Come Down, Lord!

 Pastor Jacob Reaume writes, "The only One who has a mastery on goodness is God.  In  Mark 10:18 , Jesus said, “No one is good except God alone,” and He then listed commandments 6, 7,8, 9, and 5 of the Ten Commandments.  In doing so, Jesus was explaining that God’s Law, which comes from the only good God, is the final standard of good.  Because Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords, His Law is the Law of laws or the Norm of norms.  My point in noting this is that while the government claims to operate for the general good, the state also claims that God’s definition of good is not the  goodest  good.  The state has claimed that its good is better than God’s good.  God calls His people to gather because He loves us and has a wonderful plan for our lives, but the state has an even more wonderful plan for our lives.  Its good is better than God’s good." For more follow the link .

  I do not know Wyatt Graham, and until recently I had never heard of him. That is probably simply because I have never followed TGC.  More recently I have taken an interest in him because of his position on covid.  He represents the other side and I am one that likes to know what the other side is thinking.   Here I would like to respond to his recent article titled Our Views of the Virus Affects Our View of Persecution .  It is a gracious article, but the author is saying what he and others and TGC Canada have been saying for a while: that what James Coates, Jacob Reaume, Tim Stephens, Michael Thiessen, Aaron Rock, myself and others have experienced isn’t persecution.    The problem begins with the premise.  Graham says “If I view the pandemic as severely harming society and if I see restrictions as preventing that harm, then fining someone for breaking health regulations generally makes sense.”  He adds, “On the other hand, if ...