Christian Post: There is nothing new under the sun, wrote Solomon after squeezing out all the novelty in living that he could. The alleged Obama Administration scandals prove it. One more time.
In every age, the cause is the same: a worldview of denial. The stark truth is that “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) How ironic that the more we seek to glorify ourselves, the more inglorious we become. Thus the worldview of denial is the rejection of the idea of original sin.
The framers of the Constitution knew this, and embedded checks and balances into their design of our governing system. They knew the warnings of Edmund Burke and others that raw power was the poisonous fruit dangling from the forbidden tree, and that human nature would compel a taste.”
