The View From 1776

Freedom - What It Meant

Marine Corps veteran Warren Bonesteel gives us a timely reminder.

1. Consider:
   The missing element in every human 'solution' is
   an accurate definition of the creature.
   
   Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by
   nature and nature's God a creature of Choice - and of
   Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive
   characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural
   foundation of his environments, institutions, and re-
   spectful relations to his fellow-man. Thus, he is orien-
   ted to a Freedom whose roots are in the Order of the
   universe.
   
   That human institution which is structured on the
   principle, "...all men are endowed by their Creator with
   ...Liberty...," is a system with its roots in the natural
   Order of the universe. The opponents of such a system are
   necessarily engaged in a losing contest with nature and
   nature's God. Biblical principles are still today the
   foundation under Western Civilization and the American
   way of life. To the advent of a new season we commend the
   present generation and the "multitudes in the valley of
   decision."
   
   Let us proclaim it. Behold!
   The Season of Generation-Choicemaker Joel 3:14 KJV
   
   "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for
   oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibil-
   ity of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not
   a man but a member, an instrument, a thing."
   Thomas Jefferson
   
   "Got Criteria?" See Psalm 119:1-176
   
   semper fidelis
   Jim Baxter
   Sgt. USMC
   WWII & Korean War
   
   Teacher, 5th Grade - 30 Wonderful years !
   vincit veritas
   
   "When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"
   
   - Yogi Berra
   Posted by Choicemaker  on  07/27  at  09:22 AM
2. THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER
   Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son
   of man that You visit him?" Psalm 8:4
   A: "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against
   you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing
   and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and
   your descendants may live." Deuteronomy 30:19
   
   Q: "Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him?
   Or the son of man, that you are mindful of him?" Psalm
   144:3
   A: "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose
   for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the
   gods which your fathers served that were on the other
   side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose
   land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will
   serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15
   
   Q: "What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is
   born of a woman, that he could be righteous?" Job 15:14
   A: "Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He
   teach in the way he chooses." Psalm 25:12
   
   Q: "What is man, that You should magnify him, that You
   should set Your heart on him?" Job 7:17
   A: "Do not envy the oppressor and choose none of his
   ways." Proverbs 3:31
   
   Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son
   of man that You take care of him?" Hebrews 2:6
   A: "I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have
   laid before me." Psalm 119:30 "Let Your hand become my
   help, for I have chosen Your precepts."Psalm 119:173
   
   References:
   Genesis 3:3,6 Deuteronomy 11:26-28; 30:19 Job 5:23
   Isaiah 7:14-15; 13:12; 61:1 Amos 7:8 Joel 3:14
   Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
   Posted by Jim Baxter  on  03/27  at  08:38 PM