A Tale Of Two Completely Different Christianity’s Using The Same Language

James 2: 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.

As I will be on Holiday for the 508th celebration of the Reformation, I thought I would take a couple Sundays focusing on truths that the Reformation restored. These truths are still abominated by much of the Church world. Indeed, when one becomes Biblical and so Reformed one is immediately on the wrong side of the popularity game – even within the Church.

And so there is a ongoing need to return to these treasures in order to understand the Biblical foundation of Biblical Christianity. To do so we look to James 2 this morning in order to take up the matter of Salvation – Justification and Sanctification.

The enemies of Biblical Christianity, whether Arminian, Eastern Orthodox, or Roman Catholic, will come to James and say… “Ah … here we have proof that the Biblical doctrine of Justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone that you Reformed type come up with is utter nonsense.”

Well, is that the case? Is James contradicting Paul who could write explicitly in Romans

Romans 4:2 If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. 3 What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[a] 4 Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. 5 However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. 6 David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

7 “Blessed are those

whose transgressions are forgiven,

whose sins are covered.

8 Blessed is the one

whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”[b]

9 Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. 10 Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before! 11 And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. 12 And he is then also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. 13 It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. 14 For if those who depend on the law are heirs, faith means nothing and the promise is worthless, 15 because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression. 16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

So, the question is, is James contradiction Paul? Is God of two minds when it comes to this issue of how it is one is right w/ God. Paul says

5 However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

Yet here comes Randy Rome insisting that James says it is faith plus works wherein men can become right with God eventually.

As we come to James 2 we have to keep before ourselves what the problem is that James is dealing with. This is essential in order to understand this passage aright thus avoiding the soul damning mistakes that Rome makes when it comes to this passage.

James is dealing with the problem who claims to have faith in God. They would insist they are Christian but there is no evidence in their lives of this vital living faith. What does James say… The Holy Spirit says that such people are clearly lying to themselves about this so-called faith they have, because, the Holy Spirit says, genuine faith (as opposed to mere claims of faith) manifests itself in the person who has been declared righteous by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Seeking to be succinct and pithy so as to be memorable…

Paul deals with how it is a person is Justified … how it is they are right w/ God
James OTOH is dealing w/ how it is a person’s claim to being right w/ God is vindicated

Do you see the difference there? If we were to boil this down even more we would say;

Paul teaches how a man is justified
James teaches how a man’s justification is justified.

They are two completely different issues and so not in contradiction in the least. In point of fact Paul will say repeatedly in His writings what James says here. Paul will say…

Eph. 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

And again Paul speaking of;

Titus 2:13 Our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

Paul agrees with James because Paul and James are being inspired by the same Holy Spirit of God to write what they write and God does not embrace contradictions.

Of course this matter of how a man is accepted by God became one of the main contentious points of the Reformation. Rome then, and still today, insists that man will eventually be accepted by God, in some measure, by man’s cooperation with grace – by his behavior, while the Reformers insisted that man is now accepted by the behavior of Christ for Him.

And so Rome connects man’s behavior … his cooperation with the grace found in the sacramental system, with man’s eventually becoming right with God. While the Reformers following Scripture insisted that man does not become right with God over the course of time in concert with the Roman sacramental system combined with purgatory. The Reformers following Scripture insisted that God declares man right with God by God’s alone grace, through faith alone, in Christ alone. The alone are significant. They were placed there for the very reason of cutting out the ground beneath all claims that somehow man’s cooperating behavior is contriubtive to being right with God.

That is why to this day Rome, and Remonstrants, and Eastern Orthodox will howl whenever a Reformed chap comes along with the Gospel message. This is why to this day a Reformed person who stands on God’s Word on this matter will be greeted with hostility and will be considered a pariah. Especially if said person insists that this is the ONLY way of understanding how we are right with God and that all other ways may well lead to a person being eternally damned.

There is another matter we should note here in order to hopefully clarify matters in our mind. When we say that being right before God is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, we are at the same time saying w/ Paul in Romans 4:5 “that God justifies the ungodly.” Heathen Romish ways that misinterpret James teach that God only justifies the godly.

Why do I say that … well, it is due to the fact that the Roman sacramental system combined with purgatory is a system of salvation wherein a person is only finally declared righteous once they finally are righteous. By continuing to attend to the sacraments of Rome … followed by the time spent in purgatory burning off remaining sin, Rome teaches that the believer is finally justified in and of himself so that God can now say … “Well, because you are now just, I justify you.”

