Written on the PuritanBoard

Update: Doug Wilson's name is now being invoked over at the PuritanBoard as a means to put me down. This can occur because Federal Visionists are as much a part of the Village of Morality as all the putative Reformed and Presbyterian (and Reformed Baptist) anti-FVists on the PuritanBoard are. That debate is a Village of Morality civil war. Christians on the Way - dangerous types who fear only God - are their common enemy.

That there is such a high percentage of contributors at the PuritanBoard who are pastors or in other roles of church leadership it is understandable that they would be negative towards God's elect like myself. They have a livelihood to protect. Children to feed. That will justify anything.

Unfortunately that is not what the faith is about. It's not about 'family.' Read Jesus on that subject. Take care of your family, yes, that is being a good householder. Basic responsibility. But don't turn the faith into that. The faith isn't about your family. Family is the most worldly thing there is. The easiest temptation and stumblingblock for repudiating the faith. A gigantic excuse and justification to stay shallow and snug and smug in the Village of Morality.

If you want the Spirit inside you prepare for battle, Christians. That means conflict with yourselves (your 'old man'), the world, and the spiritual realm (the devil and his kingdom and followers). You don't want that friction? Stay in the Village of Morality and pretend that the world and your vain, prideful, moralizing self is what the faith is all about. And the devil will also leave you alone. He doesn't need to bother with his tame slaves...

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PLAIN PATH PURITAN

Is anyone familiar with this site? I've initially only read his words concerning KJV Onlyism but I'm just curious...

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Crazy man. Keep away.

Whatever. I use language that shocks people, and if it freaks them out, so be it. I can't complain. But the situation is a bit mitigated by the fact that I'm not a resident in Bunyan's Village of Morality where the fear of man reigns over the fear of God, and which said fear of man is policed very tightly indeed.

And I'm not just a Calvinist, I'm a Calvinist who actually knows why I'm a Calvinist. We're rare.

I also don't get angry or start mocking when I hear the phrase 'born again Christian.' I know what it means. Which also is rare among Reformed Christians.

Oh