AFA believes that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential john 3:1-21. titus 3:5
AFA believes in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the christian is enabled to live a godly life.
There are essential two different views of this world. Our world is a paradise lost or our world is a chaos hoping to the heights of the heavens.
In the Christian worldview, Heaven can not be found in a Rocketship no matter how fancy. The only help comes from a loving God who'd send His Son to redeem us,
The secular hope of mastering the universe is often found with a rude awakening that we are not self sufficient.
But man's condition though dying in the body is based upon the reality that we first died in the spirit.
In the precedent standing court case McGowen vs Maryland it was ruled that religious based law can only be used by the government if it has a secular application. blue laws concerning a Sunday Sabbath were only approved by their positive effect giving drunks time to sober up before going to work.
This marked a shift from one nation under God to a godless nation.
Now this dose not mean that the ruling was entirely wrong, But one thing it does prove is that the government is incapable of being a spiritual force for Good. Because the government rules the flesh. If we think we are only a few votes away from utopia, we will also be a few votes shy of death.
The problem with man is ultimately spiritual. In europe the churches rested upon the kings and magistrates. Whatever is left among those churches is no longer faith or zeal in the gospel.
Why because the answer is found in God!
God the father initiated salvation in sending His Son and the Son released the gift to mankind through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Often the Holy Spirit has been called "The Holy Ghost". Because when Jesus died and resurrected The Holy Spirit would proceed from Him inaugurating the New Testament.
The Holy Spirit gave apostles and believers spiritual power. Many scholars have observed That with the birth of evangelicalism we see a new emphasis on the Holy Spirit, Yet also we see at the same time the world wide missions movement. A goal in Christianity which The Holy Roman Empire failed to achieve previously.
When we see revival we see blessings upon society. So many people long for the "old days" but if we want those days or better days we must first.. Be born again!
In McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420 (1961), the United States upheld that laws with religious origins are not unconstitutional if they have a secular purpose.
McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that laws with religious origins are not unconstitutional if they have secular purpose. A large discount store in Anne Arundel County, Maryland was fined for selling goods on a Sunday, in violation of a local blue law. The Court rejected an establishment clause challenge to laws saying that most large-scale commercial enterprises remain closed on Sundays. The Court's review of the history demonstrated that Sunday closing laws were originally efforts to promote church attendance. "But, despite the strongly religious origin of these laws, non religious arguments for Sunday closing began to be heard more distinctly."https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/366/420/case.html
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