Taking on the idols
That the Federal Vision movement had gotten itself into a theological dead end became obvious to me as early as 2005 when a friend of my handed me a few recent issues of Credenda/Agenda. While I was still in Eastern Europe in the late 1990s, I was getting some of the early issues, and they were a great source of […]
Read moreThe French socialists are getting ready to pass a law to ban the words “father” and “mother” from official documents. The children, I suppose, will have to learn from an early age that they have “Parent One” and “Parent Two.” Given the fact that in French “one” has a masculine and a feminine form – un and une – it […]
Read more“Man must exercise dominion as he goes about his daily tasks. Even the hermit, who is not part of the economy’s division of labor – must plant, or hunt, or search for berries. He displaces other life. The animals fear him and give him deference, as a feature of life which was part of God’s reaffirmation of the covenant dominion […]
Read moreWe have all heard Paul’s words in Romans 13 concerning submission to governing authorities, but when does submission become sinful? Most Christians will go to direct commands given in the New testament of how the Christian should behave, but for some reason when government becomes the issue, those direct commands become reinterpreted to fit their own arbitrary circumstances. Sounds like […]
Read moreWhen Gary DeMar published his article defending voting for the Mormon Romney, “Some Think Another Obama Term Would Be Good for America,” I was quite disappointed. It was obvious that he misrepresented his “conservative/libertarian/anti-establishment” opponents. None of us has ever said that “another Obama term would be good for America.” The issue has always been comparing Romney and Obama, not […]
Read moreMitt Romney is a conservative, right? And as a conservative, what exactly would you expect him to want to learn from our ally, Israel, and apply it in the US. You would think, for example, airport security. The El Al airport security is low-cost and highly effective; the airline, which has been a target of Muslim terrorists for decades now, […]
Read moreThe Philistines were smart people. It took them two days to figure out that no idol could stand upright in the presence of God. The story is told in 1 Samuel 5. The Philistines captured the Ark of the Lord and brought it to their temple, the house of Dagon. The next morning, when they arose, the statue of Dagon […]
Read moreI am writing this with a heavy heart. I do not want to criticize Gary DeMar, for I have learned much from him over the years, especially about eschatology, the Christian history of America, and about the Law of God and its validity today. I still hold him in great esteem as one of my teachers. But I have also […]
Read moreIf you thought that Obama’s remark to small business owners that they didn’t build their businesses was kind of odd and unusual, or may be even a slip of the tongue, think twice. It is, in fact, a basic doctrine of socialism concerning the emergence of economic classes in the society that successful people owe their success to anything else […]
Read more