by Adi Schlebusch When speaking of the Kingdom, the Church, and the relationship between the two, it is first necessary to define both. Throughout Scripture, both are mentioned dozens of times as being the possession of God. The Greek word used in the New Testament for the church, ecclesia (ἐκκλησία), is perhaps one of the…
by Adi Schlebusch Demographics is destiny, and this is nowhere more true than in the area of religion. When Althusius, one of the leading political philosophers in the Federal or Covenantal political tradition, famously stated that “diversity destroys unity,” he was referring to ecclesiastical diversity.[1] I wonder what Althusius would make of the modern nation…
By Adi Schlebusch The notion of sharing a meal plays an important role throughout Scripture. Right at the beginning of creation when God addresses man for the very first time, He issues an invitation to man in Genesis 1:29 to eat from the fruits of the Garden of Eden. Jesus’ last night with his disciples…
By Adi Schlebusch I much prefer promoting constructive ideas and theories than engaging in uninteresting polemic battles, but given the fact that we have so many Marxist infiltrators posing as “Theonomists” or “Christian Reconstructionists” these days, this post has lamentably become necessary. But I’ll keep this brief. Doug Wilson is a pedophile protector and a…
by Robert Hoyle And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and unto thy kindred; and I will be with thee. – Genesis 31:3 There was once a time when patriotism was taken for granted and being unpatriotic was akin to being a filthy communist. Good citizens were proud to…
By Adi Schlebusch When God initially created Adam, he was alone, which God declared to be “not good” (Genesis 2:18). This is very striking, since with all the other things God originally created, He expressly declared to be very good. The sole exception was Adam’s isolation as individual apart from a family, that is, Adam’s…
By Adi Schlebusch In any discussion of moral matters, it is always vital to take into consideration whatever epistemological framework is informing the moral framework. This is because it is ludicrous and counterproductive to speak about right versus wrong without addressing the issue of truth and falsehood. All genuine Christians universally hold Scripture in high…
By Robert Hoyle You know that justice is the one thing you should always find; you’ve got to saddle up your boys, you’ve got to draw a hard line. ~~ Willie Nelson and Toby Keith; 2002 There is a lot about the world today that rubs real men the wrong way. Ever had that icky…
by Adi Schlebusch The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had never been born. – Matthew 26:24 Jesus makes a fascinating claim in this passage. He…
By Robert Hoyle Eschatology is always a topic of much interest among students of the Bible. The doctrine of “last things” is prevalent throughout the pages of Scripture and questions such as “when will the world end?” or “when is Jesus coming back?” and “what will the last days be like?” are of no recent…
By Adi Schlebusch In light of ongoing debates on Full or Unorthodox Preterism and The American Vision’s flirtation with this heresy, I thought it appropriate and timely to write something about the way we ought to understand apocalyptic and eschatological texts in Scripture. While I agree with Classical or Partial Preterist position that prophecies regarding…
And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God. John 17:3 By Robert Hoyle You are great, Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Your power, and infinite is Your wisdom. And man desires to praise You, for he is a part of Your creation; he bears his mortality…
By Adi Schlebusch The current widespread revival of discussions regarding the proper relationship between nature and grace is tremendously encouraging. A sizable minority of the church in the West—a faithful remnant—finally seem to be in the process of liberating ourselves from the shackles of Neo-Gnosticism, a heresy which has, for far too long, been used…
by Robert Hoyle There will be an apparent paradox in this. You shall applaud and revere your fathers for their determined opposition to forms and principles which you shall receive and even sustain. But the paradox will be only in seeming. Your justification will be found where we find ours: in the fact that the…
By Adi Schlebusch One of the core problems with the revolutionary political theory emerging out of the Enlightenment was its attempt to reconstruct the social order from abstractions, as opposed to recognizing the reality from which the social order emerges as foundational. The idea that liberal propositions constructed independently of the history and character of…
By Robert Hoyle He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.– Revelation 22:20 It is lamentable that the book of Revelation is rarely appealed to for doctrine and exhortation. Although its pages abound with Scriptural allusion, despite its containing direct imperatives (blessed is he who keeps the…
By Robert Hoyle Introduction Holy Scripture consistently confronts Its readers with references to the last days and the end of the world. Such language is smattered throughout the first segments of the Bible (think Genesis 49:1), begins to come into focus with the Major Prophets, and develops into a major theme in the preaching of…
