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Egalitarianism in Christian Humanism

Insisting that Christ’s death applies equally to everyone may very well be the root of all other egalitarianisms that we are now plagued with. The atonement of Christ is not egalitarian. Everyone is not equal in Christ death. God discriminated for reasons known only to Himself, to have Christ die only for the Elect.

Can it be that Hypothetical Universalism is the motherload from where all other egalitarianism stems? Can it be that it is not a form of theological Marxism to make everyone equal and the same in the intent of the Atonement?

Of course cheapening the Atonement by making it a mere option for the reprobate to mock and attempt to squander is to cheapen the entire Gospel Message and swing open the doors for anarchy, both in and out of the so-called ‘church.’ To make light of the Precious Blood is to incur the severest wrath of a Holy and very precise God. Christ died not to make all men equally ‘saveable’ but to SAVE to the uttermost those He has chosen to save before the foundations of the world (cf. Hebrews 10:29-31). Especially here the egalitarian impulse is profoundly ugly.

These sort of leveling impulses enter also where churches have reservations about infant baptism; if the fact that some children are born into a higher covenant status is rejected on the assumption of some unfairness in all children not being equal recipients of the covenant blessings, it unleashes all manner of egalitarian implications to rampage through society.

Even saying “all aborted babies go to heaven ” is an egalitarian impulse as it unlocks this same inevitable process as it denies the unequal foreordination of those souls. But even the Reformed churches have retreated from these fights in deference to “being nice.”

Basic Logic for Baptists

“If God personally regenerates repentant sinners, both white and black, how can we see people in terms of ‘race’ rather than in terms of the person?”

Russell Moore
Quote from 2018

“If God personally regenerates repentant sinners, both male and female, how can we see people in terms of ‘sex’ rather than in terms of the person.”

The Next Generation of Pastors
Growing up learning Ethical Instruction From Russ Moore

“If God personally regenerates repentant sinners, both, two-year-olds and full-grown adults, how can we see people in terms of ‘age’ rather than in terms of the person?”

Pedophiles for Christ

Greg Johnson’s Translations

Dear pastors and elders. No matter how well-intended, I’m rather afraid that your words are not always heard the way you think. Here, let me translate.

“You shouldn’t identify with your sin” = “Get back in your closet.”

“Your identity is in Christ” = “Fake it ’til you make it”

“God won’t leave you there” = ‘You haven’t tried/ prayed/ believed hard enough”

“You’re minimizing the power of the gospel to change you” = “You’re unbelieving”

“You can’t be gay and Christain” = “You are not saved.”

Rev. Greg Johnson

Johnson lately has been in uber mode complaining about how people in the Church are going after poor Greg and yet nobody says anything about the sin of slander that he is experiencing from other clergy members. Yet, in this write-up above Johnson himself has now gone from the desire to bugger other men to an actual generic slander of other men. Greg is slandering these unnamed men by suggesting that they are being deceptive in their language.

Alternately, if Greg will insist that he is not saying that his translations are really the heart intent of these unnamed ministers but rather only the way they are being heard by the “I have a desire to bugger other men” crowd then the question has to be asked of Greg; “Whose fault is that?” If the “I desire to bugger other men crowd,”  can’t take what is being said at its face value but instead are practicing a hermeneutic of suspicion one can hardly blame these unnamed ministers for that as Greg is doing.

Having said that let’s look at some of what Greg says here. First, speaking only for myself, I do believe that Greg and his fellow “I desire to bugger other men” crowd should indeed get back into the closet. Why would unnatural, loathsome, and despicable desires be flaunted by the “I desire to bugger other men crowd like some cheap whore waiting at the dock for the sailors to come ashore?” So, count me as someone who wants Greg and his buds to be back in the closet. Compassion for those who might be tempted to go into this “death-style” (as opposed to lifestyle) constrains me to speak this way. Note here I am NOT saying that Greg and his buddies who desire other men’s butts are not saved. I am merely saying the common acknowledgment of it over loudspeakers or from pulpits is both unsavory and undesirable.

The “Fake it till you make it” complaint from Greg is just another repeated verse from his common refrain that same-sex attracted people can no more be cured of this inordinate desire than an amputee can be cured of his lack of a limb. He can keep repeating that mantra all he wants but his repeating it does not make it so. Besides, the “Fake it till you make it” insistence is more often than not just saying that the love that once dared not speak its name now just shut up about these detestable desires.

Why would a wise counselor believe that God would leave people with desires that God hates?  If someone came to a godly counselor saying that they had a desire to bed farm animals would we think that God would leave that person who is in union with Christ to continue to desire to bed farm animals, or would a godly counselor comfort them that God will lead them out of these kinds of inordinate sexual desires?  There is nothing wrong with telling people that God will provide a way out of their temptation to bed farm animals or other men.

