Let’s not play the blame game
Look, if we are going to play the blame game, I’ll join the crowd. I will not blame the President of the United States for the mass killings that took place recently, nor will I blame the past President of the United States for the mass killings when he was President.
I think the door was opened to this horrific scar in our culture when the Supreme Court in the 1960s violated our nation’s motto by mistakenly determining that reading the Bible in public schools was unconstitutional. I say mistakenly because the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia opened their sessions with Bible reading and prayer upon the approval of a motion made by Benjamin Franklin to implore Divine assistance in writing the Constitution.
Obviously, the writers of the Constitution were not guilty of violating the document they were writing! The problem we are facing will not be remedied by any gun control legislation, because the problem lies with the people using the guns. Obviously, evil people can find a different weapon if they can’t get guns. Why not look to the cause of the killings, which are the people using the guns?
Now God tells us how to fix the problem in the Bible that we eliminated from our system of education to equip people to be responsible citizens in a democratic republic which gives people freedom. His instruction book for living is the Bible.
One thing that God tells us in His Book in Jeremiah 17:9 is that “the heart of man is desperately wicked.” That means people must be fixed, hearts need to be changed; and the Bible is the most reliable book in giving instructions on how to fix hearts. That is what past leaders of this nation realized when they chose to make “In God We Trust” as our nation’s motto. Eliminating the Bible was actually a violation of our own motto.
If we are serious about fixing the hearts of evil people, we are wasting our time and energy if we don’t try to fix evil people, and the only way this can be done is the remedy that God has given to people by having His Son come to be the Savior of the world. That is how the angels announced the birth of Jesus to the shepherds on the hillside there in Israel a couple of thousand years ago. The calendar we use was based on that momentous event when God sent His Son to alter the course of the history of His earth.
By the way, the Bible also teaches that God will again send His Son to earth to give a permanent fix to the evil in the world. The next time He comes, using Biblical terms, it will not be as the Lamb of God as a sacrifice for the sins of the world, but as the Lion of Judah to be the King of kings over all the earth. That will be a permanent fix! His followers will enjoy that great reign of peace on earth.
That’s the good news in the Bible of the God in whom our nation says it has placed her trust. Maybe we should trust God and invoke a national morality based on His Word as opposed to man-made laws only to fix the problem!
Oh, yes, I might say the Bible tells us when the “Blame Game” had its start! It began with the first wrong doing by the first couple in world history in the Garden of Eden.
When God asked Adam why he committed the wrongdoing that he did, eating of the forbidden fruit that caused death, Adam blamed both his wife and God! He said this when God asked him why he committed that wrongdoing as stated in Genesis 3:12: “The woman you gave to be with me gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
Eventually God made it clear that the real source of evil was the devil who had enticed them into the wrongdoing. That is the same devil that blinds people today to the truth of God and the blessings of God, the God in whom our national motto says that we trust. If we do, that means we trust His
Word, the Bible! I am thankful that when I went through our public schools as a child and teenager, I was privileged every morning to have Bible reading and prayer to start my day!