In this article, I address another of the Constitution’s more serious “camels”—which Christians should be choking on instead of swallowing. Article 2’s Atheistic, Polytheistic, and Impotent Oath of Office In addition to fearing and serving Yahweh1, Deuteronomy 6:13 commands us to swear by His name. There are at least three reasons for this command: 1) […]
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Swallowing Camels… Pt. 5
Posted: 31st May 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Amendment 1, Article 2, constitution, First Amendment, George Washington, imprectation, oaths, polytheism, presidential oath, self-malidictory oaths, swearing by God's name, swearing on a Bible, We the People
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Swallowing Camels… Pt. 4
Posted: 24th May 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Alexis de Tocqueville, Article 2, Colonial governments, Compact, constitution, constitutional framers, Constitutional Republic, Fundamental Agreement of the Colony of New Haven, McGuffey's Eclectic Reader, Portsmouth, Puritans, Rhode Island, sovereignty, theocracy, theocratic, William McGuffey
In this article, I address another of the Constitution’s more serious “camels”—which Christians should be choking on instead of swallowing. Article 2’s Executive Usurpation Isaiah 33:22 informs us that Yahweh1 is our judge, lawgiver, and king. This means He alone is sovereign: He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and […]
Swallowing Camels… Pt. 3
Posted: 17th May 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Article 1, Christendom, commandments statutes and judgments, constitution, constitutional framers, supreme law of the land, swallowing camels
In this article, I continue to address some of the Constitution’s more serious “camels”—which Christians should be choking on instead of swallowing. Article 1’s Legislative Usurpation Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language defines a “legislator” as “a lawgiver, one who makes laws….”1 How does this definition and Article 1’s Legislative Branch comport […]
Swallowing Camels… Pt. 1
Posted: 3rd May 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Baal, constitution, Constitutional Christians, constitutional framers, Constitutional Republic, First Commandment, humanists, idolatry, Preamble, theocracy, We the People
In the previous series, “Straining at Gnats…,” I addressed what is regrettably an all too common malady among people who call themselves Constitutional Christians—that is, the propensity to try to read the Bible into the Constitution or, at least, into the minds of its framers. The extent that some people go in their attempt to […]