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A “Christian” Refuge of Lies: An Expose of “The Church that Birthed America”

November 30, 2017 Jerald Finney Leave a comment

A Publication of Churches Undef Christ Ministry

“Christian” revisionists never tell the true history of America. They never tell you about, for example, Obadiah Holmes, who was viciously beaten by the Puritans, or about the four Quakers who were hanged for returning to Massachusetts after being banned for their religious views, or about the many Baptists whose properties were taken by the establishment, etc.

See, for more proof of the thesis of this article, some of the authorities in the Endnotes below and also List of Scholarly Resources Which Explain and Comprehensively Document the True History of Religious Freedom in America.

For more on Christian Revisionism, see David Barton’s Christian Revisionism, Exposing the dangers of David Barton’s teachings, The Consequences of Christian and Secular Revisionism, The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus/A Case of Premeditated Murder: Christian Revisionists on Trial .

Jerald Finney
Copyright © November 27, 2017

“Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.” Isaiah 28.14-18.

This article was inspired by The church that birthed America which was published in World Magazine and linked to on sermonaudio.com. World Magazine falsely claims that it reports “the news from a Christian worldview—interpreting world events under the reality of the Christian faith.” The magazine actually is a prime example of publishers, for the masses, of “Christian” revisionism. The church that birthed America is another offering, in a continuing stream of deceit, which misleads well-meaning “Christians” in the arena of spiritual warfare. This type of biased and misleading information is constantly served from many directions to mislead “Christians” in America.

The church that birthed America is a short article distributed as propaganda to those “Christians” who do not have time to study CRC (Catholic/Reformed/Calvinists) historical and theological deceit. CRC are strangers and foreigners to truth, fellowcitizens with pseudo-saints, of the household of the god of this world. They are built on the foundation of the Pope and clergy, Augustine being the chief corner stone; in whom their building fitly framed together groweth into an unholy temple, built together an habitation of lies. Prominent CRC include constitutional scholars like Edward S. Corwin,[i] and theologians, pastors and writers such as R.J. Rushdooney, Francis Schaeffer, Gary DeMar, Gary North, Charles Stanley, D. James Kennedy, David Barton, Roger Federrer and many others who tirelessly carry the torch of Christian Revisionism directly to mainline “Christians” in America—soldiers on the battlefield, led by the deceivers, to establish “a city set on a hill” (See Matthew 5.14).

Puritans hung 4 Quakers for returning to Massachusetts after being banished for their religious beliefs.

The problem is that CRC walks in darkness, rather than light. “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved” (John 3.20). That is why they lie about history. True history reveals that they, led by the theology of Augustine and continued by Calvin, Luther, Knox, the Church of England, and other Protestants, have tortured and killed tens of millions of those they labeled to be “heretics.” A study of their theology reveals that they will again kill heretics and those who do not honor, at least outwardly, all Ten of the Commandments and much of the Levitical law if and when they again have power to do so. Secular scholars and writers know this and write about it. See List of Scholarly Resources Which Explain and Comprehensively Document the True History of Religious Freedom in America for verification. Since historic fact can be verified, these CRC “Christians” and their followers, through their lies which they refuse to repent of, cause the world to blaspheme the name of Christ.

Many believers on that lowest level, myself included for a long time, go out from their “churches” and huddle together in the Republican Party seeking to turn America around. They place their hopes, both spiritual and earthly, in politics. Without their support, the whole pyramid of lies would topple. The bottom dwellers idolize and praise the men above them. They follow “Christian” revisionist lies not only in the political arena but also into their churches and church schools through, for example, the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum.

I left that darkness some thirteen years ago when the Lord shined the light of truth into the darkness of the Christian historic and theological revisionism maze I was in. For many years, I had done no independent study. After all, those I depended upon were Christians, were they not? They would not lie, especially about historic fact which can be checked by those who have the time to do so, would they? They have no motive to lie, do they? I found that I had not been correctly answering all these questions.

I had one vital question that none of the “Christian” historical literature I read could answer; and I searched far and wide for many years. Finally, a secular book by a law professor[ii] headed me in the right direction. In reading it, I saw referenced, in the endnotes, works by men like Isaac Backus, Roger Williams, Dr. John Clark, and many others who were influential in a colonial spiritual warfare. Then I came across a Baptist history book with its invaluable bibliography.[iii] I started looking for, buying, and reading the old books cited in those works as well as additional writings cited in the books I continued to study. I kept finding more sources and reading as many as I could. More and more facts I had never been informed of kept coming to my attention. I discovered motives, theological understandings, historical facts, Bible truths which CRC had hidden from me and untold numbers of other Christians. I discovered why CRC lies. CRC theologian R.J. Rushdooney explained the reason, “It is alright to lie to those who have no right to know the truth.”

From Augustine to this very day, CRC have never changed their tactics. Of course, they can no longer kill the dissenters, but that is not their fault. Baptists in the colonies understood how CRC operate. As Isaac Backus[iv] noted, concerning the revisionism and lies of the leaders of the established churches in the American colonies:

“[I] appeal to the conscience of every reader, whether he can find three worse things on earth, in the management of controversy, than, first, to secretly take the point disputed for truth without any proof; then, secondly, blending that error with known truths, to make artful addresses to the affections and passions of the audience, to prejudice their minds, before they hear a word that the respondent has to say; and thirdly, if the respondent refuses to yield to such management, then to call in the secular arm to complete the argument?”[v]

The beating of Obadiah Holmes by the Puritans in Massachusetts

Because of the never ending CRC campaign of deceit which always uses these tactics, very few Christians have ever heard the undeniable fact that the Puritans came to America for religious freedom for themselves only; of the Puritan and Anglican establishments in the American colonies; the persecutions of dissenters by the establishments; colonial leaders of the dissent, their writings and monumental achievements—men such as Roger Williams,[vi] Dr. John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes,[vii] Shubal Stearnes, Daniel Marshall, Isaac Backus, and John Leland;[viii] the many dissenters in the colonies persecuted by the CRC; the written debates between Roger Williams and the Puritan John Cotton (writings which are still available); the very insightful and accurate religious histories and writings of men such as Roger Williams, Dr. John Clarke, and Isaac Backus which exposed the lies and persecutions of the Puritans; the Baptist preachers in Virginia who were persecuted for preaching outside the authority of the established Anglican church; the four Quakers hanged by the Puritans in the late 1650s and early 1660s because they returned to the colony after being banished as “heretics” by the established church (after which England ordered Massachusetts to send any alleged “heretics” to England for trial); the actual positions of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison on the issue of separation of church and state; and many more undeniable facts which the CRC do not wish you to know.

Examined in the light of truth, The church that birthed America would be laughable if not for the fact that untold numbers of “Christians” actually believe it. Here is a brief look at the article in light of truth. The Anglicans settled Jamestown in 1607, so, the Pilgrims were not even the first to land in America. The settlers of Jamestown set up an Anglican establishment.