This is exactly contrary to Scripture. In the scriptural account God declares man, for the sake of the finished work of Jesus Christ to be be justified – man is right with God. Not because the redeemed man is now in and of himself all that God demands of Him, but because Christ put to the account of the ungodly His righteousness.

So … seeking for the pithy and memorable again …

Rome teaches that one is declared right with God because they have become right with God by cooperating with grace found in the sacramental system.

Scripture teaches that one is declared right with God because justifies the ungodly because of Christ’s finished work.

If we examine this in another way we would say that Rome, Remonstrants, and EO, have given us what we might call Christian Humanism. In this Christian Humanism man saves himself by his good works, his behavior, and his attendance on the sacramental system. This isn’t grace. This is self-salvation w/ God getting a hockey assist.

You see my friends as we consider James again, Rome looks at James and says it confirms their position. For them James is insisting that God works are combined with faith to the end of being right with God. For them these good works are seeking to attain something (being declared right with God) that is uncertain without their contribution. For the Reformed these good works are not in the least contributory to being declared right with God. For the Reformed these good works are the consequence of knowing that they have been declared right with God.

What does this mean? Well one thing it means is you could have two people (One who is Roman Catholic and one who is Reformed) doing the same exact good works and one is on their way to hell while the other is heaven bound? Why would that be? Well it is because Rome is working to obligate God to given them a salvation they cannot have apart from their cooperation while the Reformed is working out of gratitude to God for the salvation that can never be revoked or taken away. The difference is found in the motivation. Rome is motivated by gaining salvation. The Reformed are motivated because they have been freely given salvation.

This is why James can say marry faith and deeds. James insists that faith is dead without good works not because faith and works are required in order to be right with God, but rather because the consequent product of genuine faith that rests in Christ alone for being right with God is a zealousness for good works. When James complains of Faith unaccompanied by works he is not teaching that our behavior contributes to our being right with God. It is Jesus’ behavior alone that finds us declared right by God. James is saying that Faith unaccompanied by works is dead because such a faith is not faith. Even the demons have that kind of faith.

Look… we need to remind ourselves here that even after conversion our good works without being accepted for the sake of Jesus Christ still fall short of God’s standard for being good. It’s all a matter of God’s favor my friends. God accepts me for the sake of Jesus Christ’s work on the cross. God accepts my good works only for the same reason. The Spirit of Christ is daily increasingly conforming me to Christ in my thinking and behavior but even when my thinking and behavior are at their top level best they are still received and delighted in by God, not for the sake of their intrinsic righteous value but for the sake of the Father being pleased by Christ.

My friends, people who think that God accepts their good works as contributory along w/ Christ’s finished work unto the end of eventually one day in the future being right with God have not ever really understood the sinfulness of their sin.

This is why Christ is center for the Christian. It is why we hang crosses everywhere. My only hope is nothing less than Jesus and His righteousness.

Last week I had a Eastern Orthodox ask me;

Where do you even get this unbiblical idea that you are righteous simply by trusting Christ alone? My answer was, “Why, from Scripture alone of course.”

Galatians 2

15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified[a] by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. 17 But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! 18 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. 19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness[b] were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

Look, when Rome comes to James insisting that James proves that our works are part of our being right with God what they are saying is that Christ doesn’t by Himself save His people by His righteousness imputed but instead people must add their additional works to Christ’s incomplete work and if they don’t add their additional works they will forever be damned? As such Christ doesn’t save but gives us the opportunity to save ourselves with maybe a little help from Him. That’s very good of God to allow us to save ourselves.

This is why I said earlier that this is nothing but religious humanism. It is a man centered religion where Christian language is used in order to cover up the fact that men are involved in an enterprise dedicated to saving themselves.

Now having said all this what do we do with James 2

24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

The Roman Catholic here will run to this verse in triumph insisting that our idea of salvation by Grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone is nonsense.

But again, remember the context here. The context is people claiming to have faith but not having correspondent works. The question that James is answering is … “How is that Christian faith is seen as vindicated.”

