“Amen to the Belhar”
Rev. Dr. Danny Hyde
URC Clergy
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Hyde fancies himself a conservative clergy. He is a minister in a putative conservative denomination. Yet, here we find him saluting a confession adopted in the liberal denomination that his conservative denomination split off of years ago.
I was associated with that liberal denomination when the Belhar was adopted. I wrote and spoke against the adoption of the Belhar. You can find a whole series I did on the Belhar confession here. Below is entry #1 of several,
Rage Against The Machine — Reflections On The Belhar Confession
If one types “Belhar” in the Iron Ink search engine one can find all I wrote on the subject.
We need to understand that the Belhar Confession is a Confession arising out of Liberation theology and Liberation theology arises out of Marxism. Despite that Hyde is saying “Amen” to all that.
Clergy really need to learn what Marxism is.
This lack of knowledge/understanding of what Marxism is, has become a real problem in the formerly conservative denominations (NAPARC) in the West because they have adopted a Marxist plausibility structure without knowing it and are reading all of Scripture through that plausibility structure. If that isn’t the case then Oswald Spengler was right when he wrote,
“Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.”
Our clergy – even those thought to be conservative like Hyde, have become Bolsheviks and the Christianity they are peddling is Bolshevism. Now, I don’t doubt that Danny and company are filled with the best of intentions. I understand that they think that they are doing good. However, I’m telling you anybody who says “Amen to the Belhar” is an enemy of Christianity.
Author: jetbrane
I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling.
I am postmillennial in my eschatology.
Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity
Reformed in my Soteriology
Presuppositional in my apologetics
Familialist in my family theology
Agrarian in my regional community social order belief
Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief
Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic
Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern
Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview
One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics
Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place
Some of my favorite authors,
Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc.
My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture.
Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.
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I’m not a Nietzschean. I’m a biblical Christian. But, of Bolshevism, and its effectiveness in infiltrating the Christian churches and co-opting and replacing historic Christian theology, I think Nietzsche was on to something when he wrote:
“Faced with the question of being or not being, they preferred, with a perfectly uncanny conviction, being at any price. The price they had to pay was the radical falsification of all nature, all naturalness, all reality, the entire inner world as well as the outer. They defined themselves counter to all those conditions under which a nation was previously able to live, was permitted to live; they made of themselves an antithesis to natural conditions. … Their after-effect has falsified mankind to such an extent that today the Christian is able to feel anti-Jewish without realizing he is the ultimate consequence of the Jews. p. 134. The Jewish nation … took the side of all decadence instincts … because it divined in them a power by means of which one can prevail against ‘the world’. … They have known, with a non plus ultra of histrionic genius, how to place themselves at the head of all decadence movements … so as to make of them something stronger than any party affirmative of life. … Decadence is only a means: this kind of man has a life-interest in making mankind sick, and in inverting the concepts of ‘good’ and ‘evil’, ‘true’ and ‘false’ in a mortally dangerous and world calumniating sense.” p. 135.
Nietzsche, ‘The Anti-Christ’, trans. R. J. Hollingdale