{"id":957,"date":"2013-08-05T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2013-08-03T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T21:36:07","slug":"which-side-are-you-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/which-side-are-you-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Side Are You On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Which-Side.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-474\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SEV-CampfireAudio-300x86.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SEV-CampfireAudio-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SEV-CampfireAudio.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The heavens, the earth, and everything on and in them were created by Almighty God through His Divine Design.\u00a0 Every thing He made was made totally symmetrical.\u00a0 Nothing came into being by accident, molecular collision, or through some sort of Big Bang.\u00a0 Every thing He made was put into perfect balance.\u00a0 It was all put together and put into operation by His mighty Hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><b>In order to keep the balance, all that God created had to have an exact equal and opposite side or side-effect.\u00a0<\/b> For every good, there had to be a bad,&#8230; for every positive there had to be a negative,&#8230; and for every success there is an equal and offsetting failure.\u00a0 Sir Isaac Newton said, \u201cFor every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.\u201d\u00a0 This all has to be as it is, in order to keep the perfect balance&#8230;to keep the Universe in existence as we know it today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Because of this obvious dichotomy in the creation of all things, one has to accurately conclude that <b>there are only two sides to every thing and two sides to every issue.<\/b>\u00a0 Once you know the TRUTH, you will be able to clearly see the truth to these stated facts and their related logic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Let us now \u201cfast-forward\u201d to our present day world.\u00a0 There are only two possible positions to agree with and believe in. <b>It is either one or the other.\u00a0 There is no middle ground.\u00a0 You cannot straddle the fence.\u00a0 <\/b>Failure on your<b> <\/b>part to consciously choose one side over the other, forces you to automatically choose the earthly, fleshly, dark side. That side is known as the conventional thinking, Godless, side of an issue.\u00a0 Now remember, <b>you cannot bounce back and forth between the two positions.\u00a0 <\/b>You choose one or the other.\u00a0 Failure to choose the Godly Biblical World View is an automatic choice by you to embrace the conventional Godless side of an issue or position.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Position\u00a0 No 1 is that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">God created man<\/span>.\u00a0 This is commonly referred to as a Biblical World View.\u00a0 Position No 2 is that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Man created god<\/span>. \u00a0 This is commonly referred to as conventional thinking or a fleshly or secular world view.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">There are only two possible choices.\u00a0 There are no other choices or categories from which to choose.\u00a0 If you are ever offered a third or fourth choice, then you know whatever is said about its authority is totally fraudulent.\u00a0 It is\u00a0 for all intents and purposes a lie.\u00a0 It has no real basis for acceptance.\u00a0 It is basically a situation in which The Truth versus The Lie, or said in another way, God versus Satan.\u00a0 If you believe in your own heart that God created man that is a good thing.\u00a0 Your chosen position is supported by the Bible, by science, and by archeology, sociology, geology, and zoology, as well as DNA analysis.\u00a0 All of this evidence is backed by documented fact.\u00a0 With this mindset, you possess the same thought patterns and beliefs as our Founding Fathers and all of the founding documentation and recorded history of our nation, The United States of America. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><b>God created man.<\/b>\u00a0 <b>Man is born sinful and separated from God through the original sin of Adam and Eve.<\/b>\u00a0 Man is sinful and evil and despicable before God and needs a Savior who is able to forgive his sins and wash him clean,&#8230; who is able to restore him and reconcile man back to Himself.\u00a0 This is all accomplished through the committed belief in the virgin birth, and the death, burial and resurrection of The Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Under this line of reasoning and understanding, man is inherently evil and bad and he is personally responsible for his own conduct as he interacts with other human beings.\u00a0 Man is governed by God\u2019s laws as well as man\u2019s laws. \u00a0 <b>God\u2019s Laws are always higher in authority and sovereignty than are man\u2019s laws.\u00a0<\/b> Man is personally responsible for his own beliefs, deeds, and actions.\u00a0 Why,&#8230;because God created man!\u00a0 Part of that created being is a brain and a conscience to guide and direct the thoughts and actions of a man as he interacts with other of his own species.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Conventional thinking&#8230;..a fleshly secular world view is exactly opposite.\u00a0 Under this line of reasoning, man is supreme which is why he creates god.\u00a0 Man is inherently good.\u00a0 There are no absolutes.\u00a0 Man would never do any thing bad or wrong on purpose and therefore he is not responsible for any of his own improper or wrongful actions.\u00a0 He was born good,&#8230; he lives good, and will die good.\u00a0 Man is supreme. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\u201cThings\u201d whether they are animate or inanimate are what is evil and bad.\u00a0 It is \u201cthings\u201d that cause or force man to take wrong actions against other people.\u00a0 Therefore the blame for improper human behavior is to be placed on the \u201cthings\u201d that caused man to do wrong to other people, not on man himself.\u00a0 You see, man is not personally responsible for his own actions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The fleshly world view is not supported and backed by documented fact by the Bible or by any or all of the other\u00a0 sciences.