“THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NATION”
--U.S. Supreme Court, 1892
THE FAITH OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS DOCUMENTED IN THE CHARTERS OF THE COLONIES, EARLY STATE CONSTITUTIONS, AND SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
THE FAITH OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS IS FOUND IN THEIR EARLY DOCUMENTS:
MAYFLOWER COMPACT (1620): “In the name of God....for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith....”
FIRST CHARTER OF VIRGINIA (1606): “...by the Providence of Almighty God...in propagating of Christian religion...”
FIRST CHARTER OF MASSACHUSETTS (1629): “...our said People... may win and incite the Natives of Country, to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Savior of Man-kind, and the Christian Faith...is the principal end of this Plantation....”
NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION (1643): “...we all came into these parts... to advance the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ....”
CHARTER OF MARYLAND (1632): “... being animated with a...pious zeal for the extending of the Christian Religion....”
THE PREAMBLES OF ALL 50 STATE CONSTITUTIONS MENTION GOD.
In the original state constitutions we find the following oaths required of all who wanted to hold public office in that state:
DELAWARE (1776): “I ___ do profess faith in God...and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost...and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures...to be given by divine inspiration....”
PENNSYLVANIA (1776): “I do believe in one God...and I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration....”
NEW JERSEY (1776): required legislators to have “a belief in the faith of any Protestant sect.”
NEW HAMPSHIRE (1792): required legislators to be of the “Protestant religion.”
NORTH CAROLINA (1776): “That no person who shall deny the being of God... nor the divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments...shall be capable of holding any office...within this state.”
Notice these statements from various Supreme Court decisions:
U.S. SUPREME COURT...1892: “...we are a Christian people... ...this is a Christian nation....”
1930: “We are a Christian people...”
PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT... 1855: “We are a Christian people....”
VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT...1922: “We are a Christian people....”
OHIO SUPREME COURT...1855: “It is a Christian country, and...its...laws are made by a Christian people....”
NORTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT...1855: “Ours is a Christian country....”
The Declaration of Independence mentions GOD 3 times; the Constitution mentions JESUS CHRIST (“in the year of our Lord,” Article VII, 2nd paragraph).
Americans need to REPENT of their sins and get right with GOD by believing in mankind’s only Savior: JESUS CHRIST.
(Acts 16:31; 2 Chron. 7:14; Psalm 33:12)
