Next question here by Casey Burns. I'll go ahead and put this up. For much of my adult life, I have believed the founding of the United States was contrary to the scriptures because the colonists rebelled against the governing authorities. I find it easy in hindsight to judge their actions and words, but I struggle because this often stirs self-righteousness in me with regard to the Founding Fathers as well as to others today who strongly believe that America is a Christian nation.
How can I rightly discern the events of the past to help me walk in wisdom today, but maintain charity and avoid judging in a manner contrary to the command of Christ? Yeah, that's an excellent question because we don't need to become anti-American. The early Christians, the apostles, they weren't anti-Roman. There were a lot of very ungodly things that were part of the Roman Empire. But they didn't become anti-Roman. I mean, they were pro-Kingdom of God. The kingdoms of this world, they were neutral towards them.
So I think we should be the same way. We can respect the fact that like the pilgrims, they came here seeking freedom to serve God, that this was not the first country, but one of the first that granted freedom of religion. We can appreciate that. And we still have a very high degree of freedom of religion today in the United States. We can appreciate those things.
The men who were the founding fathers of this country, most of them were of very high moral character, not all of them, but most of them, they made some unselfish sacrifices to get this country founded. They certainly, wow, to start a country out of nothing, to basically have no pattern to follow and have it work shows to me some remarkable leadership. And we also, we don't know where things fit into God's providence, his governance of human affairs. Excuse me a second. I'm dealing with a little bit of hoarseness.
Just like the Roman Empire and before that, the Greek Empire, God used those to further the kingdom of God. Once Jesus came and the gospel message was being spread, the fact that you had a single government and that you had peace in the Mediterranean region where Paul could just travel all over without being assaulted on the roads. You could travel on the Mediterranean without being waylaid by pirates.
If you spoke Greek and Aramaic, I mean, you could talk to about a third of the world, or at least in that region of the world. So these things God used to further his ends in the same way with the United States. I mean, we don't know to what degree God has chosen to use it the way he used the Roman Empire. It doesn't make it a Christian nation, but we don't need to be critical either.
In other words, we shouldn't view it as a Christian nation, but now viewing it as one of the nations of this world, okay, I think it's, you know, has its pros and cons as far as a nation of the world. And it's done a lot of very good things in that line. In that context. Keeping it in its context allows us to not be overly critical or judgmental about it. Exactly. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
I think this is a similar question from Sean Tanner that maybe if you want to add anything, I'll go ahead and put it up here. Due to recent
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