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Mostly Color Close up of The Way Magazine, Dec. 1976. ONE GOD The Defense of a Nation By Paul Norcross Military Outreach Coordinator TWI (Heart, 7(6):6, Dec. 1983 / Jan. 1984) An explanation for the rise and fall of virtually any nation can be documented in Leviticus 26:1-12. This section of scripture states that for the nation which chooses to rid itself of idolatry and whose people align their actions with the Bible, God will be their total sufficiency military, economically, and spiritually. Out of 158 military engagements recorded in the Old Testament, for example, there were 59 catastrophic defeats. Every one was the direct result of the leaderships falling into idolatry. Idolatry, the failure to love and believe God with all ones heart before all else, has been the singular cause for the demise of many nations. These Old Testament lessons speak loudly to political and military leadership today. The Old Testament is for our learning (Romans 15:4), and because none of the Old Testament principles concerning one God have been superseded by New Testament doctrine, these lessons are just as significant for the United States government today as they were for Old Testament Israel. Every time Israel lost a battle, they had first ceased to love the one true God with all their hearts and to worship Him alone. Much has been written to document the solid Biblical believing of the founding fathers of the United States of America. One of the great principles upon which most of these men based their lives was the belief in one God. They recognized the perils of idolatry and openly acknowledged that the belief in the trinity falls into the category. One of the reasons the United States still enjoys the right to worship God freely is the stand taken by men such as Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence. He was a firm believer in one God and resisted intense pressure to adopt a state Trinitarian religion for all the colonies. In a letter he wrote to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse on July 19, 1922, Jefferson stated: I rejoice that in this blessed country of free inquiry and belief which has surrendered its creed and conscience to neither kings nor priests, the genuine doctrine of only one God is reviving By one God, Jefferson meant the true God, not a trinitarian God. He elaborates further in the same letter: The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to the happiness of man That there is only one God, and He is all perfect but compare with these the demoralizing dogmas of Calvin that there are three Gods. Benjamin Franklin also believed in one God. Always the diplomat, Franklin was less forthright in expressing his doubts regarding trinitarian beliefs, but alluded to it in a letter to Ezra Stiles in 1790: As to Jesus of Nazareth I have, with most of the present dissenters of England some doubts as to his divinity Of particular interest is that most of his compatriots also did not subscribe to the worship of the trinity! These contemporaries included John Adams, George Washington, Sam Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a host of others who figured prominently in our history. It is very probable that this period of United States history marked the most significant assemblage of one-God believing people up to this time since the first century. This is one reason God was able to intervene on behalf of the colonists and prosper them. He was fulfilling His Word, as stipulated in Leviticus 26. The worship of the one true God is one of the primary Biblical principles upon which the United States was founded. With this in mind the sixth clause of the Armed Forces Code of Conduct is especially meaningful: I will never forget that I am an American fighting man, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.

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