“Egalitarianism is Atheism because it despises the order that the good God has established in this world and would, if it could, kick God off His throne saying He had no right to make some people better than others.”
Rev. Michael Spangler
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This is consistent with what I said yesterday in the sermon; “Egalitarianism is a denial of the Creator-Creature distinction having the consequence of dethroning God and enthroning sovereign man.”
One cannot be an egalitarian and a Christian at one and the same time because to do so is to reinterpret Christianity through an Cultural Marxist grid that holds that man is the definer of all reality. One cannot flatten all the God ordained distinctions as egalitarianism does without necessarily flattening at the same time the distinction between the Creator and the creature. Only with the destruction of the Creator-creature distinction can the project to destroy all other distinctions between man and man be successful and once the Creator-creature distinction is snuffed out all other distinctions are merely arbitrary — social constructs — and will be wiped out.
Now, since the above is true, and as of recently NAPARC churches have affirmed egalitarianism by condemning Kinism – a doctrine that merely affirms the Creator-creature distinction — therefore we must conclude that NAPARC churches are of their father the Devil.
It is not too late for NAPARC churches to pull back from the abyss of unbelief and rebellion. There is still time for them to heed the long historical record of their Father’s testimony against them concerning this trajectory they are on. There is still time for them to heed the few ministerial voices seeking to love them by calling them back from the abyss. As Christ’s ambassadors we plead with you to pull back from this egalitarianism that has become idolatry and Atheism to you. Why would you wound so severely the bride of Christ? Why would you do such damage to your own souls? Why would you overthrow God’s order and providence in order to gain the applause of those on their way to perdition?
Have you seen the fuss going on in the LCMS over the pedo district president?
And have you noticed the continuing attacks by Wilson and Sumpter on Webbon and the Ogden guys?
I only ask you here because I don’t know how to get hold of you otherwise.
Hello Dave,
No, I have not seen that. Do you have some links?
You can contact me email at jetbrane@gmail.com
If you want I can send you my phone number in that format so we could communicate.
Thank you. We live in NW Ontario, Canada and attend an LCC church. An actual Reformed church is 4 hrs distant- east or west- on the TransCanada highway. The LCC is the Canadian equivalent of the LCMS. If you think NAPARC churches are weak…
Dave J
The Puritans called this “leveling”. Do a search on how and when they used this word and you will see things never change. It was an abomination then and it still is today.
Hello Chad,
Right … this leveling was a staple of the Anabaptist heresy.
We might perhaps create some meaningful grades or nuances to estimate the level of egalitarian contagion in the churches.
1. First, there might be Christians who merely SUBMIT to egalitarianism, the way Christians under Muslim rule had to live in dhimmitude. These people can be further divided into the following sub-categories:
a) those dhimmi Christians who are sullenly bowing before the superior secular power of the infidels, feeling great bitterness inside as they are forced to bite their tongues, as “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs” described their state of affairs:
https://www.exclassics.com/foxe/foxe135.htm
“Neither is it lawful for any Christian to bear office within the city or province, nor to bear weapon; nor to wear any garment like to the Turks. And if any contumely or blasphemy, be it never so great, be spoken against them, or against Christ, yet must thou bear it, and hold thy peace. Or if thou speak one word against their religion, thou shalt be compelled (whether thou wilt or no) to be circumeised; and then if thou speak one word against Mahomet, thy punishment is fire and burning. And if it chance a Christian being on horseback to meet or pass by a Mussulman, that is, a Turkish priest, he must light from his horse, and with a lowly look devoutly reverence and adore the Mussulman; or if he do not, he is beaten down from his horse with clubs and staves.”
b) those Christians who have become apathetically accepting to egalitarian rule, with slave mentality, having gotten used to feeling the whip of egalitarianism on their backs, and who can spout lip service for its liturgy without sullenness, being no longer fired by zeal for the un-egalitarian way of the Lord. They are just waiting for their earthly journey to end so they can leave this valley of humiliating defeat (escapist piety).
c) those dhimmi Christians who have become downright eager servants of the infidel system, getting material benefits for their service, being its servile lackeys or scalawag collaborators, actively trying to sabotage the efforts of their fellow Christians to organize resistance. These people are skating on thin ice, and can be transitioning to the next stage, which is:
2. The people who have truly “taken Equality to their hearts,” and are thus not just outwardly submitting to superior force. The souls of these people are in serious danger, but even here we have gradations – by no means all true-believing egalitarians pass right away into atheism (or materialistic pantheism, in a Spinozist manner). In fact, it is notorious that many Western Christian Progressives became first Unitarian or Socinian heretics before they (or their descendants) moved on into all-out infidelity.
a) the first wave of egalitarian levelling in theology might be seen in Monophysitism, which applies Unitarian logic only to the person of Christ, instead of the entire Godhead. The anti-Chalcedonian Monophysites would insist that “there is only one nature (of Christ), the divine nature!” One might even cheekily call this scheme as the “forced integration” of Christ’s personality, where divinity overwhelms and pushes out or annihilates humanity:
https://telfordwork.net/classes/doctrine/wrongway.html
“VI. Jesus as Merger: Monophysitism
Eutyches (not Acts 20:9!): “Two natures before, one after, the union.”
The Borg, or a business acquisition, or an alloy (cf. patristic ‘hot iron’).
Infinity plus finity: Unity comes at the cost of humanity (and perhaps divinity).”
Furthermore, one can observe in the Reformation-era debates that Protestants could accuse Papists of pushing a “Monophysite” understanding of the Eucharist, where divinity pushes out ALL earthly elements, and leaves only the unreal, “docetistic” outward forms of Eucharist bread to the communion:
https://www.exclassics.com/foxe/foxe238.htm
“At length the disputations ended, the bishop of Rochester, (Dr. Nicholas Ridley,) after the manner of schools, made this determination upon the aforesaid conclusions, as here followeth.
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“The fourth is, the abominable heresy of Eutiches, that may ensue of transubstantiation.
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“They which say that Christ is carnally present in the eucharist, do take from him the verity of man’s nature. Eutiches granted the Divine nature in Christ, but his human nature he denied. So they that defend transubstantiation, ascribe that to the human nature which only belongeth to the Divine nature.”
And that Popery has quasi-Unitarian, or merging-integrationist, tendencies in its ecclesiology needs no further explanation. Worship of Holy Oneness is basic to the Roman understanding of church affairs.
b) then we have Unitarianism proper, which applies integrationist logic to all of Trinity, and is a very natural stepping-stone for egalitarian Christians in their journey towards atheism. That so many American “founding fathers” could so complacently toy with Unitarianism is a sinister sign of how American way of life was tainted with (so far only abstractly theoretical) egalitarianism from the beginning.
Alexis de Tocqueville was then able to observe in his book “Democracy in America”:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/816/816-h/816-h.htm#link2HCH0007
“The idea of unity so possesses itself of man, and is sought for by him so universally, that if he thinks he has found it, he readily yields himself up to repose in that belief. Nor does he content himself with the discovery that nothing is in the world but a creation and a Creator; still embarrassed by this primary division of things, he seeks to expand and to simplify his conception by including God and the universe in one great whole.”
This is quite good Viisaus. Thanks for sending it along.