In Minneapolis federal agents have recently killed two people this year. What is a Christian to think of this? Ready? Here we go.
The woke-left is demonic. We know this clearly by their fruit. No Christian should accept their argumentation nor premises. In every single matter of substance the woke-left (read that: modern Democrat party) is hostile to the Lord, to truth, and, indeed, peace. In this age the Lord has authorized three basic authority structures: family, church, and state. Each is established and defined by Him, not man. The democrat party is exceedingly hostile to the family via abortion and sexual anarchy. They despise God’s church (and “protesters” even stormed a service in Minneapolis). As for the state, they reject that it’s “God’s avenger” with a divine mandate to punish crime. Instead, they have recently embarked on a revolution in which they call evil good and good evil.
In the case at hand they have deemed federal immigration law null and void. The idea that illegally crossing a nation’s borders should result in deportation is repugnant to them. That brings us to our current situation. The battles in the cold streets of Minnesota (and they are battles) are the result of “honest atheism.” The church has so long been asleep at the wheel, and so drunk on the wine of humanism, so enchanted with Jezebel’s charms, that she hasn’t noticed her great sin. Her great sin is accepting the premises of humanism in public policy and schools. The whole,”you can’t bring Christianity into politics” thing is running to its logical conclusion now. Wanting to get along with the world and not wanting to seem like a crazed fundamentalist, we’ve accepted the “myth of neutrality” in matters of morality and law. And now we’re seeing the first wave of a violent war in our streets that’s a consequence. I have no idea how bad this will get. What I am authorized to say is that no Christian should be deceived. We must repent of our sin. There is no neutrality. We’ve been losing moral arguments to atheists who don’t believe in absolute morality and such is our shame and judgment.
Sadly, many Christians miss this point altogether because they’ve bought into that great flim-flam of the day, which is the myth of neutrality. Rebellious mankind doesn’t quite like to be defined as sinners; they prefer to think of themselves as “open minded” or “seekers” or “spiritual, not religious” and things like that. Indeed, the con is that we aren’t at war with God – demanding that we live in His world, the very one we didn’t create, and that He leave us the heck alone! We want the gifts of God – the pleasures, the joys, and the happiness – but not the righteousness. To live one day in the King’s world as if we’re neutral, not giving thanks to Him, is, as R.C. Sproul called it, cosmic treason.
Man isn’t and never can be neutral; to even suggest that he can be is itself a rejection of God’s definition of man in Scripture. It’s the first shot of man’s war on God to say that man, the creature, can think univocally rather than analogically. God’s law is written into the fabric of life – in the world around us, its structures, and categories, and on our hearts. The non-believer who disputes with the Christian philosophy is like a criminal who breaks into a house, but the homeowner has a shotgun. Undeterred, the bad guy asks for the gun. He reasons, “hey, it’s not fair that you’re armed and I’m not…give me the gun.” The Christian who accepts the myth of neutrality hands over the Mossberg and then wonders why he got blasted and the house was ransacked. In case you’re keeping score, this is exactly why atheists who don’t believe in God and absolute morality literally keep winning the so-called culture war. So-called conservative Christians accept the myth as a matter of course and it never dawns on them why they’re losing debates about morality and rights to people who don’t believe in them in the first place.
Christians far and wide surrender their weapon, which is the word of God and the rock-solid premises it provides, to appease the non-believer. The thing they need desperately to know is that unless God is, there are no rights at all. To debate someone about logic and morality – as all debates are at their core – without having them provide their foundation for such is exactly like handing the intruder one’s 12-gauge. The rioters who decry that ICE is enforcing immigration law should be asked a simple question: by what standard do you say that it’s immoral? By what standard does any atheist say anything is wrong? The fact we must be always prepared to drive home is that if there’s even one moral law, there is God! And if there’s no God, there can not be any moral law whatsoever! Thus, this is our duty. Be prepared to turn this from the politics to the cross of Christ. The crazed moral compass of unbelievers is crazed precisely because they are actively suppressing the truth about God for a lie (Romans 1:18-32). Why talk about Trump and immigration when those subjects are downstream of moral law in the first place? Are we trying to win unbelievers to Trump or Christ? And make no mistake: the woke-left will only get more violent and morally insane, not less, if there’s no revival.
If we’re to have such a revival it must be based on the rock, the solid ground, not the shifting sands of humanism and false religion. The critic – that is, God’s critic, the one who dares question the Almighty – must not be given intellectual quarter. What type of faithfulness is it that joins the critic? What type of honor has the man or woman that agrees with the central thrust of unbelief? The myth of neutrality is the very doorway that brings us all into the horrors of syncretism and idolatry. The door is nice. It always has fresh paint and is decorated quite fine. The turn of the knob, the crossing of that threshold, though…is literally the counsel of the wicked (Psalm 1:1). The myth of neutrality is the gravest threat to the church and the individual Christian precisely because it’s so very subtle. To think we can have His blessing while we walk in, at best, polytheism is like thinking our spouse will be okay with a little adultery.
