For our context, a paradigm is a world view that serves as the foundation supporting our answers to questions like: Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? When our country was formed, most agreed on the foundational principles upon which our morals and laws should be based. These principles have been referred to as Judaeo Christian Values. Even while our fledgling country had its growing pains, it enjoyed freedoms and bounty that had been little known over the face of the globe. America has obviously been blessed by the God whose values we embraced.
Today, we are witnessing the demise of our constitutional republic, as sin and the neglect of our eternal souls have loosed us from our time honored moorings, and set us adrift as a nation. Because we are falling away from these Judaeo Christian Values, and our sense of dependence upon God is greatly diminished, a new paradigm has been formulated in the minds of evil men, a foundation based on the tenets of godless humanism. But God would have us beware: “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (John 3:19)” Time will prove that the God of the Bible was and is our only hope of survival.
History is replete with examples of nations and cultures that have abandoned God to worship the creature rather than the Creator. “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (Romans 1:28-32)”
We must repent, and return to the God of our fathers, before it is too late!