Day 3 - Founding Father’s Biblical Perspective

Day 3 is a reminder that our country was established with God’s influence. Our Founders couldn’t emphasize enough the importance of scripture and its impact on society. Our Founding Fathers may not have all agreed on religion, but they did all believe in a Creator. They agreed that God gave the people certain rights. They agreed that to have a civil society, the people would need to have a say in what the government did. The people would govern the government. They agreed that the Bible was the source on how to establish that government, and how to have a moral and just society. Memorizing the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence can be a reminder of why it all started.

“When in the Course of Human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Declaration of the thirteen United States of America in Congress, July 4. 1776

“No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.” George Washington. April 30,1789

“Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.” Exodus 18: 21

Exodus 18: 21 is the definition of a constitutional republic and choosing our representatives. John Adams explains why we do not have a democracy:

“ Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy-such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure; and every one of these will soon mold itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities- all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science- to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable [abominable] cruelty of one or a few.”

President Thomas Jefferson advised Supreme Court Justice William Johnson:

 “On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

Additional Daily Focus Ideas

2 Timothy 2:15

Ephesians 6:10-18