tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57303817969685660972024-03-12T16:49:45.768-07:00Our Founding TruthOur Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.comBlogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-51018652642772796162018-04-21T19:56:00.000-07:002018-04-25T13:13:56.740-07:00AC on Jonah Golberg of National ReviewOver at American Creation blog, Jonathan Rowe wrote a post of a few ideas from Jonah Golberg. Here is a taste: “Because God says so” is the greatest appeal to authority, and the appeal to authority is a classic logical fallacy, effective only for those who are pre-committed to that authority."
Before I get to Rowe's response, most secular authors, who make serious Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-9642467540030615902017-07-15T22:49:00.000-07:002017-07-16T14:19:50.981-07:00Federer on the Aiken BibleBill Federer is a regular contributor on World Net Daily, having yesterday written a post on the Aiken Bible, which contains some interesting tidbits that violates modern separation dogma. Could you imagine even the current administration promoting the bible in this manner? Liberals would be protesting in the streets, adding to the list another supposed violation of the constitution with which toOur Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-81089806109959999212017-07-04T18:24:00.000-07:002017-07-04T18:24:51.638-07:00Faith of PresidentsAmerican Creation website with another doozy.
"Lincoln never could bring himself to embrace Christian faith, but was himself the Christ of the ACR. Jackson posed for electoral purposes as a Presbyterian, but was in fact a fervent Freemason who believed in a God above all theologies, the very God whose All-Seeing Eye looks down benignly on the Unfinished Pyramid of the Great Seal of the United Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-17090115925151410092017-04-30T19:34:00.002-07:002017-04-30T19:34:41.890-07:00Our Covenant Political Theology
The basis for Revolution is part and parcel of the political and social theology of the United States. All the ideas of republican government, including Revolution were clearly enumerated and brought to light for the American colonists and western civilization through the Protestant Reformation.Those at American Creation would have you believe this idea of revolution was espoused to Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-36305892901220965232017-04-20T00:23:00.001-07:002017-04-20T00:23:06.400-07:00Historians and Mark NollAs TVD writes, Mark Noll is a liberal, which would preclude him from being an evangelical Christian. Christian orthodoxy and liberalism are mutually exclusive. Evangelical, from The Evangel, is doctrine, theology, essential doctrines of the historic faith, proclaiming the Gospel, from the beginning of the church. If Noll is a liberal, most likely, he rejects parts of the Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-21453803110463511272017-03-28T22:33:00.005-07:002017-03-31T22:49:17.688-07:00Martin Luther's influence on the foundingUpdate. First, I am a Christian, then an American. This blog that I am familiar with made a comment on the below post as "off the wall" and "whack." My question is what's more whacked out than rejecting centuries old principles found in both testaments, as John Adams does in the post I referred to? Christ's Deity is affirmed in most every book of the New Testament and theOur Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-78178128494562114542017-02-27T22:02:00.000-08:002017-03-01T20:16:02.804-08:00J.Q. Adams"I have seen nothing in the glories of this World, nothing in the pride of human learning which should make me ashamed of the Cross of Christ—My Judgment therefore has confirmed the Prejudice of my Education—My idea of Inspiration, as applied to the Scriptures is neither very clear nor very definite—That in the composition of parts of the Sacred Books, the Writers were actuated by Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-86558904433901080422016-07-16T20:44:00.000-07:002016-07-16T20:48:10.369-07:00Fast and Humiliation Proclamations were Calvinist in originJefferson and Virginia looked to Calvinists for fast and Humiliation Proclamations:
"With the help, therefore, of Rushworth, whom we rummaged over for the resolutionary precedents and forms of the Puritans of that day, preserved by him, we made up a resolution, somewhat modernizing their phrases, for appointing the 1st day of June, on which the Port Bill was to commence, for a day of Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-30445776125705343492016-07-15T21:00:00.000-07:002016-07-16T11:43:17.874-07:00Throckmorton on DissentHere's a good one from Warren Throckmorton attacking a Christian nationalist:
"Without banishment due to the intolerance of the dominant Puritans, [Roger] Williams would not have established religious freedom in Rhode Island...The America given to us by the founders is much closer to Roger Williams’ Rhode Island than John Winthrops’ city on a hill. That is a good thing and a story worth telling Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-76007224420839890242016-07-04T13:24:00.000-07:002016-07-04T13:28:27.908-07:00Nature's God is indisputably Jesus Christ and JehovahUnfortunately, people write things like this for such an awesome day like July 4th, where God blessed this nation so greatly. It says:
"The Declaration of Independence is not a Christian document. It's a generically theistic document. It mentions a God of some sort in 4 different places. It doesn't mention Jesus, the Trinity, or quote verses and chapters of scripture for its authority."
Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-44349009267342324552016-07-03T15:11:00.001-07:002016-07-04T18:52:40.150-07:00Bill Fortenberry's book on Benjamin FranklinMr. Fortenberry believes Benjamin Franklin was a Christian. I suppose everyone has a right to their opinion, but his assertion is not my main contention because I always assumed like everyone else the case was cut and dry. I appreciate the time Mr. Fortenberry took to compile all of Franklin's views on Christianity and his interpretation of Franklin's words. Because there are no clear smoking Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-62855191567257240242016-06-28T21:20:00.000-07:002016-06-28T21:20:54.026-07:00Even President Andrew Jackson was a ChristianOld Hickory wasn't a founding father, although he did fight in the Revolution at age thirteen. 4 out of the first 7 presidents.
“Sir, I am in the hands of a merciful God. I have full confidence in His goodness and mercy…The Bible is true. I have tried to conform to its spirit as near as possible. Upon that sacred volume I rest my hope for eternal salvation, through the merits and blood of our Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-14366834104831189312016-06-26T00:39:00.000-07:002016-06-26T08:45:07.281-07:00Another powerful evangelical, Samuel CooperCooper was hated so much by the British, they put a warrant out for his arrest. Like his father before him, Cooper was a Calvinist, only not a rigid one. Had I been there I would have reminded Cooper, John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the bible is the most rigid book or books there is. Moreover, Cooper used theological words only Calvinists or partial Calvinists used:
"Our divine Redeemer has Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-9438103612520068892016-06-25T20:01:00.000-07:002016-06-25T20:01:15.556-07:00Evangelical Colonial Pastor, Samuel WestWest wrote:
Let us rejoice...to the great Redeemer; to whom every knee should bow...in ascribing blessing and honor and glory and power, to him who sitteth on the throne and to the lamb forever and ever.
Amen.
--A Sermon Delivered Upon the Late National Thanksgiving, February 19, 1795.
The word "Redeemer" is an evangelical word meaning "bought" as buying back as a ransom found in Mark 10:45, "Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-50135531809360843892016-06-22T17:34:00.002-07:002016-06-23T00:17:42.954-07:00William Livingston, the moderator of the Presbyterian church of New YorkFrom my limited knowledge, this is the first time indisputable evidence has been presented to show High Federalist statesman and founding father William Livingston was a Calvinist in faith like his brother Philip, within the Presbyterian Church of New York. Although Col. Alexander Hamilton hadn't formed the Federalist Party yet, Hamilton highly respected Livingston. Moreover, Livingston's Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-31047673437371776762016-06-16T00:06:00.000-07:002016-06-18T21:43:00.968-07:00Will the real William Livingston please stand upPresbyterian William Livingston was perhaps the most orthodox Calvinist founding father of them all. Maybe more so than Roger Sherman, John Witherspoon, James Madison, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Dr. Joseph Warren, James Wilson, Gunning Bedford Jr., Richard Stockton, Josiah Bartlett, William Paterson, Oliver Ellsworth, James McHenry, Oliver Wolcott, John Hancock, James Otis, Philip Livingston, Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-30259408851860442012016-06-15T01:25:00.000-07:002016-06-15T01:25:02.130-07:00Evidence James Otis was an orthodox ChristianThis is from Dreisbach and Hall, The Sacred Rights of Conscience. I don't know how it can be proven Otis wrote this, but it is Calvinist to the core, even giving the Holy Spirit authority over repentance. Maybe Percy Morton wrote it.
