False Guilt, Atonement, & Modern Man

When man refuses to look to Christ for atonement for his genuine sin and guilt he will become manipulated by both genuine guilt and subsequent false guilt with the consequence that fallen man will seek to provide self atonement through either sadist or masochist means. Man apart from Christ will either seek to transfer his guilt to others in a pseudo-religious act of humanist atonement or man will masochistically punish himself in an act of attempted self atonement.

The act of masochistic atonement that is being seen right now is the white man seeking to work off his assigned false guilt and provide self atonement by owning the false guilt heaped on by the pseudo idea of “white guilt,” “white privilege,” and “white fragility,” as well as the false notion of systemic racism. Instead of dealing with his genuine sin against the God of the Bible and the resulting guilt by looking to Christ alone as the sin-bearer and guilt remover fallen white man is accepting humanist false guilt and is trying to masochistically work it off by accepting the social order penalties that is currently being heaped on him by the sadistic Cultural Marxist minorities, feminists, and perverts, etc. who themselves are trying to work out their own sin and guilt by sadistically placing it upon the white man.

All of this explains why it is only Reformation and a trusting of Jesus Christ to take away real sin and guilt that can deliver us from our current CRT social order suicide pursuit. As long as fallen man refuses to look to Christ alone who can take away sin he will forever manipulate others with guilt or will be manipulated by guilt all in an attempt to find a way to gain atonement and so rid themselves of a guilt that can never be removed apart from the finished work of Jesus Christ.

You see, no matter how much he promises himself that the most recent innovation of self atonement will finally take away his guilt, he is left with a never-ending sense of guilt. The consequence is that he will continue to be manipulated by Cultural Marxists, WOKE politicians and humanist psychologists with false guilt.

I am convinced that it was this dynamic that found Obama being elected in 2012. Men and women without Christ believed that they could be atoned for by the masochist work of voting for the magic negro Barack Obama who would take sin and false guilt away from self-loathing white people. I am convinced that it is this dynamic that finds white people accepting all the smegma that comes from the CRT toady-drops that are being heaped upon them. I am convinced that a whole lot of the “help people” programs that do-gooders pursue with such conviction that sprout up all around us are a product of guilt not being handled properly.

This reality reminds us that as with all lies, we get swings between rationalism and irrationalism. Sometimes guilt is acknowledged, eg white guilt, and false atonements and mortifications are attempted. Other times guilt is pathologized as a psychiatric illness, and various self-help therapies are adopted to cure this bad feeling and restore self esteem. Neither works, hence the oscillation. One escape is to change the law in one’s mind, to justify and rationalize behavior, usually by hating the victim.
 Ultimately guilt can only be healthily confronted in the light of the atonement of Jesus Christ. Only by petitioning for a pardon based on Christ’s death in my place can fallen man admit guilt and say he is worthy of death and yet maintain hope and self-esteem because Christ provided atonement and so died in his stead. 
“Eventually, the end came to the hard years of the Soviet Russian Bolshevik Revolution and with the end of the hard years, there came an ethos that seemed to endorse more freedom in sexual matters. The radical intelligentsia of the Revolution had originally viewed women as an exploited group; the family, an extension of Capitalism. In this context, the husband was considered the bourgeois, his wife the enslaved proletarian. Laws had been passed ‘that made divorce easily attainable, removed the formal stigma of illegitimacy, permitted abortion, and mandated equal pay and rights for women.’ A chance remark by Lenin that ‘the act of love should ‘be as simple as drinking a glass of water’ had become the rationale for unlimited promiscuity, causing free sexual relations to become one of the fringe benefits of the Revolution… The Soviet state had even shown a desire to assume unprecedented responsibility for the country’s youth.”

S. J. Taylor

Stalin’s Apologist
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1.) Like the Soviets after the Bolshevik Revolution, we have easy divorce laws.

2.) Also, the quote above explains why women are prioritized over men in this culture. (White) Men are seen as the hated Bourgeoisie that must be punished while women in our Marxist template are automatically virtuous because they are the oppressed working class. As such women must be freed from the dreaded patriarchy of Christianity.

3.) Illegitimacy is no longer stigmatized. We no longer speak of “bastardy” or of bastard children.

4.) Abortion is as easily attainable now as it was in the USSR after the Revolution.

5.) More freedom in sexual matters … yep
6.) Unlimited promiscuity … yep
7.) The State taking over the raising of youth … yep
Is there any reason for me to not think that America is Communist?
Seriously, I believe that our social order is communist.

Rushdoony on Psychology

“But what of those who deny that mankind is the standard, and who hold that Biblical faith requires separation and division? The prophets of mental health of this religion of humanity know the answer: they are mentally sick. God’s hell is outlawed, but a new hell has opened up for apostates: mental sickness, with its many mansions. Mental health is so defined that not only political and economic conservatives but all orthodox Christians are clearly sick. Did not Freud say that religious people avoided the personal neuroses by accepting the cosmic neuroses? The fact that they are more responsible, stable and neuroses free is itself proof of their sickness, i.e., acceptance of the cosmic neuroses, God! The prophets of mental health must be given free reign to ‘heal’ mankind by a vast reorganization of the world. The results of the mental health programs have been a steady encroachment on civil liberties of a most flagrant sort. The power of psychiatrist is the foundation of a new and more fearful inquisition. The relationship of the psychiatrist to courts of law is increasingly seen by many as a threat to society. To criticize the mental health movement is to draw fire on oneself as mentally disturbed and also, an added ‘evil’ a champion of political and economic conservatism. This is not surprising. Freud provided two ‘impregnable’ defenses. First, since the questions of man’s nature are biological and not religious; they are therefore expert, medical and not lay problems. A do-it-yourself program may be valid in religion but not in medicine. As a result laymen are denied the right to criticize the mysteries of the mental health program. Second, any resistance to acceptance of his theories was for Freud an infallible sign of truth, for the person was fighting against the exposure of his unconscious with is darkly hidden impulses and sickness. Thus, the critic of Freud merely proved himself guilty. These two techniques of defense have been widely adopted.”

R. J. Rushdoony
Freud – pg. 67-68

1.) The “Discipline” (it really should be called “Fairy Tale”) of Psychology has been used since its inception as a battering ram to destroy Christendom in general and the Christian faith in particular. It has no more credibility now then it did when it started as phrenology with the determining of character by the feeling of bumps on people’s craniums. Psychology is the biggest hoax that has been foisted on Western Man since the serpent walked into the garden selling apples. Whenever I hear the word “psychology” I reach for my revolver.

2.) The absolute worthlessness of psychology doesn’t mean there aren’t people who are seriously twisted. But saying that psychology shows its worth by being able to identify twisted people is like arguing that my broken clock shows its worth by being able to identify the right time twice a day. Hey people, even a blind old sow can find an acorn once in awhile.

3.) Theodoro Adorno’s “Authoritarian Personality” along with other input from the cultural marxist movement has been a large influence on the shrink community. The cultural Marxists have been successful at using psychology and psychiatry to pathologize all that once was and in point of fact remains normal. As I have it in the bold print above, all conservative expressions, any belief in absolute truth descending from a personal God, all rants against psychology (including this one) putatively proves that people are clinically sick to the people who have been designated as the official “pointers out of sick people.”

4.) If the Church is supposed to hold the keys to the Kingdom, increasingly it is the case that the shrinks hold the keys to the Church. Increasingly, denominations are requiring their ministry candidates to be funneled through a gauntlet of psychological tests, psychologists, psychologist recommendations, psychologist sessions and psychologist cow pies. Some day, if Reformation ever comes, people are going to look back at this and laugh at all the money, time, and talent wasted due to this psychology charade. All of this is the concrete expression of what Rushdoony above calls “the new and more fearful inquisition” of our times.

5.) As a professional, I have met many many of these types of people. I have yet to meet one who has anything approaching a Biblical worldview. This is scary given the fact that this “discipline” is required for almost any professional field of study anymore. The inmates are running the asylum.

