Category: Apologetics

NAPARC & CREC As Over The Falls

The phrase is “over the falls,” as in, “that person is beyond redemption – they are over the falls.” It communicates that someone is beyond hope. I use this phrase often. I think the Federal Government is over the falls. I think Government schools are over the falls. I think Seminaries in the US are over the falls. I think R2K is over the falls. I think that Evangelicalism and Reformedom is over the falls.

One example of the latter is the MAPARC (Marxist American and Reformed Churches) – formerly known as NAPARC (North American Presbyterian and Reformed churches). The MAPARC churches have repeatedly demonstrated that they are of their father the devil with their ongoing witch hunt to go after clergy (and soon to be Ruling Elders) who hold to the same convictions that their North American Presbyterian and Reformed Church fathers held.

We have to extend this jeremiad to the CREC as well. Just a couple days of go I was shown a clip of a CREC Church service and sermon in Hell, Michigan (apropos) wherein the Pastor said (paraphrasing here); “If you are in this congregation and you are hiding your Kinism, I invite you this morning to practice your athletic skills and sprint to the door and don’t come back.”

It has gotten to the point that folks, that if you’re financially supporting a NAPARC or CREC church that is financially supporting their denomination you are financially supporting the work of Hell. God’s people must come out of these Marxist egalitarian nests. These congregations and denominations are anti-Christ.

Find here the latest NAPARC abomination. The Allegheny Presbytery of the RPCNA threatens to sue Sam Ketcham. Do keep in mind that scripture forbids Christians taking one another to “secular” courts. Of course, the RPCNA’s response to that objection would be to say … “We excommunicated Ketcham. He’s not a Christian.”

So… my most recent evidence is Rev. Ketcham’s reporting that NAPARC has sent him a letter threatening to sue him;

“My former presbytery has threatened to sue me for $150,000 if I show you the recording of the trial at which they excommunicated me.

Why are they so afraid the public might see this trial recording? Because evil is done in darkness. Truth is done in the open—John 3:19-21. (It is a very good audio/video recording btw).”

This is just the most recent proof that NAPARC is over the falls. Folks, it is time to pull out of these denominations. It is time to start new works, mindful of how badly denominations have worked for the last 100 years or so. All of this will not change until the NAPARC and CREC denominations are hit in the pocketbook. They are not going change by reasoned argument. They are not going to change by producing 1000s of pages of church history. Most importantly, they are not going to change by Scriptural arguments. Why?

Because they are over the falls.

Look, I’ve said this before on Iron Ink, but I will say it again here. What the argument between Athanasius and Arius on the Deity of Christ was in the third century … what the argument was between Luther and Cajetan on the issue of Justification by faith alone in the 16th century is today what the current argument is between the Marxist egalitarian Reformed and the Biblical Reformed. It’s that important. If the church follows the Marxist voices the visible church will become an institutional and established anti-Christ church. NAPARC and the CREC will become in the US what the The Three-Self Patriotic Movement is currently in China – a mere organ of the State and/or a egalitarian cult that has more in common with Mephistopheles than it does with Jesus Christ.

Abandon ye all hope who enter into a NAPARC or CREC church.

The Protest Filed Against An OPC Overture by Ruling Elder Andrew Duggan

MAPARC (Marxist American Presbyterian and Reformed Churches) are at it again. Recently the OPC, feeling left out for not being as Marxist left as the RPCNA, ARP, and PCA, had a Presbytery file an overture that said; “Racists bad… We Marxist clergy good.”

There was one Ruling Elder named Andrew Duggan who was having none of the Marxism of his OPC Presbytery.  Duggan filed this protest with the Presbytery. This will mean that the powers that be in the OPC will be going after RE Duggan.

“I the undersigned respectfully protest the action of the Philadelphia Presbytery of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church in approving the following overture:

‘condemn without distinction any theological or political teaching which posits a superiority of race or ethnic identity born of immutable human characteristics and…call to repentance any who would promote or associate themselves with such teaching, either by commission or omission.’

