The important question which urges itself upon our national conscience is not "Was America founded as a Christian nation?" but rather "Should America
be a Christian nation?"
So many people look at this issue from the wrong perspective. If America was founded as a Christian, what difference would it make? Most people today would oppose "getting the nation back on track" in such a case. And suppose America was NOT founded as a Christian nation... the same people would still (perhaps even more vehemently) oppose America being a Christian nation today.
Frankly, it doesn't much matter whether the nation was founded as a Christian nation, or whether the Founding Fathers intended America to be a Christian nation. We can bring out the real facts of the case, if we desired, which would show that the nation was, largely, intended to be a free, Christian nation. And that the adoption of the federal Constitution was in essence a betrayal of those original intentions (as, in fact, many of the delegates to the Convention argued, including the venerable Patrick Henry).
But none of that is even relevant to our pressing national crisis today. For the present truth is this: that all men are called unto obedience to Christ, whether they be peasant or President (
Matthew 28), and that all nations are to be judged by Christ's standard (
Matthew 25,
Psalm 2).
So the question before the nation is not "Were you ever once a Christian nation?" but rather "
Will you ever be a Christian nation?"
Sadly, even those who profess to be servants of Christ as "lord of lords and king of kings" openly oppose any lordship of the self same Christ over the nation or its magistrates and rulers.
Psalm 2 concludes with a warning to the rulers and governors of nations: Embrace the Son of God, OR ELSE. And God's Word does not return unto Him void.
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