Christianity & Government

As a truth, the idea of government comes from religion not the secular part of a society. Government introduces a civil part of society that is always connected to religion. The two cannot be separated. Therefore, the type of government that a society has is based upon their views of their God. For, their idea of God determines the form of their civil, political, religious and social institutions.

The religious beliefs of those who create a society, or in some instances capture
an existing society, determine its type of government. And, the purpose for which
that society is to function and the fate of its citizens is decreed within its founding documents (or the whims of an absolute dictator).

The United States of America was not merely founded on a few Christian principles. Establishing a society in the “New World” was thoroughly Christian because of the beliefs of those establishing it and, further, the motives were evangelistic of the Christian Faith. Christianity, with its true understanding of God and sinful man, is the basis for self-government. The form of government, intended by the Pilgrims, for this new society was self-government. This is the foundation in which they laid for the fate of our Christian society and the responsibility of the individuals within it. America was, and should remain, different than any other nation – a difference because of Christianity.

What are we doing with this sacred property in which so many have been blessed ?

For those who have believed a lie that there should be a separation of church and government, do not know or understand our nation’s history. Nor do they understand its evangelistic purposes that have become our heritage as Christians. America is not just part of world history. America is part of Church history, and therefore HIS STORY.

I leave you with this thought. From an election sermon in 1799, based upon Psalm 11:3, Dr. Jedidiah Morse describes it this way:

“Our dangers are of two kinds, those which affect our religion, and those which affect our government. They are, however, so closely allied that they cannot, with propriety, be separated. The foundations which support the interests of Christianity, are also necessary to support a free and equal government like our own. In all those countries where there is little religion, or a very gross and corrupt one, there you will find, with scarcely a single exception, arbitrary and tyrannical governments, gross ignorance and wickedness, and deplorable wretchedness among the people. To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines, or the neglect of its institutions; in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom, and approximate the miseries of complete despotism…Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them”.

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