The Extent Of The Atonement & The Ongoing Prayer Life Of Our Lord Christ

If one believes that the Lord Christ only intercedes for His people per Romans 8:34 and Hebrews 7:25 then they must, if they desire to be consistent, believe that Christ only died for those same people for whom He intercedes. Both the death of Christ and the Intercession of Christ are subsets of His great work as our Great High Priest. To suggest that Christ died for everybody as the Great High Priest but only intercedes for the elect is to introduce contradiction into the very being of Christ as Mediator.

If Christ only prays for His people then He, by necessity, only died for His people.

Not to worry though … if you don’t agree you can always invent a Mystery Box in which to throw your contradiction.

Colorado Obama-care Advertisements — Wickedness on Parade

A new add that the Obama administration is running in order to encourage young adults to sign up for Obama-care.

http://www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=5538569

A few points of analysis,

1.)A tyrannical government is always interested in involving the citizenry in true moral guilt for a citizenry that is burdened by its own true moral guilt will never be free to enter into righteous protest and if necessary rebellion against Governmental anti-Christ rebellion and against the Tyrant State for its own guilty actions against God and against the citizenry. People who have their own true moral guilt are helpless to hold accountable a State with a long record of its own true moral guilt. That is one reason why this poster makes sense. An immoral people will never overturn an immoral Government. As such it is in the interest of immoral governments to involve the citizenry in immorality.

2.) Notice that the female in the Obama poster is the aggressor and the pursuer. It is wicked enough to live in a culture where men do not honor women enough to not practice their natural male aggression to sexually triumph over women but it is doubly wicked when the State is contributing to the turning of the unwed female into the aggressor in pursuit of giving up her virtue with every “Nate hot to trot” they meet. Clearly Obama desires to turn our daughters into whores.

3.) It is not unimportant that the couple in the poster are white. In order for a Cultural Marxist social order to finally exercise total cultural hegemony more white people have to be compromised into that mindset. White people still are the majority representation in this country (for now) and everything possible must be done in order to strip them away from their Biblical Christian heritage. As such, the poster is pointed to young white people in order to turn them into Cultural Marxist voters thus assuring the death of Christianity in this country.

4.) Note the connection between enrolling in Obama-care and getting to have sex without consequences. The young lady has Obama care and so can get free birth control pills so she can go on the hunt for unsuspecting male prey. This is the continued work of separating sex from both marriage and children. Of course that in turn continues the divorce culture as the ability for young people who have slept find it difficult to create a marital bond that can last. Having been sexually bonded and unbonded so many times with so many different mates when marriage is finally entered into it can easily be dissolved since sexual coupling and decoupling has been repeatedly practiced prior to entering into marriage.

5.) Note the fine print at the bottom. The add insists that condoms protect from STD’s but that is a well documented lie. The microbes that carry STD’s are not always stopped by condoms. A person using condoms can still contract STD’s. Using condoms to stop STD is like playing Russian Roulette. Every once in a while your going to pull the trigger with a bullet in the chamber. The small print is a HUGE lie.

Clearly the Obama administration is at war with traditional Christian America. As such all Biblical Christians should be at war with the Obama administration lest they be found negligent in championing the cause of their great High King.

Body Mutilation Considered

Leviticus 19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.

Body mutilation — and here I’m not talking about a pierced ear or a tiny tiny pierced nose or a tiny flower on one’s hip — is one of the sure signs that we are returning to anti-Christ paganism. In cultures influenced by and seeped in Biblical Christianity the problem of guilt is understood, by the “in Christ individuals” in that culture, as having been dealt with in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Further, any real moral guilt that comes into a believer’s life subsequent to their union with Christ is confessed, repented of, and taken to the Cross of Christ and left there in light of the pronounced absolution of sins that happens week by week in Church, by the voice of Christ as heard over the vocal chords of the minister, or that is everywhere pronounced in Scripture. Christians don’t carry their guilt around because they have a Great High Priest and Savior who has relieved them of their guilt. For a Christian to carry their guilt around is to announce that Christ’s death, resurrection and ascension is not sufficient.

However in cultures where sin and guilt have no answer, the individuals in that culture must provide themselves ways to deal with their guilt. The only options that are available are either for one to pay for that guilt one’s self — thus leading to masochism — or for one to try to fob off their guilt on someone else, thus leading to some form of sadism. Guilty people will always try to find ways to relieve themselves of their guilt burden. If they refuse Christ’s sacrifice for guilt they will offer up themselves or someone else as a guilt sacrifice.

Body mutilation is one of the forms of masochism whereby our culture is reflecting that it is seeking to shed its real moral guilt via self mutilation (masochism). Where there is no understanding of guilt being taken by Christ in the Atonement there one should not be surprised to find a tattoo, piercing and body mutilation culture where atonement is being sought in punishment of self for one’s real moral guilt. They have no Christ to suffer for their guilt and so they do things to themselves to make themselves suffer for their real moral guilt.

