Instead, Christians acknowledge that the Lord is our maker, sustainer, and King. His moral standards are the ones with which He will judge. While all of us fail that judgment on our own without Christ, His precepts are the best place to start as a basis for right vs wrong and any law that flows from those.

As our nation fractured and balkanizes, Islam likely will become a factor in the US as well. With Christian influence waning and Christians increasingly marginalized or outright "cancelled," the other force of the unholy alliance will likely increase in its efforts against its current co-conspirator, Progressivism. One beast will attack the other. The only reason they don't sometimes isnthat they both work for the same entity - Satan.

Someone is going to have to get a handle on the vision and purpose of the institution and get it back on track, if it is going to be saved. That will be messy, difficult work...rooting out the liberals and heretics, establishing Biblical standard, upholding the word and Word above all things. May the Lord preserve Liberty.

For I count that the afflictions of this present time are not worthy of the glory, which shall be showed unto us. For the fervent desire of the creature waiteth when the sons of God shall be revealed, Because the creature is subject to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him, which hath subdued it under hope, Because the creature also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. For we know that every creature groaneth with us also, and travaileth in pain together unto this present. And not only the creature, but we also which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we do sigh in ourselves, waiting for the adoption, even the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen, is not hope: for how can a man hope for that which he seeth? But if we hope for that we see not, we do with patience abide for it. - Romans 8:18-25

There is another "system" in place to check Total Depravity. He is the Holy Spirit. Above all, I commend faith in Christ Jesus.

Trust is a difficult thing. Not much here we could ever trust in but the Lord Himself. Grateful for Brothers like you in whom His Spirit rests and the wisdom you often share.

For me, this story represents the existence of a remenant of Biblical thought in a place where we would not expect it. When the Lord Jesus openly questioned whether or not He would find faith when He returns, which doesn't speak too well of us either. Anything He finds will be of His own creation and sustainment.

We both know it is not. First, the Bible defines 3 different types of love and the Progressives only see one, eros. Second, every created thing including eros has its proper place. The sea is within the shoreline. Romantic love has approriate boundaries as well, defined by its Creator and listed in the Bible. We don't get to redifine those rules without committing treason against the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. Rewriting His precepts means taking over His position, as if we made ourselves.

Neither is of God.

Sanctification is a process. Many of us have known people who have left false churches in with an interim step. I have a good friend who is former RCC. He was saved thru a Pentcostal church but eventually moved to a solid Baptist church. Trump's spiritually journey, assuming he is on one, is like anyone else's. As he matures in the faith, he will seek deeper and truer churches...like those here on SA.