DKQ

“I say that we are bound to love as ourselves, all those whom we must hold as our neighbors. But it does not follow that I am equally bound to everybody. For the husband is more bound to his wife, and the wife to her husband, and the fathers and mothers to their children, and the children to them, and the brothers and sisters to each other, than to strangers. For this reason, St. Paul says ‘Do good to all, but especially to those of your own household.’ If, therefore, it is a question of a Christian, a Turk, and a Jew, I am more bound to the Christian than the other two; and must let the others help themselves, if I cannot help them at all. Similarly, in the law of God, many things were permitted to the people of Israel towards foreigners, which were not permitted to them in their own nation, such as usury and other things.”

Pierre Viret
Reformer
Instruction Chretienne II – pg. 768-769

Viret teaches, that while we must hold all as our neighbors, that does not mean that all neighbors are treated in the same neighborly way. This means that there exist differing degrees of “neighbor.” This means that while we might use the word “neighbor” for our relation to people we come across in a casual manner, we must assign a ranking mechanism to the word neighbor so that some are 1st rate neighbors, while others are 2nd rate, and some are 3rd rate, etc.

Think about it … if everyone is a neighbor in the same sense of the word neighbor that means no one is a neighbor, just like if everyone is our friend then no one is our friend. These words lose their meaning if they are applied universally and without distinction.

Rev. Joseph Spurgeon and Rev. Jerry Dorris and others were just in error on this subject a few weeks ago when the subject of “neighbor” was being tossed about.

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“He tells them the charge of his master had given him, to fetch a wife for his son from among his kindred, with the reason of it (v. 37-38). The highest degree of divine affection must not divest us of natural affection.”

Matthew Henry
Commentary on Genesis 24:29-53 – pg. 134

What is interesting in Gen. 24 is that Abraham sends his servant to secure a wife from among his people so that Isaac doesn’t end up marrying a Canaanite woman. Still, even though Isaac doesn’t end up marrying a Canaanite pagan he does marry a woman from his own kindred who did not reveal themselves to be particular believers in the God of Abraham. (Consider Rebekah’s pagan brother Laban and her niece Rachel who later stole Laban’s idols.)

This teaches the Kinist idea that marrying from among one’s own people is a priority vis-a-vis marrying outside one’s people group. Of course, we are commanded to marry those who are Christian but the above suggests that marriage should be between Christians who belong to the same people group.

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“The temper of some nations in more inclined to some vices than others.”

Matthew Henry
Commentary on Titus 1:12
Comprehensive Commentary – pg. 1360

Compare Matthew Henry’s statement (which is not unusual in the least in Church history) with the statement making the rounds in NAPARC churches,

“That the 221st General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church do on this solemn day condemn without distinction any theological or political teaching which posits a superiority of race or ethnic identity born of immutable human characteristics and does on this solemn evening call to repentance any who would promote or associate themselves with such teaching, either by commission or omission.” 

It sure seems likely to be the case that St. Paul in the book of Titus 1:12f would be required to repent for what he said about “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” Sounds like Matthew Henry agreed with Paul as against the NAPARC Keystone Clergy.

Review of Grace Halsell’s “Forcing God’s Hand”

Grace Halsell was a journalist who also spent time as a LBJ speechwriter. Her worldview was decidedly classically liberal. She rubbed shoulders with the movers and shakers of the world. In her book she laments losing the friendship of Iphigene Bertha Ochs Sulzberger, wife of the publisher of the New York Times. Halsell complains about Iphigene’s praising of Grace when Grace was championing the cause of the putative underdogs in the US during the civil rights era and yet when Grace started to champion the cause of the Palestinians, by reporting the terror of the Jews, Iphigene Sulzberger (a Jewess herself) decidedly and hypocritically pulled the plug on their friendship. This loss of friendship was because of the subject matter in Halsell’s book, “Forcing God’s Hand.”

The reason for the title of the book is Halsell’s discovery, upon investigating Dispensationalism, that the Dispies believed that by their actions and work they could force God’s hand on the matter of the return of Christ. Through various interviews, as pursued while she was on trips to Israel as led by Dispie tour guides, she learned that the true Dispie believers genuinely believed that if they pursued certain avenues, like returning Jews to Israel, and like supporting and funding the re-building of the Jewish third Temple, the Dispies could shoe horn God into sending forth the Messiah.

