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America’s Biblical Foundation

America’s Biblical Foundation. Continental Congress. Passed resolution to make certain Bibles in abundance 1777 “the Bible is so universal, its importance so great…” 1781 Congress commissioned the printing of Bibles in America.

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America’s Biblical Foundation

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  1. America’s Biblical Foundation

  2. Continental Congress • Passed resolution to make certain Bibles in abundance • 1777 “the Bible is so universal, its importance so great…” • 1781 Congress commissioned the printing of Bibles in America “Whereupon, resolved, that the United States in Congress assembled … recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States.”

  3. Continental Congress • “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” • 2 Tim. 3:16-17

  4. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers • “The Holy Scriptures … can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness. In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses.” James McHenry Constitution Signer Secretary of War

  5. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers “Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble.” Ps. 119:165 James McHenry Constitution Signer Secretary of War

  6. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers George Washington

  7. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers • “Were you to ask me to recommend the most valuable book in the world, I should fix on the Bible as the most instructive, both to the wise and the ignorant. Were you to ask me for one, affording the most rational and pleasing entertainment to the inquiring mind, I should repeat, it is the Bible: and should you renew the inquiry, for the best philosophy, or the most interesting history, • I should still urge you to look into your Bible. I would make it, in short, the Alpha and Omega of knowledge; And be assured, that it is for want of understanding the scriptures, both of the Old and New Testament, that so little value is set upon them by the world at large.” Elias Boudinot President Continental Congress

  8. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers • “I should still urge you to look into your Bible. I would make it, in short, the Alpha and Omega of knowledge; And be assured, that it is for want of understanding the scriptures, both of the Old and New Testament, that so little value is set upon them by the world at large.” Elias Boudinot President Continental Congress

  9. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers • “For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.” • Prov. 2:6 Elias Boudinot President Continental Congress

  10. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers • “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” • Prov. 9:10 Elias Boudinot President Continental Congress

  11. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers • “Citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament, or the Christian religion.” Noah Webster American Dictionary

  12. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers • “The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of men.” Noah Webster American Dictionary

  13. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers • “All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” Noah Webster American Dictionary

  14. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers

  15. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers “We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by the means of the Bible.” Dr. Benjamin Rush Signer of Declaration of Independence

  16. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers “You shall teach them (God’s commands) diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.” Duet. 6:7 Dr. Benjamin Rush Signer of Declaration of Independence

  17. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers The Original Blue Back Speller The New England Primer McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers

  18. Testimonies of America’s Forefathers The American Bible Society “to encourage a wider influence of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment.” Elias Boudinot Founder and President President Continental Congress John Jay Vice President 1st Chief Justice Supreme Court

  19. Proclamations of the Continental Congress March 1779 “That He will grant us His grace to repent of our sins, and amend our lives, according to His Holy Word.”

  20. Proclamations of the Continental Congress October 1780 “devout and thankful acknowledgments … above all, in continuing to us the enjoyment of the gospel of peace … that it may please Him to pardon our heinous transgressions and incline our hearts for the future to keep all His laws” and that He might cause the knowledge of Christianity to spread over all the earth.”

  21. Proclamations of the Continental Congress 1782 “The United States in Congress assembled, therefore, taking into consideration our present situation, our multiplied transgressions of the holy laws of our God” “The United States in Congress assembled … do further recommend to all ranks, to testify their gratitude to God for His goodness, by a cheerful obedience to His laws.”

  22. “Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet.” Robert Winthrop Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives

  23. “But on this one will I look: on him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word” Isa. 66:2 Robert Winthrop Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives

  24. GOD’S SIMPLE PLAN FOR SALVATION Rev. 2:10 Acts 2:38 baptism JN. 12:42 confess LK. 13:3 OBEDIENT UNTIL DEATH repent JN. 8:24 believe ACTS 3:22 hear

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