The Scriptures referenced in the grounds do not support or teach a doctrine of broad equality. Acts 17:26 can no more be teaching an equality of nations by virtue of being of one blood than the equality of men and women who are also of one blood, and in marriage are one flesh. Furthermore neither 1 Corinthians 12:13 or Galatians 3:28 by including “bond and free” a necessary unequal relation with other men and other Christians cannot support a universal relation of equals vis a vis the 5th Commandment. Furthermore Galatians 3:28’s inclusion of “male and female” cannot serve as the ground of equality, which are by creation not equal, as the Apostle Paul elsewhere uses the superiority of men based on the order of Creation, Adam being formed first to establish the reason why women are to remain silent in the church. The logic of these grounds are the same as the enemies of the Gospel use to ordain women in their “churches”. Furthermore this condemns our fathers in the Faith and of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church most notably J Gresham Machen who not only privately expressed his segregationist views in a letter to his mother, but expressed his view of White Supremacy in his article “Mountains and Why We Love Them” published on OPC dot org.

‘There, in that glorious round spread out before you, that land of Europe, humanity has put forth its best. There it has struggled; there it has fallen; there it has looked upward to God. The history of the race seems to pass before you in an instant of time, concentrated in that fairest of all the lands of the earth. You think of the great men whose memories you love, the men who have struggled there in those countries below you, who have struggled for light and freedom, struggled for beauty, struggled above all for God’s Word.’

The superlative of ‘humanity has put forth its best’ speaking of Europe can mean nothing other than White people. This overture goes beyond the teaching of the Scriptures and our secondary standards, and binds the consciences of our members officers and church courts contrary to the Liberty we confess in the 20th chapter of our Confession of Faith.”

Accordingly I respectfully but most forcefully protest the overture to our General Assembly.”

Andrew P. Duggan

DVD & “The Strange but Basically Harmless Habit of Bedding Animals”

“Since, the Mosaic covenant, as noted, was designed in part to highlight the ultimate penalty that every sin deserves, under the protological law of the covenant of Creation (and will be administered at the final judgment). God willed that some sins be met with punishment that can not be accounted for in terms of intra-human relations. These sins are abhorrent to God even if they may strike people today as insignificant (such as gathering sticks on the Sabbath) or as strange but basically harmless (such as sex with animals). In contrast to the Mosaic covenant, the Nohaic covenant explicitly ordains civil penalties only in terms of intra-human relations, and points to the Lex Talionis as the standard for human retributive justice. Thus the fact that contemporary civil law should rest on the Noahic Natural Law again has significant ramifications for thinking through the contemporary relevance of particular civil penalties under the Mosaic law.”

David Van Drunen (DVD)
Divine Covenants & Moral Order – p. 511

1.) Note the hermeneutic of a hard discontinuity between the Nohaic and Mosaic covenant. Hermeneutics of discontinuity are a hallmark of Baptist theologies.

2.) The idea of turning the Noahic covenant into a “common grace/Natural Law” covenant is completely innovative to Reformed theology as pursued first by Meredith Kline and later by David Van Drunen and the R2K fanboys. Nobody of any consequence, prior to DVD sought to bleed off the redemptive continuity found in the Noahic covenant vis-a-vis the other epochs of the one unfolding covenant of grace.

3.) By introducing a fracture here in the one unfolding covenant of grace, Kline and later DVD introduces a dualism into their theology whereby the Abrahamic covenant is seen as gracious, the Noahic is seen as common, and the Mosaic is seen as a return to the covenant of works, except when it is not. (R2K fanboys are forever dividing the Mosaic covenant into one of grace for the nation while at the same time being one of works for the individual.) This is a kind of subservient covenant but it is a complete innovation of subservient covenant theology prior to Kline.

4.) For DVD (the disciple of Kline) and for all R2K fanboys, the Mosaic covenant is like a scaffolding that falls away from the building once the New and Better covenant arrives. The Ten Words, particularly as applied to the public square, are eclipsed in a return to the Noahic common grace/Natural law covenant. The dualism remains as the Church is ruled by God’s special revelation while the public square is cordoned off from the Church and its representatives, and is ruled by Noahic Natural Law. These two realms (church and common) are sealed off from one another and the Church has no business speaking to the common realm and the magistrates in the common realm are to be hands off regarding the regulation of the Church within the Church.

5.) Notice, in the quote above, the playing off of the Mosaic covenant with the Noahic covenant. The Mosaic covenant, both in its Moral law and in the application of the Moral law is completely bypassed as a standard for the public realm in favor of Noahic Natural Law.

6.) Notice the Marcion move in the above quote. God wanted His people ruled one way in the old and worse covenant but now in the new and better covenant God has lifted those previous standards and now what was penalized in the old and worse covenant are now bypassed in the new and better covenant. God’s standard has changed and so we are dealing with a different God in the new and better covenant.

