Happy Birthday America - Bob Levin

A celebration with biblical roots

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights…

 

                                   Declaration of Independence, 1776

                                   authored by Thomas Jefferson

 

Genesis 1:26-27

 

           Valuable& equal

 

Jesus revolution

 

Luke 4:18; 6:20

 

Matthew 10:16

 

Mark 10:41

 

Matthew 25:45

 

Galatians 3:28… “First egalitarian statement in history”

 

“Self-evident”?

 

There is no way that it could have been ‘self-evident’ that all men are created equal without the influence of the Jews [Old Testament prophets]. Democracy grew directly out of the Israelite vision of individuals as subjects of value because they are images of God

 

Thomas Cahill, scholar & author of best-selling

                                                    series Hinges of History

 

We have this day restored the sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient

                                      Samuel Adams, “Father of the

                                                                       American Revolution”

 

From the day of the Declaration, they[Americans] were bound by the laws of God and by the laws of the Gospel…

                                                John Quincy Adams

 

It is impossible to govern the world without God and  the Bible

                                                George Washington

 

The Christian religion… brought to the original purity and simplicity of its benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science and the freest expansion of the human mind.

 

                                                Thomas Jefferson

 

God who gave us life gave us liberty.And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?

 

                                               Thomas Jefferson,

(engraved on wall of Jefferson Memorial)

 

People are created equal… ideas aren’t

 

           Revelation7:9-10

 

           Matthew10:16