Save yourselves
I recently received a tract being handed out in front of a store by a young lady who had nothing to say except “have a blessed day” and handed me the tract. Just glancing at the inside of the tract, I noticed the heading of a paragraph which said, “You cannot save yourself”. The tract ended up getting wet and stained to the point I threw it away without ever reading the entire thing. Yet, that one little heading stayed in my head. It certainly sounds like truth, does it not?. Jeremiah said, “O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps” (Jer. 10:23). Solomon said, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12). Jesus said, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” and later, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). Many are the passages of scripture that show that salvation comes from God. Yet, is it true to say that we cannot save ourselves?
Judges cnnot amend the Constitution
Most of the nine justices on the United States Supreme Court espouse some version of the originalist school of constitutional interpretation. Starting early next year, most of the seven justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court will be originalists, too.