{"id":958,"date":"2011-10-26T21:54:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2011-10-26T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T02:01:08","slug":"the-biblical-basis-of-the-u-s-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/the-biblical-basis-of-the-u-s-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biblical Basis of the U. S. Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Constitution1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-961\" title=\"Constitution\" src=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Constitution1-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Constitution1-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Constitution1.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Monday (October 24, 2011) I delivered what we call\u00a0a Faculty Forum Paper during the chapel time at Baptist Bible Seminary.\u00a0 The topic was &#8220;The Biblical Basis of the United States Constitution.&#8221;\u00a0 Although I have made presentations of this\u00a0topic in Sunday School classes, ABFs, and small groups, this is the first time I have committed my thoughts to\u00a0a formal paper format.\u00a0 It is my conviction that the Founding Fathers were steeped deeply in Judeo-Christian ethics and not secular Enlightenment thought.\u00a0 While they may have adopted a kind of \u00a0&#8220;Christian Enlightenment&#8221; in the sense of using reason\u00a0more strongly than past generations, they nonetheless did not erase a predominately Protestant view of the Bible and the world as the underpinning for life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I would not mind getting feedback from others on my paper.\u00a0 The link is given below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Biblical-Basis-of-the-United-States-Constitution1.pdf\">Biblical-Basis-of-the-United-States-Constitution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday (October 24, 2011) I delivered what we call\u00a0a Faculty Forum Paper during the chapel time at Baptist Bible Seminary.\u00a0 The topic was &#8220;The Biblical Basis of the United States Constitution.&#8221;\u00a0 Although I have made presentations of this\u00a0topic in Sunday School classes, ABFs, and small groups, this is the first time I have committed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958"}],"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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}