A Burden for Truth...

Note: I normally don't double post something on two blogs, but this is an exception.

I cannot explain in full what's happened over the last 2-3 weeks. Just that God has afforded me the perfect place within which to learn and study about our Nation's founding. In so doing the findings are astounding.

There is so much that we as Americans are no longer taught or instructed about when it comes to the History of our nation, some good, some bad. But it is our beginnings that I find most amazing, in focus, the reliance of our Founding Fathers on Christ and the Bible. At one time such things permiated our country, so much so that when Alexis De Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, came to America to deduce from whence her greatness came he said:

"On my arrival to the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the loger that I stayed there the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things"

"I sought of the greatness and genius of America in her comodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless praries and it was not there; in her rich minds and vast world commerece, but it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great" (Itallics Added)

Is that not amazing, does that not make you want to weep? So many in this great nation don't know that, they have no idea of such things because such things aren't taught. They aren't taught in the name of "Seperation of Church and State" that "invisible wall" that pervents religion from entering the public square. This isn't what the Founders intended, such a wall existed so that the State could not control the Church. It was fully intended for the Church to work hand in hand with the state, as some of our greatest statemen at the time of our founding were clergy.

As I have said before, even education was set apart for God's purposes then, as some of our oldest and most respected establishments of post secondary education (such as Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Rugeters) were started by stalwart Christian men, having set before them as institutional missions the grounding of students in the Word. Consider for a moment Harvard University and one of it's original precepts:

"Let Every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life, and therefore to lay Christ at the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowlege and learning"

This just the tip of the iceberg; how far we've come, come away from the things that the nation was founded upon.

I believe with great certianty that if our nation was educated soundly in such history, it would have a great effect upon the minds and hearts of those who reside here, for when you study such matters, you learn the central precept that the Fathers knew - solid government of a nation only comes when there is solid governance of the hearts of the people of said nation, governance that comes from a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. For "from the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks" (and a man acts).

What will we do, will the "Revolutionary" ideas of governance and government that formed this great nation some day return?

I sure hope so...