“Let me live according to those Holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word. Direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ – the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Bless O’ Lord, all the people of this land. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National Morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” (George Washington’s inaugural prayer before the country)
Isaiah 30:1
“Woe to the obstinate children,” declares the Lord, “to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin.”
Something happened in America, starting at the turn of the 20th century, and from there it began to escalate. The first thing that started to change our country was that the main established churches stopped believing that the Bible is the literal Word of God. Once that happened, all kinds of man’s ideas began to be read into the Scripture. It swept through the seminaries and the churches in those days, and reading God’s Word began to be based on experience of whether it really felt like God’s Word, instead of looking at it objectively. The essential belief held by most of our churches began to be abandoned and rewritten. Christianity, to these establishments, lost it’s impact and it’s power.
When it began to spread, our own people began to attack our Christian foundations and our Constitution because it’s based on Judeo Christian values. They also began to ridicule and attack those who believed the Bible is the inherent Word of God, and who believed our American History as written. This is what our founding fathers had to say:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. (John Adams 1798)
Freedom and Liberty was based on the assumption that the majority of our people had a Christian worldview, and therefore they didn’t need the Federal Government to be looking over their shoulder to be sure they were honest and had integrity. So great Liberty could be given because the people could be trusted.
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