Answering Rev. Jeff Stivasonn’s Silly Accusations Against Rev. Sam Ketcham

Kinism, and by extension Race Realism, fails to understand something vital. Genetics are not the source of blessing. The gospel is the source of blessing. Samuel Ketcham illustrates this error in a Substack article titled “Race and Nature,” stating, “When the white man took the true religion around the world, the Holy Spirit made their mission effectual. But to deny that their superior culture, language, and race had anything to do with it—is foolish.” In this statement, Mr. Ketcham has undermined the Reformed gospel.”

Jeff Stivason
A Word to Kinists; The biblical error of ‘race realism’ and related beliefs
RP Witness

1.) It is true that “Genetics are not the source of blessing,” but it is equally true, and Stivason misses this, that genetics are the product of God’s blessing. Ketcham captures this distinction when he writes (and Sitvason quotes) “the Holy Spirit made their mission effectual.” Ketcham clearly ascribes all glory to God while at the same time recognizing that glorifying God is inclusive of the fact that God’s grace alone accounts for a superior culture, language, and race. Stivason is thus seeking to divide what Ketcham would never separate and Stivason is doing so in order to make heresy out of that which is reflective of the Christian confession and faith.

2.) It is Stivason who is the one who is undermining the Reformed Gospel by insisting that it is Gnostic man who spreads a Gnostic gospel. God, by His grace alone, and for reasons known only to Him, chose the WASP, inclusive of all God made the WASP to be according to His race, culture and language, to be His tool for taking the Gospel across the globe. Is Rev. Stivason really arguing that superior culture, language, and race of the white man, all as inherited by grace alone, had nothing to do with their missionary effort? If Stivason is arguing that then Stivason is indeed a thorough-going Gnostic and ought to be brought up on charges.

Author: jetbrane

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