SEPTEMBER 2003
FURTHER THOUGHTS ON THE SUBJECT OF
FAITH VS. POLITICS
I include now excerpts from an article written by
Rabbi Moshe Ben Chaim....
one that sheds more Light on the controversy surrounding the removal
of the monument commemorating the Ten Commandments.
This article also validates the positions of:
Ambassador Alan Keyes and Judge Roy Moore
"Keyes" to "Moore" Knowledge
The Ten Commandments
Pun intended.
Alan Keyes and Roy Moore are
standing up for precisely what their names indicate,
and why the Ten Commandments were only ten:
God intended man to search for worlds
of truths, only hinted to in the raw Ten Commands.
They are truly our 'keys to more knowledge'. The lessons of these
commands don't end with their text. If God wished man to simply read
and repeat, "memory" suffices for such activity.
But God gave each man intelligence and free will -
the tools for searching God's laws,
eventuating in our wider application to all areas of life. It was this
independent thought and loyalty to God's Biblical Principles
which guided our Founding Fathers.
It is again these principles which guide Roy Moore
and Alan Keyes. They wish to follow God's divine directive, not man's
corrupt violation, and distortion of our Constitution.
"One nation under God" is the United States' core Belief.
No one argues this. Is it a crime then, to validate our God?
"In God we Trust".
Uncontested.
God, Who gave morality to man at Sinai, defined what is liberty
and what is justice for all.
God's wisdom is deep.
'What' He wrote is equally important to 'why' He omitted.
Why did the tablets have only ten of the 613 commands ?
We see elsewhere (Deut. 27:3) that the entire Bible was
written three times on three sets of 12 stones.
So why didn't the tablets given to Moses at Sinai contain all
the commands too?
The system of God's knowledge is one of 'derivation' -
all knowledge cannot be contained
in writing. God gave us intelligence for the sole purpose of using it.
The tablets of only ten commands, created a permanent lesson:
"All is not here, you must study
continually to arrive at new ideas in My infinite sea
of knowledge".
Therefore, only the head categories of truths are engraved
on these two stones.
Knowledge is arrived at only through thinking.
Since we require a starting point, God inscribed the head categories which
would lead the thinker to all other Truths, which may be derived from
these ten.
God's Ten Commandments don't only teach Truths. These Truths are also in
the Bible. The Ten Commandments were given separate from the
Bible for an important lesson:
Man must use his intelligence to determine what is Truth, and what is
false. Judge Moore and Ambassador Keyes employ this God-instructed
Method to uncover the tragic denial of God -
our system of justice cannot exist without Him.
Roy Moore and Alan Keyes understand God's directive. They look at our
Constitution as men created by God, guided by God's words.
To remove God from the equation, is to attack American Justice.
To support God's Words on these Commands, is an endorsement of our
Constitution.
A further corruption, is that Moore's opponents attempt not to repress
religious expression, but to deny historical truth. History, not religion,
attests to the event at Mount Sinai where God gave His Ten
Commandments, just as history attests to any event. Sinai and the Ten
Commandments are not blind, religious acceptance,
but proven historical fact.
Such a miraculous event would not have survived the millennia,
had it never occurred.
The masses at this event testify to its veracity - mass conspiracy is
impossible. Motive to lie on such a grand scale cannot happen.
Divorcing God from our system of Justice is a two-fold crime:
an outright denial of history, and a corruption of our American Justice
System. This is not a religious issue.
The courts have no say in this matter.
It is a crime that more monuments to God's
Keys to Knowledge and Morality do not exist.
rabbi moshe ben-chaim
LJC
9-10-03
(Graphics inserted by LJC)