Tell us about this "divine intervention" which brought America into being, and "as it now stands."
Here's a site that explains it easily---- go to the yellow 5 steps box.
http://www.britishisrael.co.uk/old/You can also read my downloadable book, instead of challenging the revelations the bible gives.Next of all, you mentioned a document giving freedoms and rights earlier. That's not what it says. It says:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
So, according to the document, who gives these rights? The government? NO, that's the thinking of the vast majority of the clueless population. God does. It's government's duty, as a servant, to PROTECT these rights. I look to the US government for nothing granted to me in these three areas. It's their job to protect them as "we the people".Now, does God give life? Let's check our bibles on this one shall we?
According as he hath chosen us in him
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:Having
predestinated us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. Eph 1:4-6
There's life and liberty in Christ. Like parents that plan a child, they intend for him/her to be born and have life. What did Jesus give? Death and bondage? And as for happiness:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Gal 5:22-23
I think what the issue here is that when you say nobody has a "right" according to scripture, I think you are misinterpreting that as meaning demands from the person's side. The declaration of Independence on the other hand acknowledges life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness because God already has given people this right (not because they demanded it) by virtue of the fact that they are created and exist. That's why I used the predestination scripture to illustrate life and liberty because that decision was made before the person existed, God ordained life to the person. That act is the "right" that the Declaration of Independence is talking about.