Editor Gregory Reynolds and Author Aaron Mize Join To Piss On Scripture

“In this light, the modern habit of translating these texts into the language of ‘leadership’ or ‘male authority’ is a reversion to the very power structures the gospel overturns.”

Rev. Aaron Mize
Ordained Servant Magazine
OPC

Note, the implicit declaration here that power structures are inherently evil. Power structures are overturned so that no power structures (supposedly) remain. Power is automatically evil. Patriarchy and hierarchy are automatically evil because they are power structures.

The dirty secret here is that power structures are an inescapable category. As such if, as Mize desires, we get rid of the power structures of patriarchy and hierarchy what fills the vacuum is matriarchy and egalitarianism as the new power structures. So, hierarchy doesn’t go away but is replaced by egalitarianism that serves as a mask for a rampant Matriarchy. If men do not rule (patriarchy) then women will rule (matriarchy). Somebody has to have the authority folks. If we are going to denounce patriarchy then all that is left to fill the void is matriarchy but as we can’t be obvious we will call it egalitarianism instead.

Next, if the Gospel overturns the power structures of hierarchy that Rev. Mize insists that it overturns then pray tell why all that language in the Westminster Larger Catechism (Q. 124-130) about the duties and sins of superiors, and inferiors? Mize’s own Confession, that he swore to uphold, teaches that hierarchy is Biblical and yet here is Mize insisting that Christ came to overturn these sinful power structures.

And what about the Editor, Gregory Reynolds, who let this bilge be printed? Greg Reynolds is older than I am, for Pete’s sake, and he let this get into the magazine he edits? As far as I am concerned Gregory Reynolds should be ash-canned for letting Mize’s garbage be printed.

Rev. Aaron Mize & His Gaia Worship

“Scripture never presents patriarchy as the created or redeemed norm. It is a feature of the fallen world Christ overturns, not a structure he institutes.”

Rev. Aaron Mize
Ordained Servant Article
OPC Denomination

1.) Not as the created norm? Is this why we are told that Eve was to be a “Helpmeet” to Adam? Is this why Adam was the one who gave Eve her name? (Naming was a sign of authority.) Is this why, after the fall, Eve is told that “Adam shall rule over you”? Is this why Sarah called Abraham “Lord?”

2.) Not as the redeemed norm? Is this why Paul tells Titus that women in the Church are to be submissive to their own husbands? Is this why Paul teaches that women are to be “silent in the church?”

3.) Note that what Mize is teaching here is that a woman who is fulfilling the Biblical and traditional role as wife, mother, and homekeeper, who is submitting to her husband as he love his wife is in sin because, as Mize writes, this kind of patriarchy and hierarchy is a feature of the fallen world Christ overturns. If a woman is living in a world Christ has overturned, as seen in her role as wife, mother, and homekeeper, what can she be living in except sin?

4.) Patriarchy … is not a structure that Christ institutes? Is this why Christ chose 12 male disciples? Is this why the Church chose 7 male deacons? Is this why all those who wrote every book of the Bible were men? Is this why all family heads in the OT were male? Is this why the Aaronic Priesthood was all male?

It beggars the imagination that any clergy in any putative Reformed church could write the sentence, “Patriarchy is a feature of the fallen world Christ overturns, not a structure he institutes.”

The OPC Embraces Explicit Egalitarianism — Rev. Mize & The Ordained Servant

“The Fatherhood of God is not an archetype of hierarchy but the source of communion. To imitate that Fatherhood is not to rule but to give life. The Church’s task therefore is not to restore a patriarchal system in the world but to embody the new humanity.”

Rev. Aaron Mize
Ordained Servant Magazine
Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Often the egalitarians and complementarians will insist that I Cor. 11 does not mean what it says;

I Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

They will insist that the Greek word for head here (κεφαλὴ / kephalē) means “source” and not head. First, this interpretation was seldom if ever argued before the rise of feminism in the Church. Second, this Greek word is universally translated as “Head” in every other NT passage. Third, if we argue that this word means “source” then we run into the problem that Paul is saying that source of Christ is God and that in turn would run us into some major theological problems.

When we note that the head of Christ is God we remember that Christ is the title that our Savior held and in His role as the incarnated anointed one (Christ) God indeed was the head of Chris in the sense that we find in Phil. 2:5-8. The Son in his economic role as the incarnate Christ was always about the doing of the Father’s will, thus demonstrating the Father’s headship over Christ in his economic subordination.

This submitting of Christ to the Father during his economic subordination serves as the model for man’s submission to Christ and the woman’s submission to man. Christ’s economic subordination reflects the divine order and harmony within the Godhead, providing a pattern for human relationships.

