In this revised and expanded edition for the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Gary Amos demonstrates how Biblical principles and Christian influences are the foundation underlying the Declaration of Independence. The Bible and Christianity — not deism and secularism — were the most important influences on the framers of the nation’s birth certificate. An entirely new chapter explains why it is impossible to trace the Declaration’s language for law, rights, and self-government to ancient Greece and Rome as is commonly done. Greco-Roman ideas regarding individuals and touching the relation between the individual and the state are entirely different from those of the American founders in the Declaration.