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Just who is a feminist’s enemy?

I read an interesting chapter in Failure is Impossible:  Susan B. Anthony In Her Own Words entitled The Enemy.  Just who was the enemy of the suffragette anti-biblical ideology?  I found it interesting that many strong men stood up against this new enlightenment. 

To begin with, one of their enemies was President Grover Cleveland. 

The year was 1905; the catalyst, an article in Ladies’ Home Journal by former President Grover Cleveland on the so called “woman question.”  Taking direct aim at the suffragists, he wrote: 

To those of us who..cling to our faith in the saving grace of simple and unadulterated womanhood, any discontent on the part of woman with her ordained lot, or a restless desire on her part to be and to do something not within the sphere of her appointed ministrations, cannot appear otherwise than as perversions of a gift of God to the human race.

He went on to exalt “the old and natural order of things…when Adam was put in the Garden of Eden to dress it and keep it, and Eve was given to him as a helpmeet.”  Then he attacked Susan B. Anthony and the women’s vote. 

The Restlessness and discontent to which I have referred is most strongly manifested in a movement which has for a long time been on foot for securing to women the right to vote and otherwise participate in public affairs.  Let it here be distinctly understood that no sensible man has fears of injury to the country on account of such participation.  It is its dangerous, undermining effect on the characters of the wives and mothers of our land that we fear.  This particular movement is so aggressive, and so extreme in its insistence, that those whom it has fully enlisted may well be considered as incorrigible. 

It is a thousand pities that all the wives found in such company cannot sufficiently open their minds to see the complete fitness of the homely definition which describes a good wife as “a woman who loves her husband and her country with no desire to run either;” and what a blessed thing it would be if every mother, and every  woman, whether mother, wife, spinster or maid, who either violently demands or wildly desires for women a greater share in the direction of public affairs, could realize the everlasting truth that “the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”

Cleveland ended by calling the burgeoning woman’s club movement “harmful in a way that directly menaces the integrity of our homes.” 

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And thus we can begin to understand such a political cartoon — Anthony chasing Cleveland with her umbrella.  Can  you even imagine the President of the United States saying such a thing today! 

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But What If She Had a Family of Babies…

If I were to all the sudden have a severe lapse of sanity and decide that…say… a outside political career was more important than my family.   If I were to abandon all manner of home and family life — somehow I don’t think my friends and family would be waving banners about how great my idea was.  How pro-family is it to abandon my first priorities and duties?  How pro-family is it for mom to be MIA?  How pro-family is it to leave my young babies?  Not very…in fact, not at all.  But hey–at least I didn’t abort them…

In another one of my bad books sitting on my night stand currently, Failure is Impossible, Susan B. Anthony In Her Own Words, I read this interesting piece:

Miss Anthony believes that women should be eligible to every administrative office.  At the same time she is candid enough to admit that it would be difficult to manage a home and children and to be a good Governor or President. 

“But, ” she explained, “that isn’t a real difficulty….Of course it wouldn’t be exactly dignified to have a woman in the office of Mayor if she had a family of babies.  But as a matter of fact she would not be elected.  Consult the records of the States that have suffrage and you will see it does not happen.” (Interview, 1899)

Ahh, but that which was considered undignified and unthinkable even to the most rabid feminist in the late 1800’s, has now come to fruition.  Now,  even if a woman had a family of babies at home, she abandons home without a bat of the eye from even conservative Christians!

Anthony went on to say, “I firmly believe that some day a woman will be elected President of the United States.” (Interview, 1905)

We do not even smell the sludge of cultural waste we are neck deep in.  While society around us drowns, and the anti-Christian drum continues to beat a deafening sound, conservative Christians at large are not getting the fact that pro-family demands defending the family institution.  The family institution we find in Scripture.  Have we been swimming in muddy and infectious waters for too long that we have lost all Biblical moorings?

There is one thing for certain and reading these radical suffragette, de-sexed women like Anthony and Sanger make it all the more clear –we are in a serious war of worldviews.  The worldview they spewed forth was clearly anti-God and they were not lackadaisical in their approach– far from it.  They were strategic, focused, and thought past their own generation for future change.  The problem is that the Church at large has and is failing to recognize the out right defiance of God’s Holy Word and is succumbing to the cultural norms painted for us by these revolutionary anti-Christian proponents. 

Back to my lapse of sanity?  I think not.  I have a home full of children that need me.  I have much more important work raising up my children to be bold, uncompromising, resolved men and women who declare the truth of the Scripture no matter the cultural and societal mayhem around them. 

No thanks.  I wouldn’t trade anything for those day in and day out slobbery kisses, big smiles and bright blue eyes of my 4 month old –who needs me, his mother to hold and care for him. 

No thanks.  I prefer the power found in rocking my own cradle and ruling the world within the blessed sphere God has placed me in. 

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Current Events on the Radio…

When I was a child growing up, I remember hearing the voices of Marlin Maddox and James Dobson on our kitchen radio while helping my mom cook in the kitchen or clean the house.  Now as a mother in my own home, I too often listen to radio and cd’s.  I love to listen to Kevin Swanson’s radio program while attending to the duties in my home.  We appreciate the Swanson family for their unwavering, uncompromising, bold, outloud faith in the truth of the Scriptures. 

Here are a few of the latest radio programs you can listen to as you go about your daily duties. 

Demographic Winter:  Why Women Won’t Have Babies.  (We like drywall way more than we like kids!)

A demographic winter sweeps across continents, and even evangelical Christian leaders won’t face the cause of it. Women don’t want to have babies, because they aren’t raised with a vision for it. Women are raised for careers.

Well, here’s a father who is not raising his daughter for a career. He’s actually embracing God’s vision for daughters. We know it’s weird. We know it’s unpopular. We know it’s politically incorrect. But we don’t care. Because this is what it will take to save a civilization, and glorify God in the process. We’re raising daughters to be what God wants them to be, not what Gloria Steinem or even Sarah Palin wants.

Daycare - Child Abuse:  Time for a Copernican Revolution in Education

A popular children’s author has enraged mothers everywhere after suggesting that day care constitutes child abuse. But what should we say about some of the K-12 schools out there?

Now after 200 years of increasingly cold, institutionalized education, Kevin Swanson suggests a Copernican Revolution in Education. He unveils a new Education Manifesto in which the definition, goals, method, and content of education are reworked from the perspective of a biblical world and life view

The classical Greek form of education separates knowledge from life, the fear of God from knowledge, character from education, and relationships from the paideia. This is because humanism refuses to treat man as a creature of God, created in the image of God, created for the glory of God, and created to love God as a Father. In this segment of the Generations broadcast, Kevin Swanson suggests that Christians should stop borrowing from the humanists to inform their methods of education, which in the end only cripples the faith.

Raisin’ a Palin:  How To Be A Feminist For Life (Classic Swanson Style!! Excellent!)

Kevin Swanson lays out a vision for raising the next Sarah Palins to rule the country in the year 2035. Then, he interviews Scott Brown on a biblical vision for womanhood and the vision for a feminist America. Contrasts form as worldviews clash on this segment of Generations. In a country where the family has unravelled, fatherhood is MIA, where 70% of men do not achieve manhood by 30 years of age, where the debt-to-GNI ratios are through the ceiling, and the character of the nation is in freefall, will 100,000 Sarah Palins be able to salvage our institutions in the next 30 years? More fundamental solutions are suggested on this broadcast.

There are many more good titles…check them out. 

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Brothers Big and Small

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We are enjoying watching our children love and care for their younger siblings.  What a beautiful site….brothers …big and small. 

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If You Haven’t Heard Voddie…

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Thanks to one of our commenters who reminded us to mention Voddie’s blog.  We regularly follow his blog, but lately Dr. Baucham has been hitting the issues hard over there: 

If you haven’t heard Dr. Baucham speak, you must get a hold of some of his CD’s.  We especially love his humorous but bold,  straight forward messages.  It is so refreshing to hear a man, with much influence in the evangelical world, boldly defend the Word of God without compromise. 