The church that birthed America, does give some truth about the story of the Pilgrims. Truth is fine with CRC when it contributes to the cause. But then, the revisionism to lies begins. The article states: “As we recite our own litany this Thanksgiving, our thoughts will turn to the prosperous nation that grew from Bradford’s ‘desolate wilderness.’” Contrast that statement with some solid facts, some history between their landing in Plymouth and the establishing of the United States of America with the adoption of the United States Constitution in 1790?

The Pilgrims arrived in 1630 and are much admired by Americans for the hardships they endured. As a matter of human compassion, the Pilgrims were hospitable to all; and, at first, grudgingly tolerated those of other creeds. However, they gradually began to close their doors to those of other creeds. “Plymouth was a Church-State ruled by a governor and a small and highly select theological aristocracy, a Church-State with various grades of citizenship and non-citizenship.”[ix] By 1651 the government of Plymouth colony was enforcing the laws of Congregationalist Massachusetts. “By the time Plymouth was united with Massachusetts in 1691 all major differences between the two had disappeared.”[x]

The Puritans, unlike the Pilgrims who wanted to separate from the Church of England, arrived in 1629 and wanted to purify the Church from within. “The State, in their view, had the duty to maintain the true Church; but the State was in every way subordinate to the Church.”[xi] Having suffered long for conscience sake, they came for religious freedom, for themselves only. “They believed [in] the doctrine of John Calvin, with some important modifications, in the church-state ruled on theocratic principles, and in full government regulation of economic life.”[xii] Although they differed from the Church of England and others on some doctrines, “[t]he Puritans brought 2 principles with them from their native country, in which they did not differ from others; which are, that natural birth, and the doings of men, can bring children into the Covenant of Grace; and, that it is right to enforce & support their own sentiments about religion with the magistrate’s sword.”[xiii]

The church that birthed America then connects the Pilgrims and others sent later from English Reformed Church in Amsterdam to the founding of churches and two Great Awakenings, global evangelism, and great missionary movements. To fully explain how totally fabricated this is cannot be done in this short article. Let us just consider one matter: the two Great Awakenings. In America at least, the Puritans and Pilgrims had nothing to do with them, other than trying to stamp out the fires caused by the First Great Awakening.

Here are a few facts concerning the First Great Awakening:

“George Whitefield’s first visit to New England during the Great Awakening around 1740 brought revival. Whitefield preached in buildings owned by churches, out of doors (many times church buildings could not contain the crowds seeking to hear him), and at colleges such as Yale. As a result of Whitefield’s preaching, in a brief six weeks period, the religious climate of New England was changed. The churches experienced unprecedented growth. Entire communities flocked to hear the gospel, and hundreds were converted in single localities….
“As a result of the offenses of the Great Awakening, Whitefield was not warmly received by many of the establishment when he returned to New England in 1744. In fact, he faced a confused situation. Although multitudes supported him and continued to attend his revival meetings, a formidable body of opposition to him and his methods had developed in his absence of four years. The faculty of Harvard College condemned Whitefield, the Connecticut legislature declared that no minister should preach in the parish of another without the incumbent’s consent, and later the General Court forbade all itinerant preaching with penalty of loss of right to collect one’s legal salary and imprisonment. He found few pulpits open to him, and a barrage of declarations and testimonies was aimed at him. Most of the ministers of the established churches, as well as the faculties of Yale and Harvard Colleges were opposed to him. Nonetheless, he continued to preach, the revival continued, and many, including Shubal Stearns and Daniel Marshall, two men who were to become Baptists and chief instruments for carrying the Great Awakening to the South, were converted as a result of being strongly moved by Whitefield.[xiv]

The church that birthed America then makes some more statements which do not seem to be connected to the rest of the article and then concludes, “[America] has been used to bless the whole world. Let’s pause to consider that blessing this Thanksgiving along with the bounty before us. A blessing we pilgrims again make take to other desolate wildernesses of the world.” ??????

In conclusion, may I inquire, “Is the author 8 years old?” Why would anyone give any serious consideration to this infantile hogwash? “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light” (Ro. 13.12).

Endnotes

[i] Edward S. Corwin is the foremost American constitutional scholar of the twentieth century. Even so, he was guilty of using the tactics described by Isaac Backus. Why? Corwin was born in Plymouth, Michigan on January 19, 1878. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1900; and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. He was invited to join the faculty of Princeton University by Woodrow Wilson in 1905. In 1908 he was appointed the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence. He authored many books on United States constitutional law, and he remained at Princeton until he retired in 1946. He fought against separation of church and state. He died on April 23, 1963 and was buried in Princeton Cemetery. Princeton University. New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey in 1746 in order to train ministers. Following the untimely deaths of Princeton’s first five presidents, John Witherspoon became president in 1768 and remained in that office until his death in 1794.

[ii] McGarvie, Mark Douglas. One Nation Under Law: America’s Early National Struggles to Separate Church and State. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005.

[iii] Lumpkin, William L. Baptist History in the South. Shelbyville, Tennessee: Bible and Literature Missionary Foundation.

[iv] Isaac Backus was born in Connecticut in 1723/24, a time when those dissenting from the views of the established church were persecuted. He withdrew from the established Congregational church, became a Separate, and later a Baptist. As a Separate and later a Baptist, he was persecuted and witnessed, researched, and wrote about the persecutions going on in New England. He was a leader in the fight for religious liberty in America. For more information on Isaac Backus see, e.g., William G. McLoughlin, Isaac Backus and the American Piestic Tradition (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967); Isaac Backus on Church, State, and Calvinism, Pamphlets, 1754-1789, Edited by William G. McLoughlin (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968); Isaac Backus, A History of New England With Particular Reference to the Denomination of Christians Called Baptists, Volumes 1 and 2 (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, Previously Published by Backus Historical Society, 1871).

Isaac Backus and others such as Roger Williams, and John Clarke led the fight against the establishment of the church in the early history of America, and to their efforts we owe the First Amendment to the United States Constitution which guarantees religious liberty.

[v] Backus, A History of New England…, Volume 1, p. 150. This comment followed and preceded illustrations of how those in favor of church/state marriage, infant baptism, etc. advance their cause. On pp. 151-152, Mr. Backus illustrated how those in favor of infant baptism argued their position, pointing out the fallacies of their arguments. Their tactics have not changed, although in America, due to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, they no longer can call upon civil government to enforce their beliefs and persecute dissenters.

[vi] Roger Williams was the founder of Rhode Island, the first government in history with complete freedom of conscience. Due to the efforts of Mr. Williams, Dr. John Clarke, and others who followed America has the First Amendment to the United States Constitution which gives freedom of conscience.
Roger Williams understood the importance of truth. He wrote a dialogue between truth and peace in which we find these words:

“Peace. Dear truth, I know thy birth, thy nature, thy delight. They that know thee will prize thee far above themselves and lives, and sell themselves to buy thee. Well spake that famous Elizabeth to her famous attorney, Sir Edward Coke; ‘Mr. Attorney, go on as thou hast begun, and still plead, not pro Domina Regina, but pro Domina Veritate.’
“Truth. It is true, my crown is high; my scepter is strong to break down strongest holds, to throw down highest crowns of all that plead, though but in thought, against me. Some few there are, but oh! how few are valiant for the truth, and dare to plead my cause, as my witnesses in sackcloth, Rev. xi. [3]; while all men’s tongues are bent like bows to shoot out lying words against me?
“Peace. Oh! how could I spend eternal days and endless dates at thy holy feet, in listening to the precious oracles of thy mouth! All the words of thy mouth art truth, and there is no iniquity in them. thy lips drop as the honey-comb. But oh! since we must part anon, let us, as thou saidst, improve our minutes, and according as thou promisedest, revive me with thy words, which are sweeter than the honey and the honey-comb.”

