Why is America’s Judeo-Christian History Worth Understanding?

There are many today that do not have a basic understanding or knowledge of America’s rich Christian history which in turn makes it difficult to discern fundamental answers to the current problems of the day such as….

Is Abortion a fundamental right? Are the Bill of Rights absolute?

Having an understanding of America’s Biblical principles will help answer these questions and how our founders thought.

There are several Christians who are politically active and actively involved in the media in whatever form that may be that are addressing key issues with little to no knowledge of our actual history. Due to this lack of awareness and understanding our leaders in academia become an easy target and fall prey to very well-trained humanist politicians, journalists, and media personalities.

What is a humanist?

Humanism is a broad religious view that encompasses all religions that use human ideas rather than God and His Word as the foundation of truth. All religions outside of God’s one and true religion are influenced by humanistic beliefs. [1]

Humanism or Secular Humanism is a religion in and of itself that is running rampant in our world today. Why has there been a rise in this way of thinking? What is happening in our Churches and in our homes here in America?

According to a recent Gallup poll, belief in God in America has dipped to 81%, a new all-time low. Only 4 in 10 believe that God can intervene on people’s behalf. Between 1944 and 2011 more than 90% of Americans believed in God or at least had a reverence for God.

Now keep in mind that Christianity is never going to be the most popular way of life no matter what our polls indicate. It is not supposed to be. The Bible does say in Matthew 7:14 “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which. leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” It will only ever be a few that come to really know the one true and living God.

But here in America, being founded upon Judeo-Christian principles, the majority have always had a belief or a reverence for the one true and living God that the Bible speaks of. As time goes on that number is going down.

So, what is going on inside of our homes and our churches?

What are we teaching our kids?

Husbands how are we leading our families? Are we being passive about the things going on in our communities on a local, state, and national level? Fathers and Husbands are we indifferent to Church, to Sunday School, to our schools? Do we even care about the spiritual state of our kids, our schools, our homes, our wives? Yes, we have a responsibility to provide and work but we also have a responsibility to educate our home on the spiritual things such as teaching our families to rightly divide the Word of God, teaching them who Jesus is, and teaching how and why it is important to understand the history in which our great nation was founded upon.

This is why we have a falling away from our foundational beliefs because we have stopped doing our jobs as husbands and fathers. We have decided to let the schools, television, and Hollywood train up our kids and the world has gladly taken them in and trained them up. Is it too late? No, it is not. I believe that we can still have revival in our nation but we must wake up.

Humanists who know and understand all of the cliches about “witch hunts,” and “bigoted Christians,” and how to spin these cliches in their favor.

When we have leaders with Judeo-Christian centered values that call for a return to a God-centered America with values that our founders lined out in our Declaration and our Constitution the humanist undermines the message by equating that message with the motivations of extremists and demagogues, a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.

If we do not know our true history, yes, the good and the bad, a false sense of guilt will then set in, and as a result we go on the defensive concerning God and America’s history. We will begin to doubt ourselves, what we belief and why if we do not know what we believe and why we believe it. We must be educated on our true history. Not this revisionist history that is being taught today that only teaches that America has always been all bad and nothing good has ever come from her.

Once we go on the defensive, we then take a reactionary position which then puts the Christian in a position in which they become the easiest group in America to destroy and immobilize due to the fact that they know that Christians who know how to rightly divide the Word of God know that they cannot force feed people their beliefs on others. The secular humanist knows this and uses this as a weapon against them. Even if you’re not a Christian but hold Judeo-Christian values, you know that the idea of America is something that you cannot force on somebody else.

The people have to choose for themselves the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Our founders wanted all Americans to be free to pursue who and what they were going to worship but while holding a high standard of morals and values that they outlined in our Bill of Rights and these rights along with the 10 commandments be the guiding light of our decision-making process.

As a Christian, I do not want a church-run society, we are not a theocracy. It is a beautiful thing in our long line of rich American heritage that our Founders provided for us that we could be a nation with true liberty and justice for all for both the believer and non-believer. [2]

What we have today are the humanists running around like an angry mob just waiting to “burn those at the stake” who do not affirm their belief or narrative.

We must know our Bible. We must know our Constitution. We must know our history. We must know America’s founding principles and pass this knowledge onto the next generation if we want to preserve our Constitutional Republic. We must know what we believe and be able to defend why we believe it.

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[1] Bodie Hodge & Roger Patterson: World Religions and Cults: Atheistic and Humanistic Religions. Vol. 3 Pg. 64

[2] Foster, Marshall. The American Covenant. Pg 18.