AND LAST IN THE HEARTS OF SECULARISTS

October 13 

You shall not bear false witness… Exodus 20:16

Seeking to undermine the Judeo-Christian basis of our Republic, secular revisionists fashionably disparage the Christian orthodoxy of George Washington and maintain that he was a Deist, rather than a Bible-believing Christian. Deism is an infidel theology that denies God’s participation in the affairs of men and thus rejects the realities of Christ’s Incarnation and Atonement. Was Washington a Christian, affirming the activity of God Almighty amongst men? Did he place his trust in Christ’s redemptive sufferings? Content to allow the reader to draw his own conclusions, I submit Washington’s handwritten testimony of faith recorded in his prayer journal when he was twenty:  

“O, blessed Father, let thy Son's blood wash me from all impurities, and cleanse me from the stains of sin that are upon me. Give me grace to lay hold upon His merits; that they may be my reconciliation and atonement unto Thee—That I may know my sins are forgiven by His death and passion…”  

 
“…I have sinned against heaven and before Thee in thought, word, and deed. I have condemned Thy majesty and holy laws. I have likewise sinned by omitting what I ought to have done and committing what I ought not... My iniquities are multiplied and my sins are very great. I confess them, O Lord, with shame and sorrow, detestation and loathing and desire to be vile in my own eyes as I have rendered myself vile in Thine. I humbly beseech Thee to be merciful to me in the free pardon of my sins for the sake of Thy dear Son and only Savior Jesus Christ, who came to call not the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me.”    

Terry L. Reese