Founding Fathers

Faith of Our Founding Fathers

/ Bob

Were our founding fathers Christian? Did they believe in God? Were they Deists? Were they Unitarians? Were they Theistic Rationalists? Were they Pagans? Did their faith have any impact on the way they lived or the way they governed? Did their beliefs change over time? Are our founding documents simply the basis of our secular government or do they reflect the faith of those who wrote them? All of these questions and many more are explored in today’s class session.

One of our guiding principles for this series of lessons is “While we study and ponder the people and events of our nation’s founding, we should do so not to exalt them, but to learn from them so that we can better serve our Lord in the land in which we live.” That is what we are doing with our look at the Faith of the Founding Fathers. We examine them, warts and all, to see why twelve score and ten years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal so that we can decide how we will carry the torch of Liberty into the next 250 years.

This Bible study was presented to the Agape Life Bible Study Class of the First Baptist Church in Brenham, Texas, on Sunday, June 21, 2026. It is part of a series called From Reverence to Revival to Revolution: The Influence of Christianity and the Great Awakening on the Founding of The United States of America. Handouts with class presentation content can be requested at: fromthebackporchintexas@gmail.com .

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Can an Empire Rise [and/or Continue] Without His Aid?

/ Bob

When things were heating up in the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Ben Franklin called the body to prayer. Without this submission to God’s providence we might never have become the nation we are today.

Likewise, things are heating up in our nation and we must once again listen to the words of Ben Franklin – not for the founding of the nation, but for its continuation.

As we are admonished in 1 Peter 5:5b-9a, we must dress ourselves in humility and not pride as we relate to one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (Proverbs 3:34) We must humble ourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift us up in honor.  We must give all our worries and cares to God, for he cares about us. Furthermore, we must stay alert and watch out for our great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.  We must stand firm against him, and be strong in our faith.

It is true a nation cannot rise without the power and aid and supervision of the Almighty Creator. “He removes kings and raises up kings.” (Daniel 2:21)  Therefore, can we expect our nation to continue without Him? At this time of the year when we celebrate our Independence we must also acknowledge our total Dependence on God and call on Him to once again intervene in the public and private affairs of the citizens of this great nation. Then and only then will we experience in 2022 that which Abraham Lincoln declared in 1864 in his Gettysburg Address “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”