By Adi Schlebusch The Dutch Reformed Scholastic Gisbetius Voetius (1569-1676) sees the epistemology of rationalism as standing in stark contrast to Christianity, given the fact that it places ultimate authority in man himself. He writes that “reason cannot precede faith or consist of clearer knowledge, and as such, reason cannot be the foundation of faith.”[1]…
There are basically four kinds of politicians. First, there are the professional, practical politicians who are men without principles and who are basically interested in staying in office. There are many such men today. They respond basically to pressure and to money. Principles do not move them: self-interest does. The less godly law and order…
by Adi Schlebusch In his 2021 book, The Confessional County: Realizing the Kingdom through Local Christendom, the senior executive fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Raymond Simmons describes the logic of social Christian covenantal confessionalism as follows: Only by Christ’s power can we begin to have a righteous society. Only by covenant is Christ’s…
By Adi Schlebusch Our worldview shapes our perspective on everything. If your worldview isn’t founded on the central axiom that God is both the Source and the End of reality itself (Romans 11:36), your philosophies will ultimately be inconsistent, weak and flawed. One of the spheres of life where this can perhaps most clearly be…
by Adi Schlebusch During the nineteenth century, Marxism, as the logical outflow of Liberalism, purposefully strove to eradicate the God-ordained covenantal social structures of the family, the church and the nation. One of the most important means of achieving this end was by means of the central economic principle of communism, the abolition of private…
This may be a dangerous thing for me to say out loud… like sticking my head into a beehive as it is a very controversial topic. First of all, every couple is entitled to make their own choices about when to start a family. Totally up to you as I have absolutely no place in…
by Adi Schlebusch In 2006 the humanities scholar affiliated with Marquette University in Wisconsin, Howard Kainz, published an important article in Touchstone magazine entitled Liberalism as Religion, in which he rightly pointed out how the philosophy of Liberalism essentially amounts to a religion, complete with its own dogmas, hamartiology, holy scriptures, holy sites, relics and…
by Adi Schlebusch The question regarding the nature and meaning of culture is an extremely relevant one for the time in which we live. We often refer to “our culture” to distinguish it form foreign or alien cultures. We also often speak of “the culture” when referring to the contemporary mainstream anti-Christian culture prevalent in…
by Adi Schlebusch One of the central ploys utilized by Christ’s enemies in their attempt to overthrow his Lordship is launching attacks on those socio-covenantal structures or units which God has purposefully ordained for his own glory. In a previous entry we have already discussed the immense onslaught against the family unit. We have identified…
By Adi Schlebusch In a recent post I discussed how liberals, freemasons and various other secret societies such as the Bavarian Illuminati and their successors have long conspired to destroy the family as basic covenantal and societal unit. This is because the family, ordained by God to be foundational to society, is one of the…
By Adi Schlebusch In Psalm 2 we see that the sinfulness of mankind drives it towards conspiring against the Triune God. This is because sinners simply refuse to submit themselves to the Lordship of Christ. Hence, the conspiracies against God also entails making plans to overthrow Christ’s Kingdom. Whereas the believer prays with Christ for…
by Adi Schlebusch There is a branch of Philosophy which we call Social Ontology. The word “ontology” is derived from the Greek words ontos which means “essence” or “existence” and logos which means “word” or “doctrine.” Ontology therefore entails the study of the nature of being, while social ontology specifically deals with the nature, structure…
by Adi Schlebusch It is a well-known fact that 11 of the 12 apostles were martyred for the sake of their witness to the gospel. What is often overlooked, however, is the fact that it wasn’t necessarily the message of redemption as such that got under the skin of the Roman authorities of the first…
by Adi Schlebusch Few people realize that the New Testament actually emphasizes Christ’s Lordship just as much as His redemptive work with which it stands inseparably related. Luke 1:71-73 teaches that Jesus not only redeems his people from sin, but also from their enemies, so that we can serve Him without fear. In 1 Corinthians…
by Adi Schlebusch It is sadly still a widely-held misconception that Jesus only comes to the fore of redemptive history with His incarnation in the New Testament. As second Person of the Trinity, He is of course uncreated and His existence eternal. When king Herod inquired as to where the Christ would be born, Matthew…
by Adi Schlebusch The well-known Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837—1920) famously noted in a speech he delivered with the establishment of the Free University Amsterdam as a Christian university in 1881 that There is not a single square inch in the entire domain of human existence over which Christ, who is Lord over all, does…
by Stuart DiNenno For Christians, pessimism about the future is cowardly and faithless. A view that the world is going to become worse and worse, and that Christianity will not ultimately prevail among the nations, is a heathen view. It is to believe that the gates of hell shall prevail against the church and the…