Our Founding Fathers were inspired men. Many people that want to distort history and those that wish to rewrite the history of our country claim that our founding fathers were athiests. This is simply not the case. They were inspired by divine providence and they believed in the almighty God.
The founding fathers made plenty of references to God. While many of these great men did not subscribe to organized religion of the day they nonetheless recognized that God exists and that this country and the freedom they would fight for were blessed by God.
Another misguided rumor with the goal to somehow diminish these great men is the claim that they were unlearned and ignorant. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Out of the 55 men that sat in that hot and humid room in the middle of July and August debating and discussing the new constitution, 31 of them had gone to college and were professors and Presidents of colleges. There were also many clergymen, judges and scientists along with philosophers. But there was also a good mix in with these learned men of men with street smarts and there were shoemakers. What a group of diverse men this was.
There were men among this group that understood and knew the British Constitution very well along with many who understood the Greek Democracies and Benjamin Franklin was a brilliant officer of foreign affairs. He was able to convince the French to side with the Patriots on a visit to France. There were many men in this company with great leadership skills which proved true in the fact that our first Presidents were grown out of this original group of men.
After years of service as General of the Patriots most people wanted George Washington to become King. He refused and clearly did not even with the Presidency upon himself. After serving one term as President he wanted to go back home but the people begged him to serve his second term. This was a man who could have easily allowed the people to place him upon a throne over this new country but then that would not be the new America and George Washington wanted more for this country than a crown upon his own head.
Where did many of the ideas and wisdom come forth for the making of our constitution and laws that governed our new country?
These founding fathers knew that independence and agency would be paramount to the success of this country. The foundation that they implemented began hundreds of years earlier before it became corrupted in ancient times.
The founding fathers found this foundation in the same system that God had set up for Moses after he led the Jews out of Egypt and slavery. Moses had been groomed by the Pharoah of Egypt for years before the Lord called him to be the deliverer of the enslaved Jews. It was the Pharoah that put Moses in charge of hearing the many complaints and becoming a judge over the people. Moses was mature and aged when he led his people out of Egypt. In the wilderness there were 3 million people living with a total of over 600,000 families. This was not a small tribe by any means. Moses could not possibly handle all the disputes and arguements among all these families. So he had the people elect wise men and they appointed Captains. This was a local elected leadership.
Then they formed a congress and a senate. The senate was called the counsel of the Seventy. They had 2 Vice Presidents. One presided over the Internal Affairs and the other over the military.
The entire structure of our government was based our Bible.
Our modern day government came from the scriptures and of a moral and religious people.
During that long hot and violent summer- our founding fathers held discussions in that hot room as the spirit of peace prevailed.
