What made America different from France, Russia, or Germany in the 18th century? Was it mere geography or politics, or something deeper? Kevin, the host of the Generations Podcast, is joined by Tim Barton, the president of WallBuilders, and journalist and educator Alex Newman for a conversation about the Christian foundations that shaped the nation’s founding and to ask whether there is still hope for a people who drifted far away from these roots.
250 Years of Providence: A Discussion with Alex Newman and Tim Barton
The constitutional framers (and other founders) were neither Deists in the purest sense of the word, nor were they Christians in the biblical sense of the word. As clearly evidenced in their own writings (when not cherry picked), they were a mix of both influences and are best depicted as theistic rationalists.
Anyone can claim to be a Christian, but claiming such does not make one a Christian:
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [a]miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’”
(Matthew 7:21-23)
“One who turns his ear away from listening to the Law, Even his prayer is an abomination.” (Proverbs 28:9)
With this in mind, the constitutional framers’ sins were of both commission and omission. The framers’ sins of commission are evidenced in that there’s hardly an Article or Amendment in the Constitution that’s not antithetical, if not seditious, to Yahweh’s sovereignty and morality.
Their sins of commission aside, the framers’ sins of omission—that is, their failure to establish government and society based upon Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments—alone sent America to the precipice of moral depravity and destruction she presently teeters on.
Ask the millions of infants slaughtered in their mothers’ wombs if the constitutional framers’ failure to establish government on Exodus 21:22-23 and Deuteronomy 27:25 didn’t lead to their annihilation?
There’s not one national problem in America today—criminal civil “leaders,” government-financed in utero infanticide, sodomite “marriages,” Synagogues, Mosques, and Temples devoted to false gods dotting America’s landscape, international entanglements, America’s crumbling economy, runaway debt, and taxes on nearly everything, etc.—that cannot be traced back to the framers’ sins of omission.
“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” (Jeremiah 2:13)
For evidence that the Constitution itself is biblically seditious, see free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective,” in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible, at bible versus constitution dot org. Click on the top entry on our Online Book page.
Alex, I’d love to send you a complimentary copy of this book. I just need an address to send it to. Email me at [email protected].