The Perfect Law of Liberty
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)1
The law of Yahweh2 is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)
Perfect, sure, right, pure, true, and altogether righteous—resulting in conversions, wisdom, joy, and enlightenment. Moreover, the commandments, statutes, and judgments are better than fine gold, sweeter than honey, and provide a great reward.
Incredibly, all of the above would be eliminated under the New Covenant if today’s antinomians3 had their way. In fact, most of this was officially eliminated here in America in 1787 (and incrementally thereafter) when the constitutional framers replaced the Bible’s perfect law of liberty with the biblically seditious Constitution4 as the supreme law of the land.5
As was pointed out in Part 1, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are inseparable—two peas in the same Isaiah 5:20 pod. The Declaration is what’s sometimes correctly depicted as the United States of America’s6 birth certificate.
Lord willing, it’s my intention to biblically examine the Declaration of Independence line by line, paragraph by paragraph, in much the same way I did the United States Constitution.7 However, before getting to the Declaration itself, it’s important we first discuss both the author and purpose of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration’s Chief Architect
To many Christians8 and patriots, Thomas Jefferson is an American icon, based upon legend, lore, and his renowned quotations. But there’s more to Thomas Jefferson than what most people have been told, some of which has serious scriptural implications not only for Jefferson himself but also for those who laud and endorse him. As the author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson also speaks to the Declaration and its alleged biblical affinity.
Let me, however, first address what amounts to a false accusation concerning Thomas Jefferson—that Jefferson was a Deist. With the exception of Benjamin Franklin, who appears to have left his earlier Deism behind him by the time of the Constitutional Convention, none of the key founding fathers were Deists in the purest sense of the word. Neither were they Christians in the biblical sense of the Word. They are best depicted as theistic rationalists.
No, Thomas Jefferson was not a Deist. Thomas Jefferson was an anti-Christ, per 1 Timothy 3:16 and 2 John 1:7-9:
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh…. (1 Timothy 3:16)
According to the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, there’s only one God. And because there is only one God, there is likewise only one Yahweh:
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that Yahweh he is God; there is none else beside him…. Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that Yahweh he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. (Deuteronomy 4:35, 39)
Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God is one Yahweh. (Deuteronomy 6:4)
According to 1 Timothy 3:16, Yahweh God was manifest in the flesh. As who? As Yeshua Immanuel.
Yeshua9—which means Yah10 who saves—is the English transliteration of our Savior’s given Hebrew name, with which He introduced Himself to the Apostle Paul in Acts 26:14-15. His secondary name Immanuel means God with us:
[T]he angel of the Lord appeared unto … Joseph [saying], … fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus [Yeshua, i.e., Yah Who Saves]: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet [Isaiah], saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. (Matthew 1:20-23)
Yeshua’s virgin birth is integral to who He is—that is, to the One whom the Apostle Paul depicts in Philippians 2:5-9 as having poured out Himself to become flesh and die on our behalf. With this in mind, consider the serious implications for anyone who rejects Yahweh’s incarnation via the virgin birth of Yah Who Saves:
For many [plural] deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. (2 John 1:7)
The Apostle John is the only New Testament author to employ the term “antichrist.” Thus, to biblically understand the term “antichrist,” we must look to John’s writings to understand who it is John depicts as anti-Christ.
It’s evident from 2 John 1:7 alone that the teaching about a one-man, individual future Antichrist did not originate with John. Such a man is found nowhere in the Bible. He is the figment of the fertile imaginations of a group of eschatological11 false prophets.12
According to John and because there’s only one Yahweh God, anyone who denies that Yah Who Saves, that is, God With Us, was manifest in the flesh is anti-Christ:
For many [plural] deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. (2 John 1:7-11)
To bid someone “God speed” was tantamount to blessing them in their endeavors. In this instance, those endeavors amounted to a proliferation of an anti-Christ world view. This prohibition would certainly include electing an anti-Christ into a position of civil leadership.
John’s commandment not to bring an anti-Christ into our house does not specify the house. Thus, we’re not to bring any anti-Christ into any of our houses—into our personal house, State House, White House, Senate House, or House of Representatives.
Hopefully, you haven’t invited any anti-Christs into your personal house. But how many anti-Christs do you think America has today in the Constitutional Republic’s political houses? This is thanks to Article 6’s Christian test ban by which mandatory biblical qualifications for civil leaders (including what’s found in 2 John 1:7-9) were eliminated,13 and also thanks to Christians participating in the Constitutional Republic’s unbiblical election process by which they have assisted in electing biblically unqualified candidates.14
I don’t know the exact number, but there are hundreds of anti-Christs not only inhabiting but ruling from America’s political houses today. Consequently, when you consider the atheists, agnostics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc.—all anti-Christs per 2 John 1:7-9—that have been invited into nearly every political house in America, is it any wonder America finds herself teetering on the precipice of moral depravity and destruction?
