Christian Nation???

 

The following is found in the book “What if Jesus Had Never Been Born” by Dr. D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe:

 

Because the overwhelming majority of the creators of the Constitution were practicing Christians who derived their political philosophy from the Bible and other Christian Sources, it should come as no surprise that they enshrined numerous biblical passages in the Constitution. H.G. Wells, the skeptical historian declared the United States, “indubitably Christian.”

 

“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, but upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” James Madison

 

The Constitution is based on equality under the law. The Bible says “God shows no partiality”, (Acts 10:34), translated to the Declaration of Independence as “all men are created equal.”

 

The Constitution is committed to individual liberty; “Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty”           (2 Corinthians 3:17)

 

The Constitution rests on the Founder’s understanding that man is sinful, therefore the separation of powers. “For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King,” (Isaiah 33:22), Hence, we have Judicial, Legislative, and Executive Branches.

 

In the Trinity Decision of 1892, the Supreme Court examined literally thousands of documents that had anything to do with the  founding of this country-every state constitution, all of the compacts that led up to 1776, all of the various decisions of the courts. Finally, they said: “ These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.”