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Observations on the Ecclesiastical Regnant Follies

I’ve been out of town visiting family and so haven’t been able to write on the whole Rev. Zach Garris imbroglio. However, I wanted to add my two cents worth. Jon Harris, on his substack page, has done a fine job giving the timeline of the whole Garris travesty. I’d recommend reading that to get the context of the whole injustice leading up to yet another NAPARC Kangaroo court.

1.) Denominationalism

Denominations are akin to political parties. As such a denomination – any denomination – is only as good as the faction running the political party/ denomination. This already teaches us that there is nothing automatically sacrosanct about a denomination or any denomination’s “decisions.” A denomination is only as good as the faction successfully whipping the vote.

Keeping the above in mind we must remember that most political machines from Tammany Hall, to Daley’s Chicago, to the Kansas City Pendergrass machine are thoroughly corrupt and exist to serve the interest of the political machine. Denominations are no different. I’ve been around them whether Wesleyan, Baptist, Presbyterian, Christian Reformed my whole life and I can tell you that the best of men who run them are at best men. At best. At worst, which is more common, they are oft times absolutely clueless. (This is itself an improvement on the many times I’ve seen and experienced the absolutely wicked.)

Denominations exist, like political machines, first and foremost, to continue to exist. Anything that threatens the political faction that is operating the controls of the denomination is going to be squelched. These people, one had to understand, are not about truth. They are about power and control.

Dr. J. Gresham Machen discovered this in 1936 when he (like Garris) was suspended and deposed from the ministry of the PCUSA. Machen’s sin was touching the denominational money source by starting his own Mission agency. Another Machen sin was his constant harping on how Liberalism (actually neo-orthodoxy) had entered into the denominational. Machen was challenging the political faction in control of the denomination and they bounced him for doing so.

Much the same is true of the whole Rev. Zach Garris case. This isn’t about truth. This isn’t about unwholesome speech. This is about a particular political faction (Kellerites?) exercising raw power.

Lyndon B. Johnson, while Majority leader of the US House once told someone lobbying him that the person could get anything he wanted in the US House of Representatives as long as he had the votes. The question was only whether or not he had the votes. Garris didn’t have the votes. The issue was irrelevant. Garris was found guilty for being Garris and not belonging to the political faction in control of the Rio Grande Presbytery.

2.) Political Correctness

Rev. Garris had the courage and misfortune to lay his metaphorical hand upon one of the PCA’s “magic negros,” who can do no wrong precisely because they are black. Rev. Garris dared to suggest that Dr. Anthony Bradley could not only be in error but danced with disaster by telling Dr. Bradley that “sometimes thing are too complex for a PhD to understand,” and “arrogance can’t stand banter.” These two quotes are why Garris was indefinitely suspended by the Rio Grande Presbytery. Together these two comments constituted “unwholesome speech.” Imagine all the smelling salts that would have been needed for these lady Presbyters if they had been alive when Luther and Calvin were alive. The speech those men sometimes used could fry bacon to a crisp.

But Bradley is black. If Garris had said the above to a white man everybody would have yawned and moved on. The facts have it that Bradley himself has spoken in rather low and base ways to Meg Basham but has anyone brought Dr. Bradley up on charges? Certainly not and that is because in politically correct PCA poker a black Marxist male (Bradley) trumps a mildly conservative white female (Basham). However, a white male (Garris) is always trumped by a black man (Bradley).

The PCA is full on in the WOKE stream. Sure, it’s not as WOKE as the Methodists but it is in the stream and is being carried by the current. This was seen in the support of many of the members of the machine in control giving full throated support to the revoice conference combined with their inability to discipline Rev. Greg Johnson.

Keep in mind though that the PCA is not unique in its being in the WOKE stream. In the last few years the CREC, CRC, OPC, RPCNA, ARP, have all demonstrated that they have been infected by the spirit of the age.

3.) The Harvie Conn & Tim Keller Effect

Both of these men were influenced by cultural Marxism as a world and live view. Keller was to Conn what Elisha was to Elijah.

