Our founding Fathers all based this country’s foundation on Scripture and all claimed the Truth of God's word. They spoke that an America without God will fail.The presidency changes every 4 years. God is eternal.
No one is perfect, to claim so would be saying you have no need for God.
We need to quit setting our faith in fallible governments, and set our faith in the Infallible God.
If we put as much energy into promoting God as all of America did in promoting their candidate, the religious issues we are facing today as Christians would be non-existent.
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Ephesians 6:12)
Instead of fighting each other, fight what the real attack is.
I believe you will find these quotes interesting:
(These were all acquired from the "Truth Project" website listed with reliable resources)
Mayflower Compact: “In the name of God, Amen, We whose names are unwritten…having undertaken, for the glories of God, and advancements of the Christian faith…a voyage to plant the first colony…”
(The religious context has now been edited in several history books)
Samuel Adams: “Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of unculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity…in short of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.”
George Washington: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports…In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens…”
John Adams: “Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.”
John Adams: “We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion…Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Benjamin Rush: “The only foundation for…a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object of life of all republican governments.”
Benjamin Rush: “…Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts they will be wise and happy.”
George Washington: “…And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion…reason and experience both forbid us to expect that a national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
Charles Carroll: “Without morals, a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion…are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.”
Patrick Henry: “The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor…and this alone, that renders us invincible.”
Benjamin Franklin: “…the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel…”
(This was said by Franklin during the Constitutional Convention where there was great disagreement between those attending. Franklin then proposed a day of prayer and fasting, which they did. After that, there was much more peace during the writing.)
These are just interesting:
Daniel Webster: “In my view, the Christian Religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed….no truth is more evident to my mind that the Christian Religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
“…the moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws...”
“To preserve the government we must also preserve morals. Morality rests on religion; if you destroy the foundations, the superstructure must fall. When the public mind becomes vitiated and corrupt, laws are a nullity and constitutions are waste paper.”
Alexis De Tocqueville (Frenchman, wrote Democracy in America): “The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive one without the other.”
From these I would assume they valued their Christian faith in God very highly. It was more of a lifestyle for them. How many of us as Christians can claim that God truly is our lifestyle?
Our forefathers fought for the freedom of religion, but personally fought for freedom of religion to worship the God of the Bible. They had no idea the God they love would be pushed out of the country.
It is so sad to see a country that set standards on such high moral grounds in the beginning, to now turn their back to everything that is interminable.
We need to set out foundation in God again. Only from there can real change in our country occur.
Mayflower Compact: “In the name of God, Amen, We whose names are unwritten…having undertaken, for the glories of God, and advancements of the Christian faith…a voyage to plant the first colony…”
(The religious context has now been edited in several history books)
Samuel Adams: “Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of unculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity…in short of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.”
George Washington: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports…In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens…”
John Adams: “Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.”
John Adams: “We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion…Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Benjamin Rush: “The only foundation for…a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object of life of all republican governments.”
Benjamin Rush: “…Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts they will be wise and happy.”
George Washington: “…And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion…reason and experience both forbid us to expect that a national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
Charles Carroll: “Without morals, a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion…are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.”
Patrick Henry: “The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor…and this alone, that renders us invincible.”
Benjamin Franklin: “…the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel…”
(This was said by Franklin during the Constitutional Convention where there was great disagreement between those attending. Franklin then proposed a day of prayer and fasting, which they did. After that, there was much more peace during the writing.)
These are just interesting:
Daniel Webster: “In my view, the Christian Religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed….no truth is more evident to my mind that the Christian Religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
“…the moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws...”
“To preserve the government we must also preserve morals. Morality rests on religion; if you destroy the foundations, the superstructure must fall. When the public mind becomes vitiated and corrupt, laws are a nullity and constitutions are waste paper.”
Alexis De Tocqueville (Frenchman, wrote Democracy in America): “The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive one without the other.”
From these I would assume they valued their Christian faith in God very highly. It was more of a lifestyle for them. How many of us as Christians can claim that God truly is our lifestyle?
Our forefathers fought for the freedom of religion, but personally fought for freedom of religion to worship the God of the Bible. They had no idea the God they love would be pushed out of the country.
It is so sad to see a country that set standards on such high moral grounds in the beginning, to now turn their back to everything that is interminable.
We need to set out foundation in God again. Only from there can real change in our country occur.
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