\u00a0 There is no mention or documentation of a fleshly world view recorded in any of the founding\u00a0documents, records, or art works surrounding the birth of our nation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It becomes very obvious,&#8230;very quickly&#8230;. which one of the world views is dominant in our society today.\u00a0 For the most part Liberals take the fleshly conventional secular world view and Conservatives subscribe to the Biblical world view.\u00a0 Beginning from birth a battle rages for the control of every human being\u2019s mind.\u00a0 In the end the choice remains with the individual.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">In a purely political sense, is it any wonder that things, i.e. life, issues, and personal understanding are at a standstill in our nation?\u00a0 There is an approximate 50-50 split politically in our nation between liberals and conservatives.\u00a0 Unless and until someone changes their thinking and belief system,&#8230;nothing is going to change.\u00a0 We will remain dead locked and dormant&#8230;.Just exactly where Satan wants us to be&#8230;.unused and ineffective.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><b>There is no recorded biblical or science-backed documented evidence of\u00a0<\/b><b>a fleshly secular world view i.e&#8230;.of conventional thinking.\u00a0<\/b> It is simply an unsupported opinion of people who do not believe in an Almighty Creator God of The Universe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It is funny, at least to me, how scientific folks cannot seem to agree on any thing.\u00a0 With all of their vast knowledge and understanding, the scientists have never been able to create one leaf or one blade of grass.\u00a0 They can theorize all they want,&#8230;.but,&#8230;.they can never create, produce, or prove their Godless opinions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The real question that has to be settled in one\u2019s own mind is whether or not man is personally responsible for his own choices, activities or actions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Our Declaration of Independence clearly states that our Founding Fathers held \u201cthese truths\u201d to be self-evident that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All Men Are Created Equal<\/span>.\u00a0 That <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these would be Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness.<\/span>\u00a0 These are God-given rights and freedoms&#8230;.because GOD CREATED MAN&#8230;.All the other documents and art work surrounding all of the rooms and facilities of the government buildings and chambers in which their business activities are conducted support the original intent by our Founders.\u00a0 Their intent fully supports a Biblical World View.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">God\u2019s Laws are to prevail and are to be used to govern and control the activities and inter actions by and between individuals or groups in The United States of America.\u00a0 <b>God is sovereign.\u00a0 The Creator God is the Ultimate Authority.\u00a0 <\/b>Man is, in fact, personally responsible for his own actions and activities.\u00a0 GOD CREATED MAN.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Now you can argue and fuss and whine over and about this very subject all that you want, but it will not change the TRUTH.\u00a0 The Facts and The Truths are unarguable!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Creator is always greater than that which gets created.\u00a0 Eggs do not lay chickens&#8230;&#8230;chickens had to come first&#8230;were created first,&#8230;chickens created the egg.\u00a0 Chickens lay the eggs.\u00a0 Eggs do not lay chickens!\u00a0 The progression is simple and doesn\u2019t take much thought to understand.\u00a0 The Creator is greater than that which gets created.\u00a0 God created the chicken.\u00a0 It came first.\u00a0 The\u00a0 Chicken then created the egg. For this very reason God created man not the other way around!\u00a0 That\u2019s it period!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">If God in fact created man, then man is under God.\u00a0 Man is accountable to God. And man is to be fully governed by God and all of His laws.\u00a0 That means then that the Holy Bible, God\u2019s Holy and Sovereign Word, becomes the ultimate law of the land.\u00a0 It is the authority to which man must be held accountable.\u00a0 For all intents and purposes the Founding Fathers of our country were in total agreement with this Biblical World View.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Believe in God.\u00a0 Adopt this Biblical World View.\u00a0 Hold yourself accountable to God and His laws.\u00a0 Be accountable for your own actions and behavior.\u00a0 Treat <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All Other People\u00a0 with love and respect<\/span>.\u00a0 Love your God and serve and worship Him.\u00a0 Love all other people and serve them.\u00a0 Do these things,&#8230;. all for the Glory of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Life as God designed it for we humans to live,&#8230; is really very simple. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">You would be wise to keep it that way. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Right is always Right.\u00a0 And Good is always Good.\u00a0 Remember, God made us all in His own image.\u00a0 He made us all the same on the inside.\u00a0 Use the power that you already possess,&#8230;i.e. the power that God released inside you when you accepted Him into your spiritual heart as your Lord, Master, and Savior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Then wisely give back all the glory and honor you ever receive to God who originally gifted you so greatly!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><b>Peace and love to all of you&#8230;&#8230;.Poppa Bear<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavens, the earth, and everything on and in them were created by Almighty God through His Divine Design.\u00a0 Every thing He made was made totally symmetrical.\u00a0 Nothing came into being by accident, molecular collision, or through some sort of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/which-side-are-you-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}