Keller became a giant straddling over the PCA. His book “Generous Justice” was a primer teaching the social justice of cultural Marxism. Keller once famously said that,

“You don’t go to hell for being homosexual.”

This is just one example of Keller’s egregious tap dancing.

Conn and Keller come up here because it is the Kellerites who are the political faction who have the muscle in the PCA. To be sure there are those who oppose them in the PCA but at this point their numbers are vastly insufficient to stop the Keller political faction that controls the denomination. Keller’s followers are now to the PCA what the followers of Boss Tweed once were to Tammany Hall.

4.) The Loss of the Seminaries

All these votes in the PCA as coming from ordained men find their genesis in their Seminary training. Men like Sean Michael Lucas stalk the halls of the Seminaries. Men like J. Ligon Duncan say stupid things like,

“In conservative evangelical circles, oftentimes there’ll be a real concern about immigration, and especially, what? Illegal immigration…But here’s the thing. What if that is God’s plan to reverse secularization in the United States?”

Ligon Duncan
Chancellor & CEO — Reformed Theological Seminary

Recently the President of Mid-America Reformed Seminary said,

“My overall assessment — well let me just say this — I’d say it (Christian Nationalism) is a wrong-headed response to many of the cultural currents.”

Dr. Alan Strange
Mid-America Podcast

Recently it was reported to me that a chap, just graduated from Seminary, admitted he was a socialist during his ordination exam and when that matter began to draw attention the moderator made known that the issue of socialism was “adiaphora.” The chap was ordained as a socialist. My money is that this chap learned his socialism in Seminary. Maybe we should ask Dr. Carl Trueman about that?

Near the end of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield’s life, Warfield was having a conversation with Dr. J. Gresham Machen. Machen expressed the conviction that “there might be a split in the denomination,” Warfield replied, “No. You can’t split rotten wood,”

The NAPARC denominations have become rotten wood. The Garris expulsion demonstrates that once again. Even if Rev. Garris wins on appeal the die is cast.

Alienism is a Return to the OT Shadows

In the old and worse covenant if one desired to be part of the people of God one was required to have some kind of attachment to Israel. To have the one true religion meant being in some way attached to the one people of God. Women, in some few instances, could join Israel via marriage. Even this was an exception to the norm. Men could eventually come into the sanctuary of Israel but they could never own land since the land belonged to the blood Hebrews.

In the NT though, and the new and better covenant, members do not have to leave their people in order to attach themselves to the one true God. Instead, as all nations are discipled, all nations in their peculiar expression as a particular people can now be a Christian people serving the one true God.

The Alienists, in their insistence that once one is regenerated, one loses all their previous national attachment and so is free to disregard their ethnic identity because they are now Christian, are returning to a OT ethos where in order to belong to God one must be attached to a singular one people. In the OT that one people was the Hebrew tribe. In the Alienist worldview that one people is the Christian tribe. In making this one for one correspondence the Alienists have lost the NT theme that the Gospel goes to the nations and the nations in their particularity, all will become to God what Israel was alone to God in the OT.

The Alienists have thus errantly imported an OT shadow into the NT fulfillment. The Alienist desires to collect all converts into a New Christian World Order uni hybrid people. The Alienists lose the theme that the nations, in their unique national identities all stream to the mountain of the Lord (Isaiah 2:2 and Micah 4:1). The Alienist loses this same theme fulfilled as witnessed in Revelation 21 where we see the nations entering into the new Jerusalem nation by nation.

In the Alienist vision that is so promoted today in the NAPARC churches the nations lose their identities as particular nations because for the current Alienist (unlike their Kinist Christian forebears) conversion/regeneration means that all colors are allowed to bleed into one. This is the vision long held by the Marxists/Cultural Marxist. Now, it may not be the intent of the Alienists to have fallen into this Marxist paradigm. It may be the case that they have the best of intentions but the bottom line is that they are going back to the OT shadows when the NT teaches that the church is no longer a uni-polar people as it was in the OT but now is a multi-polar people with all the distinctness that necessitates.

Insisting that belonging to the Church means that your God given particularity of ethnos/race is given up and now can be bred out via inter-racial marriage is the same error that was pursued at Babel. It may be even a worse error since at least at Babel they were not pretending that such behavior was God pleasing.