Next up on my book reading list is his new book Family Driven Faith of which I have heard great things about.  Hopefully, I can put together a book review after I get a hold of the book. 

Over the next week, in all of our “spare time”, we will post a few more highlights of what others are saying about the upcoming election. 

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Few Topics Fire Up like Feminism

As someone who writes occasionally on the topics of feminism, I can tell you that few subjects lite the back end of the firecracker like feminism.  Whenever I write an article or publish something relating to feminism or the roles of women, I just brace myself for the firing squad.  The wonderful thing about this firing squad is they don’t have real bullets…

We take a hard line stand on feminism because we believe that is one of the top major battles in our day. 

Martin Luther said:

If I profess, with the loudest voice and clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battle fields besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

I have followed the rise of feminism over the years and have learned many interesting things.  One being is that it is infective, potent and extremely deceptive.  I have had much exposure to many flaming feminist extremist and could spot them a mile away.  My family was very active in pro-life work so I grew up seeing the liberal of the liberals.  I always tried to figure them out.  I remember the first time I saw a male feminist screaming at the top of his lungs and holding a hot pink Feminist Majority sign.  I remember looking at that man trying to figure out what in the world was wrong with him…he’s a man…screaming that he’s a feminist…waving a hot pink sign…out on a public street corner.  

At that point, I had always assumed those who embraced feminism were those exaggeratedly masculine looking females who ran abortion clinics.  That day, my view of the stereotypical feminist changed.  I have since learned that feminism parades around in all different shapes and sizes.  As the Church further falls in to apathy and slumber, the fruits of feminism become all the more apparent even in the church pew. 

Feminism has invaded and infected our culture like a rabid disease.  Feminism has hooked women on the lie…the same lie the serpent hit Eve with in the Garden.  The lie of humanism.  The lie of “Hath God really said?”  The lie that you can be as God, deciding what is good and evil in your own eyes.   Feminism has gripped a hold of manhood and squeezed the man right out of him.  Feminism had mocked strong male leadership and declared it as oppressive.  Feminism has declared my rights, my body and my choice.  Feminism enslaves the very ones it has promised to free.  Feminism has exchanged truth for a lie.

While feminism in the Church may not look like the stereotypical feminist image most see in the liberal extreme, the lies of feminism are still very much alive in the Church.  And just because feminism in Christian circles may be seen as less brutal, doesn’t mean that it isn’t still the same brutal, rabid disease with serious consequences.   In fact,  so called “christian feminism” is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and is a blasphemous misrepresentation of the true liberty Christ gives to His children.  Feminism can never be Christianized.  The two are entirely different roads.  

While Roe v. Wade is a horrid symptom of the major ills in our society, it is not the root cause.  Many early feminists, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Alice Stokes Paul, were also pro-life.  Many early American feminist spoke out against abortion.  And get this…..They all wore long skirts and dresses!

Just because they dressed more modestly than the average Christian today or the fact that they deplored abortion or the fact that some had more than 1.2 children did not make the feminism they fought for good.  The early feminist were anti-God because they spewed forth a venomous egalitarian “theology” defying God’s design and order.  And that defiance has led to all sorts of evil that is still wrecking our homes, churches and nation. 

There is nothing like the first female vice president nomination to quickly stir up the waters in Christian circles.  She claims to be a Christian.  She claims to be pro-family…. and a feminist.  She is pro-life and of that I can certainly agree with her on Biblical convictions on life in the womb.  But this whole ordeal isn’t about picking on one person.  In fact, the Republican and Democratic presidential races are just a picture highlighting just how impotent American Christianity has become in the last 100 to 150 years.  The fact that Christians at large are swooning over a mother of 5 who happens to have some conservative politics and is quick to place her in as 2nd in command says something about where we are as a nation…and as a Church.  This is not a personal attack on Mrs. Palin–It is very much about addressing,  like Luther said,  the ”little point that the world and the devil are attacking.” 