So, Aaron Mize, in his written words above is in contradiction to the clear revelation of Scripture. Further, the OPC Ordained Servant inasmuch as it published this tripe is also in contradiction to the clear revelation of Scripture. Heads need to roll over this contradiction of Scripture.

What Mize and the OPC Ordained servant has given us with the opening quote is the affirmation of egalitarianism in its worst expression. Not only does Rev. Mize (we say “Rev.” only by way of courtesy) desire to jettison patriarchy, he even insists that hierarchy must be evacuated. Mize desires to give us a “new humanity,” as only envisioned by Albigensians, Cathars, Bogomils, Anabaptists, and Marxists.

By all that is Holy has the Conservative Reformed church fallen so far that it is now putting people in the pulpit, and further publishing them in denominational magazines wherein what is promoted is the very antithesis of Biblical Christianity?

Keep in mind dear reader, that what Mize has promoted here with the right hand in the Reformed Church is perfectly consistent with what is being promoted with the left hand in the Reformed Church as it continues its witch hunt to stamp out white Kinism. (Ironically enough, the Reformed church seems perfectly fine with Black, Korean, and Hmong Kinism.) The egalitarianism required to advance the bilge that Rev. Mize is advancing above is the same egalitarianism that is being championed to drum godly ministers out of the putatively conservative Reformed Churches. I guess the cynic could say; “Well, at least they are being consistent.”

They tell me that the Rev. Aaron Mize article, “In Defense of Union Not Patriarchy,” has been pulled from the OPC Ordained Servant website. clearly this is due to the heat that the effeminate Mize’s article created.

However, this does not mean that the OPC is out of the woods here.

1.) Mize wrote the article and hasn’t himself recanted/repented.

2.) Editors and/or Publishers let this article be published. They need to recant (preferably repent in ashes and dust).

3.) There needs to be an apology written in the Ordained Servant.

4.) Actually, people need to be brought up on charges here — (Mize and those who made the decision to run the article) unless their is a full throated repentance.

5.) Without a full throated repentance you can count on the fact that this kind of bilge will be repeated.

This is how this agenda is advanced. First you push the envelope and then you retreat if needs be. However, if you retreat its always a temporary retreat with the intent to push forward again at some later date.

This is the practitioning of the Hegelian dialectic.

If the OPC doesn’t demand repentance … and if it doesn’t fire or bring up people on charges due to this article running, you can bet the farm that this article will return in some other form at a later date.

These people are not to be trusted.

Post-script

From Dan Brannan on the subject of this Mize article;

I think it was my session (in Idaho) that got the article pulled. Now people are mounting a case to have charges brought against Mize.

Nonetheless, I have told the session that …

It’s absurd that he wrote it, absurd that they printed it, absurd that it falls to laymen pitching a fit to redress it, and absurd that he holds a position above greeter.

Rebutting Darryl Gnostic Hart On His Attempted Rebuttal Of James Baird

“That Baird can call for a government powerful enough to promote the true religion, only five years after government ignored civil liberties to enforce public health, is well night amazing. And yet, the author does not appear bashful in calling upon government to implement the idea of the public good by a minority of the American people.”

Darryl Gnostic Hart 
Ordained Servant Article

1.) Belgic Confession, Article 36 is against Hart and in favor of Baird here;

“Their (Magistrates) office is not only to have regard unto and watch for the welfare of the civil state, but also to protect the sacred ministry, that the kingdom of Christ may thus be promoted. They must therefore countenance the preaching of the Word of the gospel everywhere, that God may be honored and worshiped by every one, as He commands in His Word.”

Clearly, Baird is within Confessional bounds while Hart is not.

2.) Hart continues to operate under the fallacy that Governments and Magistrates can be neutral as if Governments and Magistrates can avoid using its power to be about the business of promoting some religion as the true religion. To be succinct, Governments and Magistrates never fail to promote some religion that the Governments and Magistrates believe to be the one true religion. Certainly Hart can’t miss how the US Government and it’s magistrates promote the true religion of humanism with its sodomy, Trannieism, abortion, etc.

Hart always, without fail, misses the fact that Governments can not be and never have been neutral. Hart is blind to the fact that Government always promotes the religion it considers to be the true religion. What Hart is upset about is that the Government/Magistrate might champion Biblical Christianity. He’s frightened to death of a return to blue laws, or the forbidding of sex education in Government schools, or that Christ might be allowed back into our current Government education.

3.) Hart, and the other R2K heretics, need to consider the simple truth that

a.) Governments make laws
b.) All laws are derivative of morality
c.) All morality is derivative of religion
d.) Therefore all Governments are powerful enough and by necessity do promote the Magistrate’s vision of the one true religion.