6.) Finally, its pretty good work if you can get it when you can be in a career where if people disagree with you it proves that you are right, since their disagreement reveals their unwillingness to accept the truth, and where if people agree with you it proves that you are right.

The acceptance of psychology and psychiatry in my estimation more than anything else proves that people are lemmings and will believe anything. Psychiatry is a hoax and yet if you just keep repeating the lie long enough and loud enough that it is profound and insightful everybody follows along.

I’m not following.

From The Mailbag … Conversation with Pentecostal Pastor Andy Shaver

To be honest with you Bret, there is no good fruit to come from the argument that will ensue if we continue this conversation. I used to enjoy apologetics in my early years in ministry. I have lost my taste for that and this invitation to pray was not intended to spark debate nor win in any argument anyway. I want to see the Kingdom of God come in our city. I will not convince you to ENCOUNTER Jesus in any way that you are not already expecting. And you will not convince me that what I EXPERIENCE is not valid. GREATER THEOLOGY IS NOT WHAT THE CHURCH NEEDS, what we need is Greater revelation of who Jesus is.

Blessings
Rev. Andy Shaver
Real Life Church
Charlotte Mich.
Dear Andy,
1.) You want a fuller revelation of Jesus but expect to have that fuller revelation apart from a greater understanding of our undoubted catholic Christian faith and the doctrines and theology that convey that fuller revelation? That is passing odd.

2.) I will be praying that your vision and understanding of the Kingdom of God will be kept at bay. You say you want the Kingdom of God to come to Charlotte and yet you want a Kingdom that is not theologically informed, or if theologically informed only barely theologically informed. That is a Kingdom that I am adamantly opposed to and so despite the fact that we are both Christian ministers I am fervently praying your work fails.

3.) In our discussion, I appealed to Scripture. You appealed to experience and encounter. You do realize that your appeal is classical liberal theology right? Barthian theologians have always emphasized existential encounters over theological precision.

4.) Honestly, I think I’m the only one with the different theology here. Inasmuch as y’all are coming together you express that you have unity in theology.

5.) You say you want a greater revelation of who Jesus is but how can you grasp that greater revelation of who Jesus is apart from theology? That’s like saying you want a greater understanding of chocolate chip cookies apart from chocolate chips. In brief, it is an idiotic thing to say.

6.) Andy, you are an absolute hindrance to the advance of the Kingdom of God with your anti-Christ theology. I will be praying that God rescues His sheep from your grasp.

7.) A man with an argument is never at the mercy of a man with an experience. I promise to pray for your repentance while I am praying for my repentance and while you are praying for “revival.”

Christianity & Nationalism


1 Timothy 5:3-4, 8: “But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is ]good and acceptable before God.

Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.”

Here St. Paul,  insists that we have a unique responsibility first and foremost to our nuclear families and beyond that to our extended Trustee families.  We are responsible to those nearest to us in the ordained concentric circles of responsibility and affection that God has spoken into existence and placed us.

St. Paul starts with the command that children and grandchildren have a unique responsibility to their parents above all others. What Paul has to say in vs. 3-4 could legitimately be condensed to say “Charity begins at home.” Just as parents have a unique responsibility for their children when raising them so children have a unique responsibility to their parents in their dotage.

One of the sins of the Social Security program (and there are many) is that it relieves the privilege of children from financially helping their parents in their dotage. In this, we see again another place where the State has stepped in to seize the unique responsibilities of family and Church and so diminish the authority and place of the family.

What the Holy Spirit has to say here of course is merely the working out of the 5th word to Honor our Fathers and Mothers. Further, this reminds us that the Honor for parents God requires is an honor that extends beyond childhood. We never get so old that our responsibility to honor our parents is eclipsed by how old we become. Indeed, honoring our parents extends beyond their deaths.

After Paul gives the responsibility of children and grandchildren to provide for their aged parents, he goes on to give the negative side of the matter by expanding the responsibility to beyond parents including extended family. In vs. 8 he says that those who do not provide for their relatives and especially their own household are worse than an infidel.

