Challenge accepted.
By faith Ehud assassinated Eglon.
By faith Samson slew the Philistines.
By faith David downed Goliath and slew ten thousands.
By faith saints subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, waxed valiant in fight, & turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
"Our own pastors preach race isn’t real, punish their people for insisting otherwise, then praise those who teach leftist race consciousness, even as it fuels the fires burning down our nation and its churches."
Thornwell 🧵on CN
"The State cannot be restored to order until it settles down upon some form of religion again. As the subjects of a State must have a religion in order to be truly obedient, & as it is the true religion alone which converts obedience into a living principle...
🧵30 credulous but somewhat common non-sequiturs and poor cogitations, some stated and others assumed:
1. Conversion/preaching will lead to Christian culture.
"I bet you want your woman to be barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen."
Yes.
As opposed to what?
Pantsuit, barren, and in the office?
Bawdy, whorish, and dining alone?
"Hey, I'm happy to have a convo to produce more red meat. I've already proven myself an unbrotherly wicked liar and trapsetter. But this time I'll be different! And just to show how sincere I am, here is the same old slander repeated for like the 4th time."
Mirrorless. Jn. 16:2.
@DeutschAnglican
Pornography? Paedophilia? Transgenderism? Listen son, I'm a theonomist. If it's not in the Bible, we don't legislate. Only a Statist gives such autonomy to men. Now excuse me, I need to write a reformational culturalist postmill Facebook post about how my daughter is a sheriff.
@ostrachan
Listen son, we are a gospel family. You know that. And by golly, we ain't about to show any partiality to you or your brothers. We have to welcome the stranger. That's why we are giving the family farm to the Jücanti tribe out of Africa. If not, we deny the gospel.
Paul probably had Cretian friends & converts. He still wrote Titus 1.12-13.
He also had Jewish friends & converts. Still wrote 1 Thess. 2.14-16.
See also:
Chrysostom
Luther
Calvin
Voetius
William Prynne
Etc.
Cogitate.
A brief 🧵 on nature, grace, & egalitarianism.
1. Grace does not destroy nature. Neither does grace make all men equal in all points, even in spiritual things. Upon some men God bestows higher graces than he does others (Rom. 12:3).
@IanGehris
@elimcgowan
McGowan is a slander factory. Thomas, me, others. I noted this about him years ago on FB, way before I was ever active on Twitter. Blocked him then. Lib posing as a conservative. Every man with one eye and a peanut brain knows this. Reasnor is the same. Repentance is his.
I have no idea how any self-respecting man can sit himself or his family under such effeminate mannerisms and cadences.
The woke wielding of White privilege is just icing on the cake. The basic premise is fine; the problem is the moral framework and ends.
@JacobTBrunton
Read more Bible, less Ayn Rand.
Ownership is not determined by need. But need directs disposal of goods and abilities—to such an extent that, to have the goods, abilities, and power to meet a need, yet to refuse to do so, is akin to murder and theft.
The reactions to this are rather telling.
I do not have a strong opinion on the sort of policies with which
@GMRench
disagrees and have enjoyed the debates about such policies on
@CrossPolitic
in the past. I could be persuaded on such policies either way.
But the responses and
Counterpoint: the Christian is the first and the main person who should speak to the particular evils of the Jews.
Peter did in Acts.
Paul did in 1 Thessalonians.
Christ did in the gospels.
Just as Paul noted the particular evils of Cretians.
Their salvation depends on it.
We just got handed the opportunity of a lifetime and some of you are morally preening, violating NEOTR, and saying there is no good or bad.
Get a grip. Drag queens tbag toddlers. Your heritage is lost. And you are preening over neo-Nazis? Neutralizing? Don't be a dingbat.
Win.
Heads up. You don't have to:
-use neo-Nazi or Nazi as a connotative slur
-extrapolate from the fact that history / man is complicated to -> there's no good or evil side
Cogitate. Don't reinforce Fort Liberalism while it's under siege.
"Thus, the national government... will take Christianity as the basis of our entire morality... May Almighty God give our work His grace, lead our will on the right path, bless our insight, & grace us with the trust of our people..."
—AH, First Radio Speech as Chancellor, 2/1/33
Neither Hitler nor the Nazi Party was remotely interested in preserving Christianity. Hitler was “happy” to “have no inner connection with [Catholicism]” and regularly mocked Christianity as a Jewish belief during the war.
In response to a recent post, some seemed unaware of how closely Machen's racial views were to Dabney's. Of course, Machen and Dabney did not express themselves in the same way, nor were their circumstances (and so the application of their beliefs) the same. But they agreed on
@JoshBuice
Political theology? Demographics? Common culture? Listen son. I'm a G3 Baptist. We have one people, one politics, one culture: the instituted Church. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists as a category in my brain. Now, please excuse me, I have some strawmen to burn.
