How would you refute Dr. Landon Jackson? Or would you?

Recently a third party known to all involved wrote to our mutual friend what we find below. How would you respond?
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The well meant or free offer of the Gospel has long been a debated point among Reformed Churches and to date those who champion the “free offer of the Gospel” have, for the most part, won out in the contemporary Reformed Church.  The well meant or free offer of the Gospel teaches that God offers the Gospel to be accepted by those He has ordained, from eternity past, to be passed by in terms of salvation. Those Reformed who have opposed the well meant or free offer of the  Gospel have done so on the basis of its contradictory nature. They have noted the inconsistency in saying that God offers the reprobate to saved all the while having determined that they are vessels created for wrath.

The opposition to the well meant or free offer of the Gospel is not the same as opposition to the General call that finds all men everywhere being commanded to repent. One can deny the well meant offer of the Gospel and still be a passionate evangelist.

The dangers of the well meant offer of the Gospel is not only found in its contradictory nature but also in what it potentially works on those who hold to it. Those who hold to the well meant (free) offer of the Gospel run the danger of being so earnest about seeing souls saved that they will define down law so impoverishing gospel in order to make it easier for people to enter into the Kingdom. If God really intends for those He has determined to pass by to have a bonafide opportunity to accept the Gospel, so the reasoning goes, then we must do everything in our power to remove every obstacle. What eventually begins to happen is that the obstacles of the legitimate demands of the Law are removed so that people can more easily accept the offer of what is now a non Gospel, “Gospel.” God has a well meant offer of the Gospel for everyone, elect and reprobate alike, therefore we must make sure that nothing gets in the way of that well meant offer — even the truth.

Next, we must think through the implications of the Free offer of the Gospel. If we posit that there is, on God’s part a universal desire to save all in some sense based upon an intrinsic reluctance in God to bring wrath to bear on humans, then that same reluctance exists to have brought the wrath to bear on Christ the human. This would give us then a universal reluctance, on the Father’s part to save any. If the free offer of the gospel is predicated on this universal reluctance to punish then we likewise must posit a universal retraction of the gospel.

Dr. Landon Jackson

Quotes from E. Michael Jones’ “Monster from the Id” (I)

“From the point of view of the Marquis de Sade there is nothing but nature, and whatever nature commands is right. The very fact that I have a desire is a sign that it exists in nature, and the fact that it exists means that nature wills it, and if nature wills it, it would be wrong — i.e., a sin — not to act on a desire which nature has implanted in us.”

E. Michael Jones 
Monsters from the Id — pg. 27

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“Women… are nothing but machines designed for voluptuousness.”

Marquis de Sade
Justine

One desperately would have liked to ask de Sade, “Designed by whom (?).”

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“Mme. Roland, the Girondist leader who eventually lost her head to the revolution described scenes in which ‘women were brutally violated before being torn to pieces by those tigers; intestines cut out and worn as turbans; bleeding human flesh devoured.'”

Jacques Barruel 
History of Jacobinism — pg. xii

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“If the object of classical politics was the tranquility of order, a kind of stasis, then revolutionary politics chose motion as its goal. Passion, which according to classical tradition, disrupted order was now seen as the engine of progress. Movement, for a revolutionary, was its own justification. What the revolutionaries failed to see was the direction movement was taking. Passion seemed to be a function of the will, but as the initial euphoria of the revolution was replaced by the Terror, it became obvious that passion followed no law but its own and that the trajectory that began with passion and ended in horror was pre-programmed from the beginning, no matter how the intentions of the revolutionaries protested to the contrary…. The French intelligentsia had embarked on the trajectory of emancipating the sexual impulse from the moral order some time before and were now entering the end phase of that trajectory as the revolution, itself a manifestation of the trajectory , engendered the Terror and an orgy of sadistic violence and murder.”

E. Michael Jones 
Monsters from the Id — pg. 37

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“… the early phase of the Enlightenment (held) that releasing sexual passions from the confines of the moral order can be managed and its bad effects rendered harmless by technology (penicillin, the condom, etc.) or legislation (no fault divorce, sexual harassment statutes, etc.) What begins as sex emancipated from the moral order ends in murder and death.”

E. Michael Jones 
Monsters from the Id — pg. 38

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“Msgr. Knox has written that when men get the upper hand in Utopian communities polygamy is the rule; but when women get the upper hand, the rule is celibacy. Once convention is eschewed in favor of revolutionary authenticity in sexual matters this sexual antagonism begins to assert itself.”

