WEEKLY LETTER #46

YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH

John 8:32 “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

In America we celebrate on the fourth Thursday of November what we call Thanksgiving day. This for us is a very important day because this is the day that the Pilgrims who came to America for religious freedom gave thanks not to the Indians who helped them (although this is what some of our historians now teach), but to God Almighty for his abundance.

The problem that we face today is really the problem of ‘political correctness’. Revisionist historians are rewriting history and very deliberately taking out anything that has to do with Christianity. Thanksgiving day for us here in America is one such example.

Rush Limbaugh in his book I TOLD YOU SO wrote: “On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including 40 pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of their new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower compact come from? From the Bible. The pilgrims were people completely steeped in the lessons of the old and new Testaments. They look to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedence set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.”

He goes on to say that this was not a pleasure cruise but one of great sacrifice. It was a sacrifice for freedom. The pilgrims had made an agreement with merchants back in London that they would put everything into a common store where people than could take out what they needed. Long before Karl Marx socialism was being tried and found wanting.

The early pilgrims soon discovered that it did not work and Bradford took a bold step and he allotted to each person a plot of land that they could cultivate and use what they produced not only to feed themselves but for trade with the Indians and also to payoff any debts that they had back in the old country. It was through this that they found a great abundance and they were offering thanks to an Almighty God. What is interesting is that the historians are leaving out the impact that the Bible made in the thoughts and minds of these pilgrims.

Another inconvenient truth or untruth that is being carried out today is regarding Christianity and Islam that somehow these two religions are equivalent. The critics of Christianity here in the West often go back to the Old Testament and especially the book of Joshua and say there is no difference between what Joshua did in conquering the promised land and what Muslims are doing.

They also equate things like slavery where Paul admonishes in Ephesians the slaves to obey their masters which according to them seems to condone slavery and also what Muslims are doing today. So what's the difference?

Then of course the Crusades come into play when we talk about the Muslim Jihadist they come back and say what about the Crusades? We do not have time to go into all of this in this letter but these are some of the things that we must look and think through and recognize that there is a difference. There is no equivalence between Christianity taught by Jesus and Islam taught by Mohammed and those of us here in the West must see the difference.

In the next few e-mails for this year I would like to take some of the subject one by one and look at them critically and see that there is a difference. Yes, the church has committed atrocities and no one group has a claim on evil, but we do need to see that there is a difference between the teachings of Christ and the teachings of Mohammed.


Frank Dietz
Minister at large
Operation Mobilization