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Understanding Our Independence

7/4/2014

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I am by no means an American history scholar. While I would like to spend more time understanding our colonial heritage (and have plans to do so), I still would not consider myself an able history buff in that area.

However, I don't think one needs to be a scholar in order to understand the language found in our Declaration of Independence.
Even in my lay-level reading of the document it seems that a general survey of the Declaration of Independence will provide us with at least two things to consider during this time of year - and especially during this time of our own nation's history.

  1. What were the founding fathers declaring the states they represented to be independent from?
  2. By whose authority were they declaring that independence?

These two things will provide (what I believe to be) some thoughtful considerations of which to be mindful.

So it's the 4th of July - Independence Day! What really was it from which we were declaring our independence? And by what authority were we doing so?

Let's consider...

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Book Review: Theonomy and the Westminster Confession

1/28/2014

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Theonomy and the Westminster Confession
A Historic Defense of the Un-Heretical Heresy

This is not a Biblical defense of the theological orthodoxy of theonomy.(1) Instead, it is a historical defense that the theonomic viewpoint is not at all something new. This is a book of quotes from primary sources of men who either (a) were members of the Westminster Assembly, (b) gave theological influence to members of the Assembly, or (c) otherwise subscribed to the Confession when it was published.

While the school of thought known as Theonomy began to gain popularity in the late 20th century, it was sometimes summarily dismissed in Reformed circles as heresy by the "fact" that it contradicted the Westminster Standards:
To [Israel] also, as a body politic, he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the state of that people; not obliging any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require.
(Westminster Confession, Chapter XIX, Section IV)
What "the general equity thereof may require," of course, is something that needs to be understood in light of the historical, grammatical context in which the statement was written.

If the authors of the Westminster Standards truly believed that the penal sanctions of the civil aspect of the Mosaic Law had no abiding validity, then understood in today's English it would seem this statement invariably settles the matter.

But did they actually believe that?
And if not, what is meant by that statement?

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Book Review: What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? The Positive Impact of Christianity in History

1/11/2014

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On the one hand, I would say this is a truly great contribution to the idea that Christianity has a place in transforming the world for good - not in a “social gospel” sense but in the sense that the gospel truly transforms the lives of individuals who then use the grace given them to transform society.

The book was published in 1994 to answer the simple question, “What if Jesus had never been born?” For all the animosity that is out there toward Christianity and how it’s been a disservice to the world, there is much to be seen and understood from this book as it provides ample evidence to the contrary.
In the introduction the book posits the problem:
We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated -- anti-Christian bigotry. … Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. … But the truth is: Had Jesus never been born, this world would be far more miserable than it is.

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Book Review: America's Christian History: The Untold Story

3/28/2013

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Gary DeMar does a wonderful job of showing the true historical Christian roots of our nation without unduly sanitizing the founding fathers. This book does a number of things in the way of being a great primer to American history:

(1) Analyzes the role of government censorship, shows how it worked (in a bad way) throughout statist nations in history, and demonstrates the way it has happened and is continuing to happen in America today.

(2) Demonstrates from primary sources the original intent of the colonizing of America, the first charters, and the Christian great commission assumption of the early settlers up through the forming of the new nation.

(3) Handles the founding documents in their historical context, showing the true Christian nature of them - that is, even when the founding fathers were not all-together orthodox Christian, they still affirmed the necessity of the general principles of the Christian faith in order for the country to succeed.

(4) Addresses several misconceptions of what the founding fathers, founding documents, and other items do and do not say - in their historical context - over against what is taught in government-run public schools today in America.

It's a great read and a great reference.


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