Honest historians tell his story. Christian revisionists do not. Williams exposed the Puritans for what they were, both theologically and in practice. He published a book in 1644 which effectively destroyed Puritan theology and exposed the persecutions of those the Puritans in the New World labeled to be “heretics.”

[vii] When Dr. John Clarke and two friends went to Massachusetts they were persecuted. In 1651, he, Obadiah Holmes, and John Crandal went to visit a friend in Boston. They were on “an errand of mercy and had traveled all the way from their church in Newport to visit one of their aging and blind members, William Witter.” They stayed over, and held a service on Sunday. During that service, they were arrested and jailed. Before they were brought to trial, they were forced to attend a Congregational Puritan religious meeting. There, they refused to remove their hats, and Dr. Clarke stood and explained why they declared their dissent from them. They were charged with denying infant baptism, holding a public worship, administering the Lord’s Supper to an excommunicated person, to another under admonition, proselytizing the Baptist way and rebaptizing such converts, and failing to post security or bail and other ecclesiastical infractions. He asked for a public debate on his religious views, which the Puritans avoided. “Clarke said they were examined in the morning of July 31 and sentenced that afternoon without producing any accuser or witness against them,” and that “Governor John Endicott even insulted the accused and denounced them as ‘trash.’”[vii] Dr. Clarke was “fined twenty pounds or to be well whipped;” Mr. Crandal was fined five pounds, only for being with the others; and Mr. Holmes was held in prison, where sentence of a fine of thirty pounds or to be well whipped was entered. A friend paid Mr. Clarke’s fine. Mr. Clarke and Mr. Crandal were released.

Mr. Holmes was beaten mercilessly. His infractions were denying infant baptism, proclaiming that the church was not according to the gospel of Jesus Christ, receiving the sacrament while excommunicated by the church, and other spiritual infractions. Mr. Holmes refused to pay his fine, prepared for the whipping by “communicat[ing] with [his] God, commit[ting] himself to him, and beg[ging] strength from him.” Holmes was confined over two months before his whipping. He related the experience of being whipped for the Lord as follows, in part:

“And as the man began to lay the strokes upon my back, I said to the people, though my flesh should fail, and my spirit should fail, yet my God would not fail. So it please the Lord to come in, and so to fill my heart and tongue as a vessel full, and with an audible voice I broke forth praying unto the Lord not to lay this sin to their charge; and telling the people, that now I found he did not fail me, and therefore now I should trust him forever who failed me not; for in truth, as the strokes fell upon me, I had such a spiritual manifestation of God’s presence as the like thereof I never had nor felt, nor can with fleshly tongue express; and the outward pain was so removed from me, that indeed I am not able to declare it to you, it was so easy to me, that I could well bear it, yea, and in a manner felt it not although it was grievous as the spectators said, the man striking with all his strength (yea spitting in [on] his hand three times as many affirmed) with a three-corded whip, giving me therewith thirty strokes. When he had loosed me from the post, having joyfulness in my heart, and cheerfulness in my countenance, as the spectators observed, I told the magistrates, You have struck me as with roses; and said moreover, Although the Lord hath made it easy to me, yet I pray God it may not be laid to your charge.”

Mr. Holmes “could take no rest but as he lay upon his knees and elbows, not being able to suffer any part of his body to touch the bed whereupon he lay.” Two men who shook Mr. Holmes’ hand after the beating were, without trial and without being informed of any written law they had broken, sentenced to a fine of forty shillings or to be whipped. Although they refused to pay the fines, others paid their fines and they were released.

[viii] For an excellent discussion of John Leland (and some others), see, e.g. Carl H. Esbeck, Dissent and Disestablishment: The Church-State Settlement in the Early American Republic, 2004 BYU L. Rev. 1385, (2004).

[ix] William H. Marnell, The First Amendment: Religious Freedom in America from Colonial Days to the School Prayer Controversy (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964), p. 48.

[x] Leo Pfeffer, Church, State, and Freedom, (Boston: The Beacon Press, 1953), p. 66, citing Sanford H. Cobb, The Rise of Religious Liberty in America (New York: The McMillan Co., 1902), pp. 70-71.

[xi] Marnell, p. 40.

[xii] Marnell, p. 48.

[xiii] Backus, A History of New England, Volume 1, pp. 34-35.

[xiv] Jerald Finney, God Betrayed/Separation of Church and State: The Biblical Principles and the American Application (Austin, Tx.: Kerygma Publishing Co., 2008), pp. xv-xvi; see pp. 249-250, 254, 261, and 265 for more on the First Great Awakening. (The quotes omit the footnotes with authorities. One can go to the book and find the authorities by clicking here to go to online PDF of this book.)

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Christ’s Truth or Satan’s Folly

August 24, 2015 Jerald Finney Leave a comment

Denise Porter
August 24, 2015

This dynamic article by Denise Porter was actually a letter written in response to a facebook posting linking to my online article, “Secular and Christian revisionism.”

Friends & family yet wandering out in sin & under its dominion and the wrath of God, fearing truth and fearing death & under bondage: will you humble yourselves to seek truth & follow it to seeking God in His word as He makes it evident to you? (Romans 1-8; John 1,3 & 8) Following it to freedom through repentance not to be repented of & faith? Christ’s yoke is truly the easier. (Matthew 10)

Why would anyone persist under Lucifer’s hard yoke & false covering in double-mindedness & selective receiving of offensive truth, which is God’s loving & merciful, freeing grace extended toward every soul, to be apprehended of faith? Where will you ultimately anchor your faith? —-Will you persist in loving selfish desire, idolatry & delusion —-even with Christian labels —–to the bitter end? —–I almost did. Or will you surrender to the true Christ by the conviction of the Spirit of truth and the word of God received with repentance & faith as written?

The hope of which unity, which catholicity, which brotherhood —& which power & justification & hope —will you choose? That of the Godhead revealed & evidenced in the word & Creation through the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and sound doctrine as the Rock? or some other doctrine as the sand?

Reality? or virtual reality?

——- Even to the outcome of active or passive participation in the violent persecution of any who dare to point out the vanity & folly of maintaining & clinging to those selective sin-excusing lying idols & false gospels and christs of human and demonic imagination & manufacture which cannot save? Those bringing or evidencing the word & light & blessing of God wrought through obedience, even unto suffering –and not as those proud rebels, those self-transforming & impositional builders seeking glory & self-justification, and fellow builders, fellow members of their craft? fellow masons? seeking initiates & exploitable slaves & dupes to merchandise? 2 Cor 11. Colossians. Galatians. 1 Thess 5. 1 Timothy 4. 2 Timothy 2-4. 2 Peter 2&3. 1-3 John. Jude. Revelation.

