There is no doubt that pulpits need to pick up these ideas from the Bible and start preaching them widely, converting complacent ears with them, and challenging public offices and policies with the truth of them.
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“What is going to happen once practising the Christian faith can no longer mean attending a ritual and massaging the leaders’ egos every week? “
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Our social order is severely atrophied. We should expect this for the politics of humanism is both inept and deleterious. It isn’t just stupid, it causes a lot of harm, both in physical/emotional damage, and economic damage. We have paddled away from the anchor that is God’s law, opting instead to unhitch ourselves from any accountability. The problem with this line of thinking? We’re still floating along in the sea of God’s sovereign orchestration of history. In other words, you can (to mix metaphors) walk away from God all you want, but you’re still breathing his oxygen
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Many don’t realize Jesus actually cleansed the temple TWICE. Fewer have an answer why. Jesus was fulfilling the duty of the high priest from Leviticus 14, to cleanse a house of corrupting “mold.” The first visit was to inspect and remove the corruption itself. If upon the second inspection the corruption still existed, the Priest was to declare the house to be destroyed, every block and everything in it. That is exactly what Jesus did. . . .
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The whole collection includes quotations in approval of closing churches during pandemics, social distancing during contagion, and temporarily increased civil power to enforce such things, all coming from Reformers like Martin Luther and Theodore Beza, Westminster Divines like George Gillespie, second-generation Reformers like Johann von Ewich (German Reformed), and later 19C ministers like Francis Grimké.
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The path to depoliticizing the Coronavirus news is the path to depoliticizing the rest of it, which is all badly needed. Here are a few things you can do to follow this path. . . .
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Many people today, and I believe many Christians in particular, are often oblivious to the real nature of chivalry and the problems it posses from a Christian perspective and have a mistaken idea of the real conditions prevailing in the age chivalry and beyond, even defending feudalism at times as a Christian form of social order.
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Quarantine is within the realm of civil law, and in the rare cases it is necessary, it can be applied to fullest extents necessary, including postponing religious services.
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With the potential for the spread of Coronavirus, COVID-19, I have stated that self-quarantine and social distancing is more important in the immediate term than even attending church on Sunday. I stand by this. I will skip church this Sunday, and perhaps more. I encourage you to think through doing so also. But what about Hebrews 10:25???
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Among the many outstanding failures in this capital case stands one of our nation’s ugliest judicial deficiencies: the deprivation of adequate criminal defense for those unable to afford it. And Mr. Woods is hardly alone. This danger affects potentially 80 percent of cases in America.
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Fascism is a form of socialism. It is not capitalism. The idea that fascism is capitalism was a part of the terminological warfare waged by communists in the early twentieth century. According to Ludwig von Mises the conflation of these terms originated in communist propaganda.
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'Reconstructing the Heart' is an honest look at what it means to be emotional in all the right ways. As the reader will learn, the “right” ways are determined by the ethical/judicial presuppositions and actions we use when deploying our emotions.
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Blame-shifting is among the first sins committed by man. When both Adam and Eve decided to disobey God, it was not long before Adam shifted the blame to another. When God called to Adam in the garden to hold him to account, Adam pointed to Eve, not himself. It is significant that God called to Adam first and not to Eve. This does not lessen her sin, but it does speak to the leadership role Adam should have played and did not. Adam, as a covenantal head, bears responsibility. It was not just for himself and Eve; fallen humanity has Adam as their covenantal head. Instead of protecting the woman, correcting the woman, loving the woman, he went along with her sin and became a party to that sin. Then he blamed her.
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In a recent hot-take, libertarian pundit Larry Elder decries what he sees as liberal bias in Black History Month (BHM). He says, “Despite years of Black History Februarys, many know little to nothing about the vast role played by Arab and Muslim slavers in the African slave trade.” He asks, “Why Don’t They Teach About the Arab-Muslim Slave Trade in Africa?”
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A few years ago Joel McDurmon and myself exchanged articles debating the merits of incrementalism in the context of abortion legislation.
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The believer is certainly not called to see and accept the sinful world into which he has been placed by God as a fixed state without the possibility of amelioration, and neither this nor the idea of caste, which it logically implies, have any foundation in the Bible.
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“Stop Lying About Our Boys!” the article said. It is a now-common refrain we hear as we conservatives react against the perceived attacks on masculinity. But from what I have seen, I have come often to question the honesty of crying “man-hater” every time a Gillette ad or other source says there is a problem with male behavior we should attend to. Didn’t the Bible already tell us this would be the case?
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If there was a system of permanent slavery in Old Testament Israel -- and clearly there was (Lev. 25:44-46) -- then on what basis can the Christian today maintain that the abolitionists were morally correct in their vision, though not always with their tactics? Are we wiser than God was in the Old Testament? If the Reconstructionists' hermeneutic (principle of interpretation) is correct -- that Old Testament laws are still in force unless abrogated in the New Testament -- then how can we escape the accusation of being defenders of slavery? And if we cannot find such an "escape hatch", then how can anyone take seriously the hermeneutic of the Reconstructionists?
The answer is found in the proper understanding of the jubilee land tenure laws (Lev. 25), in the middle of which the Old Testament's permanent slave laws are found.
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We serve a King that wept over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41-44) and who also turned over tables (Matthew 21:12). We serve a King that gently comforts and sternly judges. In a world of hypersexualization and gender confusion, Christians should be very careful not to reductionistically assign some characteristics of our Lord Jesus as “masculine” and others as “feminine.” Not only is this overly simplistic and almost cartoonish versions of masculinity and feminity not biblical, but they can also be very dangerous and lead to only more gender confusion. I can’t answer all of these difficult and complex questions, but I can offer a warning.
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