“America is a Christian nation…”
Thus declared the United States Supreme Court in Church of the Holy Trinity vs. the United States.
Jerry Newcombe has clearly and concisely laid out significant evidence that the founding fathers were predominantly Christian in their worldview. In The Book That Made America: How The Bible Formed Our Nation, Newcombe presents a case for Christianity as the foundation for this great Republic.
America’s founding fathers were men of faith. Specifically, they were men of the Christian faith; and not deists, or secularists, as revisionist historians would have us believe. And yet, most Americans do not know the rich spiritual heritage of our nation, to their great loss.
Since leaving our Christian heritage, America has fallen into a deplorable state of godlessness; and this can be traced directly to the decisions by our leaders in the past century to leave God out of our lives. In order for America to continue to be a great nation, and a great tool to be used by God in reaching the rest of the world, we need to return to those spiritual roots, to the foundations of our nation, built upon God’s sacred Word, and restore the spiritual legacy our forefathers intended for generations to come.
In The Book That Made America, Jerry Newcombe shows conclusive proof that America’s Christian heritage was rich and can be extremely well-documented in the early writings of our nation’s earliest leaders. Newcombe states that “America’s best governing principles come from the Bible directly or indirectly, including the Biblical notion of covenant which gave rise to our Constitution.”
Christianity underpins the very fabric of our nation. George Washington stated that “without a humble imitation of Christ, we could never hope to be a happy nation.”
Calvin Coolidge, our thirtieth president, remarked, “If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.”
Newcombe lays out the evidence for the Bible’s pivotal role in American history very well. With separate, yet overlapping, sections about how the Bible was influential in not only the settling of America, as well as in the founding of our nation, The Book That Made America cites document after document showing just how important the Scriptures were to the men and women who came, and built, and settled, and established our great nation.
One very interesting section of the book is in Part One: The Book That Made America. Jerry Newcombe provides a fifty question quiz about America’s Christian Heritage. He provides the quiz first, and then explains in detail the answers to each question. I am an avid student of American history, and I found several areas where my thinking has been influenced by the revisionism prevalent in our culture today.
Newcombe wraps up The Book That Made America with a section dealing with the idea, “Where did we go wrong?” Can we go back to the ideals set by our forefathers? Newcombe suggests that we can, but not without much effort and pain. We have a lot of backtracking to do to get back to the path laid out by the great men and women who founded this nation.
Newcombe has done a great job laying out the facts about how the Bible was a critical part of the formation of the United States. This book took a colossal amount of research, as evidenced by his extensive endnotes and sources cited.
The Book That Made America is a crucial book for Christians to read. In order for America to stay the course, Christians need just such a wake up call as this.
I would suggest that this book be added to the library of every serious student of Christianity and America. Don’t wait. Read The Book That Made America now.
If you are interested in reading The Book That Made America, by Jerry Newcomb, you can purchase it at Amazon.com.
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