There is no person, creature, or realm, no thought, word, or deed, which is truly secular.

Everything is ultimately and essentially God-confessing or God-denying.

Again, he asks, if the sacraments are instruments by which God acts efficaciously, and testifies and seals his grace to us, why do we deny, that by the washing of baptism men are born again? As if our alleged denial were not a fiction of his own. Having distinctly asserted, that men are regenerated by baptism, just as they are by the word, I early obviated the impudence of the man, and left nothing for his invective to strike at but his own shadow.

-- John Calvin, Second Defense on the Sacraments in Answer to Joachim Westphal

Podcast: Against the Antioch Declaration: A Line-by-Line Refutation

The Jew that ordered the murder of James the Just, brother of Christ, was named ‘An Anus, Son of an Anus’.

God has quite the sense of humor.

Where prosperity gospel preachers err is not in teaching God gives material blessings to His servants, for He promises exactly so. Rather:

1) They pretend the relationship is automatic, as if God is a cosmic vending machine rather than a prudent Father who, while hard lessons are sometimes needed, loves to bless His children.

2) They link God's blessing to faith whereas God promises blessings for actual obedience. Thus, they insult God's holy law and righteous demands.

3) They focus only on their ideas so as to crowd out all other biblical doctrine and so distort the word of God and the gospel.

The devil promises what is actually God's right to give and in a way God did not intend.

He gave the fruit, not because God never would but as a shortcut escaping God's intentions.

He offered Jesus the nations, not beacuse He is not going to receive the nations (Ps. 2), but to shortcut His work on the cross.

You can listen to the recording on my Substack as well.

https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/against-the-antioch-declaration

I hold that those whom God has already set apart for himself are rightly brought for baptism. We are not now speaking of secret election, but of an adoption manifested by the word, which sanctifies infant not yet born. But as baptism is a solemn recognition by which God introduces his children into the possession of life, a true and effectual sealing of the promise, a pledge of sacred union with Christ, it is justly said to be the entrance and reception into the Church. And as the instruments of the Holy Spirit are not dead, God truly performs and effects by baptism what he figures.

-- John Calvin, Second Defense on the Sacraments in Answer to Joachim Westphal

No-fault divorce laws and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

The whitepill: Our children raised in strong Christian families will have a massive advantage over the offspring of leftoids and brownoids.

No, it is not Israeli or Jewish land.

No, it is not Arab or Muslim land.

It is Christian European land. Our forefathers bought it with their own blood. And in the name of Jesus Christ, we'll one day restore His pure worship to Jerusalem.

Since 2016, the political gender divide has opened into a veritable chasm. Particularly in Western countries, this is a function of women veering far to the left.

In one breath, leftists will argue for a "living wage" and demand better pay for the poor.

In the next, they will protest the pending elimination of immigrant and foriegn slave labor via deportations and tariffs.

This, contrary to what Ben Shapiro might say, is not hypocrisy. Rather, they are consistently acting to destroy White Christians.

3. The organic nature of the historic process observable in revelation

Every increase is progressive, but not every progressive increase bears an organic character. The organic nature of the progression of revelation explains several things. It is sometimes contended that the assumption of progress in revelation excludes its absolute perfection at all stages. This would actually be so if the progress were non-organic.

The organic progress is from seed-form to the attainment of full growth; yet we do not say that in the qualitative sense the seed is less perfect than the tree. The feature in question explains further how the soteric sufficiency of the truth could belong to it in its first state of emergence: in the seed-form the minimum of indispensable knowledge was already present. Again, it explains how revelation could be so closely determined in its onward movement by the onward movement of redemption.

The latter being organically progressive, the former had to partake of the same nature. Where redemption takes slow steps, or becomes quiescent, revelation proceeds accordingly. But redemption, as is well known, is eminently organic in its progress. It does not proceed with uniform motion, but rather is 'epochal' in its onward stride. We can observe that where great epoch-making redemptive acts accumulate, there the movement of revelation is correspondingly accelerated and its volume increased.

Still further, from the organic character of revelation we can explain its increasing multiformity, the latter being everywhere a symptom of the development of organic life.

There is more of this multiformity observable in the New Testament than in the Old, more in the period of the prophets than in the time of Moses. Some remarks are in place here in regard to a current misconstruction of this last-mentioned feature.

It is urged that the discovery of so considerable an amount of variableness and differentiation in the Bible must be fatal to the belief in its absoluteness and infallibility. If Paul has one point of view and Peter another, then each can be at best only approximately correct.

This would actually follow, if the truth did not carry in itself a multiformity of aspects. But infallibility is not inseparable from dull uniformity. The truth is inherently rich and complex, because God is so Himself. The whole contention ultimately rests on a wrong view of God’s nature and His relation to the world, a view at bottom Deistical. It conceives of God as standing outside of His own creation and therefore having to put up for the instrumentation of His revealing speech with such imperfect forms and organs as it offers Him.

The didactic, dialectic mentality of Paul would thus become a hindrance for the ideal communication of the message, no less than the simple, practical, untutored mind of Peter. From the standpoint of Theism the matter shapes itself quite differently. The truth having inherently many sides, and God having access to and control of all intended organs of revelation, shaped each one of these for the precise purpose to be served.

The Gospel having a precise, doctrinal structure, the doctrinally-gifted Paul was the fit organ for expressing this, because his gifts had been conferred and cultivated in advance with a view to it.

Pietism is a syncretistic merger between pagan dualism and orthodox Christianity. It relies on three false dualities:

1) The duality between “spiritual” and “earthly” blessings
2) The duality between “eternal” and “temporal” life
3) The duality between “subjective & true” and “objective & false” religious experiences.

Thanksgiving is the ultimate antithesis of each of pietism’s dualities. It insists we give thanks for earthly blessings in this temporal life. It is also an external, formalized, and objective religious celebration which recognizes God’s temporal, earthly blessings as objective goods and covenant rewards.

Do your part this Thanksgiving to dunk on gay, cringe pietists.

This is the positive vision:

Our people living in

Our place serving

Our covenant God.