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The Judeo-Christian Roots of
1607 Jamestown Island

England's conversion to Christianity began, reputedly, with Joseph of Arimathea, who
fled from persecution in Jerusalem shortly after he took down from the cross, and then
buried in his own new tomb, the body of the crucified Jesus (Mt 27:57-61). Joseph
landed on the western coast of England, just below Bristol, soon sharing the good news
of the Hebrew Gospel message of how the shed blood of Jesus paid, once and for ever,
for the sinfulness of Jews and Gentiles alike. The Holy Spirit opened hearts within the
local populace to receive Salvation, and Joseph soon helped these new Believers set up
the first-ever Christian Congregation outside of Israel. The site is marked by the ancient
ruins of the Glastonbury Church. This history was vital for Protestants 1,500 years later.

The spiritual battles and growth of Christianity in England, during its first thousand-plus
years, produced many historical leaders, including the Venerable Bede, Augustine, and
Wycliffe (Morning Star of the future Great Reformation). Struggles were against both
some of the most barbaric pagan practices on earth, as well as major intrusions by that
theology claiming, contrary to the Bible, that God's eternal city actually was Rome, not
Jerusalem, that the Emperor Constantine's "Donation" bequeathed to the church leaders
in Rome the superior right to rule and reign over the entire earth, including all churches
and governments everywhere, that God had condemned all jews as "Christ Killers", and
likewise that the Old Testament was not "fulfilled", but replaced by the New Testament.
This ruling-elitist "Replacement Theology" resulted in brutal suppression of protestors
who quoted various NT verses: "Did God reject his people? By no means!" (Rom 11:1),
"All Scripture is inspired by God" (II Tim 3:16-17), and "Do what it says" (James 1:22).


The 1215-'25 Magna Carta, authored by Bible-scholar Stephen Langton, Archbishop of
Canterbury, was an historic enfranchisement of the biblical balance between the co-equal
State (Creator-based) and Church (Redeemer-based). This Bible-principle of co-equality,
and that even a King is under the Law, has been a main-stay of British "Liberty Under
Law" for centuries. It is in the U.S. Bill of Rights. The Pope rejected the Magna Carta.

Henry VIII, in 1533 divorce proceedings from Catherine, was given biblical advice by
Archbishop Cranmer that his marriage was so flawed as to be itself illegimate, plus that
since England's Church was 300-years older than the Church of Rome, he did not have to
seek approval from a usurping "Bishop of Rome" for anything at all, anyway. This was a
thorough political rejection of the Replacement Theology claim that Church is over State.
Later, under Catholic "Bloody Mary", Cranmer was burned-alive at the stake for this.

The Spanish Armadas, some 20 years before 1607 Jamestown, were a massive military
campaign to re-instate the claim that the Roman Church is absolute over every State on
earth, especially the English-Protestant State. Spain failed, and declined as a world power.
The nearly successful 1605 Jesuit-led Gunpowder Plot to blow up England's government
confirmed a Protestant belief that Roman Catholicism was utterly treacherous, and that it
was indeed the Anti-Christ system described in the Bible. Still today, England's annual
Guy Fawkes Day on 5th November commemorates how God has protected Protestantism.


Both 1607 Jamestown and 1620 Plimouth were authorized by the 1606 First Va Charter,
for the one purpose: "propagating of Christian Religion". Settlers understood this as a
call for a Protestant Bible-based system of co-equal State and Church, conjoined to stop
abuses. The First Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown, 31 July-4 Aug 1619 , was a
direct result. To keep "Liberty Under Law", the biblical co-equal/conjoined system must
be kept intact, or more accurately, given the state of America today, it must be reclaimed.



© 2005, Steven C. Smith; Chancellor