By Davis Carlton
A Facebook friend passed along some criticism of my article originally posted on Faith and Heritage, A Biblical Defense of Ethno-Nationalism. I would like to respond to this criticism. To my knowledge this has not been posted anywhere online and the author is currently anonymous, but I would still like to respond to some of the concerns that were raised.
Linguistic Issues
Objections were raised about my claims about Biblical concepts in their original languages. The objector notes that I and other Kinist writers aren’t linguists or Biblical scholars, and then expresses doubt about the accuracy of the claims that I make in the original article about the meaning of Biblical words and terms. He writes, “contrary to their ad hoc claim made in Carlton’s footnotes, a ‘nation as it is defined in Scripture’ is in fact not defined the same way in the Bible as it is ‘defined in the Sixth Edition of Black’s Law Dictionary…’ that is both an assumption, and patently false.” He continues, “It does not matter how many biblical proof texts a person cites when one doesn’t understand the meaning of the key words around which one builds-out an entire theological system.”
