By Enos Powell
Over at the OPC website, we find this gem:
https://opc.org/qa.html?question_id=523
I don’t know long ago this was written, though I think somewhere around 2013. I don’t know who wrote it. I do know that I can provide quotes from Presbyterians in the last 50 years which will prove that whoever wrote this dreck should’ve stuck to his Church growth textbooks and not decided to delve into theology.
Begin OPC article:
Question and Answer
Is interracial marriage sinful?
Question:
By Colby Malsbury
Ya know, I don’t even care that much anymore that the Scarybug LARP has gone just a wee little bit over the proscribed ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’. Governments being composed exclusively of sociopathic tapeworms, they’re gonna lie. It’s what they do.
What gets my gander up these days is the plethora of people who treat their voluntary mask servitude as some kind of overweening civic duty and who will make damn good and certain you fully understand the levels of martyrdom they inflict upon themselves. ‘I wear this mask so you won’t get sick!!’ Gee, thanks, Marcus Welby. If I had a hero cookie, I’d give it to you, but I doubt the cloth barrier draping your big mouth would be able to allow you to enjoy it.
By Colby Malsbury
The post-WWII Church was a complacent beast towards encroaching federalism at the best of times, but as the Scaryvirus narrative refuses to wither and die on the vine the pandering unto Caesar is generating infinitely more nausea than the bug could ever hope to do.
Voluntarily closing the church doors long before the official diktat came down from on high, and volunteering to keep them shut into the foreseeable future? HAL-lelujah!
Enforcing counter-productive social distancing guidelines at the few (outdoors, yet!) church functions the elder board deigns to permit? GLOR-y be!
By Davis Carlton
Reading Joel McDurmon’s Lamb’s Reign blog gives the impression that the most pressing issue in the world that Christians ought to address is antebellum slavery and white racism. Virtually any problem of real importance is utterly ignored in favor of Joel’s persistent complaining about slavery. To this end Joel has re-posted his father-in-law Gary North’s essay about The Jubilee Year and Abolitionism which was originally published in Biblical Economics Today in 1988. The subject of this essay is to argue for the abolition of slavery on the grounds that the permanent servitude that was allowed in Lev. 25:44-46 has been abolished along with the entire Jubilee law in which this passage is found.
By Ehud Would
As MSM-generated hysteria mounts around the pandemic that wasn’t, Gates and Fauci are talking about mandatory “Immunity ID cards” and/or “immunization tattoos”; without which you won’t be allowed to travel, attend school, or work. And top analysts in government, finance, and investment foresee a mandatory vaccination program on the near horizon. So does Dr. Paul.
And there’s plenty of indication that this has been the plan for a long time. From early in the 20th century folks like Bertrand Russell were telling us “Diet, injections, and injunctions [would soon be used to render criticism of the elite] psychologically impossible.”
By Davis Carlton
Joel McDurmon never misses an opportunity to be wrong on virtually any relevant topic. It’s quite astonishing how McDurmon manages to face plant on issues that should be easy to get right. A recent example is a brief response he gave to James White who commented on a blasphemous “communion service” intended to commemorate the “Crucifixion” of Trayvon Martin! White commented in response to a tweet showcasing this blasphemous commemoration of a fake martyr: “Want to see how ‘social justice’ replaces the heart of the Christian faith with something else? Here’s quite the example.”
By Ehud Would
“The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
~George Orwell
Narrative is central to cultural identity. The story of a nation as told by its members, and handed down to posterity, is determinative of its character, purpose, and continued existence. A folk without memory or love of their own history will not identify with their own saga. And if not, neither will they feel any particular onus to perpetuate their civilization.
By Ehud Would
As much as has been written on the Wuhan Flu by now you may think there’s little left to say on the subject. But tarry with me a bit. You may be surprised.
For several reasons the global quarantine underway brings to mind “the Wandering Sickness” forecast in H. G. Wells’ 1933 Futurist prophecy, The Shape of Things To Come; which was adapted to film by Wells himself in ‘36 under the abbreviated title, Things To Come.
Now, before the reader dismisses it wholly as a work of fiction and coincidence, know that Wells himself describes it as the clairvoyant vision received by his fellow Technocrat, and eminent League of Nations diplomat, Dr. Phillip Raven. Not only did Wells and world leaders deem this prophecy true, but as a blueprint to be actively pursued.
By Davis Carlton
As a Christian father I want to impart a love of Scripture in my children. My children are currently young so most of their knowledge of the Bible comes from reading stories in Children’s Bibles or listening to the songs on Bible singalong CDs that inevitably drive parents crazy during long car rides. These certainly have their place but children also need to grow into a deeper appreciation for the Bible. To this end I’ve been using the 1928 Book of Common Prayer daily office lectionary as a jumping off point for regular Bible reading. I appreciate the elegance of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) in its incorporation of certain traditional prayers and Christian practices while also being firmly rooted in sound theology.
By Bret McAtee
Read Part I here.
In the previous entry we took a look at the presence of nations in the Scripture. Methodologically speaking, we used a biblical-theological approach to consider the presence of nations in God’s plan as revealed in Scripture. In using a Biblical-theological approach we traced the theme of nations in the Scripture starting in Genesis and we allowed the Biblical text to reveal the growth of the theme of nations from an acorn in Genesis 10 to the full grown oak in Revelation 21 and 22. As a method, Biblical theology takes a theme and traces its progress and growth from seed form to full grown stratus. The Biblical-theological method can be used for any number of subjects from tracing the scarlet thread of redemption through the Scripture starting with Genesis 3:15 to tracing the theme of covenant or kingdom or the church or the tabernacle. When I think of this methodology I think of time-lapse photography. Time-lapse photography can take a large sequence of time and condense it so we can see the highlights of that time, editing out everything except the theme that the photographer is focusing on.