The Greek word in vs. 24 for “Justified” has a range of meaning that includes the idea of vindicated. This same word is translated that way in I Tim. 3:16. So, James is saying that if man claims to have faith (which is the context of this passage) then the vindication to that claim is the justified man’s behavior. However, has we have been laboring to explain, teaching how a man’s faith is vindicated is far different than teaching how a man is made right with God.

A person’s justification needs vindicated in James, as we see in James 2, because false claims are being made. People are saying they are justified (declared right w/ God via forensic declaration through faith alone in Christ alone) when there was no evidence to their claim. The evidence of which is good works. But good works are the evidence of Justification and NOT the foundation of Justification.

All of what we have said was zeroed in on by our own catechism in LD 11;

Q. Do such then believe in Jesus the only Savior, who seek their salvation and welfare of saints, of themselves, or anywhere else?

A. They do not; for though they boast of Him in words, yet in deeds they DENY Jesus the ONLY deliverer and Savior; for one of these two things must be true, either that Jesus is not a COMPLETE Savior, OR that they who by a true faith receive this Savior must find all things in Him necessary to their salvation.

Scriptural Support

1 Cor. 1:13, 31. Gal. 5:4 Col. 2:10. Isa. 9:6, 7. Col. 1:19, 20

Rome does not give us a complete savior. In the Romish system that insists that James is teaching our works are required for being declared right w/ God we find the denial that Jesus Christ is a complete savior.

With that in mind we now read James 2

26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

And with this all Protestants agree. Our only insistence is that works are the inevitable consequence of a living and vital faith and not contributory in the least to being right with God. As I cast my eyes across the dead churches of the West, I would say to our modern dead Church as James writes here … “You claim faith but your lack of good works as defined by God’s law means your faith is dead.”

Conclusion

I have tried to demonstrate, once again, that the religion of Rome and the religion of Geneva really are two completely different religions. Perhaps they both are not Christianity but it is certain that they both can NOT be Christianity.

We each own two different chaps both named Jesus. We both embrace completely different ideas of salvation. We both have completely different understandings of Church. We each have completely different worldviews.

And all this despite using the same words. It really is quite amazing and demonstrates how Worldviews affect EVERYTHING.

Old Toby Sumter & Proof Of The Conservative Resurgence In Israel

“‘a conservative resurgence in Israel;’” I’m talking about people I met personally who take the 10 Commandments seriously.”
Toby Sumpter
Chief Lieutenant to Doug Wilson
Article Insisting that he is not a shill for Israel

Now, when Old Toby talks about being in Israel and relates the conservative resurgence to people he met personally who take the 10 commandments seriously, I can only conclude he can’t be serious.

Consider, that Old Toby very likely here is talking about Jews he met in Israel who “take the 10 commandments seriously.” Here is Toby Sumpter, a minister, who wants me to believe that Christ hating Bagels take the 10 commandments seriously. I thought it was Christian doctrine that only people who trust Jesus Christ as their alone savior were people who could take the 10 commandments seriously since in order to take the 10 commandments seriously one has to trust the Christ as savior to whom the 10 commandments are pointing. In order to take the 10 commandments seriously One has to trust in Jesus Christ who alone can fulfill the requirement of the law in our stead and impute to us his law keeping righteousness. These are the only people who take the 10 commandments seriously.

Elsewhere in the same article Old Toby writes;

For example, did you know that there is an anti-Pride parade in Jerusalem every year? Don’t you think that matters? Israel also has the highest birthrate among Western nations. Doesn’t that matter at all?

Toby Sumpter
Shilling For Israel

For Old Toby the above proves that there is a Conservative Resurgence in Israel.

So, our enemies have the highest birthrate among “Western” nations and that is supposed to convince me there is a conservative resurgence in Israel? Is this like telling the tribes that provided the sacrifices for the Aztecs;

“Not to worry, there is a conservative resurgence in Tenochtitlan. We know this because the Aztecs are having more babies.”

I’m sure that would be quite comforting to those tribes conquered by the Aztecs.

Methinks that Rev. Sumpter needs to bone up on his theology.

Bagel Inroads In America Continue In Our Culture & Our Churches


Recently, there has been a great deal of attention (even more than usual) to all things Bagel. The most glaring recent example is how the Bagels are gobbling up, in a more intense manner than previously, the media outlets in America.