And that little point is huge in the future of reforming this Nation. 

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Just a lil’ bit of feminism…

I have a small collection of bad books.  Bad old books relating to the topics of feminism.  One of my bad books is called Women and The New Race by Margaret Sanger…Eugenics Publishing Company 1920.  Yes…that is really the name of the publisher!

I quickly found that when you touch the false god of feminism, it unleashes all sorts of rage.  It wasn’t until I began to delve deeply into the false religion of feminism that I began to understand why this issue wakes up a fire breathing dragon, why it is at war with Christianity and why there is no such thing as a Christian feminist. 

My small collection of bad books tells the chilling truth about those women’s rights women. 

So here’s a sample. Just a few little quotes from an influential early 20th century feminist: 

“If Christianity turned the clock of general progress back a thousand years, it turned back the clock two thousand years for woman.  Its greatest outrage upon her was to forbid her to control the function of motherhood under any circumstances, thus limiting her life’s work to bringing forth and rearing children…”  1

“…churchmen deprived her of her place in and before the courts, in the schools…and society.” 2

…The church has always known and feared the spiritual potentialities of women’s freedom.”  3

“The church has sought to keep women ignorant upon the plea of keeping them “pure”.  To this end it has used the state as its moral policeman.  Men have largely broken the grip of the ecclesiastics upon masculine education.  The ban upon geology and astronomy, because they refute the biblical version of the creation of the world, are no longer effective.  Medicine, biology and the doctrine of evolution have won their way to recognition in spite of the united opposition of the clerics.  So, too, has the right of women to go unveiled, to be educated, and to speak from public platforms, been asserted in spite of the condemnations of the church…” 4

“It is within the marriage bonds, (the roles of biblical womanhood)…that the greatest immorality of men has been perpetrated.  Church and state, through their canons and their laws, have encouraged this immorality.  It is here that the woman who is to win her way to the new morality will meet the most difficult part of her task of moral house cleaning.” 5

“Being the most sacred aspect of woman’s freedom, voluntary motherhood is motherhood in its highest and holiest form.  It is motherhood unchained–motherhood ready to obey its own urge to remake the world.  Voluntary motherhood implies a new morality — a vigorous, constructive, liberated morality.  That morality will, first of all, prevent the submergence of womanhood into motherhood.  It will set its face against the conversion of women into mechanical maternity and toward the creation of a new race…”  6

And it just continues to go down hill from there…. 

“In their subjection women have not been brave enough, strong enough, pure enough to bring forth great sons and daughters.  Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.  And abused motherhood has brought forth a low order of humanity.  Great beings come forth at the call of high desire.  Fearless motherhood goes out in love and passion for justice to all mankind.  It brings forth fruits after its own kind.  When the womb becomes fruitful through the desire of an aspiring love (i.e. planned parenthood), another Newton will come forth to unlock further the secrets of the earth and the stars.  There will come a Plato who will be understood, a Socrates who will drink no hemlock, and a Jesus who will not die upon the cross.  These and the race that is to be in America await upon a motherhood that is to be sacred because it is free.” 7 (my emphasis bold)

Feminism, my friends, is at the core anti-Christianity!  Tell me why we don’t have more Christian families boldly speaking out about the evils of feminism in our culture today?

1-  Chapter 14, Woman and the New Morality, pg. 175
2-  pg. 175
3- pg.179
4- pg. 169-170
5- pg. 170-171
6- Chapter 18, The Goal, pg 226
7- pg.234

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One Nation Under Judgement

The nation is all a buzz with the news of McCain choosing little known Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate and now the news of the Palins unmarried pregnant teen daughter.  I have read countless articles and I sit here in amazement at how quickly our nation is further plummeting into the abyss.

Sarah is 44 and the mother of 5 children –19 years old and under.  She gave birth to a premature special needs newborn in April and returned to work 3 days after he was born.  Now her 17 year old unmarried daughter is 5 months pregnant and Sarah’s husband is…well, a stay-at-home dad while Sarah parades around the country pursuing political fame.  Sarah says she can raise her children and run the nation and reading her flaming feminist rhetoric is enough to send chills down my back. 

