Removal of Ten Commandments Monument Symbolic of Rejecting God

When the removal of a Ten Commandments monument took place did God notice?

Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court gained widespread notoriety by his defiant stance against a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama State Judicial Building. This 2 1/2-ton block of granite has been described as an icon in the controversy over separation of church and state.

Another significance could also be inferred. The founders of our nation were religious men who based our legal system on principles of biblical moral law. John Adams, a member of the Continental Congress and second president of the United States, said the U.S. Constitution "was made only for a moral and a religious people."

Justice Moore obviously believes that the laws of God, including the Ten Commandments, are relevant and appropriate. The United States has long been considered a Christian nation. However, in our current pluralistic culture, Christianity has been relegated to only one of several alternative faith traditions. Humanism, agnosticism, atheism and other godless secular belief systems are deemed as other viable options. Many consider the Ten Commandments as a cultural anachronism and inappropriate for any governmental official.

Governmental officials are sworn in by placing their hand on a Bible. Why? What significance does that custom have any more? Should we offer instead a choice of religious writings or no book at all? That would certainly be more politically correct.

The phrase "one nation under God" from the pledge of allegiance must also be seen as an anachronism. To be "under God" implies trust and faith in God and His laws. United States coins and paper currency still bear the motto, "In God we trust." But how can a nation both trust God and reject His law? Can we tell God, "Please bless, protect and provide for us, but don't tell us how to live our lives"?

At the east entrance of the Supreme Court building is a massive sculpture of Moses bearing the two tablets on which the Ten Commandments are inscribed. Two tablets with Roman numerals 1 through 10—a clear symbol of the Ten Commandments—are carved onto the oak doors between the south courtroom and main hallway of the same building.

To be complete, the purge would have to include tearing down these and many other symbols with allusions to or quotations from the Bible and God found throughout federal buildings and monuments in our nation's capitol.

Thomas Jefferson's reference to "a wall of separation of church and state" appears nowhere in the nation's founding documents, but instead was mentioned in a private letter between Mr. Jefferson and a church congregation. It became famous when it made its debut into American culture in a 1947 Supreme Court ruling regarding religion in public schools. Since then it has become a mantra for anti-Christian advocates who want freedom from religion, rather than the freedom of religion intended by those who framed the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

In this paranoia regarding "separation of church and state," historical and legal facts are constantly overlooked or ignored. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Has anyone considered that the strong-arm tactics of this case represent a violation of Judge Moore's First Amendment rights?

The toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein several months ago was a poignant metaphor for the destruction of the Iraqi dictator's regime. Similarly, the carting away of the Ten Commandments is symbolic of the removal of the laws of God from their foundational position in our governance and an acknowledgement that they are no longer considered relevant or appropriate in our culture.

The larger issue here is that human nature is inherently resistant to the law of God. Paul wrote in Romans 8:7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
See All... that "the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be."

This is not just a philosophical issue. It has devastating moral consequences that Paul spells out in Romans 1:18-32 [18] For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
[18] For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
[19] Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
[19] Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
[20] For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
[20] For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
[21] Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
[21] Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
[22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
[22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
[23] And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
[23] And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
[24] Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
[24] Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
[25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
[25] Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
[26] For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
[26] For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
[27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
[27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
[28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
[28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
[29] Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
[29] Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
[30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
[30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
[31] Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
[31] Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
[32] Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
[32] Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

See All.... Read for yourself this passage, a graphic description of the sexual revolution overwhelming the United States and other Western nations today.

A famous statue outside the United Nations building in New York quotes Isaiah 2:4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
See All...: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks." This prophecy of the coming Kingdom of God on earth also states that the law of God will be restored to its rightful role in the governing all human conduct (Isaiah 2:2-4 [2] And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
[3] And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
[4] And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

See All...). Then and only then will mankind reap the benefits of peace and prosperity that are so lacking in today's world.