One Nation Under God

written by 14 yr old Nick.....

The founders all believed in God and wanted to be one nation under God.

They built this great nation on that belief and hope. We should be proud to have been able to still, more than two hundred years later, believe in God, for the most part. But we have forgotten the other part, the “one nation under God” part of that.

The English philosopher, John Locke, who lived from 1632-1704, is considered one of the great pioneers of modern thinking, and made great contributions to the studies of government, politics, and psychology. He went to Westminster school and Oxford university, and later became a tutor at Oxford.

He wrote in his Essays concerning human understanding a method in which people can know that there is a supreme creator:

1. I exist therefore I am.
2. A something cannot come from a nothing
3. An object as complex as a human body cannot be created by chance; therefore, we were created by an intelligent being.

Locke said that an atheist is irrational and out of touch with reality. Evolutionists, who believe we came from a few dust particles floating in space, are just as irrational, if not more so.

In Anglo-Saxon, the word for the ultimate good is “God”.

Some attributes of God, according to john Locke are:

1. Reason. He has amazing reason, and he has created us with the same reason.
2. Compassion and love. He loves each of us and cares about us all.
3. A sense of right and wrong. He knows what is right and what is wrong for each of us to do.
4. A sense of humor. We know he has a sense of humor by looking at all the unique people around us.
5. A great artist. He is the best artist in existence. We know this by looking at the beautiful world around us.
6. Great wisdom and patience. He is and has all wisdom and power. He is a great example of patience. If he didn't have patience then we would have been destroyed ages ago.

We could go on and on.

Locke said that the human mind starts like a waxed tablet, smooth and ready to use for writing. We start life without any inborn ideas, but, over time, we develop ideas and knowledge.

We don't begin with a knowledge of God, but we gain our knowledge of God as we grow. We must know for ourselves that God is real.

There are countless men and women out there in the world today who try harder and harder each day to “prove” that there is no God. They use supposed “scientific methods” to prove that we came from a lizard that crawled out of a puddle somewhere.

We must see through their lies and find the truth: that God is real; he doesn't need to prove anything to us, but we need to prove ourselves to him.

This is my solemn witness: God created each and every one of us. God created the beautiful world for us. God is who we depend on and God is who we are responsible to for our mistakes. God alone can tell us what we need to do.

Let us remain One Nation under God.

N. R. Lutes

2011

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