Okay, so….Defending killing children is waaay worse than insulting POTUS, hosting people you don’t like, interviewing a world leader (like our networks all interviewed USSR leaders mid Cold War), and making nicotine patches in India because Trump is slow-rolling FDA approval as a personal gift.
I’m sure you’d rather he hire Indians here on H-1B visas. You don’t mind a little free trade, remember?
But genociding kids is WAY worse, you sociopath.
here is what Hart left out of his Hodge quote:
"the demands of those who require that religion, and especially Christianity, should be ignored in our national, state, and municipal laws, are not only unreasonable, but they are in the highest degree unjust and tyrannical"
Therefore,
“Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.”
those who are vested with civil authority ought also with much care to promote religion and good morals among all under their government
he that ruleth must be just, ruling in the fear of God
—Witherspoon
I had a conversation with an old acquaintance recently who believes that only evangelism really matters. After all, the world is not our home, so civil life is secondary. Building lasting things is not necessary, children are optional, having a legacy is suspect, etc. His view is that the dominion mandate has expired, and so the Great Commission is really our ultimate, only mandate.
He is married, but he and his wife do not want children. Instead, they fill their time with travelling and seeing the world. Why not? If the world is going to be destroyed anyway, and the Christian life is reduced to extracting souls from the world rather than discipling men to take up their duties within it? Why invest in households, institutions, and future generations?
This is a thinner Christianity than what the Scriptures portray. The point of being a citizen of heaven is not to despise earthly duties, but to be ambassadors of heaven here on earth. After all, it is still our Father’s world: “The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1).
In Jeremiah 29, God did not tell exiles in Babylon to sit around waiting for escape. He told them to build houses, plant gardens, take wives, have sons and daughters, and seek the peace of the city. The Great Commission does not cancel the dominion mandate, but rather, it restores men to God so that they can order their lives toward Christ. A disembodied Christianity is not the goal. Christ saves men with bodies, spouses, children, homes, churches, grandchildren, etc. And then he restores their nature so that they can order all of these aspects of their lives for his glory.
The Gospel does not make the dirt we till unimportant, and no faithful servant buries his tools because the Master is coming back.
the Christian has no right to separate his life into two realms...to say the Scriptures are the right rule in matters of religion, but this is a question of business or of politics
God reigns over all everywhere
—A.A. Hodge
The Battle Hymn of the Republic was composed to the tune of John Brown’s body because so many of the early volunteers in the Union army were bloodthirsty abolitionists who marched South singing about a murderous maniac who wanted to unleash a race war upon Virginia as if he were a saintly martyr
Such attitudes did much to harder the opinion of the South and lead even those skeptical of secession, like Robert E Lee, to fight to the end
As Fleming notes, “Could General Lee invade Virginia or any other southern state at the head of an army composed of men who believed John Brown was as divine as Jesus Christ? How would the orders of a southern-born general, a slave owner thanks to his wife, restrain such men?”
@Ifdn2026@jeffdornik God has a plan for ethnic Jews, which is to humble them by exile and hardship, to bring them to faith and repentance.
If you love Jews, you’ll stop working against God’s plan by supporting a Jewish kingdom while they yet reject their King.
he is the best friend to American liberty who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion
and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind
—John Witherspoon
What makes a nation?
Land
Lineage
Language
Laws
Loves
Liturgy
Nationhood is certainly more than a people and a place, but never less.
Happy 4th to all my fellow Americans!
By God, we’ll have our home again.