Even More on Bringing the Bible Back into the Schoolhouse

In Friday's article, "More on Bringing the Bible Back into the schoolhouse", I wrote that much of America's initial laws, governmental structure and values upon which our nation were founded, were in recognition of Almighty God and based on Judeo-Christian Biblical principles and precepts.

Jonathan responded to Friday's article, saying in part,

"The ideas contained in the Declaration and Constitution have little if anything to do with the Bible. The Bible may have helped shape people's sense of personal morality, but it didn't give us our "Founding Principles" because it could not. That's why the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Federalist Papers do not cite the Bible (which they would were they based on the Bible)."

Jonathan, I vehemently disagree with you. The vast majority of those 56 men, who signed the Declaration of Independence, were people who read, knew and practically applied biblical principles everyday. I firmly believe that the majority of those signers, the overwhelming majority were true believers in Jesus Christ possessing a deep personal faith in God.

You caused me to read the Declaration of Independence document for myself this afternoon. In reading it I found the following references to the One True God of the Bible and of Trinitarian-believing Christians. The four references include:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God . . ."

“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, . . ."

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, . . .”

"…And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

These are four clear references to the One True God. I do not believe that any true Deist would call upon the direction and blessing of divine Providence, nor would he make their appeal the Supreme Judge of the world. What is “deism”?

"Historical and modern Deism are defined by the view that reason, rather than revelation or tradition, should be the basis of belief in God. Deists reject organized religion and promote reason as the essential element in making moral decisions. This "rational" basis was usually founded upon the cosmological argument (first cause argument), the teleargumentaargument(argument from design), and other aspects of what was called natural religion."

It must be noted that the biblically literate men, as well as most in society in those days, I dare say, had a working knowledge of the Judeo-Christian Bible. It was a presupposition, it was understood by all that the Declaration and the subsequent Constitution were based on biblical truth. Unlike today our Judges, Politicians, Educators are woefully ignorant of biblical principle and precept. If the Judges were aware of biblical content and injunctions, they would be less likely to create new laws where the obvious intent of Christian Founders would never have denied life to innocent babies, nor would they have canonized homosexuality to the extent much of our courts and society has today.

Therefore, I conclude that the Founders did not feel it necessary to quote chapter and verse of the Scripture, that so influenced the two documents, nor did they feel it was necessary to annotate their precious documents with extensive sources and references like Ann Counter does in her tomes. Biblical principles not only shaped individual morality, but set in motion the basis for all of American Law as well as the purpose and structure of our very government and were core to American values that until recent times have held this great country on a moral high plain far above the rest of this worldÂ’s nations.

The Declaration document, at least, was brimming with the influence of biblical principle and precepts as illustrated by the following thoughts taken from that document:

“. . . all-men are created equal” – The bible says man was created in the image and likeness of God. It all says that all men have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” This is true equality.

“Endowed by their Creator” - God is the ultimate source any rights that we may have.

They patiently suffered under the British King – Patience is Christian virtue.

". . . appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions"- Christians see God as their ultimate authority and their responsibility to be moral and honest.

America is a Christian nation, though diseased because the gradual displacement of God and Christianity as the core belief and value of this nation by an inferior and corrupt religion Secular Humanistic religion and philosophy held sacred by America's so-called elite.

America, make A Good Choice and wake up and strengthen the things that remain and reject the ungodly, inferior for the best!