Originally Posted by NeitherFirstnorLast
AlwaysLearning,
You have said this a number of times - that you've done "years of research". Perhaps you have - I won't doubt you, and perhaps you have a professors credentials and a doctorate in American History, I don't know - "years of research" means different things to different peoples. Nevertheless, while your opinion seems formed and rigid, and while it seems we are unable to persuade you otherwise, I must still point this one thing out:
Israel was blessed because they made a covenant with God, and He, with them. Despite that covenant, Israel throughout the Old and New Testaments, was full of sin and corruption. Reading through the Old Testament, we see a continuous cycle of "a falling into sin, rebellion, a falling away, a judgement, a repentance (God raising up a Judge), a walking with God.... a falling into sin, rebellion, a falling away... etc. etc."
Israel, even today, is blessed by God. He promised them blessings forever - and replacement theologians cannot show anywhere in the Bible that God will ever permanently remove His blessings from them. "Though at times we are faithless, yet still is He faithful; He cannot deny Himself." 2 Timothy 2:13.
America was settled by Pilgrims - Pilgrims who paid a tremendous price to follow their God out of England, to escape a tyrant King who claimed to rule by Divine Right. The price they paid to settle your nation was absolutely horrendous, but they did it for Christ and His Church. They made a covenant with our God on your shores - and while many American men and women have been faithless, I do believe God proved to America that He was faithful. He HAS blessed America, tremendously. Look around the world, the name of America is known (and yes, largely reviled today) everywhere. If you have done all the research you seem to suggest that you have, then I still think you have not done enough... or you haven't grasped the significance of what the founders of your country did... something that the founders of no other nation on earth apart from Moses himself ever did... they committed their children, their lives, and their testimony to the name of Jesus Christ. They ensured that every person in America received a Bible, and was educated about it. They committed themselves to prayer and fasting to seek His will... and if He wasn't faithful, then what does that say about Him?
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