Subject: Are we really "1 nation under God? |
Bible Note: PART 2 of 2 ---------------- From the beginning of our nation's history, religion had a place in politics, in education, and in every aspect of American life. Consider the following: * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - George Washington, First President "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." Halley's Bible Handbook (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1927, 1965), p. 18 * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President "But for [the Bible] we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare...are to be found portrayed in it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Union Press, 1853), p. 542, September 7, 1864 * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - "The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and law... All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1832), p. 339, ΒΆ 53 * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - "Blessed is that nation whose God is the Lord." (Psalms 33:12) "Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." (Proverbs 14:34) http://www.BibleTreasureChest.com Ok dougboy777, if you claim that the Founding Fathers were only Deists and not Bible believing Christians, then where are your sources? Please show us your sources and where you obtained your information like I have here. As for me, I AM a Christian and not afraid to say it! Are you a Christian, dougboy777? If not, I pray that you would honestly take the example of the Founding Fathers here and accept Jesus as Lord! Blessings to you, Nolan |