George Washington, Was he Christian?

George Washington, was he Cristian?

"Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and earth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from heaven in pity and compassion upon me Thy servant, who humbly prorate myself before Thee." George Washington's prayer at Valley Forge.

This prayer is an answer that very probably surprises you.  Most students in public schools today if they are taught anything about George Washington's' faith are more likely taught he was a Deist, a person who believes in a God and that God gives us Godly Reason.

One can find much information on this, but his faith was far more than God and Godly reason.   Most people reading this can believe that, in our Christian faith, we believe there is a God and he gives us His Godly Reason .... through the guidance of -the Holy Spirit and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Such was the case of George Washington.  Based on his own writings and the people around him, George Washington was Christian!  When we study this history we not only learn of his faith, by his example we learn how it should be a part of our lives.  This is a wonderful legacy of just one of our founding fathers.

At the side, there is a picture of General Washington (GW) in prayer, one that could be in most history books of an era some years ago, but this and stories of his faith began to disappear from the history book some time ago.  This revisionist history began in the 1920's and has since been perpetuated.  Today, this revisionist history is perpetuated by talking heads on television such as Keith Oberman, writers, and many magazine/newspaper articles.   Washington's pictures of faith and other writing concerning his faith disappeared slowly from the public scene, just as Bibles in the schools and learning scripture so too disappeared from the scene.   GW's faith played a major role in his life and he came to believe in the early part of his life that he and this country was under the protection of God.

One of his first instances of this feeling of God's protection came in a battle in the French and Indian War.  GW and his troops of 100+ of the Virgina militia rode with a British General Braddock into the Ohio Valley to push the French troops out of the frontier.  The British troops and GW's militia were ambushed and lost about 500 of 1300 men.  GW was the last man sitting on a horse, Braddock and his officers were killed.  Upon their withdrawal that allowed them to rest, GW finally took off his coat.  He found the coat had four bullet holes in it, but GW was not wounded or even hit.  GW later learned from the Indian chief leading the ambush had to tell his indian fighters to quit shooting at the man on the horse, because he was under the protection of the Great Spirit!   Many years later the chief later told GW that he personally shot at him over 20 times.

There is much more to learn from people who knew him best.  If you do so, as you read of this subject (see references below) you will come to learn of how the Founding Father's beliefs in Jesus was such a profound influence on the creation of this country.

One of the foremost authorities on this subject is David Barton from Texas.  He founded  Wall Builders.com.  There Barton discusses GW and the Christian faith of many other of the founding fathers influenced the building of this country.  Currently, Barton is on the High School Curriculum Board for the state of Texas.  He is in his own battle to get the history corrected in the Texas History Books used in the public schools.  He has many detractors calling him a fraud, but so did Jesus, it does not deter him.


Pray that God will continue to Bless the bastion freedom, we call the "United States of America" as God blessed this the greatest of our Founding Fathers. 




    References:
Was George Washington Christian?

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-wall/wal-g011.html


The World Union of Deist
http://www.deism.com/deism_defined.htm

The Religion of George Washington,  Chaplain, Lt Colonel, Edwin Davis
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1976/jul-aug/edavis.html

David Barton
http://www.wallbuilders.com/
         American Heritage Series from WallBuilders:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnFw1f6K2W8



Other interesting information

Some quotes by other Founding Fathers:
http://www.errantskeptics.org/Quotes_by_Presidents.htm