4.) The fact that our government ignored our civil liberties to enforce our public health only proves that we need Christian government since a Christian government would never have embraced the humanist agenda to control its population through a pseudo disease scare. So, Hart’s “proof” that the government reaction to the Scamdemic proves we don’t need Christian government, in point of fact proves just the opposite. That our pagan “government ignored civil liberties to enforce public health,” demonstrates that we need Christian government so that this kind of thing never happens again and it is well nigh amazing that anybody would contend to the contrary — especially someone who claims to be a Christian.

5.) Hart complains about the idea of Christians “calling upon government to implement the idea of the public good by a minority of the American people.”

a.) Keep in mind that if the public good is not crafted by a Christian government it will necessarily mean that the religious adherents of some other religion will be calling upon the government to implement the idea of the public good. Does Hart think that the idea of the public good just leaps out of the head of Zeus? Does the man not realize that the public good is always shaped by the adherents of some religion?

b.) Hart’s implicit insistence that the public good has to be supported by the will of the majority is nothing but Rousseau’s idea of the general will, which is nothing but pure humanism.

c.) Hart, by opposing explicitly Christian government, ends up championing for explicitly non-Christian government. Now, Hart will try to insist that he wants neither Christian nor non-Christian government but that takes us back to the myth of neutrality. No government exists that isn’t a derivative from and a reflection of some kind of religion.

Darryl Gnostic Hart, were we living in a sane world, would be told that he either needs to repent of abandoning the Kingship of Jesus Christ or else be excommunicated, but we no longer live in a sane ecclesiastical world and so Hart (who has said even more egregious non-Christian statements) will continue being printed in pagan publications that call themselves “Christian” such as the OPC’s Ordained Servant.

Dr. Rev. Mark Dever & His Fundamentalist Christianity

“I’m a fundamentalist Christian, but I am happy to have Muslims, Jews, liberal Christians and non-religious types in our government.”

Rev. Mark Dever

For those who might not know, Dever started the 9Marks movement and was, in his day, what we used to call a “mover and shaker.” He’s not taken as some dimwit from Podunk, NY, though the above words testify to just the opposite.Where to start?

1.) Dever obviously isn’t smart enough to realize that there is no such thing as “non-religious” types. Of course there are those who claim to be non-religious but the claim and the reality are separated by a vast chasm.

2.) All Dever has told the reader with the above quote is that his “fundamentalism” is of a liberal variety. In other words Dever is a “Liberal fundamentalist.”

3.) Of course Dever is a Baptist and being Baptist the quote should not surprise us.

4.) Dever here communicates that he is for societal pluralism. Societal Pluralism is a nice way of saying “polytheism.” Dever, in the quote above states he is a polytheist. We wants to invite all the gods and their adherents into the public square.

5.) Although he doesn’t say it, we presume that Dever would also be fine with Biblical Christians being in the government. On the other hand he might not be, since a Biblical Christian would oppose “Muslims, Jews, liberal Christians and non-religious types in our government.”

6.) This Dever quote goes a long way towards proving my contention that “fundamentalist” is an inescapable category. Everyone you meet is a fundamentalist of one stripe or another. I am a Classical-Historical Calvinist fundamentalist. Illhan Omar and Zohar Mamdani are Muslim fundamentalists. Bibi Netanyahu, Bill Clinton, and Jeffrey Epstein were or are NWO fundamentalists. I never meet someone who is not a fundamentalist.

7.) However, Dever certainly is no fundamentalist Christian, though he may well be a “fundamentalist” “Christian.”

8.) Dever thinks he is being broad minded here but Dever’s statement really betrays a very narrow-minded approach. Dever is perfectly fine with any liberal system that embraces pluralism until someone shows up and says to Mr. Broadminded Dever … “Would you mind too terribly much including in your pluralism my view that abominates pluralism?” So, Dever is pluralistic just so long as what is not included in his pantheon of gods is a God who says, “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.” At that point Dever’s pluralism ends. He owns the god who teaches that all gods in the public square is fine except for any God who says all other gods have to go.

9.) When it is the case that one has Muslims, Jews, Liberal Christians, and “non-religious types” in one and the same government where does one find the ultimate transcendent reference point needed to rule? I mean, all the gods of all these people oppose one another. Given that opposition what ground does the government operate upon in order to make law? The Bible? The Talmud? Sharia? Humanist Manifestos?

I don’t think Dever and other’s like him have thought this through.

10.) Rev. Dr. Dever is not a wise man — and that regardless of how many degrees he has behind his name.