Presuppositions in History

“There are certain historians and critics sincerely convinced that they are unbiased, impartial, ‘scientific,’ who reject as ‘biased’ any opinion that clashes with their own bias: they are fools endowed with God-Almighty complex. A second group considers themselves ‘unbiased,’ because they understand all principles and have none themselves; opportunism is no more admirable in historiography than in daily life. Then there are the wolves in sheep’s clothing — the propaganda agents who boast of their lack of bias. Finally, there are those who frankly admit their bias but do their utmost to not be blinded or sidetracked by it. Impartiality is either a delusion of the simple-minded, or a banner of the opportunist, or the boast of the dishonest. Nobody is permitted to be unbiased toward truth or falsehood.”

Gaetano Salvemini
Harvard Professor
Author = “Prelude to World War II”
Preface

The Biblical Christian historian admits that he interprets and reads history through a Christian world and life view. For example, he doesn’t see chance or fate in history but rather he sees the providential hand of God. The Christian Historian views events as to whether they are in accordance with God’s revealed will or not, therefore, the Christian Historian, for example, would not glorify a Robespierre, a Lenin, or a social Revolution based on anti-Christ principles.

When we read history we need to keep the above principle in mind. Historians, like most white-collar professionals, do not write from a Biblical Christian perspective and so we must dine with them using a long spoon. We must seek to reinterpret their unbiblical interpretation in a biblical direction. This takes a great deal of practice and time to learn.

It’s a Steel Cage Match Folks

Being queer is more than sleeping with a person of the same gender…. it means transforming the very fabric of our society’s view of family. The goal is radically reordering society’s view of the family”

Paul Ettlebrick
Gay Activist

The push for sodomite rights is not a concession we throw to a tiny percentage of our population in a compromise that will bring no real harm to society. Pushed with ethical fervor through appeals to anti-discrimination, equal rights, equality legislation, and the checking of privilege, this social movement deconstructs the foundational social concepts like family, gender, and social achievement. There is no ‘live and let live,’ when faced with advocates of this agenda.

Dr.Peter Jones

The Other Worldview — pg.96

The sodomite/trannie agenda will not be satisfied with having a “place at the table.” As I have often said their goal in coming out of the closet is to shove heterosexual normies and all those Biblical Christians who support the Scripture’s view on family into the closet. They desire us to be treated the same way that they were treated for millennia. Of course, that was our mistake. We should not have shoved them in a closet. We should have followed Scripture’s prescription for those who embrace the perverted lifestyle.

We are, however, past that exit, and the thing we need to be clear about is that the LGBTQ movement will eventually demand the criminalization of being heterosexual. They will eventually pursue the idea that heterosexuality is a perversion. It is just a matter of time. At the same time, they will seek to mainstream more and more perversions. Already, we are seeing a push to normalize pederastry. (They are even now seeking to lose the label “pedophile” in place of “minor-attracted adults.”)

See this podcast for a brief outlining of this new push to normalize;

For those who like precision technically, pedophilia and pederasty are different perversions though there can certainly overlap between the two.

The LGBTQ contest with Biblical Christianity is a steel cage wrestling match. Two opponents are thrown into a steel cage that has not exit. Only one will walk out alive. Either Biblical Christianity will crush the LGBTQ movement or Christianity will be redefined as being inclusive of LGBTQ’ism. There is no other options.

And already we are seeing, even in the formally most of conservative quarters, that Christianity is being redefined in such a way that it can include perversion.

I Get by with a Little Help From My Friends; False Bishop Tutu Dies … Finally

I have a few friends in South Africa. Here is one of their accounts on the death of Desmond Tutu. In light of all the similar praise that fell upon Nelson Mandela at his death, I thought it proper to see Desmond Tutu through the eyes of a South African.