"God’s plan for man was not globalist egalitarian conformity, but nationalist particular diversity. Race may be more than blood, but it is never less. Races look starkly different... live and act distinctly... differ in power... have distinct religions."
The elites don't want you to know this, but you literally don't have to legitimize the enemy's moral framing of the word "racist."
You can just reject it as a falsity, as the psychological straitjacket that it is, as the weapon wielded to both blind and castrate you.
I'm honored to be acknowledged by John Reasnor.
Racist. Nazi. KKK. He is pulling out all the bad words. So dangerous. So scary.
I'm also the one who put together
@spanglermt
's translation of Voetius quotes against the Jews.
Shocker.
Wait till he listens to
@oldpathspod
.
Imagine if a Christian Nationalist twelve-year-old little boy wrote an account of what he'd like to see the future hold.
Now imagine if this little boy was an enthusiastic member of both the Hitler Youth and the KKK.
Then you'd have an idea of what I just read.
1/3
Faith can express itself in acts other than merely preaching the gospel; it can suffer in ways other than being jailed for preaching the gospel.
If you balk at the Crusades, what will you do with Joshua & Caleb extirpating the Canaanites? Abraham rescuing Lot? So much for Bible.
What we've learned:
It's okay to crusade against an enemy force, as long as the damage is done to millions of Christians rather than a few thousand Muslims.
Heads up. You don't have to:
-use neo-Nazi or Nazi as a connotative slur
-extrapolate from the fact that history / man is complicated to -> there's no good or evil side
Cogitate. Don't reinforce Fort Liberalism while it's under siege.
BREAKING: Teacher Enoch Burke arrested at Wilson’s Hospital School after refusing to endorse and affirm transgender ideology.
Judge Barry O’Donnell, who made almost €400,000 from 2016-2018 representing TUSLA as a barrister, ordered his arrest.
TUSLA is the Irish State ‘Child
"...it is obvious that a Commonwealth can no more be organized which shall recognize all religions, than one which shall recognize none. The sanctions of its laws must have a centre of unity somewhere.
"Violence is not an option."
No?
Abraham vs. the Kings.
Moses vs. the Egyptian.
The Judges.
Samuel vs. Agag.
David vs. Goliath.
Elijah vs. the priests of Baal.
Shall I go on?
Not only is violence an option, it may be the vital demand of incarnate faith.
Dear conservative,
You reject the evils of pride month. Good.
Do you reject the politicating woman?
The worship-leading woman?
The butch woman?
These are also unnatural maladies, often found in our own ranks. Clean house. Restrain your women.
"To combine in the same government contradictory systems of faith is as hopelessly impossible as to constitute into one State men of different races and languages.
Why publish Positive Christianity in the Third Reich?
This is a fair question.
Part 1 of a 2-part blog answer below 👇🏻
Recent shenanigans receive a due mention.
"Idle people, therefore, are the most unhappy of all mortal men; and slothful drowsy-heads are nothing else but an unprofitable lump of unoccupied earth."
—Bullinger
@douglaswils
Doug, glad you did this. Thanks for sharing.
Would you, Jared, and Joe be willing to sit down with Andrew Torba, Michael Spangler, & Shane Anderson?
Great opportunity to show Christian charity to other Christians whom you disagree with.
"The best part therefore of the magistrate's duty consisteth in upright judgment and punishing revengement [which] require a man of courage and princely stomach."
—Henry Bullinger
"The Christian, the Pagan, the Mohammedan, Jews, Infidels and Turks, cannot coalesce as organic elements in one body politic. The State must take its religious type from the doctrines, the precepts, and the institutions of one or the other of these parties...
@ADRoblesMedia
7.5 HHs in one post about your racist, white supremacist, Nazi friends. True Discerners™ see through your meme mirage as just being a cover for your vile extremism. Your avatar is a bald white man. Classic neo-Nazi aesthetic. I'm on to you, sir. 🕵️♂️
8. Being for theonomy means you want conversion by the sword and you discard the importance of spirituality.
9. Being for natural law means you reject the general equity of the civil/judicial law and are for autonomy.
10. Being for natural revelation and natural theology means you are subverting special revelation.
11. CREC men, Theonomists, Reconstructionists, Papists, and Pagans have errors; therefore they aren't worth reading or listening to or learning from.
This just in.
Mr. Susannah Roberts got his panties in a bunch. Again.
Will he ever muster his zeal for something that matters?
Tune in next time to Regimevangelical to learn more about this Wikipedia scholar.
One of these things is not like the others...
Far too much of the Protestant theological retrieval space is becoming polluted with this sort of thing, as a result of a Christian Nationalist movement that simply won't seriously police itself.