Obviously, this is a serious matter to use that kind of language. Again, the unique relationship that we have to family over those outside that circle is articulated here. We learn that to disobey the precepts of the gospel, is to deny or renounce the faith of the gospel; from whence we infer, that the faith of the gospel has the consequence of obedience to its precepts. When one disregards these precepts of the Christian faith one is worse than an infidel.

All this so far said to communicate the unique relationship we have to our family. We see here that it is true that grace does not destroy nature but rather grace perfects nature. St. Paul is calling the Christians to not do less than the pagans did.

Gelgacus, in Tacitus, says, “Nature dictates that to every one, his own children and relatives should be most dear.” Cicero says, “Every man should take care of his own family ” – suos quisque debet tueri; see Rosenmuller, in loc., and also numerous examples of the same kind quoted from Apuleius, Cicero, Plutarch, Homer, Terence, Virgil, and Servius, in Pricaeus, in loc.

We are not more Holy when we somehow say that since we are Christians these unique familial responsibilities no longer apply to us. Jesus aimed at this when He forbade the invoking of “Corban” in order to ignore financial responsibility to parents. (Mark 7:11)

Jesus took this responsibility so seriously that one of the last things he did while hanging on the Cross was to provide for his own Mother. (John 19:26-27)

We Christians above all should have a special regard for our family — both the family that is near to us and the family that is more distant from us. We can say that because St. Paul himself says that. The responsibility he says is inclusive of those more distant (relatives) but more so towards those most immediate; “especially his own parents.”

Elsewhere, St. Paul expands again his family concentric circle, showing that a special love while beginning with parents and then expanding to relatives also applies to his people spoken of as a whole.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.  (Romans 9:3)

Love for the nation is merely the next concentric circle of God-ordained love. The most inner circle is the immediate family, the next concentric circle is love for more distant relatives. The next concentric circle is for one’s own people… one’s nation.

Within these concentric circles, there is included the family of God — Do good to all men but especially to the household of faith (Gal. 6:10) —  which does not supersede or replace responsibility to family but is super-added so that our responsibilities to be an aid can never be exhausted.

In Romans 9:3 we note that Paul is not merely talking about his immediate family. Paul is speaking about the household of Israel. This love of Paul for his people is something extraordinary when one considers the meat-grinder his own people put him through. Conspiracy to murder him. Beatings. The raising of unrest upon his arrival in a city. The opposition of Paul’s own people to Paul is the stuff that you and I would walk away from in a skinny minute and yet Paul still proclaims his love for his own kinsmen according to the flesh.

So, there it is in a nutshell. God has ordained that family love be honored in a vision of concentric circles. Most immediately we have a responsibility to what we call today our Nuclear family. From there we have a responsibility to our extended family. The next concentric circle of responsibility is our nation since the nation is but family writ large. Included in those circles is the family of God with the same principle of being an aid first to those in our own immediate fellowship and then outward from there.

This simple Biblical truth is now anathema in many quarters in the modern Church. This opposition to the Biblical truth on the family set forth by Scripture had its origins long ago by the enemy of Christianity. Here we quote from a chap who was Karl Marx before Karl Marx was Karl Marx;

“With the origin of nations and peoples the world ceased to be a great family, a single Kingdom; the great tie of Nature was torn… Nationalism took the place of love of mankind… Now it became a virtue to magnify one’s Fatherland at the expense of whoever was not enclosed within its limits, now as a means to this narrow end, it was permitted to despise and outwit foreigners indeed even to insult them. This virtue was called “Patriotism,” …. So out of Patriotism arose Localism, the family spirit, and finally Egoism… Diminish Patriotism, then men will learn to know each other again as such, their dependence on each other will be lost the bond of union will be widened out.”

This was written by one of the evilest men who has ever walked the planet. Louis Blanc called him “the profoundest conspirator of all time.” He was one of the intellectual forerunners of Karl Marx. The name of the author of our quote is Adam Weishaupt.

Keep in mind that Weishaupt wrote what he wrote in the quote above as a man committed to the 18th-century version of a New World Order. As such Weishaupt is opposed to Nationalism, Patriotism, Family and Patriarchy. He viewed them as desultory vestiges of Christianity.

