On the recordNovember 28, 2018
I thank the gentleman for the time and for leading this effort tonight to recognize National Bible Week and the importance of it. Mr. Speaker, above your head is emblazoned the national motto of our country, which says, ``In God we Trust.'' We all say that quite often, but, quite frankly, we have no idea of how to trust in a God that we don't know anything about. So the question is: How do we know God and we know we can trust Him? Mr. Speaker, we know God because the inspired Word of God is the Bible. Through the chapters of the Old Testament and the New Testament, those truths are laid out by which we can know God and understand His ways, or try to understand His ways, try to understand the fact that His Son came to this Earth and lived and died to save us from our sins, that we might rely on Him as our personal savior and the only gateway in which we can spend eternal life in Heaven, but is also here for us to live our daily lives day-to-day. In the truths of the Bible, we can live our lives, interact with each other, and do that in a way that is pleasing to God. John Adams wrote that only a moral and religious people can self- govern. We have enjoyed a self-governance scheme of governance now for 242 years, but that moral and religious high ground that John Adams was referencing is founded in the truths of the Bible. If each of us is free to decide what is true on our own, then we are in big trouble. That is where our Nation is leading us today.…
