President Ronald Reagan once declared that we should always remember we are one nation under God, or we shall become one nation gone under.
         There are two competing philosophies or worldviews in modern America. On the one hand, America retains the rich Godly heritage that originally made her great. On the other hand, secularists are increasingly putting at risk both our heritage and the religious liberties of all Americans.
        Although traders, explorers and businessmen also had a hand in the founding of America, historical revisionists cannot erase the fact that the first people who founded colonies in this land were primarily religious nonconformists. The reason for this book is to educate and inform the Christian public about ten important things every Christian ought to know about the founding of America.
        Here are the ten points in a nutshell:
1) Christopher Columbus, who opened up the New World to the Old, was motivated by his Christian faith to make his difficult voyage.
2) In 1620, the Pilgrims drafted our nation’s first self-governing document, the Mayflower Compact. In that document, the Pilgrims clearly stated that they came to the New World to glorify God and to advance the Christian faith.
3) The Puritans, who followed the Pilgrims to New England, created Bible-based commonwealths in order to practice a representative government that was modeled on their church covenants. Their more than one hundred governmental covenants and compacts essentially laid the foundation for America’s Constitution, which was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1789.
4) Various settlements throughout the early colonies provided refuge for religious dissidents of all types, the most famous being those founded by Roger Williams in Rhode Island and William Penn in Pennsylvania.
" . . . those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord."  Abraham Lincoln, 16th President
5) The education of the settlers and founders of America was uniquely Christian and Bible-based. Our Founding Fathers all received a thoroughly Christian education at all levels. All America’s early universities—including Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, and Princeton—were Biblically Christian in their origins. Rare was the American of 1776 who did not know the Scriptures.
6) The Great Awakening was a key factor in uniting the separate pre-Revolutionary War colonies and in increasing communication among them. As evangelists like George Whitefield roamed up and down the Eastern seaboard preaching the Gospel, a religious revival occurred that drew the thirteen colonies together spiritually. As clashes between Great Britain and America increased, these colonists sought peace with Mother England, but not at the price of compromising their convictions.
7) The colonial pulpits, especially in New England, played a pivotal role in encouraging independence from Britain. The Minutemen were generally members of local churches, organized by their pastor or head deacon. The pastors’ sermons, especially just before election day, informed the people about what was happening politically and what they, as faithful Christians, should do about it.
8) Christianity played a very important role in bringing about American Independence, including shaping the thinking of President George Washington and other early American heroes such as Samuel Adams, sometimes called the lightning rod of the American Revolution, and Patrick Henry, its great orator.
9) The Declaration of Independence was based on Christian ideas and viewpoints. The liberties it granted to the citizens were understood to come directly from the God of the Bible.
10) The Biblical understanding of the sinfulness of man was the guiding principle behind the United States Constitution.  The Bible was quoted more than any other source in the political writings of America’s founding era. In the First Amendment, the founders presented America with a framework for religious liberty not a weapon to be used by secularists against any public expression of Christianity.

Endorsement from syndicated columnist David Limbaugh:
"How ironic that instead of honoring the Judeo-Christian tradition underlying our liberties, the secular neo-libertarians are trying to eradicate all vestiges of that tradition in the public arena. But the framers never intended a complete ban on public sponsorship of religion. Enter this new book, One Nation Under God: Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About the Founding of America by attorney David C. Gibbs, Jr. and author Jerry Newcombe. It helps dispel the historical revisionists' myths that have eradicated our true history in the last few decades. This book has a message Americans need to hear."

From the Foreword by D. James Kennedy, Ph.D.
"There are those in our country today who are busily tearing apart that foundation who would gnash their teeth at the idea that this is a Christian nation, and will not be satisfied until they have removed every vestige of our Christian heritage from not only the minds, but the monuments of this country.
"These outspoken secularists have tried to rob of us of our rich Christian heritage. The history books have been rewritten, and God has been erased.
 "But you can’t tell America’s true history if you erase the Christian heritage. This nation was founded by Christians largely for Christian purposes. The facts of history cannot be so easily erased.
"The facts of history are what this new book is all about. In page after page, it is very clear that we began as a Christian nation, and that that’s the key to our national greatness. Since the beginning of the secular onslaught against Christian liberty in America, Dr. David Gibbs, Jr. has been fighting for religious liberty as an attorney---as a legal missionary. For this book, he has teemed up with Jerry Newcombe, who has co-authored some books with me, including the bestseller, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?. Together, they have culled the facts of history and have assembled ten indisputable facts that every Christian should know about the founding of this great land. I recommend it highly.
"It’s high time we reclaim our Christian heritage before it’s too late. May God use this book to help in that worthy goal."

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