We Are Not a Christian Nation...

A Christian Nation, we are not! We cannot be such by God’s own Word. A Nation of Christians, possibly! We cannot accept the premise that because our Nation has a God-centered Charter, that it is destined for His sanction. There is no place in the Word of God where any nation could be guarantied salvation. Ironically, every verse that I have studied indicated that Salvation is only to be a personal faith and a personal choice. Further study might discover that God takes no interest in Nations as a whole, outside Israel, except to bless or curse them.

This being understood, we must understand that, at the inception of our nation, for the first time in History, no particular religion or belief was mandated by a Government to be the “road to heaven”. For that reason, and that reason ONLY has God Blessed us. He has given us the right to Honor and Obey and Worship and Trust and Love Him by individual choice and not by societal impression or government oversight. As a result, our nation has been the Light in a dark world of oppression. Our nation has been blessed with riches and power. Our nation has given bountifully toward the needs of the lowest of God’s children the world around.

Was this nation intended by its Designers to be framed around Christian principles and follow the Word of God as the primary code of morality for generations to come? Absolutely! We would not have it any other way. If this were your intentions in saying that the United States of America is a Christian Nation than you are completely correct.

The Constitution was a document largely Divine in its primary inspiration in that includes so much of the Holy Scripture within its text. No other government charting document has ever borne such content. It was intended that men of Honor be in places of leadership within this Nation. Honor cannot exist without Truth, and there is no Truth outside the Word of God. However, these same Framers understood the place of Faith for without it, no man can see God. Faith resides in the heart of Man alone and cannot be legislated or mandated in any way. Thus all men are guarantied this freedom and each charged with the responsibility of insuring the right of his fellow American to grasp the Faith and Love as can only be brought by the Spirit of God on one man’s heart.

In the words of Jesus himself: "The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof." Matthew 13:31-32. What kind of field we cultivate amongst our populous will be the only determining factor in what grows within its soil.

This concept was well understood by our founding Fathers, many of which were Freemasons, Christians and even a few agnostics. They created a Nation of the fertile soil of freedom as apposed to that which might have resembled the rudimentary nations of the previous generations constructed to enforce their leaders' personal concepts of morality and Spiritual fulfillment.

If we intend to bring back Christian principles to our nation, there is only one way to go about this. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Let's stop trying to build a mustard tree and go back to simply preparing the soil and planting the seed.

--T. Haifley