America's Unspecified Godly Foundation.
America’s Founding Documents, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights, indeed were carefully devised and endorsed by The Founding Fathers. Yet, there are in these Documents no mention of God’s Name other than as a generic Creator, no quoting of Scripture, and no specific ideology directly taken from Scripture. For example, The Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, and the notion that All Men Are Created Equal as The Founding Fathers spoke of it are not found in Scripture.
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It's now illegal in CA for parents to seek corrective therapy for children with homosexual tendencies
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“[T]his bill prohibits parents from retaining mental health professionals to assist their own children even if the minor request the therapy”
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People of God: The Church
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Biblically, a people of God is first of all a people. A people is a nation. A people or nation is (among other things) an ethnic unit, bound together by its solidarity with a common ancestor. These considerations seem beyond serious question.
They also present a problem. In the New Testament, the church is denominated as a people of God. Indeed, the church is often illustrated by referencing Old Testament descriptors that apply to Israel as a people of God (Rom. 9:22-26; Ti. 2:14; 1 Pet.2:9; cf. Ex. 19:5-6; Hos. 2:23). This phenomenon raises two questions. First, how can the church be defined as a people if a people is fundamentally an ethnic unit? Second, how does the church as a people of God stand in relationship to Israel as a people of God, such that descriptions of the one can seemingly be applied directly to the other?
The answer to the first question lies in the church’s unique relationship to Christ. Romans 12:5 declares that church saints are one body “in Christ.” Paul spoke of Andronicus and Junias being “in Christ” before him (Rom. 16:7). He further stated that the Corinthian church was sanctified “in Christ Jesus” (1 Cor. 1:2). Believers who are not yet spiritual are considered to be “infants in Christ” (1 Cor. 3:1). Church saints are new creations “in Christ” (2 Cor. 5:17). Whether Jews, Greeks, slaves, free, male, or female, all church saints are one “in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28). They have now received every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies “in Christ” (Eph. 1:3). They are accepted “in the beloved one,” in whom they have redemption, namely the forgiveness of sins (Col. 1:14). Positionally, they are now seated in the heavenlies “in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:6).
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