Tag: jonathan edwards
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In God We Trust – Hope
The Lamentations asking “HOW?” are really questions of hope for a fallen nation. Christians hold onto hope. In God we trust (at least, some of us.) No Biblical consideration of our present and passing crisis would be complete without hope. Recalling from our parallel to Lamentations some of the earlier history of this young nation:…
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In God We Trusted – 5
The political ‘spin’ has been spun. The gradual fall is begun. How? lament the People… Why? In God we trusted. “Lamentations” was derived from a translation of the title as found in the Latin Vulgate (Vg.) translation of the Greek OT, the Septuagint (LXX), and conveys the idea of “loud cries.” The Hebrew exclamation ekah…