I forget his name, but there is a Christian man who just ran on the Democratic ticket in Alabama, but he made it very clear that he was a State's Rights Democrat and not in agreement with what the party has degenerated into. The Democratic party, unlike the Republican party, actually had noble beginnings. Late nineteenth/early twentieth century Democrats opposed the big government, political elitist philosophy of the early Republican party. Hence, the Democratic party got its reputation for being for 'the people' and 'the little guy'. Those terms degenerated into a socialist connotation, and now both parties are Marxist. The Democratic party is neo-Bolshevik and the Republican party is neo-Trotskyite.
It's interesting that more celebrities are coming out with these types of statements. Rosie O'Donnell just got done saying on World Net Daily that Christians are no different than the Taliban. Do we really think that the war on terrorism is about Muslims? Or is that just a mask for a war on someone else?
Our country was formed as a republic and since Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago, it became a democracy and now it's an empire. We do not vote because we feel that to do so would be to support empire which we do not.
Based on information about him, I do not believe that C.S. Lewis was a Christian. I think his books, including his children's books, reflect a profound head-knowledge and interest in some basic Christian doctrines, but C.S. Lewis very blatantly spoke out against core biblical doctrines he did not like. Christians by the power of the Holy Spirit are able to accept the entire Bible as inerrant and infallible. For example, Lewis admitted that some of the psalms were unworthy of the New Testament - very obviously those being the impreccatory psalms. That is modernist thinking to the core, and C.S. Lewis was basically a modernist.
Certainly we find Christian ideas in Lewis's stories. If we boil any story down to its bare minimum, all of them have to - to an extent- use truth as it's revealed in scripture. As author Peter Leithart has said, the Devil has no stories. The writer or playwright has to play by the rules his Creator has given him in order to tell any story, because the main STORY has already been written. The very presence of a protagonist and an antagonist with the internal desire of the reader (or viewer) for the defeat of the antagonist and the victory of the protagonist demonstrates this.
There are plenty of good sermons here on the New Perspective on Paul, the Auburn Ave Theology (Not to be confused with the Auburn Affirmation which has nothing to do with it) the Federal Vision, Norman Shepherd and N.T. Wright. If you enter in those keywords in the sermonaudio.com search engine, you'll find a plethora of sermons exposing this heresy. In short, it's a Romanist denial of justification by faith alone, teaching that justification is a process instead of a one time heavenly declaration as historically taught in orthodox biblical protestantism. It's refered to as a 'new perspective' because people who adhere to it believe that Paul was speaking against ceremonial practices (Jewish identity markers) having nothing to do with our justification rather than Judaistic legalism. Therefore, according to people who adhere to this doctrine, Paul was indeed teaching that justification comes by the law. It's probably the most dangerous heresy out there right now, and it behooves the Christian to learn as much as they can to refute it. It is growing by leaps and bounds in many reformed churches at the consent of their pastors and elders. Learn and become informed.
I agree, 9/11. And I find it frightening that voting propoganda is becoming more and more intrusive, obsessive and coercive. It's idolatrous and a stench in God's nostrils for our nation to be as obsessed with it as it is. Australia fines its citizens around $60.00 for not voting. How long before that happens in the U.S? As insane as many people are about everyone voting, there'd be plenty of people who'd be for that.
I also agree with FR. This is exactly what Pelagianism and Arminianism lead to - humanism. If you are merely spiritually sick (versus spiritually dead being able to only choose your sin) and can choose your cure, why not choose to change your sex?
Yes, I understand what you said about still being Arminian in that way! Funny how that works. When it comes down to it, we all want the control that God has - deciding for ourselves. Same lie that Satan told Eve in the Garden. Grace to you and your family.
Byron, I've given up posting to the humanists (Arminians) here. They hate God for how he reveals Himself in scripture, and there's nothing we can do except pray that they hang around here long enough to listen to something decent instead of the Arminian, humanistic tripe that strokes their 'enlightened' "Christ accepting" egoes. I don't know for the life of me why they insist on spending time on a site where the speakers are overwhelmingly reformational in their theology. Keep strong, Brother.
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