The Bible On Trial

Patriot~

Today is Patriots Day - a day upon which we remember the lives and innocence lost on this date 19 years ago, when the Twin Towers and building #7 in New York were destroyed by the actions of "Enemies of the State". The bravery and heroism demonstrated by the people that were directly affected by these events have gone down into the history of the United States of America as some of the most selfless and courageous acts of bravery, worthy of honor in the panoply of American Patriots.

A Patriot is a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion (Dictionary.com).

The firefighters, police, military and civilians that ran INTO those buidings and toward danger, demonstrated a love and devotion to their fellow Americans that in truth IS NOT unusual as a function of the American spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion to the ideals that our Founders codified in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.  They died so others might live, and there is no higher calling in our society than this.

There are also founding documents of the Kingdom of Heaven that codify the ideals and actions of those that "Keep the Commandments of God, and hold to the testimony of Jesus". Those documents define the Gospel of the Kingdom, and contain the WORDS of God in the Old Testament, and the words of Jesus in the New Testament, that define the brave and selfless behavior of those that are devoted to  those words, and love them more than life itself, such that those people of that Kingdom would rather die than go against them. They are the Patriots of the Kingdom of God, that just as those that ran into the buildings 19 years ago, will run toward the sound of the war between Good and Evil, and will triumph in the Truth. Jesus set the standard of courage when He faced down death to give us life, and brought the words of Truth to the world.