Why Did Pilgrims Come to America | Muslim Conquest of Middle East Since 6th Century | Christian Pietism Stand Against Fighting Led to Advancement of the Ottoman Empire All the Way to Eastern Europe | Gate of Vienna Battle - King of Spain Charles V. Stopped the Muslims | 1517 Martin Luther Starts Reformation | King of Spain Turns Against Reformation Movement | Muslims Took Hungary | Catholics & Protestants Join the Forces Against Muslim Invaders | Many Different Church's Denominations Across European Nations | Henry VIII. Founded Anglican Church and Became It's Head | The Pope Wouldn't Allow the King a Divorce | Church of England Against Other Christians | Martyred William Tyndale for Translating the Bible to English | Later Henry VIII. Welcomed English Bible Seeing Germans Breaking Away from Rome with German Bible | But People Reading the Word See the Sins of the King | King James Commissioned Official English Translation of Bible | Puritans Try to Purify the Church and Decide to Leave England | King Mandates His Book of Common Prayer to Be Used Exclusively for All Prayer | Uniformity Against Baptists/Separatists who Flee to Holland | Protestants Called Heretics and Persecuted for Praying Their Own Prayers | Government Needs to Approve All Sermons | Even Small Bible Studies Outlawed | John Bunyan Sent to Prison where He Wrote Pilgrim's Progress | Government Ran Hierarchical Church Built from Top Down Like a Pyramid | Vs Congregational Church from Bottom Up Like a Tree | Direct Relationship with God & Reading the Bible Individually | 1455 Invention of Printing Press Makes Bible Widely Available | Holy Spirit at Work Using People | Body of Christ Needs to Be Together | King Wants to Be the Head of Church Not the Congregation | Baptists and Quakers Look to Hebrew Pre-King Governance (Hebrew Republic) for an Example How to Run Society | 400 Year Period After the Exile from Egypt | It Works Only When Everyone Knows God's Law and Is Accountable to God | Conscience Brings Order in Society | Day of Atonement Accounts Yearly for Ancient Israel's Sin | Clean Slate | Sharing Their Blessings with Their Neighbors | Compassion and Love of God | System Worked Until Priests Became Corrupted and Everyone Did Right in Their Own Eyes | Israelites Rejected God and Requested a King | Got Tyrant King Saul | People Still Feared God More Than King | Kings of Europe Looked to Governance Model Based on Kings Starting with Saul - Theocracy | Vs. America Founding Puritans to Freedom & Responsibility of Israel's Pre-King Period | Voluntary Love of God | Republic vs Monarchy | Puritans Fled Holland on Mayflower to America | Landed in Massachusetts and Made Covenant with God - the Mayflower Compact | Equal Body Politics Created Constitutionalism | Spanish Fight Against Muslims Was Successful While Looking to God for Help | But Spain Failed After Going After Protestants Loosing of Their Armada in a Storm | Submit to Authority When in Alignment with God's Word | John Leland: Every Individual is Accountable to God and Has Freedom | Government Will Not Be There on the Day Of Judgement | Enforced Uniformity Is Cause of Civil War | William Penn: Force Makes Hypocrites Persuasion Makes Converts | Freedom of Conscience | God Created Still Expanding Vast Universe But Cares About You | Rocks Cannot Love Him | Need of Free Will for Opportunity to Voluntarily Love God | God Doesn't Need Our Love But Wants It | Yet He Will Never Force Us to Love Him | We Are Made in God's Image Unlike Angels | They Cannot Love or Forgive | God Controls Everything Except Human Will | We Need to Search for Him and Come to Him | Only God Knows the Future | Seek Him and Turn to Him | God's Plan of Salvation for Us Through Sacrifice of His Only Son Jesus Christ | Lamb of God Who Takes Away the Sin of the World | Today is the Day Of Salvation |
Ephesians 4 | Romans 8:28 | Romans 13 | Ephesians 6:1 | Psalms 91
