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In America’s early education system, one of the things that was constantly taught was the Biblical understanding of government. Children were taught to govern themselves by internal choices. They were taught to reason every choice back to its root; that is, what God says in the Bible about what I’m facing. This was education God’s way.
That education system created a moral people. Noah Webster, in his original American dictionary defined moral as:
“The conformity of an act to the divine law.”
Thus a people developed in this nation who had stable emotions. That created persistence in what they set out to accomplish.
This way of thinking would be the foundation for the greatest civil government the world has ever known. Their children were taught to let that internal self-government grow to the external civil government. It was the natural outflow of a life committed to living out the Bible in this present world. And while America’s Founding generations were certainly not perfect, they did succeed in living according to the Bible so much better than we do today, that it’s hard for us to believe that way of life is even possible.
But let’s look at their standard for civil government servants. Noah Webster was Continue reading