Comments on: Constitutions https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/ Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues. Tue, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2742 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=353#comment-2742 No. It only means that if he has intervened in helping to establish other constitutions, he hasn’t (yet) chosen to tell us about it through his Prophet.

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By: rick https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2743 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=353#comment-2743 …and if those constitutions differ from the US constitution, does that immediately disqualify them from being God inspired?

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By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2744 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=353#comment-2744 I don’t see why it would disqualify them. The Lord said he suffered the US Constitution to be established to accomplish certain purposes. He may be able to accomplish the same purposes elsewhere through different means, or he may have different purposes to accomplish in another time and place.

I suppose there are some principles in certain constitutions that are directly contrary to Gospel principles, but I wouldn’t be too hasty in assuming that the Lord had no hand in the establishment of even those constitutions.

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By: rick https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2745 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=353#comment-2745 *whew!*

For a minute there I thought North Korea might be getting out of hand, but now that I know that Kim Jong-il may be inspired by God, I’ll sleep better at night.

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By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2746 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=353#comment-2746 What sections of the North Korean constitution are you referring to, Rick? (And did Kim Jong Il write them?)

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By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2747 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=353#comment-2747 And why would you find comfort in the thought that a thing may or may not be inspired?

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By: rick https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2748 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=353#comment-2748 You know, the whole personality cult revolving around Kim Jong, the policy of juche (self-reliance), which cut the country off from almost all external trade, the forced poverty and acceptance of a military state. Those kind of things.

They were most assuredly authored by Kim Jong or his father as head of state (or more correctly General Secretary of the Party and chairman of the National Defense Commission).

If these actions were not inspired, wouldn’t it make you sad that an entire nation was suffering due to the self-aggrandizing notions of a megalomaniac? I mean if it were not inpired, you’d hope the countries that do have an inpired constitution would do something about that kind of atrocity.

But we don’t have to worry about that. Until someone, somewhere proves that there’s absolutely no chance that these things weren’t inpired, then we can rest in assurance that perhaps it’s just the Lord working in mysterious, albeit cruel and unusual, ways.

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By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2749 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=353#comment-2749 “the whole personality cult revolving around Kim Jong, the policy of juche (self-reliance), which cut the country off from almost all external trade, the forced poverty and acceptance of a military state. Those kind of things.”

Are those things in the constitution of North Korea? I confess I haven’t read their constitution, though obviously you have. Please do inform me of its contents and authorship.

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By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2750 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=353#comment-2750 “you’d hope the countries that do have an inpired constitution would do something about that kind of atrocity.”

You mean the way the US has been containing North Korea for the past half century? That kind of doing something?

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By: rick https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2005/12/06/constitutions/comment-page-1/#comment-2751 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/?p=353#comment-2751 Containing?

What precisely are the Americans ‘containing’?

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