E. Michael Jones 
Monsters from the Id — pg. 41

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“Horror and Enlightenment are two sides of the same coin. Like Mary Shelley we too are the captive to two contradictory imperatives: We as a culture can’t disavow the Enlightenment, especially its commitment to sexual liberation, and at the same time, we can’t deny that people get hurt when they act on these imperatives….

The two monsters of the Enlightenment, now immortalized on cereal boxes, also portray two phases of the Enlightenment as it actually got implemented, as opposed to what it proposed. Frankenstein epitomizes Phase I of the Enlightenment project — the early, ostensibly altruistic, optimistic phase, when the revolution, no matter how horrific its execution, still seemed plausible as a way of bettering mankind. This is the electricity phase, the phase of youthful energy, captured in Wordsworth’s phrase, ‘Bliss was it that dawn to be alive. / But to be young was very heaven!’ Dracula symbolizes phase II of the Enlightenment — the syphilitic phase, the disillusionment phase, when blood has been not only shed but polluted, generally by venereal disease as the logical consequence of sexual liberation. By the time the Enlightenment arrives in Germany during the Weimar Republic, revolution is seen as a draining of the blood of the innocent, and the revolutionary leader is seen as the scientific Vampire, as Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu and the doctor in Dreyer’s Vampyr were viewed at the time….

Vampirism and disease are ultimately metaphors for lust, which is a perversion of sexuality into something not life giving but life draining. The trajectory of the Enlightenment then has Frankenstein as its terminus a quo and Dracula as its terminus ad quem.”

E. Michael Jones 
Monsters from the Id — pg. 62, 63

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“The crucial step taken by La Mettrie and the Marquis de Sade was the transformation of man into a machine as prelude to manipulating him as the scientist would manipulate inanimate nature. Because Christianity posited a certain sacredness to life, it was also seen as the major obstacle to the fulfillment of forbidden desire. Christianity, as a result, was construed as the enemy by Shelley and his circle. Science was an essential weapon in the arsenal he used to attack Christianity, the family, marriage, property, and government…. ‘Oh!’ wrote the aspiring young chemist,

‘I burn with impatience for the moment of Xtianity’s dissolution, it has injured me; I swear on the altar of perjured love to revenge myself on the hated cause of the effect which even now I can scarcely help deploring.! — Indeed I think it is to the benefit of society to destroy an opinion which can annihilate the dearest of its ties … — Let us hope that the wound which we inflict tho’ the dagger be concealed, will rankle in the heart of our adversary….

The more Shelley became convinced that he was in possession of the secrets of nature, the more violent became his hatred of ‘unnatural’ conventions like the family, the state, and religion, in particular Christianity: ‘Yet here I swear, and as I break my oath may Infinity Eternity blast me, here I swear that I will never forgive Christianity! …  Oh I wish I were the anti-Christ, that it were mine to crush the Demon, to hurl him to his native Hell to never rise again.'”

E. Michael Jones 
Monsters from the Id — pg.  69, 71

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“Physical passions, are the only real pleasures … In regard to happiness, good and evil are indifferent, and he who gets greater satisfaction out of doing wrong will be happier than whoever gets less out of doing right…. We should not, on the pretext of avoiding remorse, refuse to nature what she demands, nor above all, repent for pleasure…. We may, then, rightfully conclude, that if the joys derived from nature and reason are crimes, men’s happiness lies in being criminals … he who has no remorse, because of so great a familiarity with crime that for him vices become virtues, will be happier than such another who, after a fine deed, is sorry he has done it, and so loses all its reward.”
 
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
French Philosophe

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Hoover Chronicles FDR’s Failures Which Brought Us To War (VIII)

The Eighth error in Roosevelt’s statesmanship was the total economic sanctions on Japan one month later, at the end of July, 1941. The sanctions were war in every essence except shooting. Roosevelt had been warned time and again by his own officials that such provocation would sooner or later bring reprisals of war.

The ninth time statesmanship was wholly lost was Roosevelt’s contemptuous refusal of Prime Minister Konoye’s proposal for peace in the Pacific of September of 1941. The acceptance of these proposals was prayerfully urged by both the American and British Ambassadors in Japan. The terms Konoye proposed would have accomplished every American purpose except possibly the return of Manchuria — and even this was thrown open to discussion. The cynic will recall that Roosevelt was willing to provoke a great war on his flank over this remote question and then gave Manchuria to Communist Russia.

31st President Herbert Hoover
Freedom Betrayed — Herbert Hoover’s Secret History  of the Second World War and its Aftermath — pg. 878-879

WW II was a completely unnecessary war and was only plunged into in order that FDR could hide his utter failure in dealing with the US Depression.

