Eminent Domain

It’s been a while since I’ve dealt with Theonomy; largely because the main contenders have resumed their lives outside of Blogorrhea (as crazy as it may seem that there is a possibility of life outside of Blogorrhea)! But we do still chat in other venues, and Jeff said “you should blog this, and see [...]

Ability and Authority

I promised a “major concession“, so here it is.

Theonomy vs. Religious Freedom

From the forerunner (and as quoted by Gene Cook on the 11/14/06 Narrow Mind webcast)
How would Christian Reconstructionism [AKA Theonomy] define “freedom of religion”? Is it an “inalienable right” to be protected by the government?
Any person — Jew, Moslem, Catholic, Protestant — would be free in a Biblically Reconstructed society [...]

Theonomy Debate

The Theonomy debate finally happened. About 60 men gathered in the very chilly SoCal mountain night air to eat Hoagies, smoke Stogies, drink homebrew, and hear a debate. The specific debate question was
Does the Civil Magistrate today have the responsibility to enforce the first table of the Decalogue?
Our good friend Jeff “Not-a-Sith” [...]

In and Out of Theonomy in 17 Easy Steps

This guy has been there and back again, and tells us how. How many tens of thousands of words on this blog could have been saved if only I had read this first?
On a related note, it appears that James Jordan went all the way through Theonomy and came out on the other (dark) [...]

Unchained

More news wrt “The man Christ Jesus” Dr Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda: Pastor Gene Cook of Unchained Radio/The Narrow Mind Webcast hosted “Bishop of Bishops” Carlos Cestero (apparently Miranda’s chief apologist/spokesman), to discuss his movement in the light of scripture. The audio (60 min/15meg mp3) is available from the Unchained Radio podcast site. [...]

A Lover, not a Fighter

A while back, I quoted John M. Frame’s review of Rushdoony’s Institutes of Biblical Law. Buried in another comment thread, I recently provided a link to Frame’s article “Machen’s Warrior Children”. I highly recommend that all (Reformed Christian) readers of this blog go and read that article. Here is the abstract, to [...]

Jesus’ Gordian Knot Undone?

Don’t you just love it how the Sprit can open your eyes to the reading of God’s word? I just saw something I never noticed before. Readers of this blog are certainly aware of the controversial nature of this quote from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matt 5:
17“Do not think that I [...]

Moses’ Law is not God’s Law

In the beginning, there is God, and God has a Law. God’s Law is a natural expression of his perfect, constant, and holy character. All men, in all times, Old Covenant, New Covenant, in covenant, out of covenant — All men are subject to God’s Law. And we have sin, which is any transgression or [...]

Paul was not a Theonomist

I stumbled upon this while starting to write a comment in this previous thread. It seemed important enough that it deserved its own new post (and thanks to Albino Hayford for the title suggestion!).
Consider, from I Cor 5, the case of incest that Paul had to deal with: