Christian|FirstPrinciples

Christian faith • American liberty • History • Culture

Looking beyond the headlines to the principles underneath them.

FIRST PRINCIPLES

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

WHY FIRST PRINCIPLES?

The news tells us what happened.

Politics tells us which side to take.

I want to ask something deeper:

What is true?
What principle is at stake?
What happens when we abandon it?

Here we examine faith, America, history, culture and current events by going back to the foundation.

You won’t always agree.

That’s okay.

The point isn’t to avoid hard questions.

It’s to ask better ones.

FIRST PRINCIPLES
The ideas that shape a nation.

[il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo]

SOUNDS LIKE IRAN WANTS A LITTLE FREEDOM!!!😎🇺🇸💥💥💥

[U.S. Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept]

.@AGToddBlanche announces the Justice Department filed a Judicial Misconduct Complaint alleging MN Judges made improper and unethical comments to the New York Times.

Judges are ethically prohibited from commenting publicly on cases pending in any court and making political or policy statements concerning matters that are or have been before them.

Read more: https://t.co/RzyfQF6qpz

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@AGToddBlanche: "Just a few minutes ago, the DOJ filed a Judicial Misconduct Complaint with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals against all but one District Court judge in the District of Minnesota for violating various judicial canons."

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

You have lived through the year.

As November approaches, the volume may rise fear, outrage, division, declarations that America is failing, and reasons to turn against one another.

Listen, verify, and think.

Consider what strengthens prosperity, security, liberty, law, peace, and opportunity, and make your judgment from there.

First Principle: The truth of a year is not rewritten by the emotion of a moment. America is not defined by the loudest narrative about her. Your judgment belongs to you. Do not surrender your voice or your vote to fear because of what is happening at the moment.

[AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ @AwakenedOutlaw]

Ummm....
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“The Prayer” is a gentle, hymn-like ballad about asking for divine guidance, protection, wisdom, and peace.

The singers plead for help seeing the way forward, staying safe through uncertainty and darkness, finding grace, and being led toward love and a better place.

It mixes English and Italian verses and is often performed as a duet, which gives it a sense of shared hope and unity.

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

God is the standard.

Isaiah did not recognize his uncleanness by looking at everyone around him. He recognized it when he saw the Lord. “Holy, holy, holy” came before “Woe is me.”
The same applies to us, we do not determine what is clean by comparing ourselves with other people, our culture, or what has become normal. God is holy; therefore holiness already has a definition. When Isaiah encountered that standard, he could finally see himself in truth. And when he confessed what was unclean, God provided the cleansing Isaiah could not provide for himself.

First principle: We do not define the standard and then measure God by it. God is the standard, and everything else is revealed by its relationship to Him.

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

“And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.””
Exodus 33:14

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

@krassenstein And what money funded the Biden covid AD campaign? 🤔

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

@AdamKinzinger

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

A people can inherit fertile land, strong families, knowledge accumulated across generations, functioning institutions, extraordinary wealth, security, industry, innovation, and enough freedom to build lives their ancestors could scarcely have imagined. They can plant, invent, manufacture, trade, raise children, create, discover, worship, prosper, and leave even more to those who come after them and nevertheless become convinced that something else will satisfy them. Their tragedy does not begin because nothing good was available to them. It begins while they are surrounded by good things.

When you are born inside a strong structure, you don’t remember its construction. You simply expect the roof not to leak, the fields to produce, the stores to remain full, the lights to come on, commerce to function, children to inherit a future, and civilization to continue. What previous generations regarded as extraordinary and protected becomes ordinary and assumed. Eventually a generation can inherit so much that it mistakes inheritance for inevitability.

But when does the counterfeit become attractive?

Instead of asking what more can be built within a good order, the corrupted mind begins questioning the order itself. The farmer understands that flourishing comes from learning the soil rather than arguing with it. The engineer builds because he respects physics. The physician heals because the human body possesses an intelligible nature. Good people have accomplished astonishing things by discovering what is true and becoming creative within it. We do not have to destroy reality to progress. We build upon it.