Why doesn’t this sound bizarre to the Christian community is the question I keep asking myself?  It is further proof that the majority of the Christian community is so watered down in the sludge of cultural thought and gripped around the neck by the lies of feminism, they can’t determine heads from tails if they tried. 

R.L. Dabney once quipped, “…when the mother shall have found another sphere than her home for her energies; when she shall have exchanged the sweet charities of domestic love and sympathy for the fierce passions of the hustings (or politics); when families shall be disrupted at the caprice of either party, and the children scattered as foundlings from their hearthstone, it requires no wisdom to see that a race of sons will be reared nearer akin to devils than to men.  In the hands of such a bastard progeny, without discipline, without homes, without a God, the last remains of social order will speedily perish, and society will be overwhelmed in savage anarchy.” 

God does not mince words when He states his desires for His women and places upon them the honored place and sphere that only a woman can fill.  Many choose to overlook the fact that He has already given a clear picture of how we as women are to conduct ourselves as pleasing servants of the Lord first and foremost.   Titus 2:4-5 states, “That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”

Dabney goes on to say, …”the very traits which fit her to be the angel of a virtuous home unfit her to meet the agitations of political life, even as safely as does the more rugged man.  The hot glare of publicity and passion will speedily deflower her delicacy and sweetness.  Those temptations, which her Maker did not form her to bear, will debauch her heart, developing a character as much more repulsive than that of the debauched man as the fall has been greater.  The politicating woman, unsexed and denaturalized, shorn of the true glory of her femininity, will appear to men as a feeble hybrid manikin dwarf, with all the defects and none of the strength of the male.  Instead of being the dear object of his chivalrous affection, she becomes his importunate rival, despised without being feared!” 

I have to disagree with my friend Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America, who released this statement:

“Governor Palin will change the dynamics of the entire presidential race. Her admirable record of confronting corruption and living her pro-life convictions shows she is a doer, not just a talker. Sarah Palin will make history as a vice presidential candidate - and not simply because she’s a woman, but because she’s a woman of substance and character.”

 

Certainly, God calls us to confront corruption and walk out our faith, not just talk about it.  However, God has ordained the means by which we are to live and we are not free to forgo the means to obtain the end by our own human wisdom.  A women of true substance and character…a pro-family woman does not abandon her newborn, her family or her home to go run around the country politicking in the hopes of serving as the running mate to a man who is not her husband and striving after a sphere that God has not made her for. 

 

Evangelicals breathe a sigh of relief because “out of the options before us….at least she is pro-life..and seemingly conservative….so that must mean she is qualified and has our support.” The evangelical community has placed being pro-life above being pro-biblical…and has, in droves, offered their support for her as V.P.  It doesn’t matter that Palin is not even Biblically qualified on many levels to serve in the civil sphere as vice president….or even governor for that matter!

 

As in all areas of life, we must first ask,  ”What saith the Scriptures?” 

 

Obama, Biden, McCain or Palin or Hillary…none are Biblically qualified leaders a Christian can vote for. 

 

Our country needs strong, Biblically sound, able, God fearing men of truth (Ex.18:21)..leading… and the Palin family needs momma at home rocking her cradle ruling the world within the sphere God has made her perfectly for. 

 

We are living in a nation under judgement.  As Isaiah 3 says, “As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.  O My people!  Those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.”

 

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About the business of men…

It is a blessed sight to see a young man be about the business of men instead of being idle.  The problem with having boys pursuing the work of starting up businesses is that it ultimately affects me in ways that my flesh would rather not be affected by. 

This morning, I attempted to finish up my growing pile of laundry all the while working around a big box of chirping birds at my feet.  That’s the box of 104 new baby chicks that arrived early this morning!  That’s 104 more birds to add to the other menagerie of birds wandering around in the yard.  That’s a 104 more birds that weren’t my idea!