In this book, Halsell exposes the looney tune nature of Dispensationalism by letting the Dispensationalists tell her about their beliefs in their own words. Halsell then probes gently with questions about their answers to, once again, reveal these people majored in brain disease while attending Dallas Theological Seminary or by reading Dwight Pentecost, John Walvoord, Hal Lindsey, Lewis Sperry Chafer, C. I. Scofield, etc.

Believing Dispensationalism is more difficult than believing Soviet narratives about WW II.

Halsell is clearly a liberal herself and would hate the Reformed faith but for different reasons. She clearly expresses that she cannot believe in a God of wrath. She is at her worst when she travels down these paths in her writing. She’s at her best when she just allows the Dispies to say stupid things. For example,

“Standing, overlooking the Meggido valley, Clyde, a traveling companion, explained to me that this was the site where Christ would lead the forces of good against evil. ‘Two-thirds of all the Jews will be killed,’ Clyde said, citing Zechariah 13:8-9. Pausing for some math, he comes up with nine million dead Jews. ‘For two hundred miles, the bl00d will reach the horses bridles.’

When I express concern over this scenario, Clyde, explains, ‘God is doing it mainly for his ancient people, the Bagels. He’s devised a seven-year tribulation period mainly to purge the Bagels, to get them to see the light and recognize Christ as their savior.’

But why, I ask, would God have chosen a people — ‘God’s favorite’ as Clyde says – only to exterminate most of them?

‘As I said, God must purge them,’ Clyde says. ‘He wants them to bow down before His only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.’

But, a few will be left? To bury their dead?

‘Yes,’ Clyde tells me. ‘There’ll be 144,00K who are spared. They will convert to Christ.’

Grace Halsell
Forcing God’s Hand – p. 81

Over and over again in this volume, Halsell lets the Dispies hang themselves by their own words. The odd thing for the reader of Halsell’s volume is the amazement found in the inability of the Dispie’s to hear what they are saying. The lack of self-awareness is dumbfounding. 

Halsell, admits in her book that upon writing this book she was a different person than the person who worked for LBJ. She even faults LBJ, in the book, for lying to the American people about Israel’s attempt to sink the USS Liberty. Halsell, is an example of a liberal who was mugged by reality and whose worldview was severely altered by being mugged. As mentioned above she loses the friendship of many of her former friends because of her Worldview change. This worldview change is noted in the pages of her work,

“By living among Israeli Jews as well as Palestinian Christians and Muslims, I saw, heard, smelled, experienced the police state tactics Israelis use again Palestinians.”

Grace Halsell
Forcing God’s Hand – p. 117

“What is the message of the Christian Zionists? Simply stated it is this: ‘Every act taken by Israel is orchestrated by God and should be condoned, supported, and praised by the rest of us.’

‘Never mind what Israel does’ says the Christian Zionists. ‘God wants this to happen.’ This includes this includes the invasion of Lebanon, which killed or injured an estimated 100K Lebanese and Palestinians, most of them civilians; the bombing of sovereign nations such as Iraq; the deliberate methodical brutalizing of the Palestinians — breaking bones, shooting children, and demolishing homes; the expulsion of Palestinian Christians and Muslims from a land they have occupied for 2K years.

Grace Halsell
Forcing God’s Hand
Published 1999

“Indeed, I hold that Christian Zionism threatens not just the lives of Palestinians and other Arabs, but the very existence of the US. Because of the cult of Israel, we have become a nation that does not have its own Middle East policy, but the policy the government of Israel tells us to have.”

Grace Halsell
Forcing God’s Hand – p. 126
Published 1999

For readers who have a pulse, it is easy to see the application between what Halsell was seeing and writing about almost 30 years ago and what we are seeing today as the Jews commandeer our foreign policy in the current war we are engaged in as a client state of Israel.

