Revolutionary Humanism; Out of Chaos, Order Comes

Genesis 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 Then God said …

One way that Christianity differs from Religions and philosophies that posit that man evolved from primeval chaos is that Christianity finds chaos being structured by order so that chaos is structured from and by the God of order.

The implication of this is that for Biblical Christians when confronted with the breakdown of social order, there is a call to return to order (God’s law) to answer the questions of breakdown and revolution and so provide solution. Not so for the Religions of chaos. For the philosophies and religions of chaos, order can only be achieved by returning to chaos. Chaos in a social order is thus healed only by more chaos and Revolution. This is seen perhaps most expressly in the Mardi Gras where chaos reigns. R. J. Rushdoony explains Mardi Gras;

“The Mardi Gras is a lineal descendant of the old pagan chaos cults whereby a religious revival meant not turning to God as it does in the Christian faith, but turning to chaos, because for the cults of chaos, the source of all things was not God. They did not believe in God, but primeval chaos, and so you sought a revival periodically, annually, you had to revive society by ritual acts of chaos. Now, in Rome, it was a Saturnalia whereby a condemned convict became the king in the early days of Rome and possessed the queen, whereby everything went. Incest, cannibalism in some societies, but not in Rome. Everything that was normally forbidden was practiced. Now, the Mardi Gras is precisely a modern form of the old chaos cults, the Saturnalia…”

As a small example of this return to chaos thinking, several years ago, I attended a school board meeting that was discussing the need for sex education in the classroom. The problem that was being addressed was the increase of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and STDs among students and the solution that was being offered was to teach the students how to have “safe” sex. You see, the problem was one of chaos and the answer being offered was a return to chaos to solve the problem of chaos. It didn’t matter that I had sundry studies demonstrating that teaching “safe sex” in government schools leads to an increase in out-of-wedlock births and STDs. This is because, at a presuppositional level, the modern humanists believe that order comes from chaos and so more chaos is the answer to chaos. Out of chaos order comes.

Of course, this is the whole theory behind the boneheaded theory that is evolution. Evolution presupposes that out of chaos order comes. Evolution teaches that chaos in development leads to the order of a new species.

Van Til called this process “integration downward into the void,” with the void representing chaos. Fallen humanist man will always embrace more chaos and Revolution to deliver him from chaos because fallen humanist man believes that out of chaos order comes.

This explains our daffy culture. Sodomy becomes a problem and the solution we embrace is Transgenderism. Chaos needs more chaos so that order will come. Marriages as an institution begin to go all chaotic and so we embrace sodomite marriage in order to “stabilize” marriage. Family breakdown is everywhere and so we redefine family to include two Lesbians and their in vitro fertilized “offspring.” Integration downward into the void. Chaos breeds a return to chaos in hopes that order will emerge.

Our expectation needs to be, short of God-given Reformation that we will continue in the West to go from chaos and revolution to chaos and revolution.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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