We know that the last letter that Charlie Kirk wrote to Netanyahu (in May) was full of pleading that Netanyahu pay attention to the fact that Israel was losing the propaganda war. Since then Bagels have gobbled up the propaganda machine knowns as “Tik Tok” (Michael Bell, Rupert Murdoch, and Larry Ellison).  This is in addition to all the other media giant conglomerations that the Bagels control.

This means that whether it is TikTok, MTV, Paramount, CBS, etc. what viewers will be getting is disinformation (propaganda) that is heavily weighted in favor of the Bagel interests. This comes at the same time that an organization related to Doug Wilson just offered 10million to purchase “Christianity Today.” Now, knowing Wilson’s predilection for all things Israel;

“My affection for Israel is personal, in addition to being theological and political. My wife’s great-great-grandfather was Rabbi Cohn, one of my co-grandfathers is a Christian Jew, my kids and grandkids have cousins who are Israeli, and according to AncestryDNA, I myself am 2% European Jewish. Nancy is 11% European Jew, her mother 26%. What all this amounts to is that our family would be much more involved on an active personal level if terrorists overran Israel than we would be if terrorists overran Vermont.” 

Pope Doug Wilson

it is easy to understand why some wags have projected that if Wilson’s organization is able to secure “Christianity Today,” the name of the magazine will be changed to “Judeo-Christianity Today.” There’s even a funny meme going around with the latest proposed new Wilson owned cover for “Judeo-Christianity Today.”

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10236496790787244&set=a.1132919770643

Whether it is the Lamestream Lugenpresse or whether some future “Judeo-Christianity Today,” it seems that unless folks are willing to dig beneath the surface for the truth they are going to be just eating out of the troughs of Bagel propaganda.

The fact that the US is bedeviled by all things Bagel is seen in

a.) Israel’s role in JFK assassination
b.) Israel’s attempt to sink the US Liberty
c.) Jonathan Pollard spy case
d.) The Rise of Dispensationalism

Now add in the Dancing Israelis on 9-11 along with the rampant speculation that Israel was involved in the Charlie Kirk murder and it can be easily seen the need is for less Bagel influence in American affairs and not more such is going to be the case with the recent media purchases by Larry Ellison.

Still the drum of Bagel influence keeps beating. Recently, a couple chaps tightly tied to Doug Wilson and who run a podcast that is fairly popular among the CREC groupies were given an all expense paid 10 day trip to Israel by a Bagel organization. Toby and Gabe came back singing the praises of Israel. The same Israel that is the porn capital of the world. The same Israel where the pervert crowd goes to Tel Aviv to go on pervert holiday.

https://www.insidehook.com/travel/tel-aviv-queer-epicenter

Yet despite these objective facts old Toby, chief Lieutenant to Doug Wilson and full of great aspirations (along with Jared Longshore) to  be the one who most perfectly apes Doug Wilson in speech, mannerism, and writing style, insists that Israel is on the cusp of in Old Toby’s word’s, “a conservative resurgence.”

In many ways modern Israel is the front line defense against anti-Christian & anti-Western barbarism.”

Rev. Toby Sumpter
CREC

Doug Wilson Lieutenant

Can you imagine anyone having their brains being so soft as to repeat this talking point once returning from all expense paid trip to Israel? Now, no one doubts that there are a small minority of Bagels in Israel that are seeking to be true to a immoral morality but the idea that Israel is serving as a front line defense against anti-Christian & anti-Western Barbarism is just lunacy. Did Old Toby visit the Brothels of Tel Aviv? Did he go witness the porn manufacturing? Did he partake of the LGBTQ night life? Was Old Toby spat upon, as commonly happens in Israel, for sharing his Christian faith?

That Old Toby is inside the Evangelical tent shilling for Israel is seen in this statement from Old Toby;

 

“If we are to take the virtue of natural affection’ seriously, it really must be part of our conversation surrounding our relationship to Israel and the Jews because the Bible teaches that the Jews are our apostate older brother.”

Rev. Toby Sumpter

Blogger @ “No Legs … Still Walking”

Never mind that “Natural Affection” means NATURAL and not Spiritual. Paul did not mean that Jews were, by blood, our older brother. As such … “Natural Affection” does not apply.

Never mind that even in the Ordo amoris if someone who is blood related and they apostatize you treat them as if they are infidel. You shun them until they repent.

