Consider The Possibility Concerning Our Founding Fathers by Robert Socha

Consider the possibility that these United States’ Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, followed the Biblical account of creating a covenant when forming a more perfect union. They mined the Scripture for Wisdom to help accomplish the mission so our enemies could not exploit a confounded convention. When they quoted text to support their position, the Founding Fathers regularly used the Bible or writings from men like Montesquieu, Blackstone, and Locke, who heavily relied on the authority of scripture to maintain their positions. Even Benjamin Franklin argued in favor of opening every session of the Constitutional Convention by moving, “that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business.”

It is no wonder that the enemy of our souls, the old deluder Satan, is working to subvert the very institutions that bonded us together, namely, as Adams declared, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” What religion did Adams promote? Here is his answer to Thomas Jefferson in a letter written in rebuke to the country’s straying from her Christian heritage, “The general Principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only principles in which, that beautiful assembly of young gentlemen could unite, and these principles only could be intended by them in their address, or by me in my answer. And what were these general principles? I answer, the general principles of Christianity, in which all those sects were united; and the general principles of English and American liberty, in which all those young men united, and which had united all parties in America, in majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her independence.

Now I will avow, that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the existence and attributes of God…” These religious and moral values are the bedrock of a just and virtuous civilization and are necessary to maintain true liberty.

The Founding Fathers trusted that men who would submit themselves to the Holy Writ, therefore exercising the Spirit’s fruit, especially self-control, would possess the ability for self-governance. We have strayed past this notion that most men, especially those in positions of power and authority, will voluntarily submit themselves to humility and selflessness, let alone the Cross. Still, it is a notion that we should not abandon or neglect to encourage. A just and moral society maintains its integrity when its moral compass is rooted in Biblical truth, especially the teachings of Jesus.

When the persecution comes, the inevitable attacks on our character because we hold fast to a Standard for religion and morality, a standard that defines a man and a woman, encourages a mother and father to be married and raise their children to revere the Lord, discerns between right and wrong and holds men accountable for contemptible barbaric behavior, especially when that behavior infringes on another man’s ability to engage society freely. When the mocking and accusations fly toward us at lightning speed, we must remember the example Christ Himself displayed as He was interrogated, scourged, beaten, questioned, and ultimately crucified. Pilot himself marveled at the Lord’s refusal to engage and respond in kind. It is necessary to remember this model and unashamedly proclaim and fight for a resurgence of piety and repentance and a return to the old ways where religion and morality are indispensable supports.

Remember, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” A covenant willfully executed between two parties exists to the benefit of both without infringing on the other’s life, liberty, or property. The foundations of our country are rooted in Judeo-Christian ethic, which compels advocacy for a return to “whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think on these things.” Phillipians 4:8. The two parties are two-fold: the acknowledgment of Divine Providence and our reliance upon Him, and the acknowledgment that we are navigating this experiment in self-governance together, which requires sacrifice and cooperation, something rarely accepted or engaged today.