Beautiful Homemakers

  Do you remember the Bible story about how on Day 6 of the peaceful march around Jericho the authorities told the Israelites, “We are sick of this. If you come back tomorrow, we are going to arrest each and every one of you. STAY HOME!” The Israelites were so chastened by this threat that they all rested on Day 7.  (Me neither.) Didn’t Saul, soon to be Paul, warn us to give authorities our spiritual rights, and in fact our life, by demanding to be hauled back up the wall after realizing his intended escape was illegal? Oh, he did not ? Isn’t smuggling Bibles into communist countries that ban them illegal and against God’s admonishments to obey those in authority?  What?  You say, "No!" Thank you, Voice of the Martyrs, for reminders that we are to obey God’s laws when they conflict with man’s laws.  The first half of this post is based on an old The Voice of the Martyrs brochure by Tom White.  I will be paraphrasing some of the...

  During the first several hundred years of Christianity, up until the time of Constantine, Christians were embarrassed when their neighbors called them uncaring atheists because they didn’t worship Caesar.  After listening to progressive theological experts interpret a few Bible verses about government authority week after week, they were eventually shamed into turning in their membership roster and location of their secret meeting sites, give up their hidden scroll copying workshops, and stop smuggling Bibles to others because of their desire to respect their god-emperor. The saddest thing about the above paragraph (which I paraphrased from Tom White) is that too many young Christians today will think it is true.  They will use it as an example, instead of a parody of what not to do.  Here’s the truth.  Early Christians were called atheists and many other names.  But they were not embarrassed.  They were not shamed into giving u...