WHERE IS BEN NOW?

WHERE IS BEN NOW?

Monday, October 05, 2015

Acts [GW today] 4:11-12 [Peter said] He [Jesus] is the stone that the builders rejected, the stone that has become the cornerstone. No one else can save us. Indeed, we can be saved only by the power of the one named Jesus and not by any other person."

1Corinthians 3:11 [Paul explained] After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the   

       one that is already laid, and that foundation is Jesus Christ.

James 2:19 You believe that there is one God. That's fine! The demons also believe that, and they tremble with fear.

  Asked if Benjamin Franklin is a Christian, I searched commentary and record of what he himself wrote on the topic. If you wonder about the religious beliefs of Franklin or any other leaders past or present, I encourage you to personally do the same. While doing so please keep in mind not just how the leader answered, but also seriously consider how they do not. Is their answer Biblical or otherwise?

  Yahoo answers: Franklin’s Puritan upbringing was a central factor throughout his life, as a philanthropist, civic leader and activist in the Revolutionary War.[61] Franklin rejected much of his Puritan upbringing: belief in salvation, hell, Jesus Christ’s divinity, and indeed most religious dogma. He retained a strong faith in God as the wellspring of morality and goodness in man, and as a Providential actor in history responsible for American independence.[62] He often invoked God as being in support of the American Revolution, as did most of the founding generation.[63] Franklin wrote, “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.”[64]

  Ben’s Creed written to Letter to Ezra Stiles, 9 March 1790 a few weeks before his death: “You desire to know something of my religion. It is the first time I have been questioned upon it. But I cannot take your curiosity amiss, and shall endeavor in a few words to gratify it.

Here is my creed.

I believe in one God, the creator of the universe.

That he governs by his providence.

That he ought to be worshipped.

That the most acceptable service we render to him is doing good to his other children.

That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.

These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire,

I think his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes,

and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity;

though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble.

I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequences, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed;

especially as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his displeasure.”

  After reading the above and more in context I see Franklin was a religious man believing in and praying to a provident God , but very much denying the deity if Lord Jesus Christ; Benjamin Franklin is not a Christian.

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