1 Corinthians 10 & 2 Corinthians 10. Romans 9-11. The Prophets.

The guttering candles & leaky cisterns of humanism & idolatry, the ‘secret wisdom’, the ‘better wisdom’ of false familiar spirits & human intuition —the false ‘inner light’ of the deceived, the ‘new’ truth & way of the faithless & willfully unbelieving, science falsely so-called, the bloodless sacrifice of the self-righteousness of the proud, or the perverse sacrifice of those who offer the blood of others in the twisted fashion of proud and bitter Cain & those sacrificing children to Molech & Fortune, the many words of philosophy & theosophy, & all false religion —–are not new at all. They are as old as the Fall and the Curse that marred God’s perfect Creation & brought the curse of judgment in the first place, so early on.

They do not stand the current & graciously lingering witness of truth & the conviction of the Holy Spirit of Truth, & they will not stand through the coming judgment of death to eternal life & immunity against the second death. They cannot suffice to assuage God’s wrath against sin, and they will provide no covering in that great and terrible Day of the Lord when His graciously restrained wrath that souls might be saved through His provision of Christ, is finally loosed. They cannot sustain men to sanctification and the keeping of their vessels against that Day. All the nations & all mankind will answer individually for rejecting the unmerited & undeserved covering that God provided through Christ’s blood and atonement and righteousness. John 1,3 & 8. Deuteronomy. Ephesians. 1&2 Thessalonians. Daniel and Revelation.

What is covered in this link & related articles is precisely what I found as I investigated these things myself —in a much more humble & inconsistent, sin-compromised manner. The investigation commenced at first with misguided trust in, & ignorance of the duplicity of, the elitist nicolaitans taking lordship over & wresting scripture through presumption, disobedience to the command to be sober & vigilant, proving all things with the joy of the Lord my strength through the knowledge of new birth salvation going on to Romans 8-Hebrews 5 experience——- & with their higher criticism unquestioned. But the evolution of truth & the word of God are steps that must come before biological evolution, demoralization & accusation of false authority tyranny (Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28; Romans 1-8, 2 Thess 2, Rev 17-19) can commence & gain ground —-they are the first spiritual enemies we must combat.

I was trusting self & fearing man more than fearing God, but the mercies of God endureth forever & He is faithful to extend grace through truth and His word if we will only apprehend & receive it. Those who cry out for Him to act in truth & justice, without His mediating tender mercies and forgiveness —-are deceived, proud, blind & vain —-neither understanding or knowing God & His revealed nature, or their own.

If we suffer those enemies of God & truth to stand unchallenged & tolerated in willing ignorance of truth & God, and in disobedience ——–then the consequential leaven results in the blindness and self-sufficiency of pride & self-deification, dishonoring & blaspheming God so that He gives us over, with more & more of our individual souls, and the souls of men at large & societally, infected with a lack of goodwill toward our fellow man, & with the poisoned, illegitimate fruit of impure, fornicating love divorced from truth & waxed cold —-growing into corruption & the impositional order of tyranny.

The dialectic. Which Isaac Backus described so well!!

The only stay to this decay, this devolution, this consequential curse —– is the receipt of God’s grace through His word & the faithful preaching of His word with repentance & faith: acknowledging sin and our sin-debt toward God, our false works of Babel-building salvation (the work of God is to believe on the one whom He hath sent —John 6:28-29) & false allegiance to the world’s spirit & kingdom, and placing our faith in Christ’s finished work in our behalf—receiving it as a gift to the new birth of God’s will & power, exchanged citizenship & allegiance & attendant inheritance, and going on to share the promises & way of God revealed in the final, written and preserved testament of His word & in Christ —-sharing the true gospel and Christ with whosoever will receive it. Having freely received, we freely offer.

Revival comes of faith & the word, by grace —-and in God’s sovereign will and perfect timing. It does not come by sorcery & spiritual techniques of mystery or hidden knowledge, or by the will of man. The mystery of God is plainly revealed in Christ and the written, preserved word of God. Revival is preceded by the knowledge of the word & testament of God freely received & freely, faithfully kept in obedience & passed on. It is preceded by the prayers of the saints, & the forewarning of prophets & faithful preachers called & raised up of God before the people, and whose testimony stands proving by the word of God.

This is not what is received or taught today by those godmen & sorcerers involved in fundamentally transforming free American Christianity back towards the Old Word Tyranny & catholicity of the Great Whore.

I stumbled frequently in the pursuit of truth—-the word is true & sin has consequences, but praise God! His mercy extended faithfully through truth still calls, pricking conscience, not willing that any should perish. 2 Peter 3. 1 Timothy 2. John 1,3 & 8.

There were times of comfort in error, times when busy-ness & worldliness crowded & choked the good seed, and times when Satan got the upper hand through accusations of guilt justly deserved, but through it all the grace & mercy of God would speak through the word continued in, some prodding truth upon conscience would prick, & the investigation & conviction & coming out to Christ would continue.

I have decided to follow Jesus….the world behind me, the cross before me….though none go with me, I still will follow. God has no grandchildren. Every generation, every soul, must choose.

The investigation continued, but increasingly with mounting horror as the implications of truth became more and more apparent by the grace of God extended through the true revelation of the Law, Christ’s fulfillment of the Law, & evident truth….the struggle of faith & truth & flesh & sin ongoing until, aided by the grace of God through the word received and apprehended, it thankfully ended in repentance & surrender to God through Christ, bringing peace with God —-and not surrender to Lucifer’s yoke through turning from evident truth & utterly surrendering to selfish desire & godmen to be given over of God.

Knowing both the terror and the faithfulness, the justice and the mercy, the holiness of God — souls have more than just the form of godliness denying the power, and must warn others in love: speaking the truth in love. The saints of God overcome through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, loving not their lives unto the death. Like Jesus said.

Oh, that the drag of flesh ended there at the new birth! and that obedience & a faithful walk were automatic! —that’s why we groan and say, Come soon, Lord Jesus! Yearning to please Him. Yearning to be with Him. Yearning to be free of this corruptible & clothed in the incorruptible, with faith made sight. But the word of God is true, and the battle is ongoing even for the new creature born of God: sealed & indwelt by the Spirit, until we lay down this corruptible flesh in death, or that last whosoever known of God & elect comes in that the age of the Gentiles be fulfilled & Christ catches away His Bride—-the corruptible being changed in a twinkling —- 1 Corinthians 15, 1 Thessalonians 4&5, Revelation 19.

…And God is worthy of the struggle & suffering, and faithful to accompany & sustain us in & through our sufferings—chastening as necessary, as we enter in through the strait gate to the narrow way, taking up our crosses to follow Christ & warn the perishing amongst whom we all have walked & despising the shame ——all of His grace & will & power, with no merit or work of our own to add to His gift: merely receiving with humility & thanksgiving.

