OUR ONE TRUE GOD
The USA was founded as one nation under one God, the God of
the Bible. As citizens of the USA, people can believe in just about anything
they want, as long as they recognize that the government of this country is
based on the belief system given by the Bible, the words and principles of the
Judeo-Christian God, who we believe is the One True God. He is Elohim, The one
and only divine creator of all of us. And there are inalienable rights under
His system of love and rules for life. He is El Elyon: The Most High God,
higher and wiser than any other god. We are not to be a nation governed by multiple
gods.
Before the Revolutionary War in America, Bibles written in
English came exclusively from England. But with the war, Bible imports stopped.
Congress resolved to import 20,000 Bibles from Holland, Scotland, and elsewhere
into the different parts of the States of the Union. Becoming a new country
without reliance on the precepts of the Bible was unthinkable.
What makes the United States a Christian nation? Many
people think it’s because of our nation’s founders, but that’s not it. Not all
of them were born-again Christians. Some think it’s because the people of our
nation are primarily Christian, but that’s not it either.
Our country is a Christian nation because of its form of
government. The ideas embodied in the Constitution stem primarily from the
Bible. At one point in modern history, this was challenged.
Consequently, a ten-year research study was done of the
political documents of the Founders’ Era (1760-1805), and every quote or
reference to a source outside the Bible was documented. The research was
published in 1983, which showed that 94% of the ideas in our Constitution are
based directly or indirectly on the Bible.
What we believe as Christians are the words of our God, the
God of the Bible. He has been challenged in the past, both the far-reaching
past and the past still lingering on our breath. I have to admit that in some
categories, I’ve been lulled into complacency, not even realizing it’s
happened.
It’s like the story of the frog. It will immediately jump
out if it’s put into a pot of boiling water. If it’s put into a pot of cool
water and the heat is gradually turned up, it will cook and die. (Horrible
story, I know, but it gets the point across).
The deterioration of truth is slow and calculated perfectly
to the human condition, to a person’s mental, emotional, and social state.
Scientists probably know exactly how long it takes and the conditions for a
carefully placed erroneous idea to infiltrate and begin to infect the mind of a
normally sound person.
This infiltration happened to the Israelites of the Old
Testament over and over, as well as to those who walked with Jesus on earth and
those believers of the first-century church. The twisting of truth by the
Leviathan spirit talked about in the Bible, has not stopped. That’s why we must
continually refresh ourselves with the truth from God’s Word.
God’s will is to “have all men to be saved, and to come
unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2: 4-5). God formed our bodies.
Isaiah 44:24 tells us: “Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer,
and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things;
that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by
myself.”
He gave us the amazing brains we have. The Most High God
placed the nearly incredulous gamut of emotions within us and the triggers that
set them on fire. (Love, passion, grief, anger, jealousy, power).
Only the God of the Bible created us as everlasting spirit
beings with the ability to speak and the will to make choices. Numbers 16:22
tells us that the God of the Bible is “the God of the spirits of all flesh.”
Nebuchadnezzar knew and worshipped many gods, but when he
witnessed the three men walking in the fire, he recognized that their God was
greater than his.
“Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning
fiery furnace, and spake, and said, ‘Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye
servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither.’ Then Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego came forth out of the midst of the fire.
“And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s
counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire
had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats
changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them” (Dan. 3: 26-27).
The God of the Bible is greater than any other god in so
many ways. Do we know Him? Not just His acts, but His ways? And what about His
First begotten son, Jesus Christ? We have read and studied many great men and
women and many great teachers, but there’s only One First begotten son of the
One and only Creator of everything we know and don’t know. Do we know Jesus? I
mean, really know Him?
I remember a marquee in front of a local church that read:
“God sent His only begotten son, not a committee.”
The principles taught in the Bible are the ones that have
been put in place as a contractual agreement for the government of the people
of the United States of America. As Christians, let’s get better acquainted
with the principles and, more importantly, with the God who authored them and
the Son who showed us how to apply them.
Love, Carolyn
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