THE FOUNDERS' WORLDVIEW
OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The words of this second sentence of the Declaration are some of the most famous ever written. However, for many reasons, few Americans understand their meaning and importance to our individual liberty. Evidence of this fact is seen all around us. We, the people, are in bondage to our habits, controlled information, and dependence upon some agency of civil government to fulfill our needs.
Truth simply means conformity to reality or fact. However, we now determine fact or reality only by what we see, taste, touch, hear and smell. This form of reality is called MATERIALISM. The root words for "truth" are trust, faith and fidelity. Thus, we put our trust, faith and fidelity in what we experience through our five physical senses. Therefore, we are ruled by our circumstances. Each time the circumstances change our experience changes. This too is MATERIALISM and goes by other names such as Atheism, Humanism, and Paganism.
In contrast, our Founding Fathers, in the first sentence of the Declaration, appealed to "the laws of Nature and of Nature's God" as the supreme legal authority. Romans 1:20 confirms the law of nature to have been made evident to Man so that he is without excuse. To apply this law of nature to every aspect of Man's life, we must understand the revealed law of God found in the holy Scripture, the Bible. In other words, the Founders had a Biblical worldview rather than a Humanistic/Atheistic worldview.
According to the Biblical worldview, God's law, His word, is TRUTH (Psa. 119:142, 160). His law and word reflect His unchanging (fixed), impartial (uniform), and omnipresent (universal) nature. The TRUTHS enumerated throughout the entire second sentence of the Declaration, viewed through the eyes of the Founders, are fixed, uniform, and universal principles of law that mean the same thing today as they did July 4, 1776, the day they were adopted in the charter document of our nation.
Because the Declaration principles are fixed, uniform and universal according to the Biblical worldview, they are necessarily absolute truths or, simply, absolutes. However, for the past 30-50 years we have been taught by public education, informed by the media, and duped by those controlling civil government that there are no absolutes. This basic tenet of Humanism/Atheism now dominates our thinking. The law of nature holds that as a man thinks, so is he. Thus, the notion that no absolutes exist dominates our individual lives, our culture, and unfortunately, much of the Body of Christ.
Without absolutes, there are no constraints. Consequently, individual self-control is absent from our society where everyone can do whatever is right in his own eyes. Such absence of self-control produces anarchy. So it is that civil government can justify imposing its will over we the people to maintain the "health, safety and welfare" of our society.
Furthermore, because we the people do not understand the importance of believing in the self-evident truths of the Declaration, we fall for the deception that it is the role of civil government to be the answer to the problems in our society. Thus, we welcome the imposition of Humanistic/Atheistic sex (family life), drug and suicide education, health and human services, government babysitting (child care), forced sodomite (homosexual and lesbian) employment practices, forced this and forced that.
In rejecting God-ordained absolutes, we the people have been deceived while the State has usurped the ultimate legal authority. Although our founding documents adhere to the concept of we the people-over-government, the State is operating outside the constraints of those documents thereby implementing the principle of government-over-we the people. The State has moved from the role of public servant responsive to we the people to that of public master feared by we the people. Unknowingly, we have exchanged the truth of God for a lie and now worship and serve the creature (the Humanistic/Atheistic State) rather than the Creator.