ARP Special Moderator Report on Kinism Discovered to Have Invented Facts

https://pactuminst.substack.com/p/arp-special-moderators-committee

Wherein it is demonstrated by the Director of the Pactum Institute, Dr. Adi Schlebush, that not only does the ARP get the facts wrong, but also that the ARP was creating “facts” and footnotes out of thin air.

How can this kind of mistake be made in an official document and any credibility be retained by the organization inventing facts and footnotes in order to try and substantiate their libel?

Continuing to Nibble Away on the Fatuous ARP Report on Kinism

” Similarily, John Girardeau dealt critically with Dabney’s view of black men and women in the South.”

ARP study report on Kinism

Girardeau, like Dabney, Thornwell, and Palmer was one of the great Reformed ministers of the ante-bellum south. I would recommend everyone read Girardeau’s book “Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism” in order to aid in seeing the emptiness of Arminianism.

It is true that Girardeau disagreed with Dabney but what Girardeau proposed as an alternative to Dabney’s proposal for blacks worshiping in the South is something that every Kinist would salute every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

It is true the Girardeau, like Stonewall Jackson, worked in ministering to black slaves and encouraging them in the Christian faith. However, both Girardeau and Gen. Jackson did their work in the context of a social order that accepted slavery as the norm. Neither Girardeau nor Jackson challenged the system of slavery, though both sought to alleviate its sometimes harsher realities.

We need to keep in mind that Rev. John Girardeau served as a chaplain in the confederate Army in a South Carolina unit that participated in numerous battles against the Jacobin and abolitionist Yankees and the ARP covenanter types that supported the Yankee slaughter and rape of the South. To invoke Girardeau and suggest that Girardeau was some kind of proto-ARP type egalitarian is just ridiculous as we shall see.

Now, as we said, it is true that Girardeau sought to modify Dabney’s more extreme approach but let’s consider the Kinist like proposals that Girardeau put forth,

When the issue of black worship came up in the Southern Presbyterian church Girardeau, against Dabney, proposed three different options for Black Presbyterians. Girardeau proposed,

(1) separate Black churches and presbyteries with ordained officers

(2) Black churches set up as “missionary congregations” without ordained officers

(3) Black churches established as branches of White churches, with ordained officers who did not have authority in councils with White members.

Now, I don’t know of one Kinist who would object to any of these proposals by Girardeau. Indeed, anybody proposing today what Girardeau proposed would be labeled a dirty rotten Kinist by the ARP egalitarians. And yet, the ARP document the opening quote is lifted from tries to suggest that Girardeau shares the ARP egalitarian disposition. This is false as seen in those proposals above.

This is more 9th commandment violation, this time against Girardeau, all to the end of trying to smear contemporary Kinists by trying to march Girardeau out as someone who would object to Kinists today, when in point of fact Kinists today would agree with all of Girardeau’s above proposals.

This sense of obligation to the black community was not unique to Girardeau. We have already mentioned Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson but we need also mention James Henley Thornwell. Thornwell once said of blacks,

“The Negro is one blood with ourselves — that he has sinned as we have, and that he has an equal interest with us in the great Redemption. Science, falsely so called, may attempt to exclude him from the brotherhood of humanity…. but the instinctive impulses of our nature combined with the plainest declaration of the Word of God, lead us to recognize in his form and lineaments — his moral, religious, and intellectual nature — the same humanity in which we glory as the image of God. We are not ashamed to call him our brother.”

Dr. James Henley Thornwell
Sermon — Rights and Duties of Masters

Yet, ARP types are forever condemning men like Thornwell. The fact of the matter is that the ARP types no more understand today’s Kinists as witnessed by how they constantly and repeatedly misinterpret what Kinists advance, then they understand men like Girardeau and Thornwell of the past.