He is good & has preserved & provided us with the grace of His word and the quickening, sustaining Spirit in & through it, indwelling and testifying with our spirit. He still has His remnant though we’re tempted to look out with the eyes of flesh rather than the eyes of faith, walking in the flesh & the old man, rather than in the Spirit, in Christ. It is by grace we are saved to the good works of ambassadors and pilgrims and servants through this perishing field white unto harvest ——until He calls us home or catches us up: His kingdom come, His will be done.

All must be done His way and according to His holiness, will & timing —not the proud, impatient & impure way of the world’s Babel & its spirit —-or else it is all in vain. 1 Thess 5. 2 Thess 2. Romans 9-11. Psalm 127. We have been so deceived & wicked in our proud age!! What a miracle that any can be saved.

I could not figure out why these ‘Christian’ ministers & ministries would pick apart the word of God & refuse to stand upon it, or why they would point out logical inconsistencies and fallacies in the ‘secular’ realm & preach about holiness and service and love —and submission to authority, while committing the same fallacies themselves in regards to the Bible and the faith once delivered the saints, pointedly ignoring huge swaths of God’s definition of holiness, right service and faithful love undivorced from truth & true grace, and presuming to assume illegitimate authority apart from truth & out of the bounds of scripture in regards to the priesthood of believers, the Body of Christ and the polity & ordering of the churches & their relationship to one another & the world’s powers.

Rather than receiving exhortation or critique as among brethren & in the light, as those truly pursuing truth, they would either ignore & stonewall without responding to questions or critique substantially and/or fully, wrest scripture out of context & refuse to acknowledge challenge pointing that fact out, play games of selective censorship to give the appearance of responding and honest discourse without addressing the real points of contention & question, or take refuge in the smoke & shadows of mysticism with demands that all not joining them in their concessions to antichrist were antichrist themselves!

….and continually seeking, with the puffing of vanity & the flattery of intellect, the wooing of vain ambition & seduction of impurity & sin, to initiate & draw men into allegiance & under them in their vain, sin-denying, faithless, idolatrous, bloodless Psalm 2 and 82 ‘offering’ and agenda of ‘gods’ and aspiring equals to God as Lucifer! Do not be deceived. Heed the warning of truth & the Holy Spirit of Truth upon conscience. Flee the City of Destruction. Flee the wrath to come. ——coming ALL the way out.

E. Supreme Court Religion Clause Jurisprudence

Conclusion to “Supreme Court Religion Clause Jurisprudence”

January 20, 2013 Jerald Finney Leave a comment

Jerald Finney
Copyright © January 20, 2012

Click here to go to links to all Chapters in Section V.

Note. This is an edited version of Section V, Chapter 5 of God Betrayed.

Conclusion to “Supreme Court Religion Clause Jurisprudence”

America was once the greatest nation that has ever been. This was because America came closer by far than any nation to operating under God. America was so close, but yet so far, from God’s ideal.

The founding fathers incorporated some biblical principles into the body of the Constitution. For example, they recognized the depravity of man, and therefore provided for a balance of powers among executive, legislative, and judicial branches. However, they did not understand that the God-ordained goal of any nation is to glorify God. They did not, in the document, proclaim that the purpose of America was to be “the glory of God” and that America was to be a nation under God.

The founding fathers were also influenced by enlightenment principles and included some of those principles in the Constitution. According to enlightenment thought, the purpose of government is the happiness of man and that principle was incorporated into the Constitution. This can be discerned from a facial reading of the document and from a study of the history surrounding the adoption of the Constitution. Regardless of assertions that “happiness of man” is ultimately tied into a correct relationship with God, most Americans did not make that connection, and as a result set out to achieve material success and prosperity in order to obtain temporal happiness. A people of a nation had a government that catered to their happiness.

In spite of this and other fatal flaw in the Constitution, multitudes were converted to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in revivals which occurred after the Constitution was ratified. As a result, the nation as a people proceeded under God to a large degree for many years even though the civil law under the supreme law of the land, the Constitution, was ever so slowly changing conceptions of marriage, family, church, state, and law itself.

However, as heresy invaded the churches, the population of America became less and less “Christian” and more secular. Later, apostasy overcame many of the churches, initially those of some of the main-line Protestant denominations and later even many or most Baptist churches. Without a solid Christian base, Americans and America, especially in the mid-twentieth century and thereafter, quickly began to adopt satanic principles. America, like all nations before the return of Christ, is doomed to judgment.

Most Christians who are active in the political system have no idea that they are proceeding without knowledge as they blindly follow the teachings and leadership of people like David Barton, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, attorneys such as David Gibbs of the Christian Law Association and others. Only a small handful have ever done any study of the relevant biblical principles, history, and law. The study of most is gleaned from leaders who don’t know, ignore, or censor those matters which conflict with their theology and or their “conservative” beliefs. The author knows this because he was among them for twenty years as he followed the leaders who avowed to return America to the status of “One nation under God.” This author read the ever repackaged false “Christian” revisionist literature. After fifteen years of such activity, he began to see that everything the Christian activist population was doing was resulting in nothing but increasing degeneration. At the same time, many “Christians” including many pastors, as did many “Christians” in Germany under Hitler, blindly confederate with civil government because of their false interpretation of Romans 13.

With the degeneration of the general public came the degeneration of the leaders they elected. President Abraham Lincoln set the example for Presidents who desire to operate outside Constitutional constraints. He became the example for presidential tyranny and eventually for the most tyrannical President this nation has ever known, Barack Obama. As of the time of this posting, America has seen some consequences, but has yet to see all the fruits, of the tyranny of Obama and prior presidents. The United States Senate, at present, is dominated by left-wing radicals. The House is said to be under the control of “conservatives”; but, in truth, a small minority are statesmen who will take a real “conservative” stand. Even “conservative” is not always biblical and therefore polluted. And, in truth, most Senators and Congressmen, like the President, are under the thumb of the elite.

Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803) laid the groundwork for later Supreme court tyranny. After the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court gradually intruded more and more into the affairs of the states. Humanistic Supreme Court judges are nominated by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The reasoning of the Supreme Court was humanistic, even in the nineteenth century (although not as polluted as in the twentieth, and certainly as in the twenty-first). God was left out. In all the examples in this section, the Court only quoted Scripture once, in Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980) (See page 329 of God Betrayed which is reproduced on this website.), and there in a God-defying manner. In 1940, the First Amendment was incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1947, the Supreme Court extended the meaning of “separation of church and state” to also mean “separation of God and state.” Since that time, the Supreme Court has effectively removed almost all vestiges of the sovereign God from public affairs in America, although still upholding the original meaning of the First Amendment to keep the civil government out of the affairs of the church. The task was made much easier for the Court since the Constitution did not proclaim God, and specifically the Lord Jesus Christ, as Sovereign.

“And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come” (Ep. 1.19-21).

“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name” (Ph. 2.9).

