I hope this war is Christ's triumph, Babylon's ruin.
The Throne over America
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O Lord, thy judgments give the king,
his son thy righteousness.
With right he shall thy people judge,
thy poor with uprightness.
The lofty mountains shall bring forth
unto the people peace;
Likewise the little hills the same
shall do by righteousness.
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Younger widows should marry, bear children, & manage the house. Obviously younger unmarried women should ignore these things.
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Anakin was the Chosen One. He brought balance to the Force.
The prequels are cinematically and thematically brilliant because they are mythic. They complete the epic arc of the original trilogy rather than merely preceding it. The original films show Luke’s temptation, refusal, and the final redemption of his father.
The prequels reveal why that redemption mattered: Anakin was the instrument who first broke the light-side hegemony of the Jedi Order and then, later, destroyed the Emperor. What the original trilogy resolves, the prequels make inevitable. Together they form a single mythic movement.
The prophecy said a Chosen One would come, born of no father, and through him ultimate balance would be restored. The Jedi heard what they wanted to hear: the destruction of the Sith so that the light could reign unchallenged. That is the light-side reading.
Obi-Wan says it on Mustafar, “you were supposed to bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness”, because he is speaking from inside the Jedi framework.
George Lucas has said versions of the same thing in interviews: the dark side is the imbalance, the light side is the natural state, balance is achieved by ending the Sith. Those statements exist. They are clear. They are also not the whole of what the films do.
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Without doubt, the Reformed confessions are the most impressive body of documents ever penned by uninspired man. Thank you God for the Reformation & the fall of harlot Rome.
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A great reply by @GeorgeSayour. As an additional observation, many of the same people who have no categories for nations as moral entities have no trouble speaking of the “American experiment.” I’m just old-fashioned enough to think that humans shouldn’t be experimented on at all: not by pharmaceuticals, nor by orchestrated military occupation / demographic replacement. But anyway, yes, lots of people in relation to each other have moral obligations before God *as* that corporate relation. So argued Rutherford in Lex, Rex. He shows from several passages that God obliges not only the king directly but also the form of government through the people.
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Some of the modern Two Kingdom writings seem to conflate law & covenant. Turns out there is nothing new under the sun.
You are to believe in the one, true, living God, the LORD, but He does not permit you to chase after idols, bow down to them, or serve them, for the LORD is a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations--as we experience today.
Modernity has foundationally eroded our understanding of our corporate being and the ensuing responsibilities... we traded it for individuality.
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6x24 Young Earth Creation is what is taught by the Confession and more importantly the Scriptures. No amount of sophistry by the OPC or the PCA study reports changes that fact.
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The ESV Study Bible’s take on head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11 is so stupid:
“cultures where women’s head coverings are not a sign of being married, wives do not need to cover their heads in worship, but they could obey this command by wearing some other physical symbol of being married (such as a wedding ring)”
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Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 22:5:
it forbids the confounding of the dispositions and affairs of the sexes: men must not be effeminate, nor do the women’s work in the house, nor must women be viragos, pretend to teach, or usurp authority.
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as the woman derives her origin from the man, she is therefore inferior in rank.
— John Calvin
Wrong domain, Eli. Probabilities lie between 0 and 1 in the real numbers, but can be either rational or irrational, as the reals are the union of rational and irrational numbers. Not sure what sin has to do with probabilities, either.
I'm growing very tired of preaching which makes no use of the text besides as a springboard to repeat a bunch of otherwise orthodox (and sometimes subtly unorthodox) claims which has no relation to the text, nor any application to the heart of the hearers.
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Delightful to every one is his native soil, and it is also delightful to dwell among one’s own people.
— John Calvin
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Premise 1. Grace perfects nature.
Premise 2. Specific love of one’s people and place is of nature.
Therefore, grace perfects specific love of one’s people and place.
That’s what is Christian about it. In other words, Christians—as renewed images of God—are all the more earnest to honor God in elements of the original creation that are good.
Dare I say, he will be a little slow to write about what's going on.
I am on the road, and just got set up at my next location.
I see the darker side of social media (which is most of it) is alive with yammering about Sam Sey. I haven't said anything about it because I, like all the stinking rest of you, haven't a clue what is going on. I don't care who "has a friend who has a friend" and what they say. When Sam gets to speak for himself, then we can comment meaningfully, if we choose to do so. Till then, it is all a bunch of noise, and lots of folks on both sides have jumped to conclusions because they spoke without sufficient facts.
