The George Washington You Never Knew with Peter Lillback – Episode 062

It has been said by those who choose to revise history that our Founders were not Christians. At best they will concede that they might have been Deists, but under no circumstances were they traditional Christians.

While it’s true that some of our Founders were hard or soft Deists, our first president was definitely a faith-filled man in the traditional sense of the word, and stated so publically many, many times. In fact, the George Washington you’ll hear about on Off the Grid Radio this week is quite unlike the man you’ve heard about through years of indoctrination in the public school system and secular society.

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Join Bill Heid and his very special guest, Dr. Peter Lillback, president of Westminster Theological Seminary and professor of Historical Theology as they discuss the George Washington you never knew.

In this episode:

• What is a Deist, and were our Founders Deists in the true sense of the word?
• What motivated and compelled George Washington?
• How the electorate determines the character of the men and women they elect to office
• Who we are as a people and the type of government we have will be determined by the meaning we assign to words
• And more…