As is shown in the Section VI of God Betrayed which is reproduced on this website, America, under the god of this world, knew how to tempt even true churches, many which proceeded without knowledge and others which were knowingly disobedient, to place themselves at least partially under another lover. The apostate churches could be expected to do this since they were not churches anyway (they were assemblies, but not churches in the biblical sense). But it is vexing to see a Bible believing pastor lead a church into such an unbiblical union; and it is sad to see a good pastor who discovers the truth struggle with whether and/or how to fully please the Lord and separate the church he pastors from the state.

How can born again Christians, even Christian lawyers, be so deceived? Most think like Americans, not like Bible-believing Christians. They are American or humanistic in their thinking. The bases for the beliefs of Christian lawyers are American statute and case law, not the Bible. Instead of applying biblical principle, they apply the revised history, the humanistic principles, and the secular reasoning and philosophies they learned in public schools, universities, and law schools. Many believe that by compromising in the political and judicial systems and counseling secular politicians and leaders they will either influence a return to God by the civil government or delay the inevitable takeover of churches by the state. Some of them undoubtedly believe that the church is destined to work hand in hand with the state in preparing the earth for the return of the Lord. Yet, as is apparent to the knowledgeable believer, they have been a party to the march to destruction. The civil government, through its laws and courts, has at an accelerating pace rejected the sovereign God. Many pastors have taught and advocated union of church and state because of an improper understanding of biblical principles concerning church, state, and separation of church and state. Well-meaning Bible believing pastors and churches who would insist that they love the Lord, in their rallies and meetings to restore God over America, and proceed without knowledge, thereby leading the way to destruction. Bible Colleges, seminaries, and “Christian” literature have also succumbed to humanistic principles and taught those principles to multitudes of born again students who have carried those principles into their various ministries. Most Christians are too consumed with the cares of this world to make any independent study of the issues.

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Ti. 2.15).

“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall” (2 Pe. 1.4-10).

The sad fact is that most Christians are more American than they are Christian. America, not God, is the chosen sovereign and guide of most of America’s citizens, including most Christians and churches. Since America is ruled by the principles of the god of this world, the great majority of citizens, Christians, and churches are placing themselves, at least partially to one degree or another, under state control and rule and live according to American (Satanic) principles.

Some Christians can relate to Habakkuk to whom the holiness of God was more important than that Israel should be delivered. Habakkuk cried out to the Lord:

“O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth…. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations” (Hab. 1.2-4.13-17)?

But God assured Habakkuk that He was in control and that judgment would follow the iniquities of the people and the nation. God has given us His Word which explains that judgment follows a turning away from God and His principles.

God is already judging America, but “you ain’t seen nothing yet.” Family and marriage have to a large extent been redefined and destroyed by the application of humanist principles. Crime is rampant. People are “lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.” Many “have a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof” (See 2 Ti. 3.2-5). So many “Christians” turn to the state, to false religion, to psychology, or to hedonism instead of to God for answers, for help. Many Americans now look up to the sports entertainment complex, sports commentators and stars for advice and direction on moral matters (Sadly, many of those commentators and stars have better advice than do many “pastors” and spiritual leaders.). In other words, America is, and has been for some time, morally bankrupt. When America completely turns against Israel, America, if she has not ceased to exist before then, will suffer God’s final judgment.

“He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Re. 22.20).

Miscellaneous

Exposing the Dangers of David Barton’s Teachings

September 4, 2009 Jerald Finney 2 Comments

A Publication of Old Paths Baptist Church Separation of Church and State Law Ministry

DavidBarton_3 — Another one of Barton’s discredited books

Exposing Catholic – Calvinist – Reformed Historic Revisionism The essays, articles, books and resources linked to on this page expose the constant Catholic/Calvinist/Reformed barrage of lies which permeate mainstream “Christianity” in America.

For a complete but concise analysis of Christian (and Secular) Revisionism including that of David Barton plus an accurate history of the First Amendment (a knowledge of which totally discredits David Barton’s revised history) click here:
The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus/A Case of Premeditated Murder: Christian Revisionists on Trial

Suggestion: Read this article in conjunction with:

For much more on David Barton, click: David Barton/Glenn Beck Ecumenical Trojan Horse

See also the resources in the Endnotes. EN 1: On David Barton and Glen Beck EN 2: On Ted Cruz with David Barton at his side EN3: Other resources

For a complete but concise analysis of Christian (and Secular) Revisionism including that of David Barton plus an accurate history of the First Amendment (a knowledge of which totally discredits David Barton’s revised history) click here: The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus/A Case of Premeditated Murder: Christian Revisionists on Trial

Jerald Finney
Copyright © September, 2009
Edited on November 30, 2017

God chose his children to be soldiers who are involved in a spiritual warfare. They cannot please God should they entangle themselves with the affairs of this world (2 Ti. 2.4). The weapons of their warfare are not carnal, but spiritual; and they are to cast down “imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God” (2 Co. 10.3-5; Ep. 6.10-18). The Christian is to put on spiritual armor, which includes girting his loins with truth and taking the “sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Ep. 6.14, 17).

DavidBarton_4 — David Barton, Christian Revisionist

God hates lies and half-truths (see, e.g., Pr. 6.16-19). He will sweep away a refuge of lies (see Is. 28.14-18). Yet this is the tactic of some modern day Christian leaders. David Barton is one of those who is almost deified by many Christians. Millions blindly follow him. Yet some studied Christians and secularists are aware of Barton’s inaccuracies which are apparently intended to promote his false theology of union of church and state. One such Christian is James Beller; one can study his book, The Coming Destruction of the Baptist People, for information on Barton and others of the reformed persuasion.

In this blog, I want to concentrate more on one secular analysis of Barton. In an online article (printed by permission at http://candst.tripod.com/boston1.htm, and originally published in Church and State, Vol. 46, No. 4, April 1993, pp. 8-12) entitled “Sects, Lies and Videotape/David Barton’s Distorted History,” secularist Rob Boston finds David Barton easy prey.

Of course, a knowledgeable Christian can slice Boston and his secular writings to pieces. Boston has a closed, non-christian mind which is incapable of gaining understanding and wisdom because he cuts God and His principles out of the equation. As is true of all educated secularists, he is a revisionist. However, as a bright secularist, he is also able to seek out and find facts. He is an able researcher who has torn Barton’s works apart. He correctly states, “Although [Barton’s] books and videos are riddled with factual errors, half truths, and distortions, they have become the weapons of choice for religious right activists in their ongoing war against separation of church and state.”

In the article, Boston then gives many examples of Barton’s bad history. Of course, Boston mixes in some inaccuracies of his own, but the point is, secularists and Christians can check to see if Boston is telling the truth about Barton’s bad history. In the main, Boston is correct. With one fell swoope he completely discredits not only Barton, but also the millions of undereducated Christians who blindly follow him. Are others thereby encouraged to look into the truths of Christianity? After seeing the obvious lies and distortions of a leading Christain, are they more likely to seek the truth of salvation?