7.) DVD does look bad in this quote because God’s abhorrence for gathering sticks on the Sabbath and for bedding farm animals only applies as under the Mosaic covenant. We are now ruled by Noahic covenant & these sins are no longer so abhorrent to God so as to require the death penalty in the non-sacred realm. DVD, is saying here, that since the Mosaic covenant is no longer applicable and since we live under the Natural Law Noahic covenant when active in the public square therefore the civil realm is not required to make laws forbidding bestiality since such action is not a intra-human relationship.

8.) The whole appeal here is to Natural law, in the common square, as established, per DVD, by the Noahic covenant. Noahic Natural law does not necessarily require any kind of civil penalty for bedding farm animals, though if people bed farm animals and don’t repent God will visit their alone and intimate time with farm animals with judgment. God can and will exact penalty. The civil Magistrate shouldn’t exact penalty.

9.) One wonders if DVD himself finds bedding farm animals to be “strange but basically harmless.” It is a curious way to put the matter.

Tikkun Olam; The Cultural Marxist Left Worldview

Any engagement with someone on the Cultural Marxist Left (hereafter CML) becomes a revelation of why worldviews matter. Further, any engagement with the CML becomes testimony that arguments and reason are not received in good faith by the CML.

The CML own a worldview that has as it main presupposition that reality is fundamentally made up of a oppressor vs. oppressed dynamic. That is their imagined starting point. Having that as their fantasy starting point they further imagine their Utopian world where oppression (as they define it) no longer exists. They own this vision of an Utopian egalitarian world and then in all their “reasoning” they war against anyone who doesn’t share this primary presupposition and the subsequent implication that the world must be repaired (Tikkun olam) by putting down the oppressors and lifting up the oppressed.

Never mind that the oppressed might be oppressed because they need to be oppressed. If any oppression anywhere exists as experienced by anybody (sodomites, trannies, furries, feminists, Satanists, etc.) that oppression needs to be lifted and it is their mission in life to see that happen.

The CML reasoning matrix looks something like this;

1.) Imagine a egalitarian/Utopian world
2.) Create and name gaps between said Imagined world and the real world
3.) Insist that said gaps are examples of oppression that need to cease
4.) Tikkun Olam

So, when one encounters the CML one is encountering someone who has an alternate view of reality. They used to call that being insane. There is no common ground between someone whose main presupposition is anchored in the oppressed vs. oppressor egalitarian Utopian fantasy world and someone who believes that hierarchy is good, that some people need to be oppressed because they are wicked, that Christianity is superior to all other false religions, and that the CML smells of sulfur.

Let’s us speak here a moment about the vision of the CML. How exactly does the CML want to repair the world. Well, in the CML world the Trustee family (and even the nuclear family) must be destroyed. For CML the family introduces hierarchy into the world. Hierarchy is evil because hierarchy automatically means somebody is being oppressed. As such, the family has to be reimagined and redefined. This usually means the pursuit of tearing down patriarchy since family in the West, created and shaped by Christianity, was patriarchal. Patriarchy, like hierarchy, is oppressive and must be ended. This is turn means rabid support for Feminism since the way to tear down Patriarchy is by having Matriarchy.

Secondly on this score, education becomes a primary tool of the CML to repair the world. Schools have become and must continue to be centers of radicalization. Education as the responsibility of brainwashing children into seeing the wicked oppressive nature of their own culture. White children must be taught that they come from a inherently oppressive and wicked stock. Perversion must be taught as being praiseworthy because by perversion the oppression of the straight white males can be brought to a halt. Schools must teach and inculcate the oppressor vs. oppressed reality and enlist the kiddie to be part of the cadres who are resolved to repair the world by being part of the long march through the institutions.  Schools must become transmission belts that pass on the oppressed vs. oppressor world as well as hatred of Biblical Christianity.

Thirdly, Western culture being a primary carrier of oppression must be socially re-engineered. Culture is a means by which consent is arrived at and so culture must be commandeered by the CML to manufacture a oppressor vs. oppressed worldview. Culture is socially engineered by the media world producing film and television that mocks the “oppressors” and honors the oppressed. Culture is socially engineered by the State as it passes laws that countenance and approve of things like sodomy, abortion, and transexualism. Culture is socially engineered by the “Church” when it retreats in the face of the work of the CML to “repair the world,” and by becoming silent. Cultural is socially engineered by parents who refuse to say “no” to their children who have are and becoming socially engineered because the parents are too afraid of losing Johnny or Susie.

