Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, September 27, 2010 9:34:49 AM
“So we need our presidents to remember the Creator, not only when quoting the Declaration of Independence, but we need them to remember Him in their whole approach to governing as well.” –Mario Diaz
Thank you Mr. Diaz, that is exactly the issue. The words ‘Creator’, ‘Natural Law’ and ‘Nature’s God’ used by the American Founders in the Declaration of Independence are descriptive of their world view. They were separating themselves from the humanism of the so called Enlightenment that led to the French Revolution, resulting in anarchy and authoritarianism.
The colonial Americans had a heritage rich in Biblical Theology. They were not so arrogant to think that man was the measure of all things, but rather a creature made in the image of God. They rejected the autonomous wisdom of fallen men in favor of the eternal wisdom of the Creator of all things. They believed that God had revealed Himself not only in natural revelation but in the Scriptures of Old and New Testaments and that He did this for the good of His image bearers to reveal to them what they could not otherwise know. Namely, that the good creation was cursed because of man’s rebellion in sin, that in Adam all men are fallen under the curse of sin, that redemption is only found at the cross where the just died for the unjust and where righteousness is imputed to the guilty according to the Law and the Gospel.
The implications of this truth are many. They resulted in the concept of covenant agreements among men under rule of law based on the equity of Biblical Law. They gave us the revolutionary idea of a free church and a free state. This we now call constitutionalism. Our Constitution is where the history of redemption and the history of liberty are met. To attempt to divorce our Constitution from the world view that produced it is a complete folly and nonsense.
But this is exactly what our President and many Americans today try to do. Why do men deny our theological heritage? We will look at these three causes…
1. Jesus Christ and His cross are an offense to men…the stone of stumbling has become the chief corner stone.
2. Biblical Christianity is an offense to the apostate church…they will not walk in the old paths.
3. Vain philosophy has overcome reason…they suppress the truth in unrighteousness.