Let me briefly say that I was one of those miseducated Christians who blindly followed Barton and others of his ilk for many years. As I worked with millions of other Christians, I simultaneously witnessed the futility of our efforts. America continued and continues to sink deeper and deeper into immorality, humanism, and pluralism before our eyes. American “christianity” continued and continues to increase its heresies and apostasies. More and more American churches were and are obviously seeking the “happiness of man” rather than the “glory of God.” They were and are becoming “social clubs” patterned after worldly and satanic principles rather than “houses of God” formed, organized and operated according to New Testament church doctrine.

Why would Barton and others use anti-biblical lies and methods to further their agenda of union of church and state? I am not sure about Barton, because I am not sure he has any understanding and wisdom. I must note here that he can memorize selected facts, lies, and half-truths and present them more effectively than anyone I have ever seen. But I do know that many of those he quotes, relies on, and recognizes are covenant theologians who want union of church and state (an established church or churches), and also justify lying to achieve their goals. They actually twist Scripture to advocate that Christians should lie in the spiritual warfare we are engaged in. I cover this in much more detail in The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus/A Case of Premeditated Murder: Christian Revisionists on Trial and in God Betrayed/Separation of Church and State: The Biblical Principles and the American Application.

God’s Word teaches that He desires every Gentile nation to choose to proceed under Him and His principles. However, the Bible also teaches that God does not desire any Gentile nation to work hand in hand with, over, or under a church or churches.

It’s very simple. A church is not God. Combining church and state violates several biblical principles including the principle of separation. Church and state are so distinct that they are mutually exclusive. Again, see God Betrayed for a thorough study.

God ordained only one theocracy, the theocracy of Israel. He was, until Israel asked for a king as recorded in 1 Samuel 8, directly over the nation and the Jewish religion and state acted hand in hand. However, Gentile nations were to proceed under the original plan which God ordained at the flood. Gentile nations, of course, were given their authority by God and were to exercise their God-given authority under Him. No nation, including Ameria, has ever chosen to proceed under God.

It is one thing to be directly under God and His principles, but it is an entirely different thing to be under a church-state combination. Every such union has resulted in the corruption of individuals, families, the established church, and the nation. In addition and contrary to biblical teachings for Christians and churches, official state churches have always used the arm of the state to horribly persecute those labeled “heretics” by the official “church.” Millions were beheaded, burned alive, drowned, hanged, and put to death in the most unimaginably horrible ways because they refused to bow down to the false theologies of state churches.

Our Baptist forefathers understood this. Many of our founding fathers understood this. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson clearly understood this as is easily seen by reading their words. See The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus/A Case of Premeditated Murder: Christian Revisionists on Trial or God Betrayed/Separation of Church and State: The Biblical Principles and the American Application. But reformed leaders like David Barton obviously do not understand this so they cover up the true history of the First Amendment to advance their goals.

Christians have a choice. They can continue to agree with hell and make lies their refuge, or they can choose to walk in the Spirit with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. Should they choose the former, God will “lay judgment to the line, and righteousness to the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And [their] covenant with death shall be disannulled, and [their] agreement with hell shall not stand; when the over the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then [they] shall be trodden down by it” (see Is. 28.14-18).

Endnotes

EN1. A Christian friend wrote me over the internet:

“What I can’t figure out is why David Barton embraces Glenn Beck. He knows better.”

My answer to her was:

Good to hear from you, _______________. David Barton knows exactly what he is doing. He is among those “Christians” who believe it is OK to lie for a higher cause. The problem is that his cause is not the cause of the remnant of Bible believing Christians.

At one time, David Barton was a hero of mine. However, when I began to intensely study the Bible (the Bible doctrines of church, state, and separation of church and state), history (the history of the First Amendment), and law (as to the First Amendment, church organization, the relationship between church and state), I found that David Barton was a false teacher (biblically, and especially historically). I had followed his, and other “Christian” writings (starting with The Light and the Glory in the 1980s). I just believed these writings, the teachings of which are regularly repackaged, published, and sold to unknowledgeable “Christians” who go into the political realm and fight a political battle not according to knowledge.

I always knew that Barton’s writings were sloppy; but the real problems with his teachings and writings are much deeper. David Barton (and other leading “Christian” authors) select historical facts that support their goals, but leave out facts which give the whole truth. They, distort, lie, etc. This was a hard pill for me to swallow, but the truth is there when one studies it out. Once I learned that I had been used, lied to, and misled in order to support religious beliefs that were contrary to Scripture I became angry for a time.

EN 2. The following was my e-mail reply to a question from a friend concerning Ted Cruz:

April 4, 2016 at 10:16 AM

The following is what little I have gleaned from my limited time looking at the matter. He is Pentecostal. He believes the church should control the state – that the state should prop up the church. He is a dominionist. He is part of the establishment; this is no problem for him because he believes the church and state are destined to work together to bring peace and unity. Of course, deceived “Christians” follow him because they have no understanding of history and Bible principles since, if they study at all, they follow the teachings of Christian revisionists such as David Barton. Cruz has David Barton at his side. Barton has done tremendous damage to the cause of Christ, since he is an outright liar and a dominionist. He revises history and lies. Lying is part of the arsenal of dominionists; according to them, it is right to lie to those (like Christians who do not agree with their theology) who do not have the right to know the truth, especially if lying promotes their vision (which they, as heretics believe to be of God based upon their perverted interpretations of Scripture) for the world. That is why most “Christians” follow a perverted view of history which is more despicable than secular revisionist history. Most “Christians” just proceed ignorantly and follow their heretical and apostate leaders down the road to destruction – to a nation where church controls state and to a one world government where their hope is that church will control the world. So when articles state that Cruz is “deeply Christian” they just fall in line to support him. He is deeply heretical and tied directly to the establishment. Etc. Some things to google:

Ted cruz’s father and religion
Ted cruz’s father youtube
Ted Cruz’s religion
Ted Cruz religion youtube

There are some good youtubes of his father and other Pentecostals with whom Cruz has been associated preaching.

Some good articles and resources to begin:

http://www.religionnews.com/2016/02/04/ted-cruzs-campaign-fueled-dominionist-vision-america-commentary/

https://opbcbibletrust.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/david-bartons-christian-revisionism/

https://opbcbibletrust.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/exposing-the-dangers-of-david-bartons-teachings/

Understanding the history of the First Amendment is a very important (maybe the most important) piece of the puzzle. For the true history of the First Amendment and more on Christian revisionism, see:

https://opbcbibletrust.wordpress.com/contents/online-version-of-the-book-god-betrayed/the-history-of-the-first-amendment/

To understand it all, see:

https://opbcbibletrust.wordpress.com/contents/online-version-of-the-book-god-betrayed/

EN 3. Other resources:

David Barton is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I wrote about him and other “Christian” revisionists in God Betrayed in the following chapters:

Secular and Christian revisionism



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Miscellaneous

David Barton’s Christian Revisionism

August 29, 2009 Jerald Finney Leave a comment

A Publication of Old Paths Baptist Church Separation of Church and State Law Ministry

Suggestion: Read this article in conjunction with:

For much more on David Barton, click: David Barton/Glenn Beck Ecumenical Trojan Horse

See also, the resources in the Endnotes: EN 1: On David Barton and Glen Beck. EN 2: On Ted Cruz with David Barton at his side. EN3: Other resources . See also.