While today’s false prophets are pathetically all worked up over a non-existent, never-going-to-exist, singular, one-person Antichrist, the real anti-Christs are left to destroy America and our posterity’s future. In fact, many alleged Christians have helped elect anti-Christs, making them complicit in their wicked deeds while in office:
Do not lay hands upon anyone [elect in contemporary America’s case] too hastily and thus share responsibility for the sins of others…. (1 Timothy 5:22, NASB)
Thomas Jefferson: An Anti-Christ
Although I don’t know the exact number of anti-Christs in public office today, I do know of one unapologetic anti-Christ who made it into the White House.
Because Christ’s virgin birth, resurrection, and ascension is intrinsic and therefore essential to the belief that Jesus is God manifest in the flesh, anyone who repudiates the same must therefore be an anti-Christ.
What’s this say about a man who not only cut the virgin birth, miracles, resurrection, and ascension of Christ out of his cut-and-paste New Testament but who, in a letter to John Adams in 1814, depicted those same attributes as a dunghill?15
This would be none other than Thomas Jefferson, the chief architect of the Declaration of Independence, later to be invited to rule over America from the Unites States of America’s highest political house.
Today, you’ll win no popularity contests identifying Thomas Jefferson as an anti-Christ, but what else would you call a man who identified Christ as a “dunghill”? If this doesn’t give you pause, not only regarding Jefferson but also the Declaration of Independence he authored, it may say something about your relationship with the One whom Thomas Jefferson blasphemed.
According to 2 John 1:7-9, Jefferson’s God was not the God of the Bible. Consequently, neither was the generic God and Creator of Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, and therefore that god cannot be used to make the Constitution a biblically compatible document.
New Testament For Indians
But wait! The Bible out of which Thomas Jefferson cut the virgin birth, miracles, resurrection, and ascension of Christ was a New Testament allegedly meant only for missionary work among the Indians. This makes it okay—at least according to those determined to make the 18th-century founding fathers Christians and their Declaration and Constitution biblically compatible:
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh God of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you. (Deuteronomy 4:1-2)
This is true unless, of course, you’re crafting a New Testament meant for missionary work among the Indians. If this were the case, God would have included this exception with His instructions in Deuteronomy 4. Oh, the lengths some men will go to in order to protect their idols!
The Purpose of the Declaration of Independence
Idols die hard, including the icon known as the Declaration of Independence, composed by an anti-Christ. And for what purpose did he compose it?
It’s common knowledge that the Declaration of Independence was written as the American colonials’ declaration of independence from Great Britain. It was written as a declaration of independence, not as a declaration of liberty—by which it would have created a government of, by, and for God16—a government expressly established upon His triune and integral moral law as the supreme law of the land,17 otherwise known as the perfect law of liberty.18
That this is true is perhaps best demonstrated by the striking theological differences between the worldviews of the early 17th-century Puritans and that of the late 18th-century theistic rationalists:
The idea that the state was beyond the reach of the claims of the Bible was … abhorrent to the Puritan…. In the Scriptures they found the origin, the form, the functions and the power of the state…. In the Puritan view of life man could no more create the government under which he would live and endow it with its just powers than he could effect his own salvation….
Basic in Puritan political thought is the doctrine of divine sovereignty. The earthly magistrate … was a minister of God … for the execution of the laws of God…. In Puritan political theory the magistrate derived his powers from God and not from the people….19
The whole conception of government that would later be proclaimed by John Locke and others [e.g., Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, etc.], which placed the sovereignty in the hands of the people and which found the origin of government in a human compact was utterly unknown to the Puritans. They did not believe in a government [of,] by [and for] the people ….20
[Richard] Mosier has well observed that this [late 18th-century] revolutionary age demanded that both the absolute God and the absolute king must “henceforth rule by the consent of the governed. The God of Puritanism, stripped of His antique powers, had no recourse but to enter as a weakened prince into the temple of the individualism [merely individual salvation] and there to seek refuge.” This socreignty which he once claimed, and was accorded by the Puritans, was now claimed by man himself. This was the philosophical and theological outlook of many of the leaders of the [American] Revolution.21
That’s what the 18th-century founding fathers were looking to establish with their Declaration of Independence, as evident in the document it birthed a mere eleven years later, which instead created just another government of, by, and for the people.
