Samuel Adams, though ignored today, was know as the Father of the American Revolution because of his Biblical thinking about civil law, and how to re-establish it when a tyrant has taken that law from a people and established his own will as law.

He was born in Boston in 1722 and grew up there, where the merchants said of him that he was so punctual in attendance at school, they could set their clocks by him.

As an adult he failed in business because his entire focus was on law and particularly what the American colonies should do to correct the dictatorship being imposed on them by King George III.  His leadership moved Boston to begin the network known as The Committees of Correspondence.  Continue reading →

Fifty-six chosen men met in Philadelphia, summer 1776, to write a Declaration of Independence to be sent to the King of England.  Young Thomas Jefferson, only thirty-three, would be chosen to write the Declaration.  Even though the committee chosen by the 2nd Continental Congress to write it was also made up of such leaders as John Adams, Ben Franklin, and Roger Sherman, those men chose Jefferson because of his gift for expression and his knowledge, though so young, of law (as rooted in the Bible).

It was a difficult time for Jefferson:  He and his wife had lost a child less than a year before; Continue reading →

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Patrick of Ireland (called by some St. Patrick) lived in Ireland in the first half of the 400’s.  He was once a teenage slave there, escaped, was converted to Christ, then went back to Ireland with a call from God to share Christ with the Irish.  Ireland was not a unified country then, but was ruled by local chieftains.  Patrick began to lead these chieftains to Christ.  They then wanted to know how to rule their clans according to the Bible.  It was in 432 that Patrick lifted out of the Books of Moses in the Bible the civil laws, forming what he would call, in Latin, Liber Ex Lege Moisi; or The Book of The Law of Moses.  The local chieftains who had been converted to Christ began to implement these laws in their clans.  The Biblical idea of decentralized government took root in Ireland and would later spread to Scotland through the work of a man named Columba.  This would become the basis of British Common Law. Continue reading →

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