Again: the Christian must give no quarter. Straight is the path and narrow is the way of truth. All argumentation that raises itself up against the Lord must be challenged at its very core (1 Peter 3:15; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Psalm 1:1). The myth of neutrality is walking in the counsel of the wicked, and standing in the way of sinners, and then at long last, sitting and resting in that seat of scoffers, rather than talking delight in the law of the Lord.
Let the critic build the foundation of his Christ-less worldview first, and then launch his ethical assault from that base. Why do we give him the weapons of truth with which to wage his war of lies? Christians must learn to obey the Lord, presume Him first in all their thinking (1 Peter 3:15; Proverbs 3:5-6; Romans 12:1-2), and challenge unbelief at its core. We must learn and believe that there’s no “truth” that can be raised except upon the Christian story – that is, the story of Christ.
“We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,”
2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV
The burden of proof, in other words, is on the atheist/unbeliever in every case. God can’t be put in the dock because in order to think at all we have to literally presume Him, in this case, His moral law and truth. To open our mouth to make an argument or evaluation, and to live at all with our neighbors, we presume that truth and morality are baked into the cake of reality, so to say. The thing is, (and it’s a very, very big thing) Christian philosophy makes sense of these most elemental points that we have to presume for intelligibility. Shocking though it may be to hear, nothing else does. Every worldview starts mid-stream – that is, all of us have to presume at the outset that truth exists and that it’s meaningful to persons as well as authoritative. In other words, to think and speak at all we must presume the truth about God (Romans 1:25).
Why shouldn’t I pop you in the beak to make a point? Why shouldn’t I enslave you because that’s easier than, you know, doing the work myself? God’s moral law governs all human conduct, that’s why. If we’re mere grown-up germs, what’s all this caterwauling about rights? Why are slavery, murder, rape, or any other thing truly wrong in a world of mere material laws? Or why, if the universe is morally neutral…just a thing that is…a monolithic thing of ultimate oneness wherein differentiation is meaningless and illusory (pantheism), should anyone care about violence? If what is ultimate isn’t the moral person of Jesus Christ, then nothing matters, and kicking you in the nether regions is more expedient than arguing with you. There’s simply no meaning, rights, or truth in a universe that’s ultimately impersonal. And an impersonal universe fails to make sense of why self-defense is a good thing and murder, rape, and enslavement are wrong things. Oh, if only Christians would care as much about God’s truth as atheists do about their flawed and insane moral code! Then we’d have a revival! Instead, we have wishy-washy surrender monkeys who never fight evil with the gospel, they only fight those who fight evil by saying they should try harder to get along with everyone.
Here’s a test: are you more offended by Christians who contend for the truth or by the woke-left trying to hijack the moral law to advocate for baby murder, lawless borders, and transgender surgeries for children? If the former, you aren’t a Christian. Repent. Are you more offended by Donald Trump often being a prideful windbag or by the woke-left’s attack on Christianity? A deeply flawed man can do good things but a systematic assault on the pillars of the church and the society it has built can only lead to chaos and violence. If you can’t see that, you must repent. Trump Derangement Syndrome, as it’s called, is a cover for moral cowards who don’t have the stomach to call the woke-left what it is: demonic. If you’re in doubt as to the stakes, Charlie Kirk’s life and death should inform you. Wake up.
In all, we must return to a robust and muscular theological life. We must be ready to answer the fight of our time with the gospel – all of it. We must learn again that to say anything at all about right and wrong is to declare that Jesus is Lord. This must seep into every pew and heart in America. Man is wholly incapable of thinking in any other category but truth. God always has the last word and last laugh (Psalm 2). Any evaluation of right and wrong, any differentiation, any judgment whatsoever, proves that the law of the Lord is written not only on our hearts (Romans 2:14-15), but into every nook and cranny of life too (Psalm 19:1).
Thus, there can be no exemption given as to do so is fundamentally dishonest. The Christian philosophy provides the foundation for life’s basic operating premises right out of the gate. No other worldview, following the logical implications of their premises, does this and needs, therefore, to provide a God-free foundation of why what we know actually matters. Just because isn’t an explanation. On this point all the arrogance of intellectual pride unravels. And since doing so is impossible – that is, providing such a logical chain of reasoning to support the basic facts of intelligibility and morality – modern men have made it so that speaking this basic truth is squashed.
In summary, how does any worldview but Christ provide the logical chain of reasoning for why right and wrong exist? How does atheism, or pantheism, or polytheism, or any other ism, make sense of why an argument must be made rather than a fist? This is the pattern and the battle of our time. Take you arms, Christian. Sharpen your sword, which is the word of the true and living God. America was a Christian nation and can be again only if Christians humble themselves before God and repent of their cowardice. Charlie Kirk’s example should embolden us. Engage the unbelieving world with the truth of the gospel.
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