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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 →

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Noah Webster, the Father of America’s original education system, wrote to young people in his U.S. history book:

“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, ‘just men who will rule in the fear of God.’ The preservation of [the government of a republic] depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office…the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If [the government of a republic] fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”

(History of the United States (New Haven, Durrie & Beck, 1832), pp. 336-337)

The school teacher who made America great, taught us to look at a person’s character before we give him our vote.

And how are we to know what a person’s character is really like? Noah Webster revealed that when he warned us not to neglect “the divine commands”. In other words compare their actions to those the Bible commands us to have. It’s the same thing Jesus said when He taught us, “You will know them by their fruits.” Do a person’s actions show that they view things the way God views them?

Can this be done in the present election? Can we know how candidates think? We certainly can. In fact, this is Continue reading →