’s Word. He explained that without moral
absolutes that transcend personal preference democracy is nothing more than
“mob rule.”(1)
“Suppose
you had a society made up of 3 men and 2 women. One of these men proposes a new
law which says it is acceptable for men to abuse women. The new law is put up
to a vote and the law passes 3 to 2. Is this democracy? No--it is simply mob
rule”(1)
The
world is a dangerous place when the only thing ruling man is his own intentions
and desires. History proves that the “way of man is not within himself,” and
that the end of human self direction is destruction (Jer. 10:23;
Pro. 14:12). Read about how wicked man became in Noah’s day or during the
time of the judges. People left to do whatever is right in their own eyes are
wicked and cruel and fill their lives with evil (Ge 6:5; Ju 17:6).
Evidence
of this exists in our country. When people ignore God’s directives humanity
suffers even with government sanction. Our country still wears scars of the
maltreatment of the native indigenous people of this land, the history of
slavery, the many injustices based on skin color and national heritage. Had
people followed God’s law “love your neighbor as yourself,” none of those
things would have been approved by our democracy. More recently, we are
excluding unborn children from the “inalienable rights” granted by our
constitution. Our elderly citizens and terminally sick people are in danger of
losing those same rights. Doesn’t this prove that we are abandoning God’s way
for the way of man’s wicked imagination. We will continue decline and more
people will suffer from the “mob rule” of society unless we return to God’s
standard of right and wrong.
Democracy
only works when everyone is held equally to a higher law than the one he
invents himself. As we grow older as a nation have become like the Israelites
forgetting that God’s rules and respect for His ways made our nation great?
Have we abandoned righteousness and the protection of God’s word for the weak,
under-privileged.
I pray
for our nation, our leaders and for all citizens to return to God’s way. No
matter the government type God’s people are blessed for following God. When
people are guided by the precepts of Scripture it exalts the nation in which
they live (Pro 14:34). Citizens of the Kingdom of God preserve the nations
of man (Mt 5:13).
Joseph
D. Chase
Fort Worth, Texas
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1 John N. Clayton, Joseph Kostesich via “Democracy Without God
Won’t Work!” Does God Exist January/February 1996 onlinewww.doesgodexist.org/janfeb96
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