David Barton: More Distortions of the Truth

You've gotta wonder how he keeps coming up with this stuff! In another flurry of controversy, David Barton has published a pseudo-historical study reference called The Founder’s Bible. Based on the interview transcript with Glenn Beck, you would think the Geneva Bible was used in this project. From an October 4, 2012 interview, Barton stated.

"...the Geneva Bible is the Bible that built America, shaped a generation because it took the Bible, but it made it very practical through commentaries." 

The funny thing is, he didn't use the Geneva Bible - he used the New American Standard (a Catholic version) with his own commentary.

(Click on image. Note the top right-hand corner.)

The Geneva Bible is significant because it was the first commentary. Since he raves about the Geneva, it is also important to note he's also raving about the Calvinist-leaning (Dominionst) footnotes. Wikipedia says:

"The annotations which are an important part of the Geneva Bible were Calvinist and Puritan in character, and as such they were disliked by the ruling pro-government Anglicans of the Church of England, as well as King James I, who commissioned the King James Bible, in order to replace it." [1]

Upon Closer Examination
Those who have analyzed David Barton's historical and biblical accuracy believe he's up to mischief again. Dr. Warren Throckmorton identified two key problems:

1. He altered the narrative of Exodus 18, which makes it appear as though the "colonists established representative governments in America because they read it in the commentary on the Geneva Bible"; and
2. Barton's commentary contained a positive reference to James Hammond. Hammond believed slavery was a gift from God, and a social good in the pre-Civil War era. He was also a child molester, according to his own diaries.[2]

This isn't the first time David Barton has managed to put slavery in a positive light. The most serious of Barton’s deceptions involved in "his efforts to whitewash Jefferson’s racism, part of Barton’s broader project of absolving the founders of the original sin of slavery, which would taint his picture of the country’s divine origins." [3]

Soon after the early release of the study Bible, the critics came out in droves. Glenn Beck comes to David Barton's defense, again, and says that the attacks on the book are part of a spiritual effort to undermine his work, just as God and Satan wrestled over Job.

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The sad part of this is that David Barton is well respected in homeschool circles - the same group being fed steady doses of exaggerations about America being founded as a “Christian nation” and a “Biblically-based” founding.

 "Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools." Romans 1:22

"Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" 
 1 Cor. 1:20

Other Evidence Against Ecumenical David Barton

David Barton and the Mormon Church

David Barton and the Seven Mountains of Dominion Theology

David Barton isn't fooling anyone. He's been an outspoken advocate of our Founding Fathers, portraying them as being born again Christians, when in fact they weren't. He was a guest on Glenn Beck's program, selling his Founders lies to the public. Since he is an expert in that area, he would have known that he takes the Founders quotes out of context.

Barton was also involved in a secular television production that pertained to the New Age movement. Brannon Howse has stopped asking Barton to his Worldview Weekend Conferences, because of his questionable associations.  Finally, the cat is out of the bag.

David Barton has tended to keep his ties to the Dominionists under wraps, and no one has heard him explicitly advocate Seven Mountains Dominionism ... until yesterday on his radio program (4/4/11):

To Listen

Barton: There's five areas that you have to be able to influence and control if you are going to take a culture and that's media, business, government, education, and pulpit.
Now, for twenty years as it turns out - I wasn't even aware of this - way back, Bill Bright from Campus Crusade, when he was still alive, Loren Cunningham, Youth With a Mission, these guys got together back at the same time and really felt like there were seven areas that had to be taken for a culture and these are the seven that they gave: family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business and government. Now we've grouped some of those together and throw some together, but they said those are the seven areas you have to have and if you can have those seven areas, you can shape and control whatever takes place in nations, continents, and even the world.
Green: So it's the same idea, saying "look, every single area of the culture you need to be involved in."
Barton: That's right. Christians got to get involved. And there's a Scripture they used that came out of Isiah 2:2 and it says "Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains," so this is now called the Seven Mountain Prophecy, there's a book out by that name.
It says the Lord's house is going to be established on top of the mountains and these are the seven mountains. If you're going to establish God's kingdom, you've got to have these seven mountains and again that's family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business and government.
Now that's what we believed all along is you got to get involved in this stuff. Jesus said "you occupy 'til I come." We don't care when he comes, that's up to him. What we're supposed to do is take the culture in the meantime and you got to get involved in these seven areas.

 America is hungry for the truth, but he doesn't have it.