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@UAP_Holy_War I had the exact same thought when it came to the Kripal interview on Jesse Michels.
I mean that phrase/label went through my head as I was listening and had to turn it off.
I’ve been waiting to comment on this.
If you actually watch any of Thiel’s lectures and interviews about the Antichrist, you will understand the angle he’s going for with the statues, and even choosing to host his lectures at Masonic Lodges.
I’m skeptical of Thiel and his influence, but he’s also deep thinker. Attending these lectures are like going to a modern day Areopagus. It exposes you to the zeitgeist and is a place to go to network.
It’s hard not to see the 1990s Dave Hunt take on this from certain individuals as being disingenuous.
Van Til often gets tied to political and ideological universalism, especially as it was manifested in the theonomic movement.
Muether’s biography demonstrates that Van Til saw his system solely as a consistent Reformed apologetic, meant to be employed by confessionally Reformed Christians, for the defense of the faith—not as a totalizing “secret decoder ring” that magically delivers answers to everything under the guise of “worldview analysis.”
“Van Til’s personal political views were a matter of speculation for his disciples. His Chicago-area upbringing indoctrinated him in conservative politics, where Dutch Calvinists were “Republicans almost to a man.” He was a life-long Republican who opposed the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson with as much zeal as he disdained the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt, but the Republican Party represented the lesser of two evils for him. He shied away from cultural and political applications of his apologetic system, and he generally kept his political views private, rarely considering that he possessed wisdom to share, despite efforts of friends and associates to draw him out. His silence on church-state matters left his largely undeveloped Kuyperianism at least vulnerable to a theonomic reading and a popular association between him and Christian Reconstruction continued.”
Amen.
I will also add that there is another angle that is taken.
Often the woman knows that her husband is above reproach as a “nice guy,” so even claiming “spiritual abuse” due to his “headship” won’t fly.
Instead, they will say that the patriarchal standards and structures of the church (ie pressure from family and friends) forced them into picking their husband, so they didn’t have true agency.
It’s not their husband who abused them, but “the system.” Now she needs to “find her voice,” in the relationships she picks. This is usually inescapably bound to deconstruction of some form.
These are the kinds of lies being fed to women on social media—and that includes Christian women.
It’s a big reason why so many Christian women divorce their husbands for bogus things (under the guise of “spiritual abuse”).
They think they can do better (they can’t). They are being deceived by the devil and are destroying their lives and families.
It’s the duty of men to protect women from this poison. Men—protect your wives and daughters from social media. Pastors and elders—be alert for women in your churches adopting this carnal mindset.
“For to be carnally minded is death… Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God.” (Romans 8:6-7)
@jacktschutt@PerfInjust He mentions it at the beginning of his book on bringing the Gospel to Covenant Children. There is also another smaller book on the distinctives of Reformed peity where he mentions the same issue.
“The new cross does not slay the sinner, it redirects him. It gears him into a cleaner and jollier way of living and saves his self-respect. To the self-assertive it says, ‘Come and assert yourself for Christ.’ To the egotist it says, ‘Come and do your boasting in the Lord.’ To the thrill-seeker it says, ‘Come and enjoy the thrill of Christian fellowship.’ The Christian message is slanted in the direction of the current vogue in order to make it acceptable to the public.”
— A. W. Tozer
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Joseph Mede’s “The Key of the Revelation” will be available soon from @BerithPress .
I began this project a couple of years ago, but put it on hold due to other projects. Editing is now complete along with the preface.
Mede’s commentary is not only the “key” to understanding Revelation, but also the historical key to understanding the development of Reformed eschatology/historicism.
This long unpublished work will include William Twisse’s introduction/preface and charts that we developed to track with the “synchronisms” that Mede lays out.
Official date will be forthcoming.