Besides the 18th and 22nd Amendments, what part of our Constitution comes from the Bible?
All of it. It even says so at the end.
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth
Read “The Declaration of Independence.”
The FIRST founding document of this nation states: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Still no mention of the Bible, of course, but absolute affirmation that our Founders recognized that our rights do NOT derive from man.
The Constitution does not grant us rights.
Throughout the Bill of Rights, you'll see phrases like, "Congress shall make no law", "... shall not be infringed", "the right of the people . . . shall not be violated . . .", and if there is any doubt as to just where these rights arise, here is the 9th amendment; "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Sadly, the government has been so relentless in it's creep, with the complicity of a complaint citizenry, that we even have to discuss just where our rights come from.
Three branches, that matches the Trinity.
All the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, by definition, come to us from our Creator, God if you will.
Who said anything about the Bible?
All the other parts came from men who understood the Bible.
Where to start....Israel for 400 years was a Theocratic republic when the direct revelations of God were said to be few. They had a three branch governing structure...a Judge, a representative group chosen from among the people to present the needs of their people yearly at Shiloh during the yearly sacrifices for the sins of the nation, and the judicial branch; the levites who were priests and knew the finer points of the law. Their covenant (or constitution) was the mosaic law and the rules of execution of the Law. Our founding fathers were very schooled in religion. They also drew upon greek and Roman traditons as well.
The bankruptsy laws with the “7 year inter banruptsy period” found in the constitution comes from the OT where upon all public and private debts were to be canceled every 7 years and all lands returned to the original families every 49 years during the jubilee year!
The Constitution is full of amazing biblical parallels like the above.