This week, Christians around the world of all strands celebrate what we consider some of the most significant events in world history — the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ on behalf of the salvation for those who believe in the Lord.

There are many historical reasons to believe in these events, which I’ve addressed in previous columns, such as this and this.

Meanwhile, as a student of American history, I find it fascinating that, for the most part, the vast majority of our nation’s settlers and founding fathers also believed it.

Here are some examples just from the founding era. Special thanks to my good friend Bill Federer and his America’s God and Country for his indirect help with this column.

George Washington and the Plaque Behind his Sarcophagus

If you visit Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home, you can see where he and his beloved wife, Martha, are buried. Behind their two sarcophagi are the words of Jesus, chiseled in stone, from John 11:25-26 from the King James Version: “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live…”

George and Martha affirmed their belief in the resurrection of the Lord regularly at church, as they arose with the rest of the congregation and read aloud the words of the Apostles’ Creed, which affirms that historical........

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