My research supports what Greg Laurie is saying here:
The United States of America just celebrated its 233rd birthday. Imagine what kind of world we would live in today if there had never been a USA. There would have been no one to turn back the Nazis and their allies in World War II. There would have been no one to stand up against the tyranny of communism over the years. There would have been no one to stand up for the small nations that are unable to help themselves, not to mention the billions of dollars that has been sent out in foreign aid.
From our nation's foundation, we have learned what right and wrong are. We have been raised, at least in our very origins as a country, to believe there is a God who guides the affairs of man, and there is a responsibility that comes with the bounty given to us. We are a country that was clearly founded on the teachings of one book, and that book is the Bible.
Of course, some would say that I am wrong, that we are a pluralistic society and these origins are not as I have explained them. But all revisionism aside, if you honestly look at history, you will see that our founding fathers had a firm belief in the words of the Bible.
Thomas Jefferson said, "The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... ." George Washington concluded, "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." And Andrew Jackson said the Bible is "the rock on which our republic rests."
As my friend Chuck Smith has pointed out, sometimes we forget that the Declaration of Independence — independence from foreign tyranny — also declared our dependence on an eternal God. These words close out the Declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of divine providence: "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." Yes, it is a Declaration of Independence, but it is also a declaration of dependence on God.
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