A proclamation for a public thanksgiving
[T]he wise and holy Governor of the world has, in his righteousness providence, sent droughts into this colony...we have Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-72398545103285296822016-06-10T23:59:00.000-07:002016-06-11T13:12:53.144-07:00James Otis on GovernmentIn this writing, especially at the bottom, it appears Otis agrees with Thomas Paine and other founding fathers that Israel was mainly a republic in addition to receiving the law at Sinai. Otis believed God started government and the entire nation state were administrators of it. Israel is the only example in context and Otis isn't referring to democracy; he's referring to representative Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-80637474715044273012016-05-13T12:42:00.000-07:002016-05-13T12:42:45.678-07:00Who was Thomas Jefferson's God?Jon at American creation makes the claim Thomas Jefferson's God was not Jehovah, the God of Israel. The problem is Jefferson never says his God is not the God of Israel. Jefferson let's everyone believe he's a Christian and his three idols: Bacon, Newton and Locke all believed in the God of Abraham.Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-25268911008261841712016-03-29T21:51:00.002-07:002016-03-29T21:51:15.074-07:00The founding fathers on voting rightsThe Founding fathers have been hammered by liberals for years that they were racists and discriminated against others in a variety of issues. Voting rights is one of them. However, voting is not a right. If it was, ten year olds could vote. People should qualify to vote. Qualification was apart of the hostility against democracy; what liberals enjoy. Contrary to what lib judges that claim the "Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-10902754211297783682016-03-18T10:57:00.000-07:002016-03-22T13:31:45.088-07:00The founding fathers on the supreme courtAlexander Hamilton and James Wilson, and the rest of the founding fathers, believed the congress and the executive can declare the courts ruling as null and void and ignore their decisions. Article 3, Section 1, "The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the congress may from time to time ordain and establish." Along with halting Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-76847891352199418082016-02-21T17:28:00.001-08:002016-02-21T17:28:45.574-08:00Jefferson on naturalization
May 1779Virginia Papers 2:476–78
Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that all white persons born within the territory of this commonwealth and all who have resided therein two years next before the passing of this act, and all who shall hereafter migrate into the same; and shall before any court of record give satisfactory proof by their own oath or affirmation, that they intend to Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-60291275484575778722015-12-31T01:16:00.001-08:002016-01-06T22:00:10.971-08:00John Fea and the secularists are at it againThe secular media uses John Fea as one of their spokesholes to spread distortions of the founding. Here is the link to his blog, The Way of Improvement Leads Home. His book, the cover shown on the front page, which I have previously read, is hideous. The first page has an historical error, distorting the meaning of the passage (The treaty of Tripoli). Unfortunately for Fea, the man who Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-60245571710947530432015-12-25T03:29:00.000-08:002015-12-27T21:25:23.887-08:00Secularism and Islam.Secularists and fake Christians are everywhere in this once great Christian nation. Perverting Christianity is enough to be rebuked, but destroying the nation's foundation
is the sign of the times. More than ever, infidels who claim to know Christ, distort His word, and claim to know the founding of the United States, yet spread ideas that falsely describe both, and leading people astray about Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-7788890475250625032015-11-24T21:11:00.000-08:002016-06-10T23:33:29.172-07:00The first congress on immigration
The House then went into a Committee of the whole on the bill establishing an uniform rule of Naturalization. Mr. Baldwin in the Chair. The first clause enacted, that all free white persons, who have, or shall migrate into the United States, and shall give satisfactory proof, before a magistrate, by oath, that they intend to reside therein, and shall take an oath of allegiance,and Our Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.com0