All governments not governments of, by, and for God (including Great Britain’s) are merely different expressions of governments of, by, and for the people. That’s right! Government of, by, and for the people is not unique to the Constitutional Republic. Some are of, by, and for the many. Some are of, by, and for the few. And some are of, by, and for one—such as King George III.
Regardless the number, all governments of, by, and for the people are merely humanistic manifestations of man doing what is right in his own eyes, per Judges 21:25. Judges 21:25 is what is commonly known as humanism, aka We the Peoplism.
Conclusion
It should be beginning to become apparent that there’s more to the Declaration of Independence than initially meets the eye, just as there is with the biblically seditious Constitution it birthed eleven years later.
See Part 3.
Related posts:
“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pt. 1” (Blog article)
“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence” (Audio series)
Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant
A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government
“Constitutional Elections: Dining at the ‘Devil’s Table’”
End Notes
1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.
2. YHWH, the English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, is most often pronounced Yahweh. It is the principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible and was inspired to appear nearly 7,000 times in the Old Testament. It was unlawfully deleted by the English translators. In obedience to the Third Commandment and the scriptures that charge us to proclaim, swear by, praise, extol, call upon, bless, glorify, and hold fast to His name, I have chosen to memorialize His name, per Exodus 3:15, in this article.
For a more thorough explanation concerning important reasons for using the sacred name of God, see Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in vain, the third in a series of ten free online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.
3. Antinomianism: The teaching that Yahweh’s triune and integral moral law (His Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) as society’s standard has been replaced by Yahweh’s grace and is no longer applicable under the New Covenant. This, despite such passages as Romans 3:31 and Jude 1:3-4.
Salvation, justification, forgiveness, and all things comparable are provided us exclusively by God’s grace via the blood-atoning sacrifice and resurrection of Christ. Praise Yahweh! This fact, however, does not mean Jesus abolished His Father’s morality as reflected in His Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments as society’s standard. God forbid!
These are two entirely different issues. The first has to do with the remnant’s individual salvation, the second with whose ethics God intends for us to govern our lives.
For more regarding how the Bible’s immutable/unchanging moral law applies today and should be implemented as the law of the land, see free online book Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.
See also free online book A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.
4. For evidence that the Constitution is biblically seditious, see free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.
See also audio series “Bible Law vs. Constitutionalism.”
5. See Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
6. America and the United States of America are not the same thing. America existed long before the creation of the United States of America, aka the Constitutional Republic. The former was colonized by the Pilgrims and Puritans upon the Bible’s immutable moral law. The latter was created by Enlightenment and Masonic theistic rationalists based upon capricious man-made traditions.
For more regarding these two polar opposite forms of government, see Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
7. See free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.
See also audio series “Bible Law vs. Constitutionalism.”
8. Not everyone claiming to be a Christian has been properly instructed in the biblical plan of salvation. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Jesus and forgiven of your sins.
For a more thorough explanation concerning water immersion and its relationship to salvation, the bookBaptism: All You Wanted to Know and More may be requested from Bible Law vs. The United States Constitution, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for free.
Additionally, listen to audio series “I Had a Dream: Judgment’s Coming. Are You Under the Blood?” Part 1 can be found here. Or a MP3 CD, containing all ten messages, can be requested from Bible Law vs. The United States Constitution, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for free.
9. Jesus is a twice-removed transliteration: the English transliteration of the Greek Iesous, which is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew Yeshua. Because many people are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with Yeshua, I have chosen to use the more familiar name Jesus in the bulk of this series of articles in order to remove what might otherwise be a stumbling block.
10. Yah is the abbreviation of Yahweh, found forty-eight times in the Old Testament. This does not account for the plethora of times it’s found in Old Testament names such as Isaiah—that is, YeshaYah, meaning Yah has saved.
11. Eschatology: The study of end-time events.
12. Whenever you hear people speaking of a future, individual, one-man Antichrist, you should run for your eschatological life. Not only is their Antichrist a fabrication of their own making, so is everything else prophetically associated with their bogus Antichrist.
13. For more regarding Article 6’s Christian test ban, see Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
14. See blog article “Constitutional Elections: Dining at the ‘Devil’s Table.’”
See also “Salvation by Election.”
15. Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 24 January 1814, Lester J. Cappon, ed., The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams (Williamsburg, VA: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1988) p. 384
16. See Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
See also free online book A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.
17. For more regarding how the Bible’s immutable/unchanging moral law applies today and should be implemented as the law of the land, see free online book Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.
See also Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
18. See “A Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pt. 1.”
19. C. Gregg Singer, A Theological Interpretation of American History (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1964) pp. 13-14
20. Ibid., pp. 18-19
21. Ibid., p. 35