“ALL THE ACCOLADES FOR A FALSE PROPHET”

Marco Summers

I once had a man call me something much worse than a cockroach in his soup for criticizing Archbishop Tutu, but I stand by this statement: ‘His earthly ‘good’ work, his humour, his intellect, his standing in society, all the praises, his Nobel Peace Prize, his work on the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, his friendly efficacious demeanor (I personally met him in London, UK once when I was a diplomat there & spent some amicable time with him) all are piffle if he did not believe the true Gospel.

How impressive you might have been Desmond, but now those works are a curse on your life before a holy God. It is such a clear thing in the Bible that your works will not bring you salvation. (Well: it’s clear to those who are saved.) The others [pagans] think good works give you some standing with God. Good people who do good works, they think, go to heaven.

So, a man who fought apartheid, stood strong on his principles in favour of homo sex, won the Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning for peace for humanity, cried tears on the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, criticized the ANC govt for its evils, etc. must be without doubt heading for heaven, right?

Wrong.

You can do all such ‘good’ things as a lifelong ideal, but still miss the truth of the Gospel of Salvation – which is a singularity: there are no other options, especially not a false gospel, whose proponents Paul called “accursed”.

The Daily Maverick [Newspaper] dripped of honour for the man Desmond Tutu and stated that he “left the legacy of an anti-apartheid fighter, rainbow-nation builder and a truly peerless human being”.

Those are nice words for a gravestone, or for a eulogy at a burial service, but they mean absolutely nothing spiritually – which is the real reality in the judgment of the court of heaven.

In times past Desmond Tutu, was interviewed by TV presenter John Bishop. The interview was taking place in the days preceding Easter. Bishop asked Mr. Tutu if he believed that Jesus Christ actually, physically rose from the dead. Mr. Tutu evaded answering this clear, straightforward question, and so Bishop asked him again, only to receive the same evasive religious-sounding, yet empty response. Bishop was obviously not going to let go of this question and thus with appropriate forthrightness he demanded a direct answer to his question, “Do you believe that the body of Jesus Christ actually came back from the dead after three days?” Mr. Tutu answered with great enthusiasm, “It does not matter whether or not Jesus’ body came back to life. What matters is that the spirit of Christ lives on today.”

 Elsewhere Tutu is quoted as saying;

“I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this. I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place. I am as passionate about this campaign as I ever was about apartheid.”

(Desmond Tutu
Speech at a UN’s gay rights campaign, 2013)

And again Tutu is on record as saying;

“When we say Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, you don’t believe that he got into a kind of ecclesiastical lift that took him into the stratosphere. This is a language that is being used figuratively because the realities that are being described are not human realities, they are supernatural realities. When we speak even about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is not the revivification of a corpse.”

One more from the putatively great Bishop Tutu;

“I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: ‘You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he’s not a Christian’? I don’t think that is the case, because, you see, God is not a Christian.”

(Desmond Tutu
Speech at Dalai Lama’s birthday, 2 June 2006)

In light of all this, my own observation is that a man with humanitarian achievements such as Desmond Tutu is a great test for whether Christians actually understand the true Gospel viz-a-viz the reality of God’s wrath on false prophets, or whether they are taken in by so-called good deeds for humankind. I believe He was a false prophet.

All the honor he gets [now] he will get for humanitarian humanistic human works, but spiritually he was corrupt.

I have personally seen overseas where he was asked on TV about other religions. He said that they are much older than Christianity, adding:

“The founder of Christianity only arrived on the scene 2000 years ago.”

That is blasphemy and it shows he did not know who Jesus Christ was – in spite of his title, his position, his clever demeanor, etc. The backward collar he wore was a symbol of his backward theology. He therefore clearly did not understand who the true Christ is. He also said on occasion in SA that the Dalai Lama “is the holiest man I know.”

 

This is what he said about a man who is a so-called living god in his religion of Tibet. It is abominable in the eyes of the true God who became man in Christ. No man is holy outside of Jesus Christ: To be in Christ is to have the only “hope of glory”.

My real hope is that Tutu repented before he died.

The alternative is too ghastly to contemplate but I do know he is in the hands of a perfectly righteous judge.

