American Presbyterian. Wolfean Christian Nationalist.
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"The Antinomians therefore gather passages in vain in an attempt to overthrow the necessity of good works, such as those which say that we are no longer under Law but under grace (Rom. 6:14; 7:4).
It is one thing not to be under the Law as a covenant from which life is to be acquired, as Adam was; another to be under the Law as the rule of life by which conduct is to be ordered piously and holily.
It is one thing to be under the Law insofar as it is opposed to the Gospel, namely in its rigid exaction of perfect obedience and the terrible curse with which it threatens sinners; another to be under the Law insofar as it is subordinated to the Gospel as its sweet direction.
In the former sense we are no longer under the Law, from whose condemning yoke Christ has freed us; in the latter we remain bound to it.
The same Law which prescribed duty and obedience to Adam under the old covenant remains under the new and can never be abrogated, although the end differs.
Under the covenant of works man was to do these things that he might live and acquire life by the Law; under the covenant of grace he does them because he lives, as the fruit of possessing life and the testimony of a grateful heart."
Blasphemy laws are historically
foundational to our Republic:
Even after state constitutions included religious liberty clauses, legislatures enacted or retained blasphemy laws, treating them as protections of public peace and Christian morality rather than pure establishment of religion:
->Massachusetts (1782 โAn Act against Blasphemyโ): Punished willful blasphemy of Godโs holy name by denying, cursing, or contumeliously reproaching God, His creation/government/final judging of the world, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, or the Scriptures. This is the ancestor of the statute still on the books (Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, ยง 36), which carries up to one year in jail or a $300 fine.
->New Hampshire (1791), Vermont (1797), and New Jersey passed similar statutes in the late 18th century despite constitutional free-exercise language.
->People v. Ruggles (New York, 1811): John Ruggles was convicted under common law for publicly stating that โJesus Christ was a bastard, and his mother must be a whore.โ He received three months in jail and a $500 fine. Chancellor James Kent upheld the conviction, holding that blasphemy was a common-law offense independent of formal establishment, that Christianity was part of the law of the land as the basis of public morality, and that the prohibition protected civil society (it did not extend equally to attacks on non-Christian religions).
->Updegraph v. Commonwealth (Pennsylvania, 1824): Conviction upheld for statements in a debating society that the Holy Scriptures were โa mere fable,โ contradictory, and contained many lies. The court viewed the law as preserving public peace rather than forcing conscience.
->Commonwealth v. Kneeland (Massachusetts, 1838): Abner Kneeland, a pantheist publisher, was convicted for writings denying a personal God distinct from nature, the unique divinity of Christ, miracles, the resurrection, and immortality. He was sentenced to 60 days in jailโthe last known U.S. imprisonment solely for blasphemy. Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw upheld the conviction under the 1782 statute, distinguishing protected opinion from malicious or offensive public denial calculated to disturb the peace.
->Later examples include a 1921 Maine conviction (State v. Mockus) for blasphemous lectures and a 1928 Arkansas case involving atheist literature and a storefront sign (โEvolution Is True. The Bibleโs a Lie. Godโs a Ghostโ).
President Trump will celebrate Diwali at the White House today at 1:30 PM EST, lighting a diya lamp before a packed house of Indians.
President Obama began the tradition in 2009.
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You don't have to agree with Nick's prescriptions to see he has been right in his criticism for years at this point. He is sharp and a political prognosticator. I don't see how anyone could deny his chops in these areas.
"For some, on hearing that liberty is promised in the gospel, a liberty which acknowledges no king and no magistrate among men, but looks to Christ alone, think that they can receive no benefit from their liberty so long as they see any power placed over them. Accordingly, they think that nothing will be safe until the whole world is changed into a new form, when there will be neither courts, nor laws, nor magistrates, nor anything of the kind to interfere, as they suppose, with their liberty. But he who knows to distinguish between the body and the soul, between the present fleeting life and that which is future and eternal, will have no difficulty in understanding that the spiritual kingdom of Christ and civil government are things very widely separated. Seeing, therefore, it is a Jewish vanity to seek and include the kingdom of Christ under the elements of this world, let us, considering, as Scripture clearly teaches, that the blessings which we derive from Christ are spiritual, remember to confine the liberty which is promised and offered to us in him within its proper limits. "- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 4.20.1
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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.