Secondly, at the same time, one can see the body mutilation culture as an attack on the image of God in man. Man, is — both body and soul — created in the image of God. The self defacing of God’s handiwork, via body mutilation, is an attempt to cast off the image of God in favor of an image as created by the autonomous self. The rebel against God will not have God rule over him and one way to cast off and deny God’s rule is to mar one’s self so that the mirror doesn’t reflect back the image of God that is so violently hated. What better way to get rid of true moral guilt then by attacking the one whom one refuses to go to for the only relief from guilt possible? (By the way, this idea of attacking the image of God in one’s self, I believe accounts a great deal also for the rise of sodomy and lesbianism as well. As sexuality is tied up very closely with the image of God in men and women, overturning God’s intended order for sex in an effective short term attack on the image of God in men and women.)

Thirdly, I think a lot of the mutilation we see is a manifestation of the fixation our culture has with rejecting boring “whiteness” in favor of spiffy tribalism with its tatoos, piercings, weird hairstyles, goofy clothes, etc. Everywhere it is being shouted how evil white people are. (This is, by the way, another form of displaced guilt. Guilt is not taken to Christ therefore guilt will be passed on to white people in a sadistic fashion in order to relieve others of their guilt.) Body mutilation allows white people to seriously alter their whiteness thus relieving themselves of white guilt.

Finally, in body mutilation there is always the sinful “look at me” dynamic going on. Those outside of Christ are especially self centered, desiring to have all of reality and all attention orbit around them. Body mutilation allows the mutilator to be the center of constant attraction.

Egalitarianism & The Atonement

Evangelicals, Lutherans, and Roman Catholics alike all hold to a universal atonement wherein God does not discriminate in His intent concerning the Atonement. The thinking of such denominations is that the death of Christ is the same, potentially, for everybody. We might call this doctrine soteriological egalitarianism.

Of course, in our own culture egalitarianism is the idea both that there should be equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. As such, our cultural egalitarianism is really not about equality but about sameness. In the end everyone must be the same. Discrimination is seen as inherently evil and everybody must be treated the same.

In Evangelical, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic doctrines of hypothetical universalism we find a similar type of egalitarianism. We are told by these folks that Christ died for everybody and therefore everybody has the same equality of opportunity. For these folks it is sin to say that God discriminates in terms of opportunity though it is perfectly acceptable to say that it is man who discriminates in terms of God’s offer. Some men discriminate to accept the equal opportunity and some men don’t. Man can discriminate against God but God is not allowed to discriminate in terms of man. God must provide an atonement that is egalitarian in opportunity or He is not fair.

One wonders if the egalitarianism we see in our culture didn’t first begin with this kind of nonsensical egalitarianism in the Church as the Church turned away from the doctrine of Limited Damnation. If Theology remains the queen of the Sciences one must wonder if soteriological egalitarianism became the gateway through which egalitarianism in economics, politics, gender relations, and sociology came to the fore.

Obviously, in the Atonement God does discriminate. For reasons, known only to Him, God discriminated between the elect and the reprobate. Jacob God loved, but Esau God hated. God did not and does not treat all people the same.

And neither should we. Not all people are equally qualified for different tasks and there is nothing evil in discriminating against people who do not have giftedness or talents in certain areas.

There is nothing unbiblical in insisting that egalitarianism is wrong while discrimination for biblical reasons is right. God discriminated in the intent of the atonement and that discrimination was righteous. When we discriminate based on righteous reasons we are being God like in our actions.

So, 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 mother load 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?

Ideas have consequences and I’m wondering if the teaching of evangelicals in terms of their soteriological egalitarianism wherein God is not allowed to discriminate is the mother spring from which our current egalitarianism water flows. Theology gets into everything. If we are going to be egalitarian in our doctrine of the atonement you can look for that egalitarianism to show in our social order.

Ideas have consequences.

Rich Man … Poor Man … GOD

“The Churches too have adopted this doctrine of humanistic debt to the people. The Bible tells us that we are totally in debt to the Lord God, that we owe Him as our Lord the tithe as the minimum, and our lives as living sacrifice. The new humanistic doctrine of debt turns the moral universe upside down and the poor replace God as the focus of moral concern.”

R. J. Rushdoony
Roots of Reconstruction — pg. 320

The thought categories of Biblical Christianity have too often been refilled with Marxist content so that man is the center of our Christianity and not the Lord Christ. This is seen most clearly in the doctrine of social justice which is so bandied about today inside and outside the Church.

Clearly we should be concerned with the righteous poor in our communities but the Church shows this Marxist switch when it draws the antithesis between rich and poor instead of between the righteous and the unrighteous. Marxism is the only thing that can explain how much of the Church knee jerks about social justice for the poor, forgetting that God loves the Rich righteous and blessed many throughout Scripture to be rich (Job, Abraham, David, etc.). God has no more love for the wicked reprobate poor just because they are poor anymore than he has love for the wicked reprobate rich.

Our social justice, if we must use that term, should be for those in Christ first. However Marxism has allowed us to feel good about ourselves if we damn all rich and act as if the poor are automatically righteous just because they are poor.

“Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me…”

Proverbs 30:8