For a complete but concise analysis of Christian (and Secular) Revisionism including that of David Barton plus an accurate history of the First Amendment (a knowledge of which totally discredits David Barton’s revised history) click here: The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus/A Case of Premeditated Murder: Christian Revisionists on Trial

In John Adams: Was He Really an Enemy of Christians? Addressing Modern Academic Shallowness David Barton wrote, “non-Biblical Christianity and non-Biblical Christians still drive people away from the Christian faith rather than to it,” a true statement. However, sad to say, David Barton’s form of Christianity is non-Biblical and is driving people from the Christian faith. Please read further before summarily discounting this truth which is offered by a believer who once admired David Barton and worked with millions of other “Christians” in the Republican Party to bring America back under God. After 20 years of work as a voter, precinct chairman, election judge, member of various Republican Party committees, and delegate to Republican conventions, etc. starting in the early 1980’s after being saved, I saw that all our efforts in the political system were anti-productive. Then, I became lead counsel for the Biblical Law Center helping churches to remain free from government control. As a believer first and a lawyer second, I began intense, in-depth studies of the relevant Biblical/legal/historical principles which continue to this day. To my dismay, I began to realize that for 20+ years I had worked for a misguided cause led by men such as David Barton who are “Christian Revisionists.”

“The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light” (Romans 13:12). This author could spend every minute of every day refuting the false teachings of David Barton and other Christian revisionists, but he does not have the time to do that. Every believer has God-given responsibilities, but most may not have the time to do the study needed to discern truth about, for example, some Biblical principles, history, and law. One who has grown weary of witnessing the futility of his efforts in politics and elsewhere may go to the resources mentioned below for light which will expose the works of darkness. When a believer proceeds with knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, he will not be fooled by the works of darkness.

On August 23, 2009, I began a radio broadcast series on the “History of the First Amendment.” This series is loaded with facts that every Christian who desires to make a difference in turning America back to God must know. The facts presented are irrefutable, but most Christians don’t know them. I do not give all my sources on the broadcasts, but the sources are fully cited in God Betrayed: Separation of Church and State: The Biblical Principles and the American Application. The broadcasts are archived on the following website page, so that you can listen to them at any time: Audio series on God Betrayed/Separation of Church and State: The Biblical Principles and the American Application. The audio series is a summation of The History of the First Amendment, which is the online version of Section IV of God Betrayed. God Betrayed is available free in PDF and online or may be ordered is softback and Kindle by going to the Order Information for books by Jerald Finney Page. Section IV, Chapter 2, of God Betrayed – Secular and Christian Revisionism – and Section IV, Chapter 3 of God Betrayed – The consequences of secular and Christian revisionism – will help the reader understand the Christian revisionist history of David Barton and others, especially when considered in conjunction with a reading of the whole of Section IV. of God Betrayed. Also, for a summary of the history of religious freedom in America, one may read An Abridged History of the First Amendment. These Biblical/historical/legal teachings present verifiable facts which David Barton and other Christian revisionists never mention or which they pervert.

For many years I followed Christian revisionism. I was ignorant, but not willfully ignorant. If you have obtained your information from men such as the men I had followed and applauded for many years (the most influential of which was David Barton), you have been misled. Please read further before you get mad, delete this message, and continue your futile work building a house of cards. For a complete but concise analysis of Christian (and Secular) Revisionism including that of David Barton plus an accurate history of the First Amendment (a knowledge of which totally discredits David Barton’s revised history) click here: The Trail of Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus/A Case of Premeditated Murder: Christian Revisionists on Trial.

Hosea 4:6-11 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.” See also, 2 Peter 1.3-10; Romans 10.2 (“For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”), 15.14; Ephesians 1.15-23; Colossians 1.9-10, 28-29; 1 Corinthians 1.5.

Years ago, I read The Myth of Separation by David Barton. I was enlightened in many ways because I had not done my own research on the subject he was addressing. However, even in the first reading, I noticed how sloppy his writing was. Later, I began to realize that he made many factual errors and that many times his citations did not go back to reliable sources. In spite of this, I was a faithful follower of and advocate for David Barton for many years because I did not have the time to do an independent study.

Secularists, who are the worst of revisionists, find Barton (and his followers) easy prey for criticism because Barton’s works (books, DVD’s, etc.) have many inaccurate statements. Barton also relies heavily on half truths, often failing to tell the whole story behind selected historical incidents. Furthermore, he advocates a false biblical interpretation concerning the relationship of church and state. He believes in union of church and state. The correct biblical principle for Gentile nations is separation of church and state, but not separation of God and state, a concept which is alien to Barton. I fully explain these biblical concepts in God Betrayed. Because he is so charismatic, he has gained probably millions of Christian followers. He and others of like mind have done irreparable harm to the cause of Christ in America. The blind are leading the blind.

Actually, the tactic of Christian revisionists do not change. Isaac Backus wrote in the late 1700’s of the tactics of the Calvinists (Puritans) that which is historically verified by comparing Puritan writings and subsequent Calvinist historical offerings with true facts:

“[I] appeal to the conscience of every reader, whether he can find three worse things on earth, in the management of controversy, than, first, to secretly take the point disputed for truth without any proof; then, secondly, blending that error with known truths, to make artful addresses to the affections and passions of the audience, to prejudice their minds, before they hear a word that the respondent has to say; and thirdly, if the respondent refuses to yield to such management, then to call in the secular arm to complete the argument?” Isaac Backus, A History of New England With Particular Reference to the Denomination of Christians called Baptists, Volume 1 (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, Previously published by Backus Historical Society, 1871), p. 150.

See List of Scholarly Resources Which Explain and Comprehensively Document the True History of Religious Freedom in America. Of course, Calvinists and Catholic establishments with the power to call in the secular arm (the civil government) no longer exist, but if they did, this article would be not be published and the author would be put to death.

Let me give you just one example of his fallacies (here pointed out by a secularist, but which has also been pointed out along with other mistakes and fallacies in Barton’s works in Christian literature I have read):

“On page 120 of David Barton’s book The Myth of Separation, David Barton quotes James Madison as saying:

‘We have staked the whole future of American civilization not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments.’

“Barton gives the following footnote for the quotation:

” Harold K. Lane, Liberty! Cry Liberty! (Boston: Lamb and Lamb Tractarian Society, 1939), pp. 32-33. See also Fedrick Nyneyer, First Principles in Morality and Economics: Neighborly Love and Ricardo’s Law of Association (South Holland” Libertarian Press, 1958), pp. 31.

“The only problem with the above is, no such quote has ever been found among any of James Madison’s writings. None of the biographers of Madison, past or present have ever run across such a quote, and most if not all would love to know where this false quote originated. Apparently, David Barton did not check the work of the secondary sources he quotes….”

You can access the entire article from which the above information is quoted at: http://candst.tripod.com/misq1.htm. Again, this is just one of manifold examples.

God is very clear about what happens when one makes lies his refuge:

Isaiah 28:14-18: “Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.”