Video: Constitution Inseparable from Bible & America’s Christian Heritage, Expert Says

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Video: Constitution Inseparable from Bible & America’s Christian Heritage, Expert Says

Constitution Inseparable from Bible & America’s Christian Heritage, Expert Says

The New American
August 9, 2022


It is impossible to properly understand the U.S. Constitution or America’s constitutional republican form of government without understanding the Bible and the nation’s now-suppressed Christian heritage, explained Institute on the Constitution lecturer David Whitney in this interview with The New American magazine’s Alex Newman. “If you pull the Bible out of the structure, the whole house collapses,” explained Whitney, who also pastors Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church in Maryland. “That’s what has been happening in our day. Many people have no idea that the Bible is the foundation of our constitutional republic.” In fact, America’s Founding Fathers believed that no law contradicting the Bible could ever be legitimate, he said, citing the founders and the sources they themselves cited such as Sir William Blackstone. Pastor Whitney also discussed the misunderstanding of Romans 13, which addresses the duty of Christians and all people to submit to authorities.

 

[Sonny Tufts]

The First Amendment permits one to be an idolater or polytheist, both of which violate the first two Commandments.

Article VI, which prohibits religious tests for federal offices, hardly enshrines the Bible or Christianity in the Constitution. In the debate of the North Carolina Convention on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, James Iredell, later a Justice of the Supreme Court, said: ". . . t is objected that the people of America may, perhaps, choose representatives who have no religion at all, and that pagans and Mahometans may be admitted into offices. But how is it possible to exclude any set of men without taking away that principle of religious freedom which we ourselves so warmly contend for?"