The reason I quote this though is that the quote above or some version of it could easily be heard from Reformed pulpits across this country on any given Lord’s Day. Many of our American clergy corps has adopted the Weishauptian paradigm of hatred for Nations, Family, Patriotism, and Patriarchy.

Note in the Weishaupt quote the idea that the problem with Nationalism is that it breaks up the brotherhood of all men. In doing so Weishaupt denies the Biblical antithesis that insists on the irremediable chasm between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. All men … all ministers who declaim against Nationalism and champion some form of “the brotherhood of all men” are denying this antithesis.

Of course, Weishaupt is just lying through his serpentine tongue when he talks about how Nationalism took the place of the love of all mankind. That is like saying, “because I love my wife, therefore, I hate all other women.” It is a non-sequitur.  Similarly, the idea that love of a nation means I will abuse foreigners is like saying that love of my family means I will abuse my neighbors who are not part of my family. It is complete irrationality. Suffice it to say that if one loves all men equally then one will love no one uniquely. General love will never occur where particular loves are eliminated.

Notice that is not merely Nationalism and Patriotism that Weishaupt inveighs against but it is also the love of family, and love of the local. In each case, Weishaupt prefers the love of generic humanity over love for what God has placed nearest to us — family, locales, and ethne. Weishaupt offers us Satanism unpacked and in your face.

And yet in many quarters that is exactly what we are getting from pulpits across the country — this same kind of invective against love of family, kinsmen,  and locale.  This same kind of invective against patriotism, patriarchy, and Fatherland. It is as if Satan is manning our pulpits speaking in a Jesus costume.  Here are some examples of what I am getting at,

“White nationalism is a manifestation of an ancient evil that we as Christians, of all people, ought to recognize immediately. White nationalism emerges from what the Bible calls “the way of the flesh.” This is a form of idolatry that exalts one’s own creaturely attributes, making a god out of, for instance, one’s ancestral origins or one’s tribal culture.”

Russell Moore

Do we as Christians believe in “nationalism”? No, we don’t. We believe in the international, catholic, universal community of the Church.”~~James Jordan

“We cannot be nationalists.”~~Peter Leithart

“When evangelicals embrace an America-first nationalism, the gospel is co-opted and betrayed.”~~Mark Labberton, president of Fuller

Nationalism, on the other hand, is easier to define. David Koyzis, for instance, offers a theological definition of nationalism as a political arrangement in which the people deify the nation, viewing their nation as the Savior that will protect them from the evil of being ruled by those who are different from them.”

Bruce Ashford
Southeastern Theological Seminary

“American nationalism flies right in the face of the gospel of Jesus Christ and in the command of Christ given in the great commission.”

Albert Mohler
President — Southern Seminary

I think nationalism (like populism) is an inherently leftist movement that leads to progressivism; ” — Joe Carter

“Christian Nationalism puts stress on getting morality enshrined in the law of the land. Jesus calls for conversions and changed lives.”

Tim Keller

 

The ethos of Christian Nationalism is to not in any way try to persuade, win, or evangelize their opponents. Their attitude toward unbelievers is: “They are evil—what does their opinion matter? Sure they hate you—just hate them right back. Own the libs.”

Tim Keller

 

“Islam is not an external threat in the United State to Christianity but Christian Nationalism is a Christian heresy. It is, therefore, an internal threat both to the message and the witness of the Church.”

Mike Horton

Now we want to be careful here. We don’t want to make the same mistakes on this subject that many of the above haters of Christian Nationalism have made. We want to make some proper distinctions.

First, we need to admit that it is entirely possible and has happened repeatedly throughout history where people groups can make an idol of their nation. Like all idolatries, this idolatry is heinous to God. Those who love their people group or nation above love of God and His people across tribe, tongue and nations and who do not repent will spend forever in hell.

