Welcome
Welcome. Make yourself at home in my site.
This web site is my form of hospitality toward you, the reader. The eventual goal of Rehoboth News and Views is to become a library of “Editor’s Pick” links that should be useful to those who have it in their hearts to be godly patriots. This site should be useful all US citizens, including those who do not share my religion.
My name is Terry Haines and I live in Pontiac, Michigan. I became a Christian in 1972. Although I didn’t understand it at the time of my conversion, seeking after Biblical wisdom was to become the most important part of my life. Another strong second interest of mine is politics. I developed this interest in politics after my wife and I were twice prosecuted by the local school district for homeschooling. We were prosecuted for “educational negligence” for homeschooling our eight year old daughter. At the time of the prosecution she was in the 98th percentile in standardized national tests.
Here are some of my goals for the Web Site:
I expect to provide ways for you to appreciate and honor the Bible as the Word of God.
There is ample evidence that the Bible is inspired and that its writing is directed by a God that is outside of time, space, and the confines of our physical laws. God is creator, sustainer, and lawgiver. God has shown us our sins, but mercifully provided us a savior to accept the wrath of God’s rightful anger with our sin.
I expect to provide evidence that Jesus is our God who became a man.
The Bible is a unified message to us that Jesus is Emanuel – “God with us.” Both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible point to Jesus as their central character.
Do I want our society to be Christianized?
Not so much. I want Christians to start believing and behaving like Christians. It is good for all of society that it be legal for Christians to act like Christians. It is amazing how much a society benefits from Christians who follow the Word of God. But Christians who follow their own devices are a horror and a menace to society. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and not tried.
I want to encourage our country to return to the dictates of the US Constitution.
Both our Republican and Democrat politicians are operating outside of their Constitutionally confined authorities. In fact, both the Republicans and the Democrats are two heads of the same monster. Our political problems are often easy to solve once we require that our law makers quit being law breakers.
Wars
Let me give you some examples. One problem is that the US is constantly fighting wars across the globe. We are now engaged in a war on terrorism that we don’t have any reason to believe will ever end. Most of this excessive warmongering will quickly end once we require that the Congress and the Senate vote on all wars, as the Constitution requires. I also think it is a good idea for Congress to vote every year on what military will be in what countries. Right now, our military is in 130 countries in all seven continents of the world.
Pollution
Another example would be the problem of worldwide pollution. Some feel that man-made pollution is causing global warming. Others vehemently disagree. Whether mankind is causing global warming or not, the solutions are fairly simple, and are the same in either case. Give me a minute to explain. We need to allow our trade policies in each country to be the benefit of each of the individual countries. This will cause there to be less international commerce, thus less freighters circling the globe. Why is that important? Why is this relevant to the discussion? Did you know that if we could prevent 16 freighters from circling the globe each year, that would reduce worldwide pollution by more than all of the pollution caused by all of the cars on the entire planet? It is also true that we need to require all vehicles sold in the United States to accept either ethanol, methanol, and gasoline as fuel. This is good policy in case of another oil shortage or OPEC downturn of production. Let the market decide which fuel will go in cars. This technology has been available since the 1930s, and was greatly improved in the 1980s. What will these policies cost our country? Almost nothing. To make the flex-fuel requirement will take from $30 to $100 to install on new cars. It will decrease pollution, as ethanol and methanol are not pollutants. Competitive pressure between the fuels will quickly recoup the cost of the added technology. If this policy was adopted by by the individual states, then a gasoline price of over $2 a gallon would be a thing of the past. Requiring all cars sold in the US to be flex-fueled will decrease oil income now going to terrorist countries. Right now the US is spending over a trillion dollars a year waging war and buys over a trillion dollars of oil from OPEC. We are funding both sides of the war on terror. Both the Republicans and the Democrats politicians are responding to the desires of an elite few who are internationalists and globalists, and benefit from current policies. This will not change unless We the People insist on it, and vote accordingly.
The Fed
We need to end the Federal Reserve. It is not federal and does not have any reserves. The Federal Reserve is a privately owned, for-profit institution. The owners of the Fed are unelected and unaccountable for their actions. Its existence is a welfare system where the money goes to billionaires and trillionaires. There is no economic justification for its existence. The Federal Reserve, along with the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank, has put together a situation where an extremely small group of people – maybe only 300 people – control over half of the world’s wealth. The 300 uber-wealthy oppose the interests of the seven billion of the earth and the 300 win. While our country argues the value of the left vs. the right, we all lose due to the interests of the 300. When will our country decide we want our sovereignty back?
The Anti-Christ
Let me bring up another issue. I am a Christian. Like many Christians, I believe that Biblical prophecy indicates that the next one-world government will bring the counterfeit messiah called the Anti-Christ. I will not with my vote help the Anti-Christ build his kingdom. I will not vote for politicians who do not recognize our national sovereignty.
There are many political solutions that would fall into place if only our country were not on a reckless headlong policy of centralizing our authority in this country to the federal government, instead of to the states. Right now we centralize all solutions to be controlled by the federal government, even as we are giving away our national sovereignty to the international community through the Federal Reserve, the UN, NAFTA, and many other organizations.
Societies with a decentralized authority structure are strong societies.
Our country’s forefathers knew this. They diversified the federal government into legislative, judicial, and executive branches. They also divided the state and federal jurisdictions, all because they knew men were sinful. Consider the words of Thomas Jefferson on state government vs. the federal government:
“With respect to our state and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole. To the state governments are reserved all legislation administration, in affairs which concern their own citizens only; and to the federal government is given whatever concerns foreigners and citizens of other states; these functions alone being made federal. The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government – neither having control over the other, but within its own department.”
Founding father James Madison had this to say about the federal vs. state government powers:
”The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”
Besides decentralizing authorities from the federal government to the states, our country’s founders instinctively believed something that we have forgotten. There are other authorities in our society that are more important than civil government. The four great authorities in a society are civil authority, religious authority, business authority, and family authority.
Each of these authorities has their own jurisdiction. When they operate within their own proper jurisdiction, society can be very good. When these authorities operate outside their legitimate jurisdictions, society can get very bad. As a Christian I recognize these principles because Jesus said that we should “..render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. ( Matthew 22:21).” As a patriot of my country I also recognize and appreciate the wisdom of founding father Thomas Paine, who said, “The government is best which governs least.”
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