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Why People Are Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge

From Religion News Service  WASHINGTON (RNS) — When Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia walked into Speaker Mike Johnson’s office last month, the two men already held starkly different political views. By the time the meeting ended 30 minutes later, it was clear they also sit on different ends of the Christian spectrum. Warnock, a Democrat and pastor of a prominent Black church, had raised questions in an  interview with The New York Times  a few days prior about whether the speaker’s Republican politics reflected his professed faith. The senator described himself as a “Matthew 25 Christian,” referring to a biblical passage that features Jesus telling his followers a parable in which “all the nations” are judged by how they care for the “least of these” — described as the hungry, the stranger and the imprisoned, among others. How, Warnock had told the Times, do you “say a long prayer, hold hands with your fellow legislators and then cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid?” In...

The United States At 250 - Day 3

  Great Is Your Faithfulness 3  I am the man who has seen affliction      under the rod of his wrath; 2  he has driven and brought me      into darkness without any light; 3  surely against me he turns his hand      again and again the whole day long. 4  He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;      he has broken my bones; 5  he has besieged and enveloped me      with bitterness and tribulation; 6  he has made me dwell in darkness      like the dead of long ago. 7  He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;      he has made my chains heavy; 8  though I call and cry for help,      he shuts out my prayer; 9  he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;      he has made my paths crooked. 10  He is a bear lying in wait for me,    ...

The United States At 250 - Day 2

   The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity 2  How the Lord in his anger     has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth     the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool     in the day of his anger. 2  The Lord has swallowed up without mercy     all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down     the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor     the kingdom and its rulers. 3  He has cut down in fierce anger     all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand     in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,     consuming all around. 4  He has bent his bow like an enemy,   ...