We agree with Rev. Hugh M’Neile from the 19th century,

The inspired prophets were patriots, were, therefore, national protesters against idolatry and every evil work. Therefore they were Reformers. They were Reformers and patriots. Our own Reformers were patriots as well as Christians;  

Rev. Hugh M’Neile, M.A.
Sermon — Nationalism in Religion
Delivered — 08 May, 1839

Second, we need to admit that much of the Nationalism that exists in America is more than a little misdirected. This misdirected love of country is driven by a profound misunderstanding of American History. There are boatloads of sins that America should be repenting for and any denial of that in favor of the attitude, “My country right or wrong… still my country,” makes it difficult for those of us who want to champion a proper love of nation.

Third, in order to find a Biblical Nationalism, we need to be honest about our history. Biblical Nationalism that takes pride in wars of aggression or the participation in wars that contributed to the destruction of old Christendom needs to be repudiated.  We need to love God and our people enough to tell them the unvarnished truth about where our Government in our name and under our flag brought wickedness upon other peoples and other lands. For example, there is no Biblical Nationalism found in defending our participation in the 2 World Wars of the 2oth century. No Biblical Nationalism in defending our murdering countless civilians in our Firebombing of Dresden, Hamburg, and Tokyo. No Biblical Nationalism in defending the murdering of millions in Eastern Europe as a result of Teheran and Yalta. If we are going to embrace Biblical Nationalism then we must embrace it as it is consistent with the tenets of Biblical Christianity and repudiate it where it is not consistent with Biblical Christianity.

Fourth, as a Biblical Nationalist I desire to see not only the Christianization of my own people but also I desire to see the Christianization of all peoples in their respective nations. Love of God, and love of people, require me to seek the Christianization of people from every tribe, tongue, and nation, in their tribes, tongues, and nations. However as Charles Spurgeon spoke, our Missionary efforts begin first among our own kith and kin;

“Piety must begin at home as well as charity. Conversion should begin with those who are nearest to us in ties of relationship. I stir you up, not to be attempting missionary labors for India, not to be casting eyes of pity across to Africa, not to be occupied so much with tears for popish and heathen lands, as for your own children, your own flesh and blood, your own neighbors, your own acquaintance. Lift up your cry to heaven for them, and then afterward you shall preach among the nations.”

“Andrew goes to Cappadocia in his after-life, but he begins with his brother (Peter); and you shall labor where you please in years to come, but FIRST of all YOUR OWN HOUSEHOLD, first of all those who are under your own shadow must receive your guardian care. Be wise in this thing; use the ability you have, and use it amongst those who are NEAR AT HAND.”

Charles Spurgeon
WORDS OF COUNSEL FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS, pp. 5-6

Christians used to speak like this Christian theologian;

“Of human nature, there is a multiplex unfoldment; in the individual, human nature is unfolded into personality; in the human race, into individuality; furthermore, there is an unfoldment of human nature along the lines of sex and of blood-relationship. Now every one of these unfoldments brings into view a new phase of human nature.”

Herman Bavinck

The Doctrine of God; p. 304

Here Bavinck is recognizing the reality and propriety of family. God has created us with natural attachments that are good and proper. Love of nation is merely the next logical extension of love of family. Love of place is derivative of love of family. Families exist in particular places and locales and the love that exists for family exist then also for the place and locale where the family has prospered.

It is this kind of love for one’s own people that found one of the greatest theologians in the 2oth century writing,

“Nationalism, within proper limits, has the divine sanction; an imperialism that would, in the interest of one people, obliterate all lines of distinction is everywhere condemned as contrary to the divine will. Later prophecy raises its voice against the attempt at world-power, and that not only, as is sometimes assumed, because it threatens Israel, but for the far more principal reason, that the whole idea is pagan and immoral.

Now it is through maintaining the national diversities, as these express themselves in the difference of language, and are in turn upheld by this difference, that God prevents realization of the attempted scheme… [In this] was a positive intent that concerned the natural life of humanity. Under the providence of God, each race or nation has a positive purpose to serve, fulfillment of which depends on relative seclusion from others.”

-Geerhardus Vos,

Biblical Theology

We have to ask, will we pursue a Biblical Nationalism with the love of concentric circles or will we follow too many of the current clergy who damn every form of Nationalism as being from the Devil?