First, my understanding is that this is a Christian Blog, maybe I am mistaken. If it is not, understanding predestination God’s providential involvement with the fulfillment of His design regardless of our mechanations is not possible to explain. A study of John Calvin will help, but again as Paul tells us to understand God we must have the Spirit of God.

From the beginning God has used whatever historcal events to fulfill His will. Abraham’s rescue of Lot, the first known instance of the “just war” concept. The Patriarchs, Judges and Kings are story after story of God’s intervention. Even when we try to stray and change history the outcome will always be as God wills. In Daniel even the Antichrist will try to change appointed times and Holidays, but to what avail? He is still destroyed.

God has used Nations for his will regardless of their interpretation of His soverign will. Meaning, that he used Babylon to punish Israel and correct ther behavior. In the same sense He uses our Nation (or at least did) to punish those who attempted to harm Israel. It is no coincidence that Israel became a Nation once again in 1948! Granted we may have had other national motives but this is still God’s providential leading.

As far as our Nation is concerned, if we are watchmen on the tower as Ezekiel speaks of or Berean’s as Paul challenges us to be, testing everything against the truth of His Word, then Brother we are blessed and nay continue to be used without being destroyed ourelves. But continuing on the hedonistic, destructive path we are right now, it appears the fate of Babylon will be ours as well.

Thomas Nelson publishes the American Patriot Bible and half of Brian McLaren’s catalog?

Huh…

Certainly, having a sovereign who will eventually be replaced by a man such as Charles brings no comfort… At the very least, we Sydney Anglicans will no longer live in fear of people talking in tongues, and will live in fear of a man who talks to plants. At least Rowan Williams will have someone to talk to.

As a (possibly) amusing aside to English royalty being the Head of the Church, the title of Defender of the Faith was given to Henry VIII by, of all people, the Pope for the suppression of English translations of the Bible. As a descendent of such messes, I haven’t inherited the right to mock anyone. But since I grew up on a diet of Steve Taylor and the Wittenburg Door…

But sometimes it saves us having to write explanations of our misunderstood intent. Unless this comment, too, was satiric, in which case, you got me. rofl lololol!!!!!!!11one

That was supposed to be satiric.

Moral: you came from Puritan stock, we came from convicts.

I’d like to add: You fought for your freedom. They were trying to get rid of us. (<–fellow convict)

A Bible that allows us to overlay history from a biblical perspective provides evidence of the undeniable guiding hand that this nation once enjoyed

I’m not entirely sure what overlaying history from a biblical perspective means. Is it comparing US history with biblical principles? Or comparing biblical history with US history? For now I don’t see how it’s ‘evidence of the undeniable guiding hand’.

All of the comments I have made to this post have been satiric (I’ll leave it to the pair-o’-docs crowd to figure out if this remark applies to this post). Just as Shakespeare managed to write entire plays and poems without smiley faces, I similarly try to leave them out of my own comments.

Pauline Hanson

Pauline Hanson

Pauline Hanson

Need I remind you that your monarch (who lives on a far-away island) is the head of her own Church. Bonus — one of the few ways the monarch can be dethroned is if s/he marries a Catholic.

PS: Learn from your leaders and do what American patriots tell you to do. Like John Howard. And Rudd can’t wait to send more folks to the Afghanistan.

Incidentally, who on Earth IS Thomas Nelson’s target audience?