[Bob Seger]

Au contraire, the relationship is there alright. We Christians (the grafted branch) are of the seed of Abraham who we may rightly refer to as our father, just as legitimately as can the Jew. The relationship as you point out above, was not with a nation as such, though we know that the Jew is God's chosen people. It is to the Father through Christ at the individual level, "to the Jew first, and then the Gentile." The Jew unfortunately rejected The Messiah. And having done so, disqualified themselves as God's right hand in delivering the Gospel Message. Enter the USA in that role, and frankly I believe that was always His providential purpose for our nation. Though it certainly looks as if owing to our national disobedience, our favored days are numbered.

He is the door of those who lived and died before His appearance here on earth, as He is those who were born after His death. The believing Jew, looked forward to the cross to claim that relationship with God, which He has made clear is not a right extended to one just because he was born a Jew. The Jew's faith was invested in the coming Messiah and His unspeakable gift to them, that being eternal life based on His sacrifice on the cross. The unbelieving Jew was and is just as lost as the heathen. The Gentile child of God looks backward to the cross, trusting in the very same thing which saves the Jew, which is accepting by faith the substitutionary and sacrificial death of Christ on the cross.

The real argument of which the revisionist is engaged, is whether America is, or was, a Christian nation or not. The conservative right believes our founding was based on Christian principles, and our system of law was based on same. We further believe God's unmistakable hand of blessing has been upon this nation from it's inception, hence our unprecedented rise among the nations in it's very short lifetime. Liberals argue against all of that, hence the rabid revisionist effort to redefine history, especially as that relates to our founding.

Pertaining to your difficulties with the extreme left. Have you seen the ads on TV for a mobile phone ap called "Let-go?" The commercial shows people in various walks of life that cling to old and unneeded junk. My advice to you is at some point you're going to have to let go. Liberalism is at odds with the validity of the tenets of Christianity because of one thing. Their love for compromise will not allow them to 'let go', and bow before a God Who does not accept compromise. Hence their insistence that a loving God would never damn somebody to Hell for example, for the sin of unrepentant homosexuality. So homosexuality becomes a birth defect, for which God could not judge them because they say, the sin of homosexuality is not a choice. Likewise, they revised the Creation story and it became the theory of Evolution. God's chosen people the Jew, became the scourge of the nations. Criminals became victims, as did those who choose not to work, etc. etc..

Very nicely said, TRT.