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The boys had been in and out of the house finishing up the last minute details on the chicken brooder before the noisy birds could be taken out to the barn.  Inconvenience yes…but more than that is the picture I see out the back door…that of the ever increasing myriad of animals roaming the back yard, the bright orange construction fence they put up around one of the chicken pens, the pile of wood they insist is important building material, their Thanksgiving turkeys that shower poop all over the girl’s playhouse on a daily basis and … well, must I go on?  I go back into the house and shut the door and pretend I just came in from a stroll in my beautiful southern garden.  I am a very exact, like-every-book-strait-and-my-cans-in-the-pantry-alphabetized type of obsessive person.  I can’t figure out why God gave me that type of personality and then decided to bless me with 5 boys!  He knew I needed to grow up, learn the meaning of patience and self-sacrifice and have layers of selfishness knocked off; so He blessed me with children!

The point is that having boys pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors and learning how to be about the business of men is messy!  I have to reevaluate my expectations of a perfectly manicured lawn (HA!) and a reasonable amount of laundry and come to grips with the fact that these things just aren’t to be at this season in my life.  After all, things are messy in a construction zone.  It isn’t until after considerable time, effort, dust and hard work refining, building and creating that the construction zone, one day, turns into a beautiful work of art. 

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Home-schoolers threaten our cultural comfort

Sonny Scott, a writer from Mississippi, really hit a cord with this article published in the Daily Journal.  While he specifically addresses the issue of home schoolers from a cultural perspective, between the lines, he discloses a huge issue between those actively seeking answers in the Word of God and attempting to live their lives by it and those who are not.  The issue is simply this. We don’t like people who are doing what we know we should (or could) be doing.

Their very existence represents a rejection of our values, and an indictment of our lifestyles.  Those families are willing to render unto Caesar the things that Caesar’s be, but they draw the line at their children.  Those of us who have put our trust in the secular state (and effectively surrendered our children to it) recognize this act of defiance as a rejection of our values, and we reject them in return.

It is frustrating to us when we see the good fruit produced in families around us who are embracing and applying the Word of God to their lives and we realize there are no cheap or easy ways to reproduce that fruit in our family.  More specifically we realize that we will have to sacrifice some of our “me time” and give of ourselves as a servant to actually make this happen.

It is far easier to criticize the one who God uses to bring the conviction (shoot the messenger) than it is to humbly re-visit what the Word of God says about the issue and be willing to die to our self… even more.

Just as the jealous Chaldeans schemed to bring the wrath of the king upon the Hebrew eunuchs, we are happy to sic the state’s bureaucrats on these “trouble makers.”  Their implicit rejection of America’s most venerated idol, Materialism, (a.k.a. “Individualism”) spurs us to heat the furnace and feed the lions.

The down side of the article is Mr. Scott tends to paint the home schoolers as perfect in their obedience and training, which of course will never be true this side of heaven.  But, I suppose in comparison to the purple haired, tattooed, pierced skin, baggy pants wearing, individualistic, self centered, only child of our modern culture a family with a few decently behaved children will always stand out in a crowd.

While the article specifically addresses the issue of home schooling, the principle applies to any area that may need reform in our lives.  When someone believes something to be true, by their action of rejecting or embracing it, they are setting a standard which will cause everyone who knows of their decision to consider their own practices.  This is true for their theology, entertainment choices, where they live, how they dress, how they worship, their family size, the purchases they make, and pretty much any decision they make. 

When they make a decision for their family it is a representation of who they are and what they believe.  When that decision is out of sync with our culture then they stand out.  The question we need to ask ourselves, is not why are they standing out in a culture that despises the Word of God, but why do we blend in.

How can we be a light to the world, if we are shrouded in the same darkness?

(Gen 1:4) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

(Isa 5:20) Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

(Isa 50:10) Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

(Joh 1:5) And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

(Joh 3:19) And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

(Joh 12:46) I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

(Act 26:18) To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

(2Co 6:14) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

(Eph 5:8) For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

(1Th 5:5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

(1Pe 2:9) But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

(1Jn 1:5) This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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