Ideology reverses that relationship. Instead of conforming ourselves to what is true, reality is expected to conform to what we desire. Boundaries are oppression, restraint is cruelty, inheritance becomes something embarrassing, and eventually destruction acquires a moral vocabulary. A person can tear down something sound while sincerely believing demolition is progress.

This is why even Artificial Intelligence cannot save a civilization. A society can be technologically brilliant, enormously wealthy, highly educated and still be foolish about the things that make life good. It can be exceptionally capable of accomplishing its desires while losing the wisdom to question whether those desires are worth accomplishing. Worse, its inherited abundance can finance the experiment. The wealth pays for it. The technology distributes it. The institutions normalize it. The language disguises it. The culture celebrates it.

The prodigal becomes such a powerful picture of something much larger. He did not leave because his father’s house lacked bread. He left carrying his father’s inheritance. The inheritance financed his pursuit of the counterfeit. For a while, the distant country must have looked like proof that he had been right. He had money. He had freedom. He had choices. The father’s house seemed unnecessary until the inheritance was exhausted.

Perhaps that is the warning: a people do not necessarily destroy themselves because they were given too little. Sometimes they were given enormously much. The tragedy is that goodness became so familiar that they stopped recognizing it as good. They possessed the structure, benefited from it, inherited its fruit, and then spent that inheritance attempting to construct a counterfeit of what they already had.

First Principle: God’s order is good. We are builders within it, not authors of it. Abundance does not make that order unnecessary. Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom. Consequences can be delayed, and inherited strength can conceal accumulating destruction. A counterfeit can even be financed by the genuine.

The danger was never that there was nothing good to inherit.

You had the inheritance. You had the house. You had bread. You had something good.

And still, someone picked up the hammer, laughing as they said,

“Trust me.”

[Warriors Wisdom 🇺🇸 @AncientAjax]

No retreat. No dooming. No blackpilling.

Do not give our country over to the communists.

Remember what the people of our great nation fought and died for.

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Real America's Voice (RAV) @RealAmVoice]

🇺🇸 WHEN NEWS BREAKS, REAL AMERICA’S VOICE WILL BE THERE.

From the White House to the road with President Trump, RAV is putting cameras on the ground and bringing viewers presidential coverage as it happens.

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

This. Is. Awesome.

Writer: Ian

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

🚨 BREAKING:
CREDIBILITY is what remains when the audience checks your work.
Americans are pulling out the receipts—and checking the headlines against the evidence.
Anonymous sources say…
The audience says: Show your work.

You only get the whole story if you look.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

We are putting America First at the @UN General Assembly.

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump delivered a high-energy address tonight on Trump TV, closing with a message aimed at the future.

“The best is yet to come,” Trump declared from behind the podium as cheers erupted from the crowd.

The line brought the speech to a rousing close, with supporters on their feet as the president looked out over the audience.

“From the roaring waters of Niagara Falls, from shimmering gushes of oil and fire,from our beloved Texas, from the magnificent fields of corn and wheat and barley of our farms in the Midwest, from our vast canyons and finance in New York City, from the billowing sacks of steel, now produced all over our country at record levels, to the car plants that are rising like never seen before…”

“After 250 years, American freedom still rings. The American dream still lives, and the American flag still flies more proudly than ever before, over the people who will not quit, the nation that will not fail, the country that will not fall, no matter how hard the enemy tries, we cannot be beaten.”🇺🇸

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

They taught you snow is black.

Trump didn’t ban the press for sport. He hit a propaganda machine Bertrand Russell wrote the manual for — mass psychology so you never ask where your convictions came from.

$6 diesel isn’t “Trump broke it.” It’s thirty years of zero-growth policy.

Why Trump Banned the Press (They Taught You Snow is Black):

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"It's just biased news. I think that these outlets have an obligation to be fair, and if they're fake news, I really think I have an obligation not to allow them..." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

@EricHolder

[Christian|FirstPrinciples @Christianjrmins]

@TheDemocrats Please regale us with another propaganda headline crafted to amuse the masses, or just lie , as usual.