Dennis Prager: “Did the Bible play an important role in the founding of America? Do bats and gloves play an important part in the founding of baseball?….There’s no America without God.”.Marshall Foster: “The foundations of liberty have always been the Bible.”.Os Guinness: “What’s the basis for freedom?….Freedom comes from Genesis…we are significant and made in the image and likeness of God.” Some of the guests in the episode make the following points: Included in this episode is the contrast between the godless French Revolution with the pro-God American War for Independence and the founders’ vision that there would be no separation of God and government. This film deals with the Declaration of Independence, our nation’s birth certificate. Just in time for July 4th comes the next episode, “ Endowed By Their Creator.” This 7-part series is called “The Foundation of American Liberty.” In effect, this series sets out to answer these questions: What is right about America, and how did it get that way? The answer is our nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage. I have been working on several documentaries on America’s founding for Providence Forum (a division of D. “with a firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence ” -referring to the Biblical God who superintends the affairs of men.“appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions” -referring to Jesus, who will judge us all,.“all Men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”-referring to the Creator God of Genesis.“the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”-referring to God’s natural law and to the. In the Declaration of Independence, the founders declared independence from Great Britain, while at the same time declaring dependence upon Almighty God. Undermine belief in the Creator, and eventually we lose those rights. The essence of the American experiment is self-rule under God. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another set of rulers.” Ronald Reagan once said, “Our Founding Fathers, here in this country, brought about the only true revolution that has ever taken place in man’s history. History is the story of men grasping for power with violent actions and violent repercussions.īut there was something different about the birth of America. Eventually, in 1940, Stalin’s minions caught up with him and killed him in Mexico.īecause of the depravity of man and the corruption of so many government systems that are not based on the Bible, stories are legion throughout history of one group tyrannizing another. That country refused Stalin’s request, but they also ordered Trotsky to leave Norway. I have stayed on the coastline in southern Norway near an island where Trotsky was in hiding for two months in the 1930s until Josef Stalin learned where he was and demanded that Norway give him up.
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