I highly recommend reading Halsell. I also would advise another volume that covers some of the same ground, “Against our Better Judgment,” by Alison Weir.  I found myself being a sympathetic reader and I found myself saddened that Grace never stumbled across Biblical Christians. It is clear she was a stranger to Biblical Christianity though in the book she reports a conversion experience when she was a child.

DKQ

“For some, on hearing that liberty is promised in the gospel, a liberty which acknowledges no king, no magistrate among men, but looks to Christ alone, think they can receive no benefit from liberty so long as they see any power placed over them. Accordingly, they think that nothing will be safe until the whole world is changed into a new form, where there will be neither courts, nor laws, nor magistrates, nor anything of the kind to interfere, as they suppose, with their liberty.”

John Calvin
Institutes, Book IV, ch. 20, pg. 1168

Calvin here is complaining about the Anabaptists who turned Gospel liberty into licentiousness. The Anabaptists earnestly desired to war against hierarchy and distinctions. The Reformed churches today are showing their anabaptist slips by disciplining men who are maintaining distinctions that have been held by all men, at all times, in all places.

When Calvin writes above that the Anabaptists, “they think that nothing will be safe until the whole world is changed into a new form, where there will be neither courts, nor laws, nor magistrates, nor anything of the kind to interfere, as they suppose, with their liberty.” I would note that the “nor anything” points to the current Anabaptist impulse in the Reformed churches to want to deny the reality of race. The current incarnation of NAPARC/CREC/SBC churches is to insist that Christian liberty means a world where “all colors bleed into one.” These denominations are levelers who insist that all because all men everywhere are commanded to repent that therefore all men who do repent lose their racial/ethnic identity and so can form one nation. These denominations are teaching that grace destroys nature when the historic teaching is that graces restores nature. When a Japanese man repents, he doesn’t lose his Japanese-ness in conversion. Instead, he increasingly becomes the best expression of what it means to be Japanese.

Depart the NAPARC/CREC/SBC churches.

“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

Eusebius of Caesarea & John Owen on Modern Israel

Eusebius of Caesarea (AD 260/265 – 30 May AD 339) in his Ecclesiastical History wrote that the OT prophecies had been fulfilled n Jesus and power and leadership in Israel had come into the hands of the Christian Messiah. Eusebius wrote;

“The historic world mission of the people of Israel had been taken from them and has been given to Christian churches.”

John Owen (1616 – 24 August 1683) in his Commentary on Hebrews could write much the same as Eusebius centuries prior to Owen,

“Upon the expiration of that term, their (Jews) right and title unto it (the land/kingdom) were cancelled and disannulled.

And thereon God in his providence sent the armies of the Romans to dispossess them; which they did accordingly, unto this day.

Nor have the present Jews any more or better title unto the land of Canaan than unto any other country in the world.

Nor shall their title be renewed there unto upon their conversion unto God.
For the limitation of their right was unto that time wherein it was typical of the heavenly inheritance: that now ceasing forever, there can be no especial title unto it revived.”
For 1800 years of Church history nobody believed this bilge regarding the importance of Khazarian/Edomite “Israel.”

Modern Israel is irrelevant…. Nationally speaking, they are dead to God. God divorced them serving His divorce papers in AD 70 with the judgment coming of Jesus Christ upon Jerusalem. There is not one whit of connection between Israel’s future and God’s eschatological clock. The idea of building a Third Temple is the stuff that blasphemy is made of. Armageddon, if it is fulfilled as the Christian Zionist fruit loops believe, will be fulfilled only has self-fulfilled prophecy; it will be wish fulfillment without any relation whatsoever to God’s revealed will.

Red Heifers … Temple sacrifice being practiced, Temple utensils being crafted for future usage … it’s all comes from the multiverse stuff that Marvel comic books created.

People who believe this stuff belong in padded rooms as clothed in restraints.

If I was leading a country that was opposed by another country filled with Zionists who believed that it was God’s will for modern Israel to expand, I’d want nuclear capability in order to defend myself against Zionist dreams of glory.

And I say that as someone who has no desire to see Mooselimbs prosper or expand or have dominion in the Middle East (or anywhere).

