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Revolutionary Humanism; Out of Chaos, Order Comes

Genesis 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ²The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. ³Then God said …

One way that Christianity differs from Religions and philosophies that posit that man evolved from primeval chaos is that Christianity finds chaos being structured by order so that chaos is structured from and by the God of order.

The implication of this is that for Biblical Christians when confronted with the breakdown of social order, there is a call to return to order (God’s law) to answer the questions of breakdown and revolution and so provide solution. Not so for the Religions of chaos. For the philosophies and religions of chaos, order can only be achieved by returning to chaos. Chaos in a social order is thus healed only by more chaos and Revolution. This is seen perhaps most expressly in the Mardi Gras where chaos reigns. R. J. Rushdoony explains Mardi Gras;

“The Mardi Gras is a lineal descendant of the old pagan chaos cults whereby a religious revival meant not turning to God as it does in the Christian faith, but turning to chaos, because for the cults of chaos, the source of all things was not God. They did not believe in God, but primeval chaos, and so you sought a revival periodically, annually, you had to revive society by ritual acts of chaos. Now, in Rome, it was a Saturnalia whereby a condemned convict became the king in the early days of Rome and possessed the queen, whereby everything went. Incest, cannibalism in some societies, but not in Rome. Everything that was normally forbidden was practiced. Now, the Mardi Gras is precisely a modern form of the old chaos cults, the Saturnalia…”

As a small example of this return to chaos thinking, several years ago, I attended a school board meeting that was discussing the need for sex education in the classroom. The problem that was being addressed was the increase of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and STDs among students and the solution that was being offered was to teach the students how to have “safe” sex. You see, the problem was one of chaos and the answer being offered was a return to chaos to solve the problem of chaos. It didn’t matter that I had sundry studies demonstrating that teaching “safe sex” in government schools leads to an increase in out-of-wedlock births and STDs. This is because, at a presuppositional level, the modern humanists believe that order comes from chaos and so more chaos is the answer to chaos. Out of chaos order comes.

Of course, this is the whole theory behind the boneheaded theory that is evolution. Evolution presupposes that out of chaos order comes. Evolution teaches that chaos in development leads to the order of a new species.

Van Til called this process “integration downward into the void,” with the void representing chaos. Fallen humanist man will always embrace more chaos and Revolution to deliver him from chaos because fallen humanist man believes that out of chaos order comes.

This explains our daffy culture. Sodomy becomes a problem and the solution we embrace is Transgenderism. Chaos needs more chaos so that order will come. Marriages as an institution begin to go all chaotic and so we embrace sodomite marriage in order to “stabilize” marriage. Family breakdown is everywhere and so we redefine family to include two Lesbians and their in vitro fertilized “offspring.” Integration downward into the void. Chaos breeds a return to chaos in hopes that order will emerge.

Our expectation needs to be, short of God-given Reformation that we will continue in the West to go from chaos and revolution to chaos and revolution.

The Fifth Commandment & Kinism’s Problem With Alienism

^{Exodus 20:12}“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.”

The fact that we are told to “Honor thy Father and Mother,” implies that there are native relationships that have priority over non-native relationships. This is the essence of the kinist argument for its position. It is fitting that I take special care for my kin as opposed to the stranger and the alien. Indeed, forfeiting care for my people so I can care for those, not my people is a direct violation of the 5th commandment.

Neither does conversion negate the reality of these native relationships and our responsibilities to them. All because I become a Christian doesn’t mean I no longer have a unique relationship and responsibility to my native people. We see this in Romans 9 where the converted St. Paul can still speak of his unconverted brethren

“For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my kinsmen, those of my own race…” Romans 9:3

The reality that St. Paul still acknowledges that these native relationships existed did not keep him from also recognizing the importance of his bond with those who were, with him, “in Christ.” In point of fact, he will refer to fellow Christians also as “his brothers,” thus sustaining that the family relationships are of the highest value. If being a “brother” wasn’t a special and unique bond then the word “brother” would’ve never been used to refer to fellow Christians. In the same vein Jesus said;

“For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

But because of this Jesus didn’t deny his unique relationship to his own mother providing for her, in keeping with the 5th commandment and the unique responsibility of the 1st born son, protection, and a home even while on the Cross.

²⁶When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” ²⁷and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

The idea as promulgated by many of the Alienists that somehow becoming a Christian releases one from their unique relationship to their kin, clan, and nation. It is not a great deal different from when Jesus faulted the Pharisees;

10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ 11But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God), 12he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother.

The contact point in Alienism and the passage above is that both seek to relieve themselves of the natural obligations that obtain to kin. The Alienist is often found saying that if my family isn’t Christian then they really aren’t my family anymore. This is blended brains for thinking.

Also this alienism strikes this author as nothing short of Gnosticism. Here is an example of what I am talking about in a recent social media thread I read as coming from a garden variety Alienist;

“Hopefully by “your people” you mean Christians, otherwise yes there is something wrong with that (prioritizing your blood family). God calls men from every tongue and nation, so nations are not wicked, but our true kin is those in the family of faith, those who are part of the body of Christ, not unbelievers who happen to be of the same family, nation, or ethnicity or color as us.”

Do you see the Gnosticism? The corporeal relationships that God places us in are not ‘true kin.’ Our true kin is the kin we have because we are spiritually in Christ. We are such a “new man” in Christ that the creational categories we were created with (genetics, family relationships, maleness, femaleness etc.) all are no longer real categories. The old has passed. The new has come.

