Principles of Liberty: Ten Biblical Truths Embedded in the Declaration of Independence, A Five-Session Bible Study Series
The article series is available here and the Bible study series is available here.
Even though not all the Founding Fathers were individual Christians, they had a biblical worldview and sought to apply it to every area of life, including government.
Take, for example, the issue of rights.
We hear a great deal about rights today, but what does the Bible teach about rights? Does biblical teaching align with what the Founders of America believed about them? To the Founders, rights were inherent, an inseparable part of being human because God made people in His image. To many if not not most modern Americans, rights are engineered and carved out for them by the government.
Principles of Liberty (the article series is available here and the Bible study series is available here) explores the meaning, not only of the term
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- rights, but also the meanings of the terms
- liberty,
- law,
- equality, and
- entitle.
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The series examines the perspectives of
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- the Founders,
- most Americans today, and
- Scripture with regard to these issues.
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If the Founding Fathers’ perspectives were closer to Scripture than are ours, don’t we need to adjust our thinking, as well as the policies that grow out of our thinking?…
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Jean Leon Gerome Ferris depicted Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson working on the Declaration of Independence (1900).
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