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Friday, March 13, 2009
Paul  Edwards :: Townhall.com Columnist
How I'm Praying for the President
by Paul Edwards
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We should certainly pray for the president. We should pray for wisdom for him, for strength for him, for protection for him and his family. But where his plans clearly oppose righteousness, we should pray they fail. Where his plans clearly are intended to do harm to the people he leads, contrary to the oath he swore before God, God’s people should pray that those plans do not succeed.

Reasonable men are now beginning to question whether or not Barack Obama is intentionally acting to harm the interests of the American people. (See the American Enterprise Institute’s Kevin Hassett, and mainstream media pundit Howard Fineman). Can God’s people stand idle and allow their elected leader to undermine righteousness? To do so is to be complicit in the unrighteous deeds of our elected leader. We have an obligation to hold him to account, and Barack Obama is ultimately accountable to the Judge of all the earth.

During his first 50 days in office, President Obama has clearly acted in opposition to righteousness by lifting the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, reversing the Mexico City Policy which forces the use of your tax dollars to fund abortions at overseas abortion facilities, and by acting to rescind the “conscience clause” which protects doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other medical personnel from participating in abortions against their personal, private convictions.

He has elevated science above God by appealing to science rather than to morality in deciding to sacrifice the lives of future generations of unborn children for the false promise of “cures” for the present generation.

His economic policy, which has been touted as a ‘stimulus,’ puts an unfair burden on future generations as they assume the responsibility for repaying the debt he is amassing, and unfairly takes the income from those who have worked hard to earn it and gives it, in some cases, to the slothful, a vice the word of God clearly says should not be rewarded.

His planned closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay places the security of every American in jeopardy, as does his announced plans to negotiate with terrorist actors like Hamas and terror-sponsoring states like Iran.

His call for government-run day care for children as young as two years old removes children from the care and nurture of their parents and turns them over to the state, undermining parental authority, which is given by God. Continued...

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Paul Edwards is the host of The Paul Edward Program and a pastor. His program is heard daily on WLQV in Detroit and on godandculture.com

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Poor Ivan
Started the debate, made all sorts of personal attacks on many of his posts, Ivan now finds himself discredited, humiliated, and his post content laughable.

And he slinks off, tail between legs, pouting.

For Ivan:

Atheist can’t see any evidence of God.
Evidence of God is presented.
All evidence of God is immediately rejected.
Atheist can’t see any evidence of God.

And the next line for Ivan:

Atheist slinks off.

Gee, I never knew
Owning a far left atheist like Ivan could be so easy or so much fun. The boy is like some beta program, designed by Bill Ayers for an old Commodore, and so out of date and obsolete no one will buy it.

Here is an Ivanism, well articulated by another poster David S on another thread:

"We say that the Transcendent and Supreme is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God Who became incarnate in Jesus Christ. He and no one else.

You say that you yourself are the transcendent and supreme. You certainly say this, because you have already decided that there is no God. Thus, in order to know this, you have to be, in fact, yourself God.

But I simply see no valid reason to dethrone Him and enthrone you".

So Ivan where are all of those facts and evidence you say disproves Christianity, God, etc. ??? Still waiting Ivan.

Where are they Ivan? You have been challenged Ivan, c'mon little fella, spew them out for us!

Or are you afraid of being publicly humiliated again?
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