Christmas Hallmark Potpourri Through the Years

I have a wee bit of a diary I keep. These are some of my scribblings from Christmases past.

Christmas 2011

Whatever 2012 may bring we have a Messiah who was given to us as he was born of the Virgin Mary. We have been delivered from our sins by the Sin Bearer. Whatever may come we, of all people, have reason to be Merry.

Merry Christmas 2011. Christ is King.

My young adult Catechism / Worldview class gave me a wonderful Christmas gift. They have me a grey hooded sweatshirt that says on the front, “McAtee University,” with the two words separated by a University insignia.

So very cool!

Christmas 2012

On this Christmas, we have had once again the reminder of the comfort of Christ. Now let us be a warrior assembly and risk all for the Great King in light of that comfort.

He by whom all things were made was made one of all things. The Son of God by the Father without a mother became the Son of man by a mother without a father. The Word Who is God before all time became flesh at the appointed time. The maker of the sun was made under the sun. He Who fills the world lay in a manger, great in the form of God but tiny in the form of a servant; this was in such a way that neither was His greatness diminished by His tininess nor was His tininess overcome by His greatness.

(St. Augustine, Sermon 187)

Christmas 2013

There is the same hope this Christmas day, and the same reason to be encouraged as there was the day before the Birth of Christ. God has not forgotten His people and He still intends to “Holpen His People, Israel.” God still intends to pull down the wicked mighty and to raise up His people. We still live in a time of “Glad tidings and Great joy.”

God reigns… let the earth be silent.

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Christmas 2014

It’s Eggnog and Booty

And time with my Cutie
This festive time of the year
What I am after
Is grandchildren laughter
And Steins full of dark beer

Merry Christmas

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Christmas 2014

Christmas is the proclamation that the old gods have been shown the door.

“Maker of the sun, He is made under the sun. In the Father, He remains, from His mother He goes forth. Creator of heaven and earth, He was born on earth under heaven. Unspeakably wise, He is wisely speechless. Filling the world, He lies in a manger. Ruler of the stars, He nurses at His mother’s bosom. He is both great in the nature of God and small in the form of a servant.”

Augustine of Hippo

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National Lampoon Christmas — 2015

And so wanes Christmas 2015
survived with amphetamines
And ample strong liquoring
to ward off the bickering
Sobering now with caffeine

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Christmas @ 0300. 2015

May we, as a people, always have a reason to argue with each other (Covenanters vs. non-Covenanters) over whether we should celebrate Christmas. May there always be enough of us on each side of the question to make the discussion interesting. May our grandchildren not grow up wondering what it would mean to celebrate the birth of Christ.

Merry Christmas.

Christmas 2016

Merry Christmas to you Old Narnians out there. We remember the old ways before the Calomarines (Cultural Marxists) took over.

All will be set right.
Christmas 2017

Merry Christmas.

I always wonder what my Grand sires were thinking on Christmas day when they were my age … say 100 years ago?

And I wonder what my Grandchildren will be thinking about on Christmas day 100 years from now.

Time … keeps rolling like a river

To the Sea.

Tim Keller’s Doctrine of No Doctrine

“The Gospel of Christianity which is that you are not saved by good doctrine, not by your good works but by sheer unmerited grace. It pulls out the self-righteousness and superiority that tends to go along with religious belief. “

Tim Keller

1.) I’m so confused. Isn’t this a doctrine that Tim is giving me … a doctrine that apparently I must be conversant with in order to be saved? Presumably, it is even a good doctrine

If I’m not saved via good doctrine must I be saved via bad doctrine or am I saved with no doctrine? (which of course the advocacy of which would be a doctrine). Maybe this is the doctrine of being saved by “No Doctrine Alone?”

This diminishing of doctrine is NOT Christianity.

2.) Tim’s doctrine in the first sentence is obviously driving his self-righteousness as seen in his second sentence. Tim obviously views himself, because of his superior doctrine, as superior over those poor benighted Christians who believe that good doctrine is related to salvation.