There are two unbiblical and, in fact, anti-Christian worldviews which are at war with Christian historiography. Both have bigotry at their heart. The first is rooted in the gods of pluralism.This false historiography posits all cultures as neutral, except Christian culture, which it despises. It sees the coming of Christians to plant the Cross for Jesus Christ in America as evil and imperialistic. To justify this position, it attempts to present the Christian culture of the Jamestown settlers as barbaric, while the savage culture of the natives who worshiped spirit gods and engaged in the horrible rituals of paganism as being noble. The second erroneous historiography sees the success of Christian America as a function of ethnicity and skin color. To these misguided armchair commentators, America was great because she was Anglo-Saxon, European and white. This too is unbiblical and ignorant. As Marshall Foster points out, the glorious Anglo-Saxon “race” has nothing inherently glorious about it except for the fact that it is a testimony to the mercy of God on a bunch of white-skinned, formerly demon-worshiping pagans that converted to Christ. The victory of the founding of America is not the glory of Europeans triumphing over natives, but the glory of Christian culture triumphing over the evil of paganism. It is the glory which occurs when Christ is proclaimed, His law is embraced, and His Scripture revelation is acknowledged as a foundation stone of liberty.

Marshall Foster shared the following with around 1500 people at the opening presentation of the Planting of the Cross, presented at Archer’s Hope, by Jamestown.

It’s not that Anglo Saxons came to America. We want to make that very clear that America was not based on a racial base people who were better than anyone else. The conception of the scripture is clear that we are neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male or female we are all one we are all one in Christ. The conception of scripture and the knowledge of the way things are in God’s world is that he created us all in His image and wants us all to be saved.

It was not the greatness and the goodness of the “Anglo Saxon Race” that brought about the greatness of America. That’s not what we are saying this week.

If you really want to get into it, my heritage goes back to the Picts in Scotland. Who used to fight in the nude, filled with tattoos and then would eat their enemies after they killed them so if you want to talk about pagans I got pagans in my heritage...

But by the grace of God something happened and it happened over a little more than four hundred years ago.. It turned a back water nation with black teethed people who died at the age of thirty (if they made it out of childhood), who sat around and drank beer and got drunk were lascivious all winter long—they were the English people.

In the midst of that despair and backwardness, God brought the bible. After 1200 years of not having a bible in their own language—-for the first time—-in 1560—a bible arrived that could be bought by the people with only two years wages....

So my point is this, that the greatness of America, the conversion of those English from the backwater of history to be a great Christian civilization. the development of the Scots to bring about the modern world...and a lot of the great things that happen all came and converged in America and we have become a part of that great adventure no matter what our [skin color], no matter what our denomination if we love the Lord Jesus Christ and if we obey his word we will see our nation rise again to greatness that will then humble us. Which will bring us to that place where we will then spread that message just like these men did when they landed four hundred years ago...

Let us remember that. Let us Humble ourselves before the Lord this week. Yes, rejoice in the event. Yes rejoice in what took place only by the Grace of god and the Word of God can we see these things transform the world.