This older edition of the Bible clearly recognizes that the unborn child is a human being with exactly the same rights as an adult. Today abortions continue unabated in laboratories and through drug and surgical procedures. In the United States, (more than) fifty million people have been murdered by surgical abortions alone (since 1973). One state has approved euthanasia and assisted suicide as a further way to murder people. One can only imagine where this will lead. Arbitrary decisions will be made by others regarding an individual’s life and some will be “assisted in suicide” whether they want to die or not. It is time for a new government.
Quotes Citing God and The Bible in Founding Government Documents
The Mayflower Compact of 1620: “In the name of God, Amen”…”Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia.”
Fundamental Orders 1639: “Forasmuch as it hath pleased the Almighty God by the wise disposition of His divine providence”…”to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now Profess, as also, the discipline of the Churches, which according to the truth of the said Gospel is now practiced amongst us; as also in our Civil affairs to be guided and governed according to such Laws, Rules, Orders, and Decrees as shall be made, ordered and decreed as followeth:”
The Rights of the Colonists and a List of Violations of the Rights 1772: “Among the Natural Rights of the Colonists are these First: a Right to Life: Secondly to Liberty: Thirdly to Property, together with the Right to support and defend them in the best manner they can”…”Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty in matters spiritual and temporal, is a thing that all Men are clearly entitled to, by the eternal and immutable Laws of God and nature, as well as by the laws of Nations and all well grounded in municipal laws, which must have their foundation in the former”…”In the state of nature, every man is under God, Judge and sole Judge, of his own rights and the injuries done him:”
Thomas Jefferson on Slavery 1784: “And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers in nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.”
The Northwest Ordinance 1787: “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”