The R2K fanboys love to accuse theonomists, postmillennialists and Kuyperians of trying to bring in the Kingdom of God by their own efforts. In point of fact this is projection on the R2K lads part because it is they who, by their dualisms seeking to bring in the Kingdom of God on earth. This is so because the R2K chaps desire to relativize people and place in pursuit of immanentizing the eschaton. R2K insists that the Kingdom of God serves as the blood and soil for all Christians and as such there is no need to embrace our blut und boden. In the very act of doing this they are seeking to help along the coming of the Kingdom. The very thing they accuse the theonomists, postmillennialists and Kuyperians of.
R2K accuses their opponents of holding a position where grace swallows nature but in reality it is R2K, in its insistence that place and people are realized in the “Spiritual Kingdom of God” – to such a degree that blood and soil disappear in grace – who are the ones who are guilty of holding a position where grace swallows up nature. This is ironic because R2K insists that their position honors the grace realm but the minute R2K goes the next step, as Rev. Chris Gordon did in his interview with Dr. Stephen Wolfe, and says now that we are all Christians we can intermarry grace is swallowing up nature. At this point their dualisms slingshots into a grace monism where grace and nature are indistinguishable and that all in the name of Christ.
R2K would do well to listen to John Calvin here;
“Regarding our eternal salvation, it is true that one must not distinguish between man and woman, or between king and a shepherd, or between a German and a Frenchman. Regarding policy, however, we have what St. Paul declares here; for our, Lord Jesus Christ did not come to mix up nature, or to abolish what belongs to the preservation of decency and peace among us….Regarding the kingdom of God (which is spiritual) there is no distinction or difference between man and woman, servant and master, poor and rich, great and small. Nevertheless, there does have to be some order among us, and Jesus Christ did not mean to eliminate it, as some flighty and scatterbrained dreamers [believe].”
John Calvin (Sermon on 1 Corinthians 11:2-3)
R2K does mix up nature by insisting that grace destroys nature so much that Christians should routinely practice inter-racial marriage. R2K is championed by those who Calvin rightly described as “flighty and scatterbrained dreamers.”
