{"id":9981,"date":"2020-11-18T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=9981"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:17:32","slug":"while-i-still-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=9981","title":{"rendered":"While I Still Can\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[<b>Note:\u00a0 <\/b>This MS is available in\u00a0larger font on our\u00a0<b>Brief Articles 3<\/b>\u00a0page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Atheism, Humanism, and Secularism now control many of the levers of power in our nation. Law-making judges are ever seeking to drive God and the Bible from our public institutions. Marxist-inspired \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d and \u201cwokeism\u201d have cast a pall of censorship over us, which has produced \u201chate speech\u201d laws. Growing unbelief in God, the Christ, and the Bible is spawning an escalating national amorality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">God-lovers love the souls of the God-haters, but we mut despise the things they say and do. If the God-haters have their way, it will someday be a crime to preach and practice many parts of the Gospel of Christ. Our nation, founded to a great degree by Bible believers seeking refuge from persecution, is now rapidly becoming the <strong>source<\/strong> of such persecution. What irony!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Therefore, <strong>while I still can <\/strong>(without being arrested), I will continue to proclaim\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Jehovah God is the Creator<\/strong> of the universe and is the only true and living God. There is no other rational explanation for the origin of all things except an omniscient, omnipotent, eternal Being. The Creator has the right to rule His creation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>The Bible is the Word of God<\/strong>, revealed by Him to inspired men. By which we learn of His\u2014and of our own\u2014nature. It provides the record of our origin, our purpose for being, and our destiny. It alone is the infallible, objective standard of righteous behavior and true religion. Without its influence, chaos reigns.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Jesus Christ is the Son of God<\/strong> and the one and only Savior of mankind to Whom men must submit to be saved from eternal ruin. His disciples win converts by persuasion, never by force. Before Him all will someday bow in Judgment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Abortion is murder<\/strong>. It mercilessly, cruelly kills the most innocent and defenseless of humankind. \u201cThou shalt not murder\u201d was God\u2019s Law long before He inscribed those words on a table of stone. The judges who \u201clegalized\u201d this crime, along with the medical personnel who perform it, have the blood of multiplied millions of innocents on their hands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Homosexual behavior is wickedness. <\/strong>God so calls it, as well as \u201cabomination,\u201d \u201cvile passions,\u201d \u201cunnatural,\u201d \u201cunseemly,\u201d\u201cunrighteousness,\u201d and going after \u201cstrange flesh.\u201d It\u2019s impenitent practitioners will enter eternity hopeless, lost.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Islam is a violent, false religion. <\/strong>It is a religio-political system that thrives on \u201cconversion\u201d and conformity by force. \u201cPeaceful\u201d Muslims are those who are not true to their \u201choly book,\u201d the Koran. Islam despises \u201cfreedom of religion\u201d and would destroy the Bible and Christianity if it could.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it was published in the <em>Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, July 22, 2016.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong> From <em>www.thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, proprietor, curator, and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in\u00a0larger font on our\u00a0Brief Articles 3\u00a0page.] Atheism, Humanism, and Secularism now control many of the levers of power in our nation. Law-making judges are ever seeking to drive God and the Bible from our public institutions. Marxist-inspired \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=9981\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  While I Still Can\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,310,1007,137,18,193,115,830,97,178,370,369,311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-bible-2","category-christ","category-deity-of","category-false-teachersdoctrine","category-god-2","category-god","category-gods-power","category-homosexualitysodomy","category-islam","category-omnipotence","category-omniscience","category-word-of-god","wpcat-100-id","wpcat-310-id","wpcat-1007-id","wpcat-137-id","wpcat-18-id","wpcat-193-id","wpcat-115-id","wpcat-830-id","wpcat-97-id","wpcat-178-id","wpcat-370-id","wpcat-369-id","wpcat-311-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9981"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24291,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981\/revisions\/24291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}