{"id":804,"date":"2011-02-19T16:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T21:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.bbc.edu\/mstallard\/?p=804"},"modified":"2011-02-19T16:43:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T21:43:56","slug":"the-american-revolution-and-the-depravity-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/the-american-revolution-and-the-depravity-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Revolution and the Depravity of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/George-Washington.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-805\" title=\"George Washington\" src=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/George-Washington-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>I have often contrasted the French Revolution and the American Revolution and their outcomes.\u00a0 The French Revolution did not emphasize the depravity of man while the American Founding Fathers had a healthy respect for the biblical teaching of depravity.\u00a0 Even though all men are made in the image of God, the depravity of the human race is a reality that must be taken into account if government organization is to mimimize the possiblity of corruption.\u00a0 Hence our Founding Fathers designed a system of checks and balances to make sure that power is not consolidated in one man or one group of men.\u00a0\u00a0 This in turn helps to protect the God-given liberties that men possess.\u00a0 In this regard I ran across a statement by George Washington quoted in Peter&#8217;s Lillback&#8217;s <em>George Washington&#8217;s Sacred Fire:<\/em>\u00a0 &#8220;the blessed religion revealed in the Word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institutions may be abused by human depravity&#8221; (see p. 58).\u00a0 Not only does this show\u00a0a concern with the biblical doctrine of depravity, it is fairly prescient about what was to come in American life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often contrasted the French Revolution and the American Revolution and their outcomes.\u00a0 The French Revolution did not emphasize the depravity of man while the American Founding Fathers had a healthy respect for the biblical teaching of depravity.\u00a0 Even though all men are made in the image of God, the depravity of the human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}