Perplexing Billboard (grace, America, Holy Spirit, Israel)

[RememberMee]

These billboards could be found along I-70 in Indiana. Is it megalomania of Christian Nationalism - American exceptionalism or it's something else? I still can't get it.

[Follower Of X]

it is what it says... America needs to stop asking and start giving.

[Vizio]

I think it's a statement that America needs to look to God for help.

[RememberMee]

Originally Posted by Follower Of X

it is what it says... America needs to stop asking and start giving.

America blessing God? Now that's humility.

America blesses God so God could bless America. Why do you need that middleman God? Why don't just "America Bless America"?

[RememberMee]

Originally Posted by Follower Of X

it is what it says... America needs to stop asking and start giving.

America blessing God is looking down on God not up. How can exactly America bless God? Doesn't "blessing" require some sort of supernatural abilities?

[.sparrow.]

I googled it and found this:
The man behind the message: America - Bless God » News » Rushville Republican

[Vizio]

Originally Posted by RememberMee

America blessing God is looking down on God not up. How can exactly America bless God? Doesn't "blessing" require some sort of supernatural abilities?

God the Holy Spirit would disagree.

103: OF DAVID.
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name!
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 He will not always chide,
nor will he keep his anger forever.
10 He does not deal with us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
13 As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.
14 For he knows our frame;
he remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like grass;
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
17 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children’s children,
18 to those who keep his covenant
and remember to do his commandments.
19 The LORD has established his throne in the heavens,
and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Bless the LORD, O you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his word,
obeying the voice of his word!
21 Bless the LORD, all his hosts,
his ministers, who do his will!
22 Bless the LORD, all his works,
in all places of his dominion.
Bless the LORD, O my soul!

[jdaelectro]

Which god?

I've never understood how Christians automatically think that the god on the dollar bill or in the pledge, is THE God.

I'm convinced that the top players(Not all of them) in our government from even its conception have worshiped Lucifer as their god.

If it mentioned Christ, then I would be behind it. The pledge of allegiance is a form of idolatry imo. I pledge allegiance to Christ alone.

As Christians, happiness shouldn't be found in artificial land borders. In Christ, we should be joyful even in the most darkest and bleak situations.

The claim that America is a Christian nation, is a disgrace to Christs name. I bet a large percentage of the people that claim Christianity would throw a fit if their I-phone would stop working, as opposed to the people in third world nations that have nothing and still have a smile on theirs faces. That is the true joy of the Lord.

[RememberMee]

Originally Posted by .sparrow.

I googled it and found this:
The man behind the message: America - Bless God » News » Rushville Republican

All I got from that article that the guy turned Christian nationalist/militarists closer to his deathbed. I have very mundane explanation for that - the closer death the more intense search for the meaning of one' existence in this world. If nothing can be found, people make it up, most old geezers do. What could be more meaningful than being drafted and shipped 10,000 miles away to shoot people you didn't suspect they even existed?

I still don't understand why that guy believes that America can Bless God, no explanations. Imho, that's blasphemous statement.

[Vizio]

Originally Posted by RememberMee

All I got from that article that the guy turned Christian nationalist/militarists closer to his deathbed. I have very mundane explanation for that - the closer death the more intense search for the meaning of one' existence in this world. If nothing can be found, people make it up, most old geezers do. What could be more meaningful than being drafted and shipped 10,000 miles away to shoot people you didn't suspect they even existed?

I still don't understand why that guy believes that America can Bless God, no explanations. Imho, that's blasphemous statement.

How about King David blessing God, as I pointed out above? Psalm 103 is a beautiful Psalm doing just that. Is that blasphemous?