State Rep. Ernie Yarbrough (R-Trinity) recently joined 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson for a Turning Point USA debate with students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
The second "Prove Me Wrong: Christ or Chaos" event, topics ranged from abortion, homosexuality, free will, religion and the role of government.
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"God is a God of order, and he made things to function a certain way," Dawson began. "And when we, as a civilization, as a society, we govern, we make laws that need to be in harmony with the way that God created things, both in his Word and what he reveals to us through what we would call natural law… We should govern and create laws that are in harmony with the way that God made things. And when we do that, we will flourish. That is what Western civilization was built on."
Yarbough, a UAH alumnus, said that "there's a battle going on in our culture" and that we needed to "go through Christ" to treat each other properly.
"I tell you with absolute truth as a father, as a husband, the problems that we would not have to face as a nation and as a state if people were governed internally by the Lord Jesus and by the gospel, by the Word of God, the chaos, to the point of our topic here, Christ or chaos, the chaos that is unleashed upon society when citizens and individuals, moms and dads, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters do not operate upon the basis of treating each other the way that God says we should treat each other," Yarbrough said.
Several students, including a self-proclaimed Satanist, questioned why Christianity was the best path to prosperity over other religions and beliefs, particularly with "doing well for your neighbor."
"I think other religions would probably, certain ones, would encourage that, but I think it's, the Ten Commandments as Christ sums it up is love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, The others like it, love your neighbor as yourself," Dawson said. "It's just a chief emphasis. I don't think it's unique to Christianity, but I do think the way that it's played out, you can see it played out in Western civilization, how it actually functions in a society to be able to build the things we did is because we lived that way, versus other civilizations that would probably hold that value to be high. Like, yeah, we should treat others good. But the manifestation of it, I would say, because they do not possess the Holy Spirit, it doesn't work out quite as well."
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