American Presbyterian. Wolfean Christian Nationalist.
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The problem is that immigration ensures that conservatism loses. The world is not โconservative,โ by American standards. Even if Muslims or Hindus oppose leftwing morality (trans, abortion, gay right, etc,), they prioritize material gain over universal moral policy when they arrive. And they have enough ingroup solidarity to prevent abortion, homosexuality, etc. among themselves. And they retain post-colonial grievance, which is imputed to whites in general.
Bo French sees what is at stake. Multiculturalism produces a feverishly material society entirely unconcerned with any formal social norms besides โtolerance.โ
It is always enemies of Christ who say "where is your God?"
Maybe, we are under God's providential judgement because our nation is full of people like you.
As with a breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
โWhere is your God?โ
Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.
โ Psalm 42:10-11
True.
Also, for the Christian nationalists:
Where was your God last night?
Thatโs what I thought.
They can shout Christ is King all they want and disparage Jews and Israel but at the end of the day, godless communists and Sharia adherent Muslims are now in control of America.
Where was God last night?
Time for people to think about that.
Yup. Been saying this for years.
And I use to be a big Keller fan about 15 years ago ... When I was antinomian and didn't even know what that meant.
Thankfully God brought me out of that.
If youโre confused by what happened in the election of Talarico in Texas on Tuesday, you need not be. Tim Kellerโs exegetical chickens have simply come home to roost. Talarico was a big fan of Tim Kellerโs exegetical method and has implemented it as taught. You are simply observing in real time the fruit it has borne.
@chadojacksonโs observation on Talaricoโs misuse of Scripture: โInstead he merely uses the Bible and Christianity and deliberately misrepresents it in order to dupe certain biblically illiterate churchgoers who unfortunately donโt know the difference, who donโt know that theyโre being lied to.โ
Tim Kellerโs own professed exegetical method from his an 18-part course on how to Preach Christ in a Postmodern World:
On working same-sex relationships into his sermons: โI have a bible study with three gay women artists, and me. One is a Christian, one is probably a new Christian. One is very much a non-Christian. We read the Book of Ruth. What did they see? What do you think they saw? They said, โThis is incredible. The two women create a non-traditional family in which a woman is the breadwinner. They buck the traditional family in which you have to have a man. And the basis of it is faith. Their common faith made them a family as opposed to tradition or blood.โ I had never seen that before. I had never seen that before. Why did they see it? Well, because two of the three are in long term lesbian relationships. The couples have been together for years and years and years. They immediately thought about that. Now, what Iโm trying to say is: I hear the things that they say as theyโre reading through the book so then that affects the way Iโm preaching. When I sit down and I study the text, Iโm immediately thinking of things that they said, and that automatically gets into the sermon.โ
On omitting texts that are disagreeable to the postmodern mind: โThatโs another problem with preaching fromโฆEstherโฆ. So if youโre really going to preachโฆEsther, you know what Iโd do, in New York, Iโd just never bring that out. I mean, people donโt come to church with their Bibles. They study the passage I print out in the text. So Iโm just not going to bring that up.โ (Session 9: Applying Christ Part IV: Getting Down to Earth Part II, 1:01:15-1:03:02)
โThey donโt have Bibles. Besides that, also non-Christians may not have Bibles. So we print it out [in the church bulletin]. And that works very, very well by the way. It also is a great way of keeping away from certain texts that you donโt want them to see.โ (Session 13 Q&A, 9:10-9:33)
More on Tim Kellerโs professed (and flawed) exegetical method here:
trinityfoundation.org/journaโฆ
These people are fools.
JUST IN:๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ท Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that there will be war with Iran:
When we say that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, we actually mean it. And we will do the hard work to ensure it under the leadership of President Trump.
I believe the war is a courageous and historic effort that will ensure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.
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While many today want to focus only on doctrinal antinomianism, I also make room for practical antinomianism.
If a Christian repeatedly engages in obvious sinโsay slandering othersโhe is a practical antinomian.
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The fact is, material concerns (eg prices) trump universal moral concerns. That is a fact of democracy, only disrupted by middle class prosperity and stability. It is exacerbated by multiculturalism and the loss of religion as a formal norm.
Groups in the US that were, by culture, more altruistic and had universal moral concerns are now facing a population with a โtake what you can getโ ethos. The natural response is conformity to that ethos.
