Reggie Smith Head of the CRCNA’s Race Relations Division;
2. What is the biblical evidence for kinists’ claims for racial separation?
Kinists hold that God wanted to maintain distinctions. They look at Old Testament examples to demonstrate how God forbade interracial marriages between Israel and other nations, and they use this to justify the statement that God must also forbid interracial marriage today. Kinists use Genesis 1:25 and 11:7-9 to state that God mandated life based on kinship or relationships with people of “the same kind.”
Synod 2019 declared that this type of thinking is a heresy. It is incorrect to read these passages and say that God was concerned about ethnic background or skin color. Instead, the issue that God was expressing in these Old Testament passages was about keeping his people free of the detestable practices of other nations. Israel had to remain a faithful covenant partner to God alone and not be corrupted by their neighbors. In the New Testament, Christ broke down the wall of separation between Israel and other nations through the cross. For more information, see Acts of Synod 2019, p. 489-505.
Bret Responds,
1.) Here Reggie Smith faults Kinists for saying that “God wanted to maintain distinctions.” The obvious position for Reggie then is to insist that “God doesn’t want to maintain distinctions,” or perhaps “God doesn’t care about distinctions.” It is true that Kinists believe that God wants to maintain distinctions. It is also true that Kinists believe that people like Reggie believing that “God doesn’t want to maintain distinctions,” or, “God doesn’t care about distinctions” is the proof for the Kinist insistence that people like Reggie Smith are operating out of a Marxist world and life view. Consider that this idea that “God doesn’t want to maintain distinctions” is the exact same position that the Marxists have been aiming for since its inception as seen in the quotes now provided,
a.) ”What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities?
The nationalities of the peoples associating themselves in accordance with the principle of community will be compelled to mingle with each other as a result of this association and hereby to dissolve themselves, just as the various estate and class distinctions must disappear through the abolition of their basis, private property.”
~ Frederick Engels in “The Principles of Communism”, 1847
b.) “The equality of races and nations is one of the most important elements of the moral strength and might of the Soviet state. Soviet anthropology develops the one correct concept, that all the races of mankind are biologically equal. The genuinely materialist conception of the origin of man and of races serves the struggle against racism, against all idealist, mystic conceptions of man, his past, present and future.”
—Mikhail Nesturkh, Soviet anthropologist, 1959
“The Origin of Man” (Moscow)Mikhail Nesturkh, Soviet anthropologist, 1959:
c.) “The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into small states and end all national isolation; not only to bring the nations closer together but to merge them….”
Vladimir Lenin
The Rights of Nations to Self Determination — pg. 76
d.) “… Just as mankind can achieve the abolition of classes only by passing through the dictatorship of the proletariat, so mankind can achieve the inevitable merging of nations only by passing through the transition period of complete liberation of all oppressed nations, i.e., their right to secede. “
Vladimir Lenin
The Rights of Nations to Self Determination
e.) “Even the natural differences within species, like racial differences…, can and must be done away with historically.”
f.) “Full-scale Communist construction constitutes a new stage in the development of national relations in the U.S.S.R., in which the nations will draw still closer together until complete unity is achieved…. However, the obliteration of national distinctions and especially of language distinctions is a considerably longer process than the obliteration of class distinctions.”
Nikita Khrushchev
Thus, we see, that those like Reggie Smith are operating consistent with the Marxist playbook. Now Reggie Smith may not be a Marxist. He may just be stupid or ignorant. But either way, the fact that Kinists believe that God wants to maintain racial/ethnic distinctions has only been seen as somehow un-Christian since the rise of the Marxist fueled civil rights era.
2.) Instead of rehashing the Biblical argument for ethno-Nationalism I am providing a link below that gives a thorough Biblical case for Kinism. Reggie Smith, provided his intelligence doesn’t fail him, can see that the case extends far beyond the two passages he cites.
3.) As far as what CRCNA synod 2019 said, I can only quote the author of the book “The Jews and Their Lies.” Martin Luther said
“Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.”
(Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521)
Currently, the NAPARC denominations as well as the CREC (Doug Wilson’s personally owned denomination) and the CRCNA (being in league with a even more liberal constabulary of churches) are, on the issue of race and the JQ, are overturning what the church has taught in all times and all places where it has been orthodox. When any Church body tacitly or expressly embraces Marxist egalitarianism, it is irrelevant what pronouncements they make as well as all the gravitas wherein they make said pronouncements. As Luther might well have said, “It is just so much farting in the wind.”
4.) As Reginald says, it is true that God broke down the wall of separation between Israel and other nations through the cross. However, the wall of separation the cross brought down was the wall that forbad the Gentiles from having access to the inner courts in the Temple that were accessible to Jews only. The whole idea of the walls being broken down is to communicate that people from every tribe, tongue, and nation now have access to the Spiritual blessings found in Christ. Reginald has made a category error. All because men from all races have access to the God’s presence doesn’t mean that all races are required to cease being races. Reginald, as well as countless other conceptually barren folks are teaching here, with their insistence that the cross eliminates previous distinctions, that grace destroys nature. The Cross of Jesus Christ eliminates all social, racial, and class barriers so that all men can flee to Christ. As is said, “The ground is even at the Cross.” However, that is a matter of grace. The even ground at the Cross does not mean that all areas of nature are flatten out to become a egalitarian’s delight. All the Fathers who were not Anabaptists or nutcase Covenanters understood this. Even the Dutch Reformed understood this.
“Nationalism, within proper limits, has the divine sanction; an imperialism that would, in the interest of one people, obliterate all lines of distinction is everywhere condemned as contrary to the divine will. Later prophecy raises its voice against the attempt at world-power, and that not only, as is sometimes assumed, because it threatens Israel, but for the far more principal reason, that the whole idea is pagan and immoral.
Now it is through maintaining the national diversities, as these express themselves in the difference of language, and are in turn upheld by this difference, that God prevents realization of the attempted scheme… [In this] was a positive intent that concerned the natural life of humanity. Under the providence of God each race or nation has a positive purpose to serve, fulfillment of which depends on relative seclusion from others.”
-Geerhardus Vos,
Biblical Theology
We should allow Calvin to chime in against Reginald Smith’s and the CRCNA’s Marxist views;
“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)
We clearly see in all of the above that Reginald Smith, the CRCNA, NAPARC, the CREC are all anti-Christ in the Cultural Marxist agenda that they are promulgating.
