Nowhere in the bible does God list these rights, He gives commands and responsibilities but not rights. Those which He gives are not for His own benefit but they are beneficial to us.
Back in the day when our country's forefathers went about establishing the framework of this nation two books were the primary source of reference "The Bible" and "Blackstone's Commentaries on the Law". Those two titles were the first and second best-selling books of 1775 according to the Fiedor Report in an article titled "Those Unalienable Rights" on 2/23/2003. Our rights are taken from Blackstone's not the bible. Blackstone in Chapter One of Book One spoke of the absolute rights of individuals being the right to life, liberty and property. When the rights are further explained, we understand them to mean.
LIFE -- The Right of Personal Security: "This right consists of a person's legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health and his reputation." Herein can also be found your right of self defense.
LIBERTY -- The Right of Personal Liberty: "This consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, of moving one's person to whatever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by course of law." We find this right protected, to a limited extent, within the body of our Constitution, and further guaranteed within the Bill of Rights.
PROPERTY -- The Right of Private Property: "This is the third absolute right, and consists in the free use, enjoyment and disposal by a man of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land."
Mr. Fiedor also says in the article,
"There is, of course, a caveat here: As members of society, we are also required to respect these rights in all others. Therefore, the most important reason we empower governments to make and enforce laws is to insure that everyone respects the rights of others.
Towards this end, the body of our Constitution was carefully crafted by the Founding Fathers to allow the central government only certain enumerated powers. Although it may not seem like it today -- with our hundreds of thousands of pages of imposing laws, rules and regulations -- the powers of the federal government were designed to be few, and the freedoms of citizens were intended to be many.
Because of the lack of vigilance on the part of the American public, this ratio of government powers to personal freedom has recently reversed. We can probably recoup many of our unalienable rights again. But folks, it's going to take some effort from all of us. Bureaucrats are not about to relinquish their control over us without a lot of kicking and screaming."
None of the rights granted in the delaration, nor expounded upon in the Constitution's "Bill of Rights" are contrary to the commands/responsibilities set forth by God. However, they are personal freedoms for which many men and women have died in order that their loved ones and descendants benefit from them. I loved this statement from missiontoisrael.org
Demanding rights is a confession of slavery to the one from whom those rights are petitioned. A right is a debt. Every United States citizen who looks to the Constitutional Republic to grant or recognize his rights is acknowledging the government’s sovereignty above Yahweh’s sovereignty:
The emphasis on human rights demands the rejection of Divine Revelation in favor of human legislation. Man thinks he is capable of legislating rights. Human legislation seeks to supplant God and make statutes in areas that only God can regulate. And the rule of iniquity is framed into law. The actual trade that is made in this deal is the exchange of true freedom for human bondage. This bondage is then called freedom…. Man’s fiat law is then made into an instrument of rights. Man is presumed to be sovereign instead of God in a doctrine of rights. Human rights is a false doctrine that seeks to make man the lord of all. The end result is the rule of rights rather than the rule of law.
We are being held hostage by the government. The very government that should be "by and for the people".
Almost 40% of our household's combined income is going to the government for programs many of which I would not choose to support as an individual. What's wrong with this picture is that the belief in corporately held "universal rights" has upended my ability to give to causes and people to whom I believe I am called to support. This is not the America our founders envisioned, this is the bondage they fled for freedom's sake.
Hoooo......I feel better now.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/15/marine-says-hell-continue-post-tea-party-facebook-page/
Excellent Tracey!! Very well said.
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