15. Being a Presbyterian church means your church actually knows and believes and practices the Westminster Standards.
16. Being a Baptist means you have no category for the visible church or covenant administration.
2. Strict confessional subscription and a perfect theological system will prevent declension or procure reformation.
3. Niche knowledge of theological distinctives makes me a godly and competent guide in my place and station.
4. Outward-facing militancy toward cultural degradation, the organic church engaged in public good works, & answering pagans means the gospel, regeneration, & the chief functions of the institutional church are being lost, & her mission is dictated by the world.
20. I observe nitpicking, arguments, and bad hot takes on social media from Christians; therefore it is not profitable for Christians.
21. This person, this group, or this church believes just like me; therefore, if I only get with them, I will finally arrive.
22. There is no perfect church and there will always be problems; therefore, I need to compromise, settle for the best of the worst, and coast.
23. This officer or this layman is in this denomination; therefore he must be this, believe this, and do this.
Here's an idea, esp. on the 4th:
Let's not extrapolate unduly against our fathers, many of whom were more hardy, learned, and pious than us, whose society was also far more ordered, just, and hierarchical than ours.
Maybe instead we can honor & learn from them?
I'm not a history guy like Jon but I have always wondered why, if the puritans were such an example for us today, that New England essentially became a spiritual sinkhole in a relatively short amount of time.
Then compare that to the south and heartland, the Bible belt as it is
The two most important things in a man's life are, first, to adore God by faithfully serving him, and second, to give our lives and to shed our blood for our country's preservation and safety.
—Skanderbeg
While this is ludicrous, you should consider there's a chance this is a case of projection, i.e. that they are telling you what they are planning to do & what they think others should do: skewer you.
This phenomenon is more common than you might think. Best wise up.
In the lastest spin mortification show, Todd Pruitt and Carl Trueman call CN an existential threat to their denominations.
Wild that the OPC and PCA can’t handle the political theory of the Reformed tradition.
"The Church and the State, as visible institutions, are entirely distinct, and neither can usurp the province of the other without injury to both. But religion, as a life, as an inward principle, though specially developed and fostered by the Church...
17. Being a Baptist means you treat your children like pagans.
18. Being a Baptist means you don't have a means of systematizing the Bible well.
19. This person is (or at least appears this way) on social media; therefore they must be like that in real life.
27. This man keeps addressing this issue; therefore he must not care about or see these other issues.
28. Wanting to incarnate the faith in visible, public, and political deeds means you must be neglecting private piety.
29. Private piety will lead to public reformation.
In a better day of the church,
@MichaelHorton_
would be deposed, rather than
@spanglermt
being divested.
In the theology wizard world of Horton, whose view of the Mosaic Covenant is not Reformed but Anabaptistic, Gideon and his band were demons.
"...the religious character of its subjects; and a State is and ought to be Christian, because all its subjects are and ought to be determined by the principles of the Gospel...
Guy: I listen to all these podcasts, am for patriarchy, love retrieval, know this and that minutiae, gonna build Christendom!
Same guy: I don't know basic systematic theology, read my Bible, or lead my family in regular family worship.
Most dudes don’t even know the WSC, yet they’ll wax on & on about some vain obscurity.
Even worse, majority do not even practice family worship on a regular basis.
“For lack of laying the foundation well at the beginning, many who profess Christ are themselves as ignorant as
5. Being Amill means you are disinterested in public religion and are without hope for the future, and have a poverty gospel view.
6. Being Postmill means you are unrealistic about sin and disinterested in spirituality, and have a prosperity gospel view.
Your friendly reminder that Bullinger's treatise on the covenant says that the judicial law—peace and order, criminal punishment, war and defense, laws of justice, etc.—is included as condition of the covenant of grace.
See screenshots.👇🏻
Yesterday we lost Matthew Henry, today Jan Hus, tomorrow it will be the entire reformed tradition. All b/c Gab and
@BasedTorba
and
@PerfInjust
.
This can only mean one thing:
@wokal_distance
is right. The Reformed Reckoning is on the horizon. Let us lament the loss of Liberalism.
The (GC) task of preaching & teaching belongs chiefly to ministers, i.e. the clergy not the laymen. Both man & his world are wider than merely spiritual categories.
Our Anglo-Protestant fathers came here to establish Christendom, not to create a multicultural pluralist society.
The dissident Christian Right are becoming political transgender gender surgeons—trying to stitch a mangled, butchered Christian-ish skin suit on a spiritually dead nation.
This Earthly Christian utopia they seem to think they can make happen won’t happen without massive
13. Holding to classic Reformed covenant theology means you are denying the efficacy of Christ's mediation.
14. Being for covenant succession means you will have godly children.
Under CN
1. No woman will have a public platform unless it concerns domestic piety.
So Stuckey & Basham will go home, be quiet, & find shame.
3. No more Boomer-gloves for Israelis & boss babes.
So Doug will have to relocate. I hear real estate is cheap in Gaza right now.