Does the Bible Say God Will Bless America?
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- In Acts 17 the Apostle Paul stood at the Areopagus where he preached, Men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious, for as I passed along the objects of your worship
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- I found also an altar with this inscription, To the unknown God. What you worship as unknown
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- I proclaim to you as known. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
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- And he made from one man every nation of men to live on the earth, having determined their time and boundaries, that they should seek
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- God and find him, yet he's not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being, and as your own poets have said, we are indeed his offspring.
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- Being God's offspring we ought not to think he's an image formed by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance
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- God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.
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- We print in God we trust on our money, say one nation under God in the Pledge of Allegiance, and sing
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- God bless America at our sporting events. But do not assume this is the triune God of the Bible.
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- These are America's altars to an unknown God. The judgment of God is coming upon every nation.
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- We must preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, the only word that will save their souls when we understand the text.