One Nation Under GOD - second thing every person should know about the founding of America

One Nation Under GOD

Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About the Founding of America

By Dr. David C. Gibbs, President of Christian Law Association

And Jerry Newcombe

Conclusion

At the Christian Law Association, we see over and over again that the rights of religious people are being trampled in a modern attempt to purge anything religious from American civil life. This attitude is totally foreign to the original founding of America. It seems that we have forgotten our roots.

Peter Marshall, a chronicler of America’s Christian history, makes a striking observation about the Pilgrim settlement: “This was the only place on the face of the earth where free Christian people were creating their own government, electing their own civil leadership - the only time in history, as a matter of fact, when a nation, from scratch, was based on God’s Word.”

And so we see that the second thing every Christian should know about the founding of America is that it all began “IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.”

Here is a quote from the chapter:

“The significance of the Mayflower Compact cannot be over-emphasized. A group of travel-weary, Godly men and women, blown off-course during their voyage, were creating their own government. This new government was not like any other civil government they had ever known. The Pilgrims agreed among themselves and before God to freely submit to a covenant of equality grounded in the governing of self as taught in Scripture.

The obvious source of the Pilgrim’s foundational idea for this voluntary mutually binding agreement was the Bible. Historian Paul Johnson notes: “This contract was based upon the original Biblical covenant between God and the Israelites…

It is an amazing document for these earnest men and women to have agreed and drawn up, signed by all forty-one “heads of households” aboard the tiny vessel… What was remarkable about this particular contract was that it was not between a servant and a master, or a people and a king, but between a group of like-minded individuals and each other, with God as a witness and symbolic co-signatory.”