Daily Kinist Quotes (DKQ)

Given the continued lobotomized lunacy of the NAPARC/CREC/SBS churches on the subject of Kinism (i.e. – racial realism, familialism, ethno-nationalism, White Christian Nationalism, etc.) I thought I would begin posting daily Kinist quotes (DKQ) in order to demonstrate how utterly braindead these “churches” are that are excommunicating, and deposing ministers over the Kinist issue as well as passing sundry language that is born of egalitarian, neo-Marxist thinking. We have established already at Iron Ink that the Church is now advocating for the very same thing that Marxists have advocated for throughout history. I have posted the Marxist quotes more than a few times. Marxists “intellectuals” would be very comfortable with the course that these denominations are pursuing. In point of fact these denominations would have to say on this point, if they were honest and consistent, that the Marxist were right when it comes to affirming a policy that pursues the elimination of nations and races.

I’ve already posted myriads of these quotes in a post here;

So Say We All … A Protest To Dr. Sproul 2.0’s Comments

I posted all these before two Anthology volumes were published that contain myriads upon myriads more quotes saying much the same thing that you will find in the above link. The volumes, “Who Is My Neighbor” and “A Survey of Racialism in Christian Sacred Tradition,” reveals that the current denominations are violating the principle of Vincent of Lerins which taught, that true Christian faith must be what has been believed “everywhere, always, and by all.” The Anabaptists, who were renown levelers, would be exceptions but the Reformed don’t consider them Christian.

As I have said before, so I say again now, this issue is to our time what the issue of the eternality of Christ was in the contest between Arius and Athanasius in the 4th century, what the contest was between Augustine and Pelagius was in the 5th century, and what the contest was between Luther and Eck was in the 16th century. If we get this issue of egalitarianism wrong here the Church of Jesus Christ will not get back on track until we finally do go back and get it right. The Reformed throughout the centuries have always fought against levelling and the erasure of God ordained distinctions because they knew that such levelling was both born of and led to levelling the distinction between God and man. Levelling the creature-creature distinctions can’t happen without levelling the Creator-creature distinction.

With all that said, I will, day by day, bring you at least one, but often a few, quotes daily demonstrating where the Church Fathers have been on this subject over the centuries. By doing so, you will see how out of step the contemporary Church (we use the word “church” only by way of courtesy) is.

“Each town should support its own poor and should not allow strange beggars to come in, WHATEVER THEY MAY CALL THEMSELVES, pilgrims or mendicant monks, (or immigrants – BLMc). Every town could feed its own poor; and if it were too small, the people in the neighboring villages should be called upon to contribute. As it is, they have to support knaves and vagabonds under the name of beggars….”

Martin Luther
Address to the Nobility of the German People

Now ask yourself, if Luther argued that strangers (whatever they may call themselves) should not be allowed into towns how much more is it the case that strangers (whatever they call themselves) should not be allowed into family lines via marriage?

Also, this quote shoots holes into the idea that we have to treat illegal immigrants in the same way as neighbor as we do deal with fellow Americans. One can argue that Christians must treat all men as neighbors but if one argues that way they must introduce the idea of gradation of neighbors. After all, if everyone is your neighbor, no one is your neighbor.

“What, there is to be no serf because Christ has redeemed us all? What is this? This means that Christian liberty is turned into liberty of the flesh? Did not Abraham and other patriarchs and prophets own serfs? Read what St. Paul has to say about servants, who at that time were all in bondage. Therefore this article is directly opposed to the Gospel and it is rapacious, for everyone who is a bondman to remove himself from his master. A bondman can very well be a Christian and have Christian freedom, just as a prisoner or a sick person can be a Christian, and yet is not free. This article proposes to free all men, and turn the spiritual kingdom of Christ into a worldly one, which is impossible. For a worldly kingdom cannot exist where there is no class distinction, where some are free, some are prisoners, some are masters, and some are vassals, etc. As St. Paul says in Gal. 3:28, that in Christ both master and vassal are one.”

Martin Luther
Admonishment to Peace on the 12 Articles of the Swabian (Anabaptist) Farmers
Works Vol. 46 – p. 39

Pretty sure that this counts as a quote that supports Southern slavery.