=menageriekeeper]Dale, it's like this: If you believe drinking is wrong are you going to accept a job with Jack Daniels?
Well what if that's all you could do to support your family? What if because of your Christianity, you helped to bring someone to God while working there? What if you were able to help change the company for the better some how?
Personally I would have a hard time being a politician. As one seems to have to compromise his integrity often! Thank God for people such as Moore who are willing to stand for the Lord.
=menageriekeeper] Now, I've got this job offer at Jack Daniels and I accept it, but it would be wrong for me not to blatantly acknowledge that God considers it to be a sin to be a drunk.
Ok being a drunk, or more specifically harming one's body and gluttony, is a sin! But where does it say working at Jack Daniels is a sin, and such equates to being a drunk? Noah began a vineyard, Jesus made wine, Jesus spoke of people who worked in vineyards. Remember the parable of equal pay though not equal hours?
=menageriekeeper] So just what do you suppose management is going to do with me when I get up on my whiskey crate and begin to rant on the evils of drunkenness?
Maybe you could do more by asking the company to inform the dangers of such? Again is drunkenness a sin or drinking to you?
=menageriekeeper] Just exactly what the State of Alabama did to Roy Moore when he blatantly acknowledged God by sticking that monument where it had no business being according to the laws of our country.
Wrong. The Supreme court has the Ten commandments, most all schools used to along with other Government buildings. Congress prays before each session and indeed used to have Church service within the Hall. Officials are sworn to uphold the Constitution "so help me God" or with hand on Bible. Sunday, in reverence for God, was declared a day of rest thus no official business would be conducted. These things were
always the case within this country and started with Founders/First Congress! Alabama, along with virtually every state acknowledges God in their Constitution. So Moore places the Ten commandments and is found in contempt?
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Roy Moore has a problem with authority. If he can't submit to earthly authorities on a matter that God has no opinion on.....
Actually the Lord does have an opinion on such. Christ says
Matt. 5:10-12 "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you".
Jesus instructs us to build upon a rock like a
wise man, and not upon sand as a
foolish man in Matt. 7:24. You'll find he rebukes cities and not just individuals in Matt. 11:21-22
"Woe to you, 'Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago.....But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you."
Given this, you cannot deny the Lord is more inclined to Bless people and Nations who have reverence for him! Moore did nothing the Founders of this Nation had not done. In fact they did much, much more and often!:thumbsup: God Bless America!