What if the Founding Fathers really believed the Bible?
By Bruce Keisling April 21, 2006
And now I am going to change the topic.
I ask a question in my heading. What if George Washington and the other founders really had been devout Christians and believed every word of scripture as being authoritative? Did the violation of the contract between King George III and the colonists really warrant bearing arms against the King? Did taxation without representation really warrant armed rebellion against a God given government? IMHO, I have yet to see how Romans 13 permits anything the colonists did in 1776. While conservative Christians today want to extol the virutes of the founders, it seems the founders conveniently found a way to ignore Romans 13:1. When the South tried to use the same arguments as the colonists, they got smacked for it.
What if they had obeyed Romans 13:1 and didn’t bear arms against the legitimately established government? Today we would be celebrating with the other commonwealth countries the 80th birthday of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Times being what they are, I am happy to be a republican (the form of government.) Nevertheless, “Long live the Queen.”
If you would like to express your best wishes to the Queen, and express your regret for our failure to submit as commanded in Romans 13, you may do so at her 80th birthday website.