More Disassembling of Moore’s CT Article Supporting “Religious Freedom”

“Religious freedom is a restriction on the power of the state to set itself up as a mediator between God and humanity.”

Russel Moore

Christianity Astray Article

Why is it considered a restriction for the state to be in submission to the authority of Jesus Christ?

And consider that Rusell Moore with his precious “religious freedom” has empowered the state to be not merely a mediator between God and mankind but rather to take up the mantle of God Himself as, per Moore’s system, the State is the Institution that monitors how far the gods are allowed to go in the public square. The authority to say what competing religions and gods can and can’t do in the public square has to be located somewhere and for Moore, that location is in the state and as that location is in the state Moore has designated the state to be the god of the gods.

Moore’s position thus is not religious freedom in the least but is a guarantee of religious bondage to the pagan God state.

“Religious freedom does not mean that everyone’s religion is true. All it means is that God judges the heart and that people must really believe in their heart that Jesus is Lord, instead of saying, “Lord, Lord” merely because they are required to do so by law.”

 

Russel Moore
Christianity Astray Article

 

First, keep in mind that Moore does not believe in Religious Freedom. He believes that the state must force upon us a religion that puts the State in the position of being the God over the gods. Because of Moore’s forced and regulated state religion, no religion except Moore’s religion can do what Moore’s religion is now doing, and what it is now doing as God walking on the earth is to close the door against the claims of total sovereignty of the God of the Bible. Moore’s political theology disallows the God of the Bible to be anything but one of the competing gods in the public square. Does that sound like religious freedom?

Secondly, Moore invokes the idea that people must be free to say “Lord Lord,” all the while denying Lordship to Jesus Christ over the State — a state that Moore has regulating religion as God walking on the earth. Indeed, Moore’s political theology does not allow the state the freedom to take Jesus Christ as Lord over the magistrate.

Thirdly, keep in mind that this is the same Russell Moore who invoked this same religious freedom as the rationale of Moore’s vigorously supporting the effort to secure construction of a Muslim Mosque being built when Moore was the head of the Southern Baptist ERLC. Apparently, Religious Freedom also means being agents to spread the glad tidings of Islam.

Russell Moore doubtless is sincere in his convictions. Just as I am sincere in saying that this kind of classical Liberalism dressed up as Christianity is anti-Christ.

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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