Fourthly, even something as benign as language must be weaponized to advance the cause of the CML. Language is thought to have encoded power dynamics and so it must be altered to serve the CML ends. Pronouns become person variable. Certain words are not allowed to be uttered. Orwellian doublethink must be learned and employed.

Consider also that the CML worldview is not falsifiable. This means that the oppressor vs. oppressed dynamic can never reach a point of resolution because there will always be a new oppressor and oppressed class. The CML requires oppression. It is the fuel by which it is propelled. This means that for every putative oppression that is ended in the pursuit to repair the world, there will be three more putative oppressions that will arise that need to warred against. The CML demands a lowest common denominator world as it always pursues ever more disintegration into the void of egalitarian Utopianism. There is always someone who is not equal and we all must be brought down to that lowest level. If you disagree at any point along the disintegration into the CML void you will be cast aside as a “bigot,” or as someone who wants to protect their privilege or as someone that is inflicting harm.

The CML is living in a different reality and their goal is reshape the world (Tikkun Olam) to fit their alternate delusional reality. Reasoning with these people is a waste of time. They are examples of those Jesus the Christ spoke of when he advised the necessity of shaking the dust off your feet. To reason with these people is to cast pearls before swine. Our prayers for them must be that the Holy Spirit would open their eyes to see the miserable end that their thinking will bring them that they might repent and trust Christ alone.

Worldview Thinking … Social Order …. Principalities & Powers

“The idea of unity so possesses itself of man, and is sought for by him so universally, that if he thinks he has found it, he readily yields himself up to repose in that belief. Nor does he content himself with the discovery that nothing is in the world but a creation and a Creator; still embarrassed by this primary division of things, he seeks to expand and to simplify his conception by including God and the universe in one great whole.”

Alexis de Tocqueville
“Democracy in America”

Fallen man is hopelessly Unitarian in his theology. He is forever looking for the unity of the godhead and having taken man as god, all individual men must submit to this denial of the Creator-creature distinction. All of this explains how it is that the State almost uniquely ends up being god walking on the earth. Fallen man, having denied the Creator-creation distinction looks to the state to provide the Unitarian God it requires and having found that God in the state all must be compelled to serve the state in order for the humanist godhead to have the requisite unity that divinity always requires. Thus slogans are born such as “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” When the Creator – creature distinction is denied the State, more often than not, is assigned the status of the imminent God (true transcendence having been lost) and having the status of the imminent God all the subjects (formerly citizens) must be as one with the Unitarian godhead of the State in order for the state to achieve apotheosis.

All of this follows like water running downhill. If a people eliminates the God of the Bible from their reckoning the inevitable eventual conclusion will be what is described above. However, all of this is not absent a spiritual reality. We are not talking about merely ideas here though obviously ideas enter into all this. We are also talking about principalities and powers. When the social order has evacuated the God of the Bible, embracing instead itself as its own unitarian God spiritual realities begin to exercise their muscle. Having locked God out of His rule — having made the heavens bronze and the earth iron — the power from below begins to reveal itself. Man’s evil thinking becomes consistent with the reasoning and work of the power from below. The social order is inverted and good becomes evil and evil becomes good. This was seen to have happened in the Weimar Republic. It was seen to have happened during the French Revolution as a brief familiarity with the Marquis de Sade’s work testifies. It is happening now in our social order. We have denied the Creator – creature distinction, we have joined the unitarian God-state in a creaturely oneness and the effect is now that we have let loose the demon horde upon ourselves as witnessed by our seeking to remake ourselves in the image of our creaturely demon god. Children are being sexually maimed via surgical techniques. Sodomy and Lesbianism is now mainstreamed and rampant (paging Rick Grenell) children are routinely sexually trafficked, the elite (as the Epstein files reveal) are Lizard people with no souls.

There is a danger of reading the times in a fashion that only traces out the ideas without realizing that behind the implications of bad ideas is a spiritual reality — principalities and powers — that rabidly hate those creatures who still retain the image of God that those spiritual powers likewise intensely hate. Hating God, they hate all creatures and so strive to pull down any social order that isn’t a reflection of the hell that they themselves occupy. Yes, ideas have consequences but both ideas and consequences are not spiritually neutered. There is a spiritual component to Worldview thinking that must be taken into account. It is not the case that we are only seeking to snuff out bad thinking. We have to realize behind that bad thinking is a Screwtape and a Uncle Wormwood that has an interest in breathing out bad thinking.

Yes, the denial of the Creator-creature distinction has great ramifications for a social order but those ramifications are being pursued by a malevolent consciousness to the end of destroying as many image bearers as possible.