America and the Spirit of Rebellion

America and the Spirit of Rebellion

America was founded on a spirit of rebellion.  Consider how the founders of our Nation and the Revolutionary War were in clear and direct contradiction to the Bible on which they claimed to base the new nation. 

1)   In the Old Testament it is written that God hates the spirit of rebellion, which is worse than witchcraft.

2)   When Israel was in captivity and reduced to slavery, God never instructed them to form an army or rebel.  They were to endure in repentance until it was God’s time to set them free.

3)   In the New Testament we are told to submit to and obey the authorities and to respect the government.  This was written when the government at that time was pagan and oppressive.

4)   St. Paul admonished slaves to obey their masters whether they were good masters or evil masters.  If they endured the evil, they would have a reward but if they rebelled they would be in the wrong.  When the run away slave, Onesimus, was converted to the Christian Faith, St. Paul sent him back to his owner.

5)   The apostles lived and suffered under a pagan government in a pagan society.  Never did they advocate rebellion.  When they were arrested and mistreated for obeying God, they submitted to the incarceration and punishment.  They never led a march or protest or advocated such.  They trusted God for their deliverance and vindication in God’s time.

6)   The Gospels clearly teach us to do good to those who do evil to us, to turn the other check and to live in humility and meekness. 

Now it becomes evident that the founding fathers were not following the teachings of Scripture but a spirit of rebellion.  And it becomes evident that the Protestant Evangelical world by and large follows the same spirit of rebellion in rejecting these clear teachings of Scripture by either ignoring them or saying they don’t apply to us today.  If we can ignore one Scripture, why not ignore all?  If one part doesn’t apply to us, why should any part apply to us?  Who’s to say and who’s to decide what does or what doesn’t?  Such an individualistic and private approach eventually leads to little or no beliefs, which is the salient feature of American “Christianity” today.

For the most part, the founding fathers of America were not Christians but Deists.  There is a big difference.  The slogans “God Bless America”, “God and Country” and “In God We Trust” are expressions of Deism but have no significant Christian meaning or content.

The rebellion against England involved politics and economics but a large part of it was religious.  The spirit of rebellion did not want to submit to the ancient forms and beliefs of the Christian Faith but instead sought the freedom to form religious beliefs according to individualistic and private interpretations.  Such, also, was the rebellion of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.