Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

This is The Wall Builder Show, taken on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective.

Hope you had a great weekend.

We're going to jump right back in to where we left off on Friday, which was the middle of rebuilding liberty.

Tim Barton teaching and the rebuilding liberty course.

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Let's jump in where we left off last Friday.

The guy who did this painting, he actually did some research, and he studied the founding fathers,

and one of the things he put in this that a lot of people have never paid attention to, in the bottom right corner, that book is a Bible. It's open to Matthew

Chapter 5. The Bible was the most quoted source by the founding fathers and it wasn't even close.

So far above and beyond everything else. In fact, even in the Constitution of dimension,

they quoted the Bible often. In their speeches, their conversations, their debates.

The Bible was a part of everything going on. Well, this is what the painter discovered in his research.

And there's actually no record of what all books were there or weren't there as they're doing

the convention. But what he concluded was that I can't imagine that people that were this

influenced by the Bible that knew

the Bible this well would have done something so significant and not had the Bible with them.

Now, again, the reason I want to point this out is because even when we look at things that we

think are obvious, it's an obvious painting. We've all seen it before. And yet, most people

have never noticed there's a Bible literally open on the table in this painting.

We've overlooked so often the influence of Christianity and the vital role it has played in forming the nation. And the guys who were doing this, they knew the Bible, I mean, really knew the Bible

and their writings and their quotes and so much of what they did, but also what they learned from

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