Don’t look at Renee Good’s death in Minnesota last week politically even though the politics matter. Look at it as the consequences of worship. Out there on the ice and in all that cold, on the street she died, there we saw the ultimate end (physically) of one’s theology.
Show me against whom and when one will justify the use of violence and you tell me your theology. This is to say that self-defense moral law and what we think of it is the acid test for our systematics.
Renee Good was blocking the roadway because her moral law was rooted in the perverted woke-Marxism of present day American democrats. She saw her actions as a crusade against a tyrannical government force. She saw deportation of illegal immigrants as a high form of treason against a moral law she said on one hand doesn’t exist but on the other applies with self-righteous certainty. It was this clash that put her in direct conflict with the civil magistrate. Once again: Ms. Good’s stated metaphysic was that there is no God and no absolute moral law, so who are you to judge?! Then, naturally and as a matter of course because God is not mocked and this is His creation, she embarked on a lifestyle of advocating for a “woke moral vision.” Sin is so deceptive that it never occurred to her that her advocacy for woke moralism contradicted her core conviction that there was no objective moral law.
So, to that end, Ms. Good decided not to write blogs or to peacefully protest from a sidewalk. So concerned was she that federal authorities were violating the moral law against deporting criminal trespassers that she decided to block the road so as to impede their (ICE) movement. Don’t mistake that this is itself a use of force. Renee Good used force (that of her two ton vehicle blocking the roadway) to defend the moral law against those who disagree with her. This caused an interaction that, as they say, went quickly sideways. The specifics of that are not the topic here. What is pertinent is that Ms. Good, clearly objecting to and rejecting God’s biblical moral law, lived her life in opposition to it at every turn from what we can tell. Sin, as we said, is so deceptive that it blinded her to the obvious fact that she was a walking contradiction. She failed to notice, as do all her allies, that they are extremely religious even while denying Christ.
Rather than discussing the politics of the matter with advocates such as Ms. Good, the Christian is best advised to bring the whole thing where it belongs, which is to the foot of the cross. Ask them what immutable moral law Ms. Good was appealing to in her denunciation and use of force against federal authorities. Non-Christian beliefs systems are hemophiliac on this essential point. Scratch them and they bleed out philosophically because only God is true. Remember: only the Triune God and the principles of His word-law allow for political liberty and personal safety in a fallen world. Learn this squarely and you’ll never have another political debate that goes nowhere. The central thing to remember is that everyone is a moral absolutist but only in Christ can we be consistent in belief and action. Christ calls us to be lovers of truth, wise, and able to correctly “divide the word of truth.” The moral law that all people talk about can only be found consistently in Christ. To say, as we all must at some point, that literally anything is wrong (or immoral) requires an absolute standard. And that standard, since we’re talking about morality, must rest in a Person who is Absolute. An impersonal moral law is a contradiction in terms. This is why we must learn to press the unbeliever on this point. By what immutable moral standard are you saying that?
If one can’t squarely locate the nature and place of this immutable law then it is no law at all. A moral law that isn’t immutable is a contradiction. It’s like saying “light traffic in Atlanta.” It’s a logical absurdity. And this is the whole point at hand. Non-Christian epistemologies, every one of them, can’t make sense of why there’s a moral law at all. In the mad attempt to live life on their own terms sinful man must reject objective and transcendent moral principles. They must embrace a subjective ethic and then completely jettison that ethic when interacting with the world. Watch how it works:
The secular woke-Marxist declares that God’s biblical sexual ethics are wrong and intolerant. They say “tolerance” must be practiced and then, wait for it…DEMAND that you accept this arbitrary definition of a subjective standard. It’s the same pattern with the belief that brought Ms. Good into the roadway last week. Foreigners should be able to come to America in whatever way they want because…well…they never really get around to declaring the moral basis because there is none. What happened then, on the theology issue, is that she declared arbitrarily that no moral law exists to stop foreigners from coming to America. But that subjectivity works both ways. If no moral law exists, then who ever is in power has right of way. Her contradictory theology of woke brought her into that fight last week. She claimed no moral law for illegal immigration (anarchy for me) but moral law (never defined) to prevent them from being deported (tyranny). This is the pattern of all non-Christian metaphysics…they lead to the reality of anarchy for me, tyranny for thee.
In all, make no mistake: America is in a state of spiritual crisis and the church of Jesus Christ needs to strap on its theological sword to properly join the fight. Wokesters are not misguided; they’re idolators. Debating politics rather than calling them to repentance isn’t a wise use of our time nor fidelity to the Great Commission. Explaining the political-ethical implications of the biblical worldview is fine so long as we endeavor to keep bringing all it back around to where it belongs: the glory of Christ. We must pray and train to stay disciplined in these debates and remember the goal: the repentance of sin and the free gift of salvation through faith in Jesus. To those that reject Christ there is violence and bloodshed on the horizon. Cain didn’t kill Abel coincidentally but as a consequence of his atheism. Sin is war. War on God. And war on man. Only in Christ and the forgiveness of sin is their true peace.
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