 

Pithy Outline Exposing Differences Between Classical 2K, R2K, and Sphere Sovereignty

I stumbled across a chart in my reading this morning. I thought it quite useful. I have made some of my own adjustments to it to make it uniquely mine. I hope this helps people to more easily understand the issues before the Reformed Church today in a shorthand fashion.

Two Kingdoms Debate

 
I.) Classical 2K
 
A.) Who taught Classical 2K?
 
Martin Luther and in a qualified sense John Calvin 
 
B.) What are the Kingdoms
 
Invisible — Vertical
Visible — Horizontal
 
C.) What law governs the Kingdoms?
 
Invisible — Scripture
Visible — Scripture (Law) and Natural Law
 
D.) Where is Redemption?
 
Our souls
 
E.) Are our vocations part of God’s Kingdom?
 
Our vocations are not part of God’s invisible Kingdom but are part of the visible Kingdom
 
II.) Radical Two Kingdom (R2K)
 
A.) Who teaches R2K?
 
Michael Horton
David Van Drunen
D. G. Hart
Brian Lee
R. Scott Clark
J. V. Fesko
Lee & Misty Irons
 
B.) What are the Kingdoms
 
Visible — Church
Visible — State
 
C.) What law governs the Kingdoms?
 
Church — Scripture
State– Natural Law
 
D.) Where is Redemption?
 
Our Churches
 
E.) Are our vocations part of God’s Kingdom?
 
Only Pastoral vocations are part of God’s Kingdom
 
III.) Sphere Sovereignty / Jurisdictionalism
 
A.) Who taught Sphere Sovereignty
 
Abraham Kuyper
Herman Bavinck
 
B.) What are the Kingdoms
 
God reigns over all but has assigned Spheres of Sovereignty of Family, Church, and Civil by which He rules His people. Where those spheres are in service to the Lord Christ there you find God’s Kingdom. Where those spheres are in rebellion to the Lord Christ there you find this present evil age.
 
C.) What law governs the Kingdoms?
 
Scripture is clearer than Natural Law and so if Natural law is invoked it is as Natural law is pinned to Scripture.
 
D.) Where is Redemption?
 
All creation is being redeemed
 
E.) Are our vocations part of God’s Kingdom?
 
All vocations, as those vocations are in service to Christ, are part of the Kingdom of God.

 

Thumbnail Sketch of Jones’ “Monsters from the Id”

Finished “Monsters from the Id,” by E. Michael Jones.

Jones works too hard to make connections between various Horror film genres and the Revolutions that inspired them with the result that his connections come across as unnatural and contrived. Jones want’s to link Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” to the French Revolution, Dracula to the Weimar Republic, “The Forbidden Planet” to the rise of the 60’s sexual revolution in America and “Alien” to the rise in America of sex withoutprogeny. Though the exactitude of the connections are a bit forced there remains a good deal of fantastic connections which Jones makes as he explores the horror genre when understood in connection with social and sexual revolution.

For Jones, the Monster of the Horror genre is the return of the repressed. Jones’s theory is that what is repressed is sexual morality as social revolution brings about sexual perversity. What the horror genre does is that it provides a release mechanism whereby what has been repressed can find expression again. The Monster in the Horror genre is a killer of those who have sublimated the inescapable knowledge that sex outside of matrimony is verboten. The Monster thus is the suppressed conscience as God’s executioner against those who have tried unsuccessfully to sear their conscience.

The greater the perversion, the uglier and more vile the returning Monster. Jones argues that the Monster is both known and unknown by those who create them. Known because their creators can’t escape what they have done (Here Jones’ concentrates heavily on Mary Godwin Shelley’ Frankenstein) and yet unknown because their creators can’t admit to themselves the genesis of their Monsters.

Along the way Jones richly quotes from the Marquis de Sade, from Jacques Barruel’s “History of Jacobinism,” from Mary Wollenstonecraft,. from Stroker’s “Dracula,” from Quetel’s “History of Syphilis,” from Magnus Hirschfield and Christopher Isherwood, from Edward Bernay’s “Propaganda,” from Ren’e Wormser’s “Foundations; their Power and Influence,” from Linda Lovelace’s autobiography, and others. Jones weaves all of this into a wonderful tapestry that exposes Modernity and the forces that have sustained it.

There are wonderful sections that set forth the control mechanism of Modernity and how sexual perversion is linked to that. Likewise fantastic insights into mega Foundations and how they have supported the social revolution of sexual perversion. And finally, glimpses into how the Illuminati, via Jacobinism has been a partner in all this work to overthrow Christ.

It is a splendid read. It does start slow but it really picks up steam as it goes.