Never mind that modern day Israel bears virtually ZERO relationship to the Jews of the OT but instead are Khazars and Edomites by blood. There is a reason why, Toby, that Israel imposes significant regulatory restrictions on DNA testing, particularly those related to familial ties.

This is ASSININE beyond words and is doing the work of subversion. This may be some of the best evidence yet that Moscow. like the broader Lugenpress in America, is bought and paid for by the Bagels.

Beware the CREC.

Beware the American Reformed clergy.

Dr. Andrew Walker’s Crowing About The Virtues Of Baptist Thinking Refuted

“I’m shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED, that regularly reciting the Nicene Creed and even enshrining a church-state establishment weren’t enough to inoculate against the corrosive trajectories of theological liberalism. Stay frosty and stay Baptist, friends.”

Dr. Andrew T. Walker 
Professor – Theology 
SBTS

Here Walker is responding to the fact that a woman (Sarah Mullally) was approved by King Charles III as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the world’s 85 million Anglicans. Walker’s point, being a Baptist, is that Erastian Church-State relations don’t stop the “corrosive trajectories of theological liberalism.” Walker’s other implied point is that countries that practice a separation of Church and State are obviously superior to Erastian type Church-State relations. Of course both points are bogus.

We might want to take a gander at the British American cousins across the pond to see that the sacred Baptist principle of separation of Church and State has not fared so well in terms of the corrosive trajectories of theological liberalism. Dr. Stephen Wolfe nails this point in responding to Dr. Walker;

I’d like to point that every degeneracy of our time–everything you protect your kids from–arose without church establishment but under the secular conditions affirmed by Walker. If church establishment necessarily leads to apostasy, then “baptist” secular politics necessarily leads to degeneracy. The track record of Walker’s “contestation” liberalism is not good.

Next, we have to understand, that Walker’s supposed separation of Church and State has always been a mirage. There is never a time when the Church and State don’t work hand in glove. The only difference between England and ourselves is that England was open about its Erastianism while America has cloaked it in the language of “separation of Church and State,” all the while establishing the State Church in the Institution of the Government schools. America is every bit as Erastian as England. We just hide it from ourselves. It is natural for Walker to defend “anti-Erastian” arrangement since with anti-Erastian arrangements his preferred Baptist Erastianism can continue going forward. Since neutrality is impossible there is no such thing as separation of Church and State. Now, one may correctly speak about distinctions between Church and State but separation never exists.

The fact that separation never exists is seen in the fact that the current state is now a bonafide Humanist organization with the intent of persecuting above all those Biblical Christians and Churches who defy the Humanist State. The State must do this because it desires to prioritize the theological teachings of the Humanist Church as it is located in the Government schools and Universities.

Next, we would have to say that it is the “staying of being Baptist” that has brought us to the place we are now at in the US. How have the non-establishment Baptists slowed the cultural decline? For Pete’s sake, the non-establishment Baptists have not even been able to rescue their own denominations from the “corrosive trajectories of theological liberalism.” Talk about the pot calling the kettle, “black.”

Indeed, I think one could argue that it is the Baptist refusal to see linkage between church and state that has led to creating the vacuum that was filled by humanism as being the religion of the State and of most Churches in the former Christian West. Walker’s proposed solution (more Baptist thinking) is the problem that brought us to the place we are at.

It may be true that Christian Erastianism has slain its thousands, but it is even more true that Baptist “separation of Christian Church and Christian State” thinking as slain its hundreds of thousands.

By the way … this kind of Baptist thinking fits well with the Radical Two Kingdom theology that we now find so current in Covenant Reformed pulpits. R2K fanboys would be, on this point, cheek by jowl with the Baptists. The point for both is, “No affirmations of the Christian faith in the public square by political personages in their roles as political personages.”

A pox upon all of their houses.

Sundry Observations On The Regnant Follies

In the last 5 days I have become aware, receiving phone calls from points 1000 miles + in different directions, of young men who have been introduced to the fire that comes from it being known that they embrace Kinism (“race-realism,” “familialism,” ethno-nationalism”) or whatever label one wants to place on basically the same set of ideas. I must say that I continue to be perplexed over the angst that is created by embracing a Christian doctrine that has been embraced in all times and in all places where the Church has embraced orthodoxy … until 1960 or so.

