What does “under God” mean: Is it a compliment, a challenge or Both as Unified One?

If we are “under” God, that would suggest that we want to do God’s will, and that might well involve a lot of study and prayer and national soul-searching. 

Instead of asking God to bless our particular political party or platform, we might need to determine God’s concerns, God’s values, God’s agenda, and build our platform on those.

Symbols are very important, but the values and ideals they point to are more important. Memorial Day, Flag Day, the Fourth of July; these summer holidays are good opportunities to ask ourselves whether “under God” lived out the ideals of liberty and justice for all?

To be a True Nation “under God,” involves generous measures of Humility. Nationalism and patriotism have their place, but they need to be “under God,” secondary to God or They become idolatrous where we assume that somehow God must always Grace one of his birth right tribes as a favored or country over the rest.

One Nation Under Government and Not Under God should remind all that our great Declaration of Independence is not only the proclamation of independence and sovereignty, but is also the official affirmation of our belief and faith in God. 

The Declaration asserts God’s existence as a “self-evident” truth, and states that the purpose of government is to secure our God-given unalienable individual rights.

The Declaration contains five references to God — God as Creator, God as the Source of all rights, God as supreme Lawmaker, God as the world’s supreme Judge, and God as our Protector.

It is our sacred responsibility to Duty Examine every doctrine.

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