MAPARC (Marxist American Presbyterian and Reformed Churches) are at it again. Recently the OPC, feeling left out for not being as Marxist left as the RPCNA, ARP, and PCA, had a Presbytery file an overture that said; “Racists bad… We Marxist clergy good.”
There was one Ruling Elder named Andrew Duggan who was having none of the Marxism of his OPC Presbytery. Duggan filed this protest with the Presbytery. This will mean that the powers that be in the OPC will be going after RE Duggan.
“I the undersigned respectfully protest the action of the Philadelphia Presbytery of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church in approving the following overture:
‘condemn without distinction any theological or political teaching which posits a superiority of race or ethnic identity born of immutable human characteristics and…call to repentance any who would promote or associate themselves with such teaching, either by commission or omission.’
The Scriptures referenced in the grounds do not support or teach a doctrine of broad equality. Acts 17:26 can no more be teaching an equality of nations by virtue of being of one blood than the equality of men and women who are also of one blood, and in marriage are one flesh. Furthermore neither 1 Corinthians 12:13 or Galatians 3:28 by including “bond and free” a necessary unequal relation with other men and other Christians cannot support a universal relation of equals vis a vis the 5th Commandment. Furthermore Galatians 3:28’s inclusion of “male and female” cannot serve as the ground of equality, which are by creation not equal, as the Apostle Paul elsewhere uses the superiority of men based on the order of Creation, Adam being formed first to establish the reason why women are to remain silent in the church. The logic of these grounds are the same as the enemies of the Gospel use to ordain women in their “churches”. Furthermore this condemns our fathers in the Faith and of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church most notably J Gresham Machen who not only privately expressed his segregationist views in a letter to his mother, but expressed his view of White Supremacy in his article “Mountains and Why We Love Them” published on OPC dot org.
‘There, in that glorious round spread out before you, that land of Europe, humanity has put forth its best. There it has struggled; there it has fallen; there it has looked upward to God. The history of the race seems to pass before you in an instant of time, concentrated in that fairest of all the lands of the earth. You think of the great men whose memories you love, the men who have struggled there in those countries below you, who have struggled for light and freedom, struggled for beauty, struggled above all for God’s Word.’
The superlative of ‘humanity has put forth its best’ speaking of Europe can mean nothing other than White people. This overture goes beyond the teaching of the Scriptures and our secondary standards, and binds the consciences of our members officers and church courts contrary to the Liberty we confess in the 20th chapter of our Confession of Faith.”
Accordingly I respectfully but most forcefully protest the overture to our General Assembly.”
Andrew P. Duggan
Duggan is fighting exactly on the right ground – against neo-Pharisaical attempts to push extra-Biblical modern egalitarian notions, which are really just the latest version of false “traditions of men,” as binding matters of faith to Christian believers.
https://biblehub.com/mark/7-13.htm
“Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”
Duggan has truth, the OPC has consensus of “reasonable” men who speak with the right tone of speech and never say anything that would offend a university staffer.
What they think Gen 6:9 means. What does “perfect in his generations” mean? Whatever it is, it isn’t nothing. But these folks want to reduce it to nothing.
And what is a bastard? We used to regard an illegitimate child as “less than” a child born into a married two parent household. Certainly less blessed, that’s for sure or else God’s Word means absolutely nothing and our honoring Him with our obedience means absolutely nothing. Apply that on a large scale and you get Europe and Africa. In Europe, since the time of Christ, marriage and Christianity have been more or less normal and in the jungles of Africa, the chances of a child growing up in a stable two parent must be less than 10% if at all. Which people are going to be more blessed? We all know the answer, why can’t we just say it? Because some cultural leveler might throw a childish fit and call us names? Pfft.
“And what is a bastard? We used to regard an illegitimate child as “less than” a child born into a married two parent household.”
That is the unvarnished truth – and this is one big reason why Whites have always had more respect for the peoples of East Asia, who have a strict policy against bastardy, than towards Black people. But the Communists have flatly denied this traditional wisdom, as Lenin can testify. Here you get a dose of filthy Marxist ethics (that yet is consistent with egalitarian presuppositions) that consider abortion to be a sacred right of women:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm
“Enlightenment, culture, civilisation, liberty–in all capitalist, bourgeois republics of the world all these fine words are combined with extremely infamous, disgustingly filthy and brutally coarse laws in which woman is treated as an inferior being, laws dealing with marriage rights and divorce, with the inferior status of a child born out of wedlock as compared with that of a “legitimate” child, laws granting privileges to men, laws that are humiliating and insulting to women.
The yoke of capital, the tyranny of “sacred private property”, the despotism of philistine stupidity, the greed of petty proprietors – these are the things that prevented the most democratic bourgeois republics from infringing upon those filthy and infamous laws. The Soviet Republic, the republic of workers and peasants, promptly wiped out these laws and left not a stone in the structure of bourgeois fraud and bourgeois hypocrisy.”