Understanding the Government the Constitutional Convention Invented

The founders feared government, because governments tended to accumulate power and become tyrannies. The founders did not trust the people, because the people — in pursuing their private interests — might divert the government from the common good. Government was necessary and so were citizens, but both had to be restrained in such a way that the machinery of government limited their ability to accumulate power. Continue reading at -

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What am I?

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Who Created “Good” and “Evil”?

How important is it for people to understand what “ good ” and “ evil ” mean? For those of us with Christian Biblical Heritages, evil is a very important word . In the King James Version of the Bible the word “ evil ” appears 613 times . “ Good ” appears 720 times . I found this very interesting, because I heard a lot more about evil than I did about good in the church my family attended when I was growing up. That really stood out at the end of every church service when “ the invitation ” was given. It was an opportunity for “ lost ” people to be “ saved .” Why were they lost and why did they need to be saved? Continue reading at -- https://mailchi.mp/a38b5c20c334/who-created-good-and-evil

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In our last blog, What am I? , we discussed our answer to that question: (1) Humans are creatures that share things in common with animals and the Creator. They have the potential of acting like deadly predatory wild animals or acting like a mysterious entity that judges its actions by the TOV Standard. (2) Humans are genetic memetic social creatures . The first answer came from ancient wisdom text and the second from modern science . Ancient wisdom records time-tested observations about nature, human nature and human behaviors in its stories . Modern science reveals objective facts and creates models for testing “truth claims.” Scientists tell us what we are biologically, but they don’t tell us how to interact with each other. Religion often provides tremendous insights about how people should or should not treat each other, but not about what they are physically. One of the amazing benefits of combining ancient wisdom and scientific facts in our research is that ...

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