That being said, the vile, disgusting behavior of the Christless Nationalists truly turns the stomach. These folks have completely sold out to the same spirit that motivated the Brown Shirts nearly a century ago now. And I have challenged a few to attempt to think rationally and substantiate their wild claims--and found them incapable of so doing. I comment on the grossly unbiblical attitudes displayed in one instance, and they respond, "So you want your country over-run by Muslims" or some other such absurd statement. No, I don't, but you morons yammering on social media while hiding behind anonymous accounts, or following Alex Jones sycophants, are doing a whole lot less about it than I am, that's for sure. It truly is an amazing thing to observe, and, yes, I do believe it is part of judgment upon the culture.
So how about we all just learn to sit on our hands and patiently wait for actual, verifiable information to become available? Maybe give brother Sey a chance to speak for himself? Is there any reason why that is a problem? Or to put it another way, if you got caught up in something with the government, would YOU want people to go crazy with speculation before you had the opportunity to explain and defend yourself? Think about it.
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The nations are God's idea. He "made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place" (Acts 17:26).
A civil servant who will not guard his own people's inheritance has failed his duty of office. And the denominational agencies that lived for decades on federal resettlement grants have no standing to lecture the rest of us about what the way of Jesus requires at the border.
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This is a friendly counter to a recent OPC article about why we have a ministerial shortage. I agree performative masculinity is a trap for young men; however, an effeminate ministry is still a pressing matter.
Pastors should command attention, exercise responsibility, and stand faithful against all odds.
The article starts out with a question: "We need to ask why fewer young men are being formed into men capable of embracing costly, durable, public, spiritual responsibility."
Answering this question requires understanding how the feminist culture and ways have seeped into the lives of young men and the church:
📷Manhood is declared "toxic" by society
📷All-male spaces are almost gone
📷Mother's Day vs. Father's Day sermons
📷"Always-believe-women" is promoted...
📷Tone-policing
Church is too often a safe space for broken women, and men are purely decorative (see The Feminization of American Culture). This is not only my observation of nearly 30 years as a church officer but of others as well.
The claim that the ministry is "masculine" is partly correct. That it is only for men is clear enough in Scripture; unfortunately, "maleness" and "masculinity" are being redefined in real-time.
Often, churches and leaders pick up on the Current Thing™ without conscious thought. Thus, they rework Scripture to fit such things, and sometimes in fanciful ways, such as the anti-patriarchy article that was withdrawn from the OPC officer journal. This is itself illustrative of being too soft, for the article was never publicly denounced, and even another OPC church officer has defended its publication.
On the other hand, sermons about submission are being attacked, like in the case of Rick Appleton of the PCA. And a straight-forward passage on women being the "weaker vessel" is presented as a Christ-and-the-church metaphor, yet similar passages on male-responsibility are taken at face-value.
Interestingly, the author’s description on the manliness of the ministry includes Psalm singing. If such were a constant sign of manliness, then the RPCNA’s Testimony on Gender would be the most masculine work produced: “Society needs men and women who (like the biblical patriarch, Jacob) possess personality traits that break with gender stereotypes.”
These described outward methods of the ministry—preaching techniques, catechizing, comforting, and the like—are also done by apostate churches. But their content is wrong.
The masculine way of doing such things is what makes them male-acts as opposed to female doings, even if saying the same thing. Just compare a female “pastor” sermon found on social media with sermons by men.
The issue then is what masculinity entails. False versions, as the article lists, should be avoided, yet the list offered is skewed. After all, assertiveness, aggression and physical dominance are part and parcel of manhood. Their misuse does not eliminate their proper function.
Christian men are still men. And men are physically larger and stronger than women, hands-down. Adam was created of the earth and for manual labor of taking care of the garden. Our bodies reflect this, and so our acts and mindset should use this difference for the good of others and God’s glory.
Unfortunately, this is the problem. More and more churches, parachurches, leaders and speakers ignore or downplay the physical and biological differences. Yet these also show up in personality distinctions between men and women as well.
Our differences are not random but given with a purpose: men are to lead, protect and provide. And we should avoid the means, causes, occasions, appearances and provocations that would undermine this.
I believe young men are seeing cracks where others see soundness. Some of it may be shrugged off as merely “appearances”—yet what else can a man go by unless he lives with the pastor at home?
Performative masculinity is a serious concern, filling a void. In response, we need to look inward, examining our unspoken assumptions about manhood.
One hundred years ago, there was a battle over the basics of Christianity which formed, partly, the OPC in 1936. And now the battle is an attack upon the basics of creation. The dearth of pastors from an ever-shrinking pool of young men is the evidence.
Ignore the issue at hand--though it may be a means to something greater-- and understand simply that any Left-Right unity that can be achieved is a threat to the constructed dialectic which exists to divide Americans.
As always, beware Claremont...
