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jcr4runner (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
And so do you. All Christians -- in fact all people -- believe in God's Law whenever it suits them. A true "theonomist' is one who accepts and tries to obey God's law even when he doesn't like it or fully understand the reason for it.
jamesjeffreypaul (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
But he favored the death penalty for those who violated Mosaic laws.
jcr4runner (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This comment shows you have not even the slightest idea of what Rushdoony taught. He did not advocate that Christians should try to seize political power or that dominion is advanced by killing people. He taught regeneration of individuals through faith in Jesus Christ and then applying the Law of God as a standard of reformation on the grassroots level.What is frightening is when socialists, communists and atheists seize power, not when Christians work for democratic, peaceful reformation.
jamesjeffreypaul (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This man is beyond frightening. Thank God he never acquired even a fraction of the theocratic power he sought. If he had, then many of us would have been murdered.
6Churches (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Don't you think that if it was easily comprehensible as it relates to practice.... that all Christians would be in agreement, when they clearly aren't. Lecture number one in any moral theology course is that the Bible has severl competing, conflicting voices on morality.
numberonesurvivor75 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Pg. 142 of the Rushdoony endorsed Van Til's book "Common Grace and the Gospel" states that all teaching of Scripture is apparently contradictory. That's the whole point of grace and salvation by faith. Scripture is only contradictory without faith. It's important to note that Van Til provided the basis for Rushdoony's ideas and Rushdoony's "Institutes of Biblical Law" suggest that the foundation of society should be the incomprehensibility of Scripture.
numberonesurvivor75 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
For starters, Rushdoony said "in every area of thought, the philosophy of Cornelius Van Til is of critical and central importance (E. R. Geehan, ed. Jerusalem and Athens, [Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1971], 348)."Van Til argued that "It is because they are concerned to defend the Christian doctrine of revelation as basic to all intelligible human predication that they refuse to make attempt at stating clearly any Christian doctrine."
jcr4runner (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Citations?
darrinrasberry (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
"The World" in John is worldly matters, i.e. sin, not a literal world takeover. An easy exegesis demonstrates that much. RR looks too excited about this in this video. Way too excited, especially going on about all nations and "all their peoples." He won't say what he's getting at, but it's obvious - Reconstruction. Postmil is scary. :(
numberonesurvivor75 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Not in this video, but when he cites Cornelius Van Til. Rushdoony defended Van Til's teaching that Scripture is contradictory |
