The Book That Made America: How the Bible Formed Our Nation by Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. Nordskog Publishing, Inc. ISBN-10: 0-9824929-0-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-9824929-0-1 June 2009 277 pages Trade paperback: $18.95 at Amazon.com Jerry Newcombe takes great pains to disabuse the rest of us of a patently false notion: that America isn’t now and never was a Christian nation. He proves beyond doubt that the United States was conceived along Biblical lines, born in Biblical liberty, and nourished into adolescence on Biblical principles. Only now, some four centuries later, are perceptive Americans seeing the dangers of abandoning their Biblical heritage. Men and women who devoutly believed in the Judeo-Christian God founded America, relied upon Him for guidance and protection, and gave proper thanks to Him for delivering them from their external enemies. But now, in the early 21st century, there are unmistakable signs that America’s external foes sense an opportunity to bring the United States down to their level—and they have good reason for their optimism. As America has become more secularized, it has collectively forgotten where its liberties came from—not the government, the sole function of which is to secure liberty, but from Almighty God. Only He can grant the

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