Not only am I perplexed but I am saddened for them in terms of the price they are having to pay to swim against the tide. I am saddened by those who are making them pay that price. I am saddened (and angered) by the cowardice of those who would make these men of quality character walk their WOKE Cultural Marxist plank. Further, I am saddened that the people who are making them walk the plank can’t see the Christianity, church, and culture they are leaving to their children and grandchildren.

The greatest threat to Christianity, Christendom, and our homes today is egalitarianism in its various shapes and forms and yet the “conservative” “Reformed” church, as well as individual Christians, insists that those who are willing to call a spade a ruddy shovel on the issue must not be allowed to sully their churches or families. On the island of the insane, only the sane are considered insane.

Of course egalitarianism, historically, has always been the province of the Ana-Baptists and then later, the Marxists. Both have in common the impulse of leveling. Leveling is what egalitarianism does. It flattens out all God ordained distinction in favor of making of us all, regardless of our race, or gender cogs in the societal machine. We are seeing the effects of this leveling recently in the PCA as Michael Foster has exposed the feminism, matriarchy, and egalitarian leveling that is rife in the PCA. We saw the effects of the leveling by the leveling document on race passed this year by the ARP, RPCNA, and PCA. Recently, we have seen a leveling proposal that is being offered up in the CREC. It seems we are all Ana-Baptist and Cultural Marxist levelers now. Indeed, it seems even that one can’t love Jesus if they are not a leveler.

Of course this leveling and egalitarianism is not the witness that comes to us from Reformed History. John Calvin for example could write;

“Regarding our eternal salvation, it is true that one must not distinguish between man and woman, or between king and a shepherd, or between a German and a Frenchman. Regarding policy, however, we have what St. Paul declares here; for our, Lord Jesus Christ did not come to mix up nature, or to abolish what belongs to the preservation of decency and peace among us….Regarding the kingdom of God (which is spiritual) there is no distinction or difference between man and woman, servant and master, poor and rich, great and small. Nevertheless, there does have to be some order among us, and Jesus Christ did not mean to eliminate it, as some flighty and scatterbrained dreamers [believe].”

John Calvin
Sermon on 1 Corinthians 11:2-3

The flighty and scatterbrained dreamers Calvin refers to above are the Ana-Baptists but now it is the Reformed in the CREC, ARP, PCA, and RPCNA who are the flighty and scatter-brained dreamers.

Considering a tangent that is related to this issue, I am concerned about those who are reputed to be leaders in this movement. To be perfectly blunt I see a lot of grifters and con-men rushing to get to the front of the racial-realist growing parade. I am reminded of the tea-party movement after Obama was elected President. The rank and file who comprised the tea-party movement had good instincts but the whole movement was co-opted by the chaps who rushed to get in front of the parade in order to lead it. I am concerned that the same thing is going to happen with any resurgent Biblical and conservative counter-revolutionary impulse. For example, men like Michael Foster have explicitly made known in the past their opposition to even the most benign Kinism. Other chaps are running to get in front of the parade but one wonders where they were when the weather was a little more inclement on the subject. I don’t agree with Mahler’s Lutheranism, and I don’t agree with some of what I consider his explicit National Socialism fodder but I will give the chap this much… he has paid his dues.

Right now, the greatest danger to a burgeoning movement is fair weather friends. The greatest danger are those types who by all appearances are licking their finger and sticking it in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing before they dare take a position. These are a danger because they will pivot any time the wind shifts or the donations dry up. Some are also a danger because their worldviews are uneven. Men like E. Michael Jones are excellent on the Bagel question but just horrible on the race issue. Jared Taylor, on the other hand is excellent on the race issue but just terrible on the Bagel problem. Then there are others, like the CREC (Canon Press, Cross-Politic podcast) who say that they are against Ana-Baptist leveling and yet are horrid on both the race issue and the Bagel issue at the same time.

I don’t know where this all ends up. It keeps up at night. It drives me to my knees in prayer so I won’t stay up all night. I find myself praying for my children and grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I will never know. I don’t want them to grow up in cog culture where all distinctions are lost and where all colors bleed into one. You see, I understand, that the Cultural Marxist/Ana-Baptist egalitarian war for the sake of leveling has as its final goal the leveling of the distinction between God and man. In point of fact one might argue that leveling is the starting point of all this subsequent leveling.

My postmillennialism keeps me afloat. I know that God will win and space and time and so, despite the appearance of bad odds against us I continue to fight.