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.

A Law Quote A Day Keeps The R2Kt Virus Away

4. Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden by the Word.(*h) Nor can such incestuous marriages ever be made lawful by any law of man or consent of parties …

*h = Lev. 18:6–17, 24–30. None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness. The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.… Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God. Lev. 20:19. And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

Notice that it is the case law to which the Westminster Divines appeal in order to support prohibition against incestuous marriage. Now, according to R2Kt and the Klinean intrusion ethic principle the idea that God’s law should be applied to public policy regarding consanguinity and marriage is a improper hermeneutical move on the part of both the Westminster divines and on the part of those who would do the same today. If R2Kt aficionados were consistent they would take exceptions to WCF 24:5 when ordained or would report back to their Presbyterys that they can no longer, in good conscience, support WCF 24:5.

WCF 24:6 makes this move again when it cites the case law of Deuteronomy 24:1-4 as procedurally binding in cases of divorce.

Ask the Pastor – How do we reverse our national bankruptcies?

Dear Pastor,

What are your ideas regarding resolving our economic, legal and moral bankruptcies of our great republic?

Dear Roberto,

Men will not be free of their economic, legal and moral bankruptcies until they are free from their own personal bondage. Therefore the solution is to Proclaim the Transcendence and Holiness of God, so that man, by God’s grace alone, might see their rebellion and sin, so that man, by God’s grace alone, might find harbor and safety in Christ. Once man is thrown off of himself and trusts in Christ alone he can be convinced that he must have no other gods before him — gods that include the false economic god that promises prosperity apart from labor, the false political god that promises security by surrendering liberty, the false legal god that promises virtue by redefining vice.

It all begins with preaching Christ crucified.

A Flurry Of Cultural Marxist Quotes w/ One Fabian Socialist Thrown In

“The civilized world has been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2000 years. Any country grounded in Judeo-Christian values cannot be overthrown until those roots are cut. But to cut the roots — to change culture — a long march through the institutions is necessary. Only then will power fall into our laps like a ripened fruit.

Antonia Gramsci
Prison Notebook
Founder of what became known as Cultural Marxism

“The West is guilty of genocidal crimes against every civilization and culture it has encountered. American and Western Civilization are the world’s greatest repositories for racism, sexism, xenophobia, Antisemitism, Fascism, and Nazism. American society is oppressive, evil, and undeserving of loyalty.”

Herbert Marcuse
First Generation Cultural Marxist
Originator of Critical Theory — Tool for Deconstructing the West

(Liberalism)” Dispensed with the absurd Christian myths of sin and damnation & believed that what shortcomings man might have were to be redeemed, not by Jesus on the Cross, but by the benevolent unfolding of history. Tolerance, free inquiry, & technology operating in the framework of human perfectibility, would in the end create a heaven on earth, a goal accounted much more sensible ‎& wholesome than a heaven in heaven.”

~ Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Fabian Socialist (Cousins to Cultural Marxists)

Notice this is a perfect quote for humanism

1.) Historicism
2.) Inevitably of progress
3.) Inherent goodness of man
4.) Kingdom of man — Utopia

Keep in mind that this is what all progressives believe today.

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical … The first Radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”

Saul Alinsky’s
Dedication of “Rule For Radicals”

“I see the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution. A worldwide overturning of values can not take place without the annihilation of the old values and a creation of the new ones by the Revolution.”

George Luckacs
Cultural Marxist

Chesterton On Equality

(The Englishman) “may realize that (American) equality is not some tale about all men being equally tall or equally tricky; which we not only cannot believe but cannot believe in anybody believing. It is an absolute of morals by which all men have a value invariable and indestructible and a dignity as intangible as death.”

~ G. K. Chesterton
What I Saw In America

If Chesterton had lived to see what I’m seeing he would have to believe in men believing that all men are equally tall and equally tricky and equally intelligent and equally creative. The lie of egalitarianism is that all men and all peoples are equal in talent, skill and ability. It is the lie that all men, regardless of nurture, nature, and belief are the same. This lie leads to the elimination of all God given and God honoring distinctions.

The American belief in equality was never intended to be equivalent to this lie. For Pete’s sake the Declaration of Independence refers to Indians as “savages,” clearly something that would not have been said by those who were intending equality to mean a bland sameness. The American belief in equality is just what Chesterton noted combined with the belief that all men bore the imago Dei.

The equality of 21st century America is the equality of the French Revolution, the equality of the gulag, the equality of the sex change. It is the pursuit of the leveling all distinction, ability, and accomplishment. It is the pursuit of equality of both opportunity and outcome — a notion that is absurd even on its surface. If the West should ever go from flirting with this modern concept of egalitarianism to a full conjugal embrace of such a fantasy the result will be the equality of the damned.