The secular models studied by some of the founders were not the critical path traveled by America’s founding generations as they built our Constitutional Republic. It was the Bible and the biblical constitutional pattern derived from the Torah that gave structure to our Republic.
Opening the Bible to the people, the Reformation also opened new windows of understanding concerning law and government. This knowledge began to stir interest in the Hebrew concepts of God and man as a basis for government that focused on a structure of government designed to support that view: the republic.
Matthew 28:19 “…disciple all nations …” Mathew Henry writes that the “principle intention of this commission,” is to “do your utmost to make the nations Christian nations.”
Scholars have consistently identified the Puritan, Hebraic, and Calvinist roots of America. These roots grew into the structure of the founding of individual states and the union of the nation.
We take a tour of the Hebrew Republic itself to discover how it impacted the thinkers concerning liberty, republics, nation-states, and freedom of religion and conscience.
Teach the Children
- History tells us that how a nation is governed controls the well-being of the individual.
- The roots of our system of American government are Biblical.
- Only God-inspired ideas of liberty would create a constitution for freemen.