McAtee Contra Mundum

“Many today seek to pervert another great difference that the creator established. God made man of diverse races, but some would fly in the face of God’s creating genius and merge the races into oneness. The vast majority of good thinking people prefer to associate with and intermarry with, people of their respective race; this is a part of their God-given inclination to honor and uphold the distinctiveness of separate races. But there are many false prophets of oneness, and many shallow stooges, who seek to force the amalgamation of the races. They even dress themselves in holy self-righteousness and claim to be seeking the unifying purpose of God. The present chaos in modern society will bear witness that they are doing the exact opposite. Crying for oneness they create division; denying diversity they destroy unity. True unity between the races on this earth can only be through the recognition and promotion of the God-given diversity of the races.”

Rev. John Edwards Richards (1911-1989)

One of Key founders of PCA

Sermon on Christian Unity

“In order to support their principles, they selectively quote our shared ancestors in the faith in service of their wicked ideas. Even if they accurately portray the writings of the past the ARP Church is bound by WCF 1.10, “The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.” It is good and right to disagree with faithful men of the past when what they posit violates the teaching of God’s word. In the spirit of Paul in Acts 17 at Berea, these men would welcome and would be encouraged by correction according to the Bible.”

ARP’s Special moderator’s committee on Kinism and Race Realism

1.) There are now two Anthologies well over 500 pages each which give these quotes that these idiots are saying that Kinists “selectively quote our shared ancestors in the faith in service of their wicked ideas.” People can get a copy of the 2nd edition of “Who Is My Neighbor,” as well as “A Survey of Racialism in the Sacred Christian Tradition.” The Kinist case is contained therein folks. Generation after generation over the course of over a millennium of Kinist church fathers embracing biblical Christianity with its normative embrace of Kinism. I have sprinkled this blog with quote after quote from the greats on this subject and what we have discovered is that some form of Kinism has been embraced by all men in all places at all times — except for the Anabaptist levelers and Covenanter nutcases.

a.) Note that the ARP dupes want to call the father’s “our shared ancestors,” while at the same time admitting that these venerated fathers embraced the very same putatively wicked ideas which Kinists now embrace as handed down to them by the fathers the ARP viper’s call “our shared ancestors.”

b.) The ARP clowns accuse Kinists of selectively quoting the fathers in order to support our case. This is a mere assertion with zero proof. I challenge these low IQ clergy to go ahead and take those anthologies I mentioned above and show us where we have “selectively quoted” in a fashion wherein the meaning of the quote has been obscured or changed. These false shepherds keep asserting this kind of thing but then refuse the spade work of demonstrating where that has occurred.

2.) The idea found in the quote above from the ARP is a real howler. If only the fathers could have lived during this enlightened time in order to be instructed by the Andy Webb, Drew Poplin, Benjamin Glaser and Jeff Stivanos, they would certainly realize the errors of their ways. If they could have only been instructed by Andy, Drew, Bennie, and Jeff they would repent in dust and ashes saying what their fathers before them had held. Honestly, can you see Kuyper, Vos, the Hodges, Machen, Augustine, Winthrop, Calvin, Chrysostom, etc. sitting at the feet of Andy, Drew, Bennie, and Jeff and just be gob smacked by their wisdom on the virtues of Alienism vis-a-vis Kinism? Yep, I’m sure that Lancelot Andrews, John Gill, John Dagg, Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Thomas M’Crie etc. would rise after a teaching session and say to Andy, Drew, Bennie, and Jeff, “We thank ye sirs for showing us the error of our ways.” The hubris of the ARP viper nest is jaw dropping.

3.) Notice with the statement above, the ARP gang who can’t shoot straight is assuming that the fathers did not come to their conclusion about social order arrangements and race without reference to Scripture.

4.) Allow me to say again that it is utterly ridiculous for the ARP Apple Dumpling gang to say that the fathers, if alive today, would agree with them. Instead, these fathers would be siding with McAtee, Ketcham, Underwood, Duggan, Spangler, Williams, etc.. I find myself often being encouraged in my allegiance to the doctrines of basic Christianity to think of myself as being surrounded and cheered on by the great cloud of witnesses that the ARP grave diggers want to bury.

I and my cohorts are right. I know the men who are standing with me on this issue. They are, like me, fallible and have need to constantly confess their sins but on this issue,

We will stand our ground
And we won’t back down