GOD AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS

I believe that which is thought and taught by many, that the founding fathers were Deists. Of course they were, they belived in ONE GOD, and His son Jesus Christ.


However, as others use this misguided belief to denigrate and minimize the role of Christianity,religion and Divine Intervention in the development of the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the founding of America and her freedoms and liberties, I know that these men were true believers in One God, His Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Ghost.


The true Gospel of Jesus Christ had not yet been restored to the earth at the time of the founding of the free America and writing of the Constitution , but these men knew Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and acknowledged the Holy Spirit in guiding them in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.


Because they knew that God and Jesus Christ were not truly represented on earth, they did not profess a a firm belief in Calvinism, Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Methodism, Catholicism, Lutheranism, Baptistery, etc. However, each did acknowledge God, His Son Jesus Christ, Christian morals and ethics in the founding.


John Adams: "Ask me not then, whether I am a Catholic or a Protestant, Calvinist or Arminan. As far as they are Christians, I wish to be a fellow-disciple with them all."


Patrick Henry: "It cannot be emphasized too sparingly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ."


Gen. George Washington addressed his troops following the provisioning and appointment of chaplains to the Continental Army: "The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man, will endeavour to live, and act as becomes a Christian Soldier defending the dearest Rights and Liberties of his country."


Samuel Adams in "The Rights of Colonists" 1772, "The right of freedom being the gift of The Almighty. The rights of of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of the Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament."


Thomas Jefferson in "Notes on the State of Virginia" and engraved on the Jefferson Memorial: "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. And can the the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the Gift of God."


To further that they knew Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and Christianity but that at the time the true power of the gospel was absent from among men, Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Moses Robinson on March 23, 1801, "The Christian Religion, when divested of the rags in which they (clergy) have enveloped it , and brought to the original purity and simplicity of its institutor (Christ) is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind."