McAtee Contra Mundum

“Many today seek to pervert another great difference that the creator established. God made man of diverse races, but some would fly in the face of God’s creating genius and merge the races into oneness. The vast majority of good thinking people prefer to associate with and intermarry with, people of their respective race; this is a part of their God-given inclination to honor and uphold the distinctiveness of separate races. But there are many false prophets of oneness, and many shallow stooges, who seek to force the amalgamation of the races. They even dress themselves in holy self-righteousness and claim to be seeking the unifying purpose of God. The present chaos in modern society will bear witness that they are doing the exact opposite. Crying for oneness they create division; denying diversity they destroy unity. True unity between the races on this earth can only be through the recognition and promotion of the God-given diversity of the races.”

Rev. John Edwards Richards (1911-1989)
One of Key founders of PCA

Sermon on Christian Unity

“In order to support their principles, they selectively quote our shared ancestors in the faith in service of their wicked ideas. Even if they accurately portray the writings of the past the ARP Church is bound by WCF 1.10, “The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.” It is good and right to disagree with faithful men of the past when what they posit violates the teaching of God’s word. In the spirit of Paul in Acts 17 at Berea, these men would welcome and would be encouraged by correction according to the Bible.”

ARP’s Special moderator’s committee on Kinism and Race Realism

1.) There are now two Anthologies well over 500 pages each which give these quotes that these idiots are saying that Kinists “selectively quote our shared ancestors in the faith in service of their wicked ideas.” People can get a copy of the 2nd edition of “Who Is My Neighbor,” as well as “A Survey of Racialism in the Sacred Christian Tradition.” The Kinist case is contained therein folks. Generation after generation over the course of over a millennium of Kinist church fathers embracing biblical Christianity with its normative embrace of Kinism. I have sprinkled this blog with quote after quote from the greats on this subject and what we have discovered is that some form of Kinism has been embraced by all men in all places at all times — except for the Anabaptist levelers and Covenanter nutcases.

a.) Note that the ARP dupes want to call the father’s “our shared ancestors,” while at the same time admitting that these venerated fathers embraced the very same putatively wicked ideas which Kinists now embrace as handed down to them by the fathers the ARP viper’s call “our shared ancestors.”

b.) The ARP clowns accuse Kinists of selectively quoting the fathers in order to support our case. This is a mere assertion with zero proof. I challenge these low IQ clergy to go ahead and take those anthologies I mentioned above and show us where we have “selectively quoted” in a fashion wherein the meaning of the quote has been obscured or changed. These false shepherds keep asserting this kind of thing but then refuse the spade work of demonstrating where that has occurred.

2.) The idea found in the quote above from the ARP is a real howler. If only the fathers could have lived during this enlightened time in order to be instructed by the Andy Webb, Drew Poplin, Benjamin Glaser and Jeff Stivanos, they would certainly realize the errors of their ways. If they could have only been instructed by Andy, Drew, Bennie, and Jeff they would repent in dust and ashes saying what their fathers before them had held. Honestly, can you see Kuyper, Vos, the Hodges, Machen, Augustine, Winthrop, Calvin, Chrysostom, etc. sitting at the feet of Andy, Drew, Bennie, and Jeff and just be gob smacked by their wisdom on the virtues of Alienism vis-a-vis Kinism? Yep, I’m sure that Lancelot Andrews, John Gill, John Dagg, Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Thomas M’Crie etc. would rise after a teaching session and say to Andy, Drew, Bennie, and Jeff, “We thank ye sirs for showing us the error of our ways.” The hubris of the ARP viper nest is jaw dropping.

3.) Notice with the statement above, the ARP gang who can’t shoot straight is assuming that the fathers did not come to their conclusion about social order arrangements and race without reference to Scripture.

4.) Allow me to say again that it is utterly ridiculous for the ARP Apple Dumpling gang to say that the fathers, if alive today, would agree with them. Instead, these fathers would be siding with McAtee, Ketcham, Underwood, Duggan, Spangler, Williams, etc.. I find myself often being encouraged in my allegiance to the doctrines of basic Christianity to think of myself as being surrounded and cheered on by the great cloud of witnesses that the ARP grave diggers want to bury.

I and my cohorts are right. I know the men who are standing with me on this issue. They are, like me, fallible and have need to constantly confess their sins but on this issue,

We will stand our ground
And we won’t back down

PCA Founder John Edwards Richards on Christian Unity

“Christians should be one as God is; God is a Spirit, therefore this is a spiritual oneness for which our Savior prayed. God is a spirit, not a body of different parts, and our unity in Him is a spiritual relationship. It has NOT to do with physical proximity, nor matter, nor color, nor earthly properties. It has to do with the soul of man which God breathed into him, not the body which was made from the dust of the ground.”

John Edwards Richards (1911-1989)
One of the Founders of the PCA
Sermon on Christian Unity

Note Dr. Edwards clearly outlines that the unity of Christians that is expected among Christians is spiritual and not about color. Japanese Christians and Nigerian Christians can have this unity without marrying each other or adopting each other’s children. To transfer and insist on the Christian doctrine of unity into nonspiritual realms, as the NAPARC churches are now doing is to confuse the categories of creation and redemption and is to embrace the vision of unity articulated by Marxist philosophers since the rise of Marx.

There is more of Marx than there is of Christ in the latest ARP effort to rail against the Christianity once and forever delivered unto the saints. I pray that God will open their eyes before they are visited with pestilence for their disobedience.

Answering Rev. Jeff Stivasonn’s Silly Accusations Against Rev. Sam Ketcham

Kinism, and by extension Race Realism, fails to understand something vital. Genetics are not the source of blessing. The gospel is the source of blessing. Samuel Ketcham illustrates this error in a Substack article titled “Race and Nature,” stating, “When the white man took the true religion around the world, the Holy Spirit made their mission effectual. But to deny that their superior culture, language, and race had anything to do with it—is foolish.” In this statement, Mr. Ketcham has undermined the Reformed gospel.”

Jeff Stivason
A Word to Kinists; The biblical error of ‘race realism’ and related beliefs
RP Witness

1.) It is true that “Genetics are not the source of blessing,” but it is equally true, and Stivason misses this, that genetics are the product of God’s blessing. Ketcham captures this distinction when he writes (and Sitvason quotes) “the Holy Spirit made their mission effectual.” Ketcham clearly ascribes all glory to God while at the same time recognizing that glorifying God is inclusive of the fact that God’s grace alone accounts for a superior culture, language, and race. Stivason is thus seeking to divide what Ketcham would never separate and Stivason is doing so in order to make heresy out of that which is reflective of the Christian confession and faith.

2.) It is Stivason who is the one who is undermining the Reformed Gospel by insisting that it is Gnostic man who spreads a Gnostic gospel. God, by His grace alone, and for reasons known only to Him, chose the WASP, inclusive of all God made the WASP to be according to His race, culture and language, to be His tool for taking the Gospel across the globe. Is Rev. Stivason really arguing that superior culture, language, and race of the white man, all as inherited by grace alone, had nothing to do with their missionary effort? If Stivason is arguing that then Stivason is indeed a thorough-going Gnostic and ought to be brought up on charges.

Bultmann, Bonhoeffer, Brito, Lusk & McAtee

The quote by Bultmann below defines the kind of Christianity that Dietrich Bonhoeffer embraced.

“It is impossible to use electrical light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discoveries, and at the same time to believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracles.”

Rudolf Bultmann

Kerygma and Myth

And yet, Rev. Uri Brito and Rev. Rich Lusk of the CREC are both out there championing that Bonhoeffer was not so bad and was even a conservative theologian.

What Bultmann gives in this quote is the essence of Neo-Orthodox (Barthian) theology. The Neo-Orthodox theologians would argue and quibble among themselves, but make no mistake, not one of them were Christian in any historic sense. Neither were any of them conservative in any historic sense. Because that is true for “men” like Brito and Lusk to argue the way they are arguing is sheer madness.

Here is a quote from the Bonhoeffer himself on Scripture,

“There may be some difficulties about preaching from a text whose authenticity has been destroyed by historical research. Verbal inspiration is a poor substitute for the resurrection! It amounts to a denial of the unique presence of the risen one. It gives history an eternal value instead of seeing history and knowing it from the point of view of God’s eternity. It is wrecked in its attempt to level the rough ground. The Bible remains a book like other books. One must be ready to accept the concealment within history and therefore let historical criticism run its course. But it is through the Bible, with all its flaws, that the risen one encounters us. We must get into the troubled waters of historical criticism.” 

 [Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Christ the Center, ed. Eberhard Bethge, trans. Edwin H. Robertson (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 73-74.]

1.) The authenticity of the text of Scripture has been destroyed by historical research.

2.) When Bonhoeffer bitches about “Verbal inspiration is a poor substitute for the resurrection,” what he is saying is that it is the subjective encounter with the resurrected Christ we must be looking for in order to arrive at “truth” and not some kind of reliance on the fact that the only Christ we know of is the Christ revealed in a propositionally true and inspired text. Bonhoeffer, like all neo-Orthodox “theologians” presupposes that the objectively supernatural cannot be true and so what must be pursued is an individual personal subjective mystical encounter with a Christ who may or may not be reflective of the Christ found in the verbally inerrant scripture.

3.) When Bonhoeffer says, “But it is through the Bible, with all its flaws, that the risen one encounters us,” he does not bother to tell you that the risen one that one is encountering is not necessarily the risen one who walks through the pages of Scripture. In point of fact that Bible is a flawed book and so the only encounter one can have is with a Jesus that is unrelated to the flawed Bible because the Jesus of the flawed Bible is a flawed Jesus.

Neo-orthodoxy has always been contradictory subjective excrement, and neo-orthodox theologians have always been contradictory subjective excrement eaters. They take their subjective experiences, call it encounter, and then like filling their subjective balloons with a kind of experiential helium they call their subjective balloons “objective reality.”

And Brito and Lusk are calling this “Conservative.”

Julius Stahl on the Failure of Natural Law

“The core problem w/ Natural law, having hitched its wagon to reason, converts reason from an instrument to discover truth into a, indeed the, source of truth. Thus, we look to reason, not to revelation or divine authority to discover the truth. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ‘The true, the just are therefore that at which reason in its activity arrives, not what what it is; they are what is discovered through it and not from it. It sees the light and testifies of the light, but it is not the light and did not make the light. This is precisely what is wrong with rationalism: it turns the organ of truth into truth itself, and because of this, it thinks by dismantling and examining this organ it has obtained the content of the true, which this organ was supposed to convey’ (pg. 216). To view reason as the source of knowledge and truth is akin to believing ‘that corporeal instruments through which we receive food, actually are our food. Such a conception corresponds with rationalism’s procedure’ (p. 217).”

The Rise and Fall of Natural Law
Julius Stahl
Preface – XVI

“What impelled the career of natural law was the effort to discover a common ground for all right-thinking persons beyond the dividing lines of sectarian religion. If our times have taught us one thing, it is the absolute untenability of the notion of a such a natural law accessible to people of “good faith,” regardless of how flawed they might be in themselves, should by now have disabused us of this fata morgana. Stahl had already anticipated such a turn of events nearly two centuries ago. As he wrote “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”

“Prior to philosophizing, the Christian world recognized a cause of the ethic independent of reason in the will of God and in the content thereof, divine holiness, which is of specific determinacy, positive, not susceptible to and without need of any further logical deduction. To remove this cause was therefore the precondition, the first step natural law had to take to clear space for itself. The beginning of this were already given in the philosophy of the Middle Ages: in the lex eterna, which the scholastics set in holy nature over God, which was in Him prior to any resolutions, from which they believed they needed to derive the ethic. This abolished freedom of decision and determination in God, and it was now requisite to explain reason as that which by necessity is determinative of Him and the world. This took place by asserting that the differences of right and wrong would stand according to reason, even if there were no God. Because in that case God could not possibly be the cause of them, neither His sanctas nor His voluntas — otherwise without Him the consequences would lapse as well — this cause could only be reason.”

Fredrich Stahl
The Rise and Fall of Natural Law – p. 95