Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
“Likewise Protestantism is a Jewish breakdown of the order of God. So, it’s like (for Protestants) “you can believe that, but you don’t have to believe that.” It’s the picking and choosing of bits of Christianity in order to lead people away from Christianity. Rather than having the fullness of truth (Protestants believe) you can have that bit of truth and reject that bit of truth and still be in good standing with God.”
Calvin Robinson
English Catholic Priest
Interview w/ Joel Webbon
Of course Webbon said nothing to refute this Papist bull fecal matter. I know some Reformed people who have become enamored with Robinson. Likely, it helps them to say to themselves, “See, I’m not racist. I like a black clergy member.”
So, since Joel Webbon said nothing to repudiate this garbage, allow me to say that Rome remains in violent opposition to the God of the Bible and the Christian faith. Rome is not Christian in the least given its official position and doctrines and until Rome repudiates Trent it remains as an Institution, anti-Christ. Also, how many consecutive clear anti-Christ Popes does their need to be before people realize that Rome is a whore house, just as the Reformers noted? The latest Pope’s latest activity finds him canoodling with the Muslims, giving them religious credibility.
These words by Robinson is pure projection on his part. It is Rome who invents its own Christianity and then after the Reformers stood up and said, “What you have randomly picked and chosen as Christianity is NOT Christianity,” Rome complains we Protestants are the ones picking and choosing what we will and will not believe.
Shame on Webbon for giving Robinson a pass.
God is sending on all radio frequencies but fallen man is forever trying to change the channel so as to not hear what God is sending.
It should seem obvious in our culture that the Natural Law paradigm of Wolfe and others is just plain non-functioning. We have men saying that natural law does not teach them that they are men. We have women saying that Natural Law does not teach them that it is wrong to murder and torture their children. We have people attending government schools dressed up as furries and using cat litter instead of bathrooms. HERE is your natural law you so covet and insist needs to be the foundational starting point for building social orders.
Indeed, Natural law ought to be seen as non-sensical given that there is a different and competing natural law for every worldview in existence. Deism had a Natural law that was different from Jacobinism that was different from Transcendentalism that was different from Darwinism, that was different from Nihilism, that was different from Romanticism, that was different from existentialism. In short there have been as many Natural Laws as there have been Christ hating worldviews, including those worldviews which have taught that there is no such thing as an “out there” and so no natural law (think existentialism, post-modernism, nihilism, etc.).
Again, the issue isn’t with the reality of Natural Law that God has established. The issue is with appealing to a Natural law as a basis in order to order society, law, and culture.
Here I am merely being CONFESSIONAL
Anyone claiming to be Reformed and bound by the Canons of Dort, yet spouting Natural law the way it is being spouted by Cody and others on this thread needs to show how this ideology squares with Canons of Dort III/IV.4:
“The Inadequacy of the Light of Nature”
To be sure, there is left in man after the fall, some light of nature, whereby he retains some notions about God,-1- about natural things, and about the difference between what is honorable and shameful, and shows some regard for virtue and outward order. But so far is he from arriving at the saving knowledge of God and true conversion through this light of nature that he does not even use it properly in natural and civil matters. Rather, whatever this light may be, man wholly pollutes it in various ways and suppresses it by his wickedness.-2- In doing so, he renders himself without excuse before God.
“It is true some of them are ‘sticklers’ for the civil rights of Negroes – it always makes me intensely angry to hear people talking glibly about equal civil rights of Negroes when in many parts of the South those equal rights would mean that every legislator and every judge would be of a savage type and the white men would be more unsafe in parts of this country than in most parts of the world where at least protection of his home government is to some extent with him.”
J. Gesham Machen
“What about the whole notion that nations think themselves better than the other nations? Do you think that is not a result of sin … that ethnic groups think their superior to other ethnic groups? BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT! We’re all made in the image of God. Somebody’s not better than the other. When Paul stood on the step of the Areopagus and he said, ‘God made all nations of one blood,’ Do you think the Greeks were standing there saying, ‘yes?’ They were, like, ‘SHUT UP. We’re Greeks. We are not like those Africans.’
Did they think that? Oh, we know they thought that.”
Dr. Alan Strange
President – Mid America Seminary
Are all peoples equal?
Yes … inasmuch as all peoples are creatures
In brief, when considered ontologically then, yes…”a fallen man is a fallen man is a fallen man.”
But even here gradations exist.
Though all peoples are fallen not all peoples are equally depraved in their expression of total depravity.
Though all peoples are guilty before the law some peoples have violated God’s law more egregiously than others (consider the Cretans in the book of Titus in the Bible) though all will be damned.
Though all peoples are creatures, God’s common providence has not made all people the same.
Are all peoples equal?
No … if by that you mean that all peoples have the same genetic predispositions
No…. if by that you mean that all peoples have the same potentials.
No…. if by that you mean that because all people are equal, they are interchangeable cogs that are by definition non distinct.
This is just ignorance on Dr. Strange’s part and is in agreement with Classical Marxist thought.
Obviously, Dr. J. Gresham Machen and Dr. Alan Strange do not agree. In today’s NAPARC church, if Machen’s views were known Machen would be excommunicated.
‘Every philosophical system of whatever name in the final analysis rests on a foundational presupposition that is nothing more than faith, no matter what claim it may make to so-called scientific certainty. Even unbelief is a faith – one cannot reason from naked doubt. We have no immediate or homogeneous view of the highest principles of things and thus no absolute certainty; therefore, for philosophical systems a purely objective knowledge independent of all personal judgment, such as mathematics, the natural sciences, or even the positive sciences, is ruled out.’4
Modernism is not based on neutral science but on specific presuppositions enthroning autonomous reason, which, consistently applied, end up destroying life.”
From the forward to Frdereick Stahl’s “The History of Legal Philosophy”