I do believe that someone can have a desire to bed other men and be Christian. Scripture warns about besetting sins that Christians have to put off and I think this desire for other men could fall under that category.

However, I do not believe that someone can have a desire to bed other men and be so satisfied with the presence of that desire in their lives that they talk about queer culture coming into the Kingdom of God and be Christian. This you have done Greg and that is why I wonder if you are indeed in Christ. Jesus said, “By their fruit, you shall know them,” and the fruit you are producing by this crusade Greg is not of God.

It is clear from reading your twitter feed Greg that you have become incredibly embittered and are now on an angry crusade trying to pull Christianity into your twisted reality.

 

Love for Humanity?

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars;
General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, & flatterer.”

William Blake

The love of humanity in the abstract is the root of all kinds of evil. It was the love of humanity in the abstract on the part of the committee of Public Safety that brought down the Bastille and set up la madame guillotine in Paris. It was the love of humanity as an abstraction on the part of the Black Republicans and the abolitionists in America that from 1861-1877 killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and blacks in order to “rescue” and “free” blacks. It was the love of humanity as an abstraction on the part of Bolsheviks that brought us the Holodomor and the gulag archipelago. The love of humanity in the abstract has given us scores of millions of dead humans and has brought despotism and tyranny of untold magnitude.

Humanity cannot be loved in the abstract. Love for people begins with love for the little platoons God has decreed that we live among — our families, our extended families, our churches, our workplaces, our communities. There is no love for mankind that does not begin with love for the little platoons and love for the little platoons keeps us from abstracting both humanity and love.

It is the Marxist who loves humanity as an abstraction and the irony is that abstract love ends up being translated to hatred for the individual so that Marxists love humanity as an abstraction but hate individual persons as concrete people. In their zeal to build Utopia for abstract humanity they hate the individual. They love omeletes but they hate eggs. This explains the Stalin proverb, “If you want to make an omelete (Utopia) you have to break (kill) a lot of eggs (individuals.)”

Love for people begins with love for those next to you. If you can’t love them you can’t expect me to take you seriously when you talk about loving humanity.

This is a constituent aspect of kinism. We believe that loving humanity means loving what is concrete and so near. This kinist hardly believes man as an abstraction. I have never met mankind. I have however met individuals of different races, different ethnicities and different religions. In the words of Joseph de Maistre;

“I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians … I know, too, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be a Persian. But as for man, I declare that I have never met him in my life; if he exists, he is unknown to me.” 

An Analysis on Mohler’s “Good News” Rejoicing

“We’re (The Church) looking at the very good news that the world is coming to us.”

Al Mohler
Speaking of Global emigration patterns

Deuteronomy 28:43 “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

Yeah … good news indeed. Just look at what a bang-up job we are doing already with all the world who has already come here. Why the Gospel is changing everything and everybody. The world who is coming here is converting hand over fist. Racial harmony is everywhere, abortion is down, minority on white crime is almost non-existent. Just imagine how successful the Gospel will be by 2046.

Why can’t Mohler open his eyes and see that who this is good news for is Lucifer? It is the Church that is being converted and it is being converted because it has accepted Cultural Marxism premises — including the idea that borders should be disregarded —  while thinking that such an infected non-Gospel is good news for anyone.

This is cowardice. Mohler is trying to turn Lev. 26/Deut. 28 upside down and pretend that what they describe as a curse is actually a blessing. Mohler’s out (consistent also with R2K) is to say that these verses of blessings and cursing no longer apply and that they only applied (or still apply) to Israel. The issue is that this requires us to believe that what God calls a curse on one nation is actually a blessing on other nations.

I wonder if Mohler’s counterpart in the Aztec priesthood said something along the lines of, “We’re looking at the very good news that the Christian white man is coming to us?” Or maybe Cortez wrote home telling about his great successes with the Aztecs: “The killing of virgins is down, fewer people are being dismembered, and the High Priests have entered into dialogue with our pastors.”

The fact that the world is coming to us is indicative of God’s judgment against us. God is exiling the visible church in the West by keeping it in its own homeland while flooding the West with the stranger and the alien so that the stranger and the alien become the head and not the tail.

Now let’s be clear here. The point is not that we should not preach Christ to all who come within the sound of our voice. The point is that it is foolish to flood one’s land with peoples who are strangers to our faith, our customs, our history, our language, and our culture and who often hold antipathy to the same. Yes, we must herald the Gospel but all because we must herald the Gospel that doesn’t mean, contra Mohler, that it is good news that we are being flooded with those who are making the visible church exiles in the land of their Christian Fathers.