The swing in young people voting reflects it. Fewer people are moored to an altruistic ethos. Economic survival trumps virtue.
The big problem with the GOP is right now they don't have an identity. They did with Trump, even early within this term. However, that identity has been taken over by a typical neo-con platform. That platform is basically socially moderate liberalism that is slightly behind Democrats and war hawk policies. Neither of these positions is popular.
If you want voters to be energized, you have to be a stark contrast to the Democratic platform.
You have to offer something different than a watered down version of the Democrat party.
Just my 2 cents.
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When someone is showing signs of being an antinomian, I ask whether they've been reading R Scott Clark. Typically the answer is yes.
Mike is right about Paul Washer. When people in crisis over lack of assurance contact me one of the diagnostic questions I ask is whether this person has been listening to Washer. I also ask if this person has been listening to John MacArthur. Typically the person in crisis has been listening to one or both.
I agree with Brian, but sometimes I feel completely inadequate to be a part of even the most miniscule political operation. I'm already burdened working to provide for a household on a single income in an environment with high inflation. I barely have enough energy to play with my kids when I get home. I'm exhausted. This isn't a critique of Brian here, but I feel spent. Maybe that will change as years go on IDK.
For now I will give some to organizations who do those things for men who have the ability and gifts to do them.
Localism is good, even necessary. It really is true that if you want to get your country in order, you ought to get your home in order first. Most of my eggs are in the basket of the institutions that I'm building locally in Ogden, alongside my people.
However, localism is not enough. In fact, any kind of long-term success for the Christian borough requires favorable political support on at least some level.
The problem that many in love with the idea of localism have is a kind of magical thinking that forgets one of the most important things we know about the left:
They play winner-takes-all. They play for keeps. They don't stop. They will never leave you alone. They will always seek to totally crush their opposition and bring it into total conformity with their utopian vision for their universalizing political ideals.
Yes, get your house in order, build your tribe, build institutions. But you must also leverage your tribe, your institutions, and whatever possible mechanisms you have to gain real and meaningful political power at the city, county, state, and federal levels.
You mean the guy who said Christianity was neither right or left? Who gave a pass to professing believers to vote for candidates who support sexual degeneracy and abortion because is was somehow equal to Republicans not giving money to social programs? That guy?
No, not at all.
"Therefore, in reading profane authors, the admirable light of truth displayed in them should remind us, that the human mind, however much fallen and perverted from its original integrity, is still adorned and invested with admirable gifts from its Creator. If we reflect that the Spirit of God is the only fountain of truth, we will be careful, as we would avoid offering insult to him, not to reject or condemn truth wherever it appears. In despising the gifts, we insult the Giver. How, then, can we deny that truth must have beamed on those ancient lawgivers who arranged civil order and discipline with so much equity? Shall we say that the philosophers, in their exquisite researches and skilful description of nature, were blind? Shall we deny the possession of intellect to those who drew up rules for discourse, and taught us to speak in accordance with reason? Shall we say that those who, by the cultivation of the medical art, expended their industry in our behalf were only raving? What shall we say of the mathematical sciences? Shall we deem them to be the dreams of madmen? Nay, we cannot read the writings of the ancients on these subjects without the highest admiration; an admiration which their excellence will not allow us to withhold. But shall we deem anything to be noble and praiseworthy, without tracing it to the hand of God? Far from us be such ingratitude; an ingratitude not chargeable even on heathen poets, who acknowledged that philosophy and laws, and all useful arts were the inventions of the gods. Therefore, since it is manifest that men whom the Scriptures term carnal, are so acute and clear-sighted in the investigation of inferior things, their example should teach us how many gifts the Lord has left in possession of human nature, notwithstanding of its having been despoiled of the true good."- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2.2.15
Calvin on natural law in regards to politics and civil rule:
"Hence it is that every individual understands how human societies must he regulated by laws, and also is able to comprehend the principles of those laws. Hence the universal agreement in regard to such subjects, both among nations and individuals, the seeds of them being implanted in the breasts of all without a teacher or lawgiver. The truth of this fact is not affected by the wars and dissensions which immediately arise, while some, such as thieves and robbers, would invert the rules of justice, loosen the bonds of law, and give free scope to their lust; and while others (a vice of most frequent occurrence) deem that to be unjust which is elsewhere regarded as just, and, on the contrary, hold that to be praiseworthy which is elsewhere forbidden. For such persons do not hate the laws from not knowing that they are good and sacred, but, inflamed with headlong passion, quarrel with what is clearly reasonable, and licentiously hate what their mind and understanding approve. Quarrels of this latter kind do not destroy the primary idea of justice. For while men dispute with each other as to particular enactments, their ideas of equity agree in substance. This, no doubt, proves the weakness of the human mind, which, even when it seems on the right path, halts and hesitates. Still, however, it is true, that some principle of civil order is impressed on all. And this is ample proof, that, in regard to the constitution of the present life, no man is devoid of the light of reason."- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2.2.13
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For nearly three centuries, the Roman emperors sought to extinguish Christianity. Yet the more fiercely they persecuted the Church, the more remarkably she endured.
