Nowhere in the Bible is the “mind,” per se, described as evil or unworthy of being the means by which God communicates with us. What the Bible does denounce is intellectual pride, but not the intellect itself. It is humility that we need, not ignorance. I stand opposed to arrogant and cynical intellectualism. But that is not the same thing as using the mind God has given us, with the help of the Holy Spirit and the instruction of Scripture, to evaluate and discern and critically assess what is happening in both the church and the world. Whereas some things that God says and does are transrational, insofar as they are mysterious and often go beyond our ability to fully comprehend, God never does things that are irrational in the sense that they might violate the fundamental laws of logic or the reasonable and rational truths of Holy Scripture.
Sam Storms

US administration makes deal with Iran, despite prior promise to wife of imprisoned American

CBS News correspondent Major Garrett questioned the president [Obama] about the Iranian nuclear deal that left Americans in Iranian jails.

“As you well know, there are four Americans held in Iran, three held on trumped up charges, according to your administration, one whereabouts unknown. Can you tell the country, sir, why you are content with all the fanfare around this deal to leave the conscience of this nation, the strength of this nation, unaccounted for in relation to these four Americans?” Garrett asked.

The U.S. State Department condemned the sentencing of Saeed in 2013: “We condemn Iran’s continued violation of the universal right of freedom of religion and we call on the Iranian authorities to respect Mr. Abedini’s human rights and release him.”

So the US administration now wishes to make a nuclear deal with a country that violates human rights and is willing to jail and torture a US citizen who is one of our people.  It seems this administration has limited moral code, limited ethics, limited integrity, and is not willing to protect all of its people.

I call on the US Congress to decline this administrations’ inappropriate deal with Iran.  Don’t make deals with nations that violate human rights.

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