Who many feel that God ordained the US to carry out His plan?

Question

sorry about the who many

Answer 1

God gave man the ability to make decisions for himself and what man decides to do man pays the consequences for or reaps the rewards. I don't believe God controls every little movement everyone makes. Why would He or should He? If He is in control than why would Adam have eaten the apple? Adam made that decision and he suffered the consequences of that decision. Human kind is given dominion over all of the earth and how we handle our dominion is our choice. If we make the right decisions we are rewarded and if we make the wrong decisions, again, we pay the consequences of those decisions.

Answer 2

What plan would that be? Justice? Tranquility? Freedom? The pursuit of happiness?

The Declaration of Independence starts with "When in the course of human events..." and goes on to say say "It is the right of the people to throw off such governments". The constitution begins with "We the People..."

It was people exercising free will that ordained the United States. It says so in our founding documents.

Answer 3

I just find it amazing so many people take a fairytale like the Bible literally. It's a book written 40 years after Jesus's death. It is contradictory to itself and can be interpreted in to many ways as to it's meaning.

Answer 4

I don't. But then I don't know who ordained the Democrats to cure all the ills of the world's society either.

Answer 5

...you mean like every other powerful nation/empire.....Japan, Germany (the army belt buckle said "Gott mit uns"), Britain, Israel, Rome, etc. etc. It's was a silly, pompous, dangerous view point in the past, it is now, and it always will. God doesn't care about countries, empires, nation states, politics...they are all petty, human inventions that will probably be our destruction.....maybe that's God's plan.

Answer 6

Depends.

As Lincoln said in his second inaugural, "...With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in..."

Jefferson wrote that "the God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time."

The Declaration of Independence declares that we "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,"

And our Constitution was ordained and established to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and
our Posterity"

So, The Founders believed that Liberty is a right given from God, and that Liberty is a foundation of our nation.

And, as Lincoln reminds us, we move on with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see it.

So if the plan is Liberty, then yes, that is God's plan.

Addition: I wonder if "sprcpt" believed Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Founders to be scoundrels with feeble minds. And I wonder why the thumbs down for simple quotes of great wisdom from great minds.

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THE LIB THUMBS DOWN
MY BADGE OF HONOR!
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Answer 7

as a christian
i feel that no matter what any human's intentions
we are all working toward his plan
his plan is that i type this sentance
so therefore
yes
we are carrying out hhis plan
but so were and are the terrorists
that doesnt mean that what they do is right or what we do is always right
but it is part of his plan

Answer 8

A fictional being cannot ordain anything.

Religion is the crutch of a feeble mind and the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Answer 9

Isn't that what terrorists claim. Isn't that what bush said, god told him to invade Iraq. Isn't that what people say who don't want to take responsibility for their own actions, lets say God told us to do it.

Answer 10

Yes, Zeus will have his revenge against the slave god worshipers.