This is not only Gnosticism but it is also an example of holding to the idea that “grace destroys nature,” as opposed to what the Reformed have always taught that “grace restores nature.” The Alienists consistently believe that when grace visits someone it destroys who God made them creationally in favor of who they are spiritually. They take the “new man” language, which is supposed to designate a spiritual category and they apply it to corporeal realities. It is as if they say, “I am a new man in Christ therefore all the corporeal things that were once true of me no longer need to be considered.”For Alienists, it is as if, after one becomes a Christian, all previous blood ties no longer matter. If they were consistent they would say that after conversion their maleness or femaleness doesn’t matter.

Look, I perfectly understand that there are times when a believer will have to forsake their family for the cross. I get that and agree with that. However, it is a bridge too far to routinely say that who we are corporeally no longer matters once we are in Christ and since that is so Christians no longer have to consider family ties.

God’s Chief Love

“The chief end of God is to love God and enjoy Himself forever.”

Christians often find it odd to talk about God’s love for Himself. It strikes us as narcissistic. In humans, it would be narcissistic to insist that our primary love should be love for self because we are not in ourselves the highest font of good. God, however, has no place else to go to find His highest good but in Himself. So, since God has Himself as His own Highest good. His Love for Himself is the ground of all He does.

If God’s highest love was not for Himself but was for mankind then God would turn men into gods to be worshiped since whatever we love the most we worship and whatever we worship is our god. If God’s highest love was for mankind then God would be worshiping men, and so men would become the gods of God. But God’s highest love is for Himself and that idea is found in the I John 4 passage in vs. 10 where we see the word “Propitiation.”

¹⁰Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

God sent His Son to be our Propitiation and in doing so demonstrated His love for His Character. It was God who had taught that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. It was His Holy Character that demanded justice be done. So, out of love for Himself, His Character, His law, He provided the sacrifice that He Himself would accept to turn away His wrath. In love for Himself, He demands a sacrifice. In love for Himself, He provides the sacrifice in Himself in the incarnated 2nd person of the Trinity and in Love for Himself He accepted the sacrifice as a just payment for sin. God’s Love for Himself is the primary motive behind all that He does.

All this begins with God’s Love for Himself, His character, His law. By demanding the penalty for sin be paid for — a demand in keeping w/ his Law –, and by providing Himself as that penalty in the incarnated Second person of the Trinity God is showing Love for Himself. He is upholding His standard (law) and protecting His character (justice and Holiness). He is doing what no one else could. He is meeting the standard that He Himself set.

So in propitiation God in sovereign love and grace initiated the sacrifice of Jesus to provide covering and forgiveness for human sin but God also receives the sacrifice which satisfied His anger and justice. Love for Himself could do no other.

The kindest thing God can do for us is to love himself and teach us to do likewise. God loves himself supremely and perfectly. Everything is all about Him. Too often Christians try to get God to bend to their desires when our goal should be to bend ourselves to His desires.

White People Who Complain About White Privilege

White people who complain about “White Privilege” should just shut up and lead the way in stripping themselves of their “White Privilege.” If they are a Minister they should resign from their pulpit so a minority member can have the pulpit. If they are a student at a University they should quit so a minority member can have their slot. If they are a Politician they should cease politics and get behind a minority candidate somewhere.

The dirty little secret about White people who complain about white privilege is that they desire to retain their so-called white privilege while stripping other white people of their position, rank, or ability that they have worked very hard to achieve.

White people of position, status, or rank complaining about white privilege are merely virtue signaling. They are telling the world how noble they are because they stand for this hip cause. It is also Hypocrisy on human growth hormones because it complains about white privilege all the while refusing to give up their own status, place, or position.

And keep in mind that what occurs should they get their way is NOT the lifting of non-whites to the place of privilege but rather the lowering of whites so that all people can be without privilege.

The proof that white supremacy is a myth is found in white people complaining about white privilege. How much intelligence can exist in someone who would disinherit their children and people in order to feel good about themselves?

We should speak to the White non-Christian guilt angle. Here we find White Liberals creating false sins (White Privilege) that create false guilt. The Cultural Marxists tell us that an answer must be found for these White sins and White guilt. What will the answer be? Well, clearly the answer has become an attempt to try and cast their White guilt and White sins on those White people who dare disagree with them. As such Biblical Christians, who disagree with this notion of fake white guilt for fake white sins, become the means by which atonement is achieved. Atonement is achieved and the white Cultural Marxist’s white guilt is paid for and relieved as they sacrifice biblical Christians on the Cross of public opinion. They cover their own sins and relieve their own guilt by making a sacrificial lamb out of their Christian and White brothers and sisters who dare disagree with them.

Behold, the lamb of the White guilters who taketh away the fake sins of the White Cultural Marxist. Those White people who are Biblical Christians and who disagree with the White guilters are being pierced for the White Cultural Marxist’s transgression and crushed for their iniquities and by the stripes laid upon those who mock White guilters, the White guilters are healed. At least that is the way it is in their false White guilt Gospel.

Finally, on this score all Christians would do well to remember what Mr. Dan Brannan has perceptively noted on this subject;

“If Western man has inherited certain blessings from God as consequence of his historical relationship with the Almighty, and some now condemn these blessings as “the sin of White Privilege”, they are engaged in blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.”

Two Quotes On Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln could not have won his elections without foreigners and would have had a harder time winning his war if every 4th Union soldier had not been an immigrant…. The civil war that broke out in Missouri at the beginning of the war resembled a fight between Confederate Americans and recently arrived German Unionists.

The German revolutionaries brought with them an aggressive drive to realize in America the goals that had been defeated in their homeland with the failure of the Revolutions of 1848.

Clyde Wilson

The Yankee Problem — pg. 97

“Had the Confederates somehow won, had their victory put them in position to bring their chief opponents before some sort of tribunal, they would have found themselves justified . . . in stringing up President Lincoln and the entire Union high command for violation of the laws of war, specifically for waging war against noncombatants.”

Lee Kennett

Marching through Georgia: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman, p. 286