From Nero to Diocletian, successive waves of persecution swept across the Roman Empire.
Christians were stripped of their possessions, driven from their occupations, imprisoned, tortured, and murdered. Their churches and schools were destroyed. Their assemblies were forbidden under penalty of death.
Some were thrown to wild beasts. Others were burned alive, torn apart, or subjected to the most dreadful instruments of torture.
Wilhelmus ร Brakel, in his commentary on Revelation, describes persecutions so terrible that the blood of the martyrs formed pools, rivers ran red, and entire Christian communities were slaughtered.
The persecution reached its terrible climax under Diocletian, whose imperial campaign against Christianity began in AD 303.
Church buildings were demolished, Christian worship was suppressed, and believers were commanded to sacrifice to the pagan gods.
After centuries of bloodshed, the Church appeared to be approaching extermination.
Then God raised up Constantine the Great.
In AD 312, Constantine marched against Maxentius, defeated his army at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, and entered Rome victorious.
In AD 313, Constantine and Licinius proclaimed religious toleration, bringing relief to Christians throughout their territories.
But the struggle for the empire was not yet finished.
Licinius, ruler of the East, eventually became Constantine's formidable enemy. In AD 324, Constantine marched against him, defeated his armies, and secured dominion over the whole Roman Empire.
The persecuting empire had been conquered.
Christianity emerged triumphant.
The imperial decrees against Christianity were overturned. Confiscated property was restored. Christians assembled openly, built churches, and received appointments to civil and military offices.
The religion that Roman emperors had sought to destroy now enjoyed the protection and patronage of the emperor himself.
ร Brakel understood this tremendous revolution as the fulfillment of the sixth seal of Revelation 6, in which the powers of pagan Rome were shaken and brought low.
He also identified Constantine with the man-child of Revelation 12, raised up in God's providence to deliver the Church from the fury of her persecutors.
Consider the astonishing reversal.
The emperors had demanded that Christians sacrifice to their gods or perish.
Generations of martyrs had refused.
Their property had been plundered, their churches destroyed, and their blood poured out. Yet Rome had utterly failed to extinguish the Christian faith.
Now the emperor himself professed Christianity, the Church worshipped publicly, and the pagan establishment was losing its ancient supremacy.
The empire that had hunted the Church was now ruled by a man who defended her.
Such was the extraordinary triumph of Christianity under Constantine the Great, and such was the providence of God in preserving His Church against the mightiest empire on earth.
I have made similar comments and yet Colin is also right.
Out responsibility for political activism doesn't diminish because of judgement.
Pray for national repentance while working towards political solutions.
Annoying (but well meaning) tropes you hear after a day like yesterday:
โWell, our hope is not in politicsโ
โOur nation is under judgmentโ
โWe need to remember, real change will only come with revivalโ
All of those things may be true. But a predictable election cycle also has political causes and there are political solutions moving forward.
While itโs good to always set our minds upon the things above, spiritualizing how we understand political realities can quickly turn the Gospel into a mere instrument for political and social change.
Every single one of the statements above implies that the Gospel is a political solution.
Itโs time to ditch the delusion of transformationalism. Now go read William Youngโs Essay on Neo-Calvinism.
westminsterconfession.org/reโฆ
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The Grand Old Stupid Party should do the following on Monday--they won't, but they should.
1. End the filibuster in the Senate and immediately pass the SAVE Act--dubious constitutionally but let the courts sort it out.
2. Pass legislation adding 5 members to SCOTUS and fast track putting them on the bench. Also Trump should ask Thomas and Alito to retire now so that he can nominate 7 men before January.
3. Trump calls a special session of Congress before the Democrats are sworn in to finalize the nominations and pass the SAVE Act.