New Covenant Patriarchy

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

New Covenant Patriarchy and The Center of Life

Surely you would agree, good Christian, that Christ should be the center of all of life, for us personally and for all creation.  That there is no other center that will hold, that can fill the role of Christ as the source of all meaning and definition.  Thus to live a meaningful life, a purposeful life, you must have Christ informing all of your life, reforming it where it has gone astray, and formalizing it in your culture.

Rich forms developed over the centuries are awaiting to be used by those who live Christ filled lives.  True Christian culture is not difficult to achieve; neither is dominion over creation and over the pretenders to the throne of Christ our King.

What is missing are the people who who will submit themselves to his rule willingly and wholeheartedly, embracing his Laws, his definitions of right and wrong, his standards of behavior and conduct.

The uproar over the redefinition of marriage to include 'gay marriage' is, so far, an argument between different types of humanists over who gets to define marriage.  Neither side is appealing to Scripture since to do so would be to call upon God to be the definer of right and wrong and all things else.  This would lead to polygyny and what could be worse?

Some truly idiodic commentators, without batting an eye, present polygyny as one step in a slippery slope leading to all sorts of perversions as if the Father of the Faith, Abraham, and the other great patriarchs of Scripture were perverts.  What perverts these commentators are.  They stand on sand and call it rock.  Now comes the storm of gay marriage.  Will they be able to stand?

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

New Covenant Patriarchy and Jesus Christ

Do you feel latent hostility to the Laws of God, the books of the Law and the Prophets of the Bible?  Do you have a hard time relating to the delight in God's law the writer of Psalm 119 speaks about? Most Chistians do.  Yes, you are in fact in company with a great deal of Christianity today.  But you are out of sync with Jesus.

The Bible, in its entirety, is the character of Christ writ large.  What the Bible defines as right and wrong is what Jesus thinks is right and wrong.

If you are a dispensationalist then you are guilty of idolatry since you dispense with major portions of God's word as irrelevant to you.  This makes it possible for you to pour man-made meaning into Christ instead of letting him define you.  A dispensationalist thus worships a god made in his own image.

So stop dispensing with the Torah of God!  Confess you have dispensed with His LawWord and then turn from your wicked way to the way of God.  Study it and learn it every day.

Like polygyny without God's Law is tyranny in the family, so is society without God's Law, and churches, and religion, and the state, and so are all the other relationships in life tyrannical without God's Law.  Christ came to reconcile us to himself as defined by His law.  Forsake man-made law, which is Phariseism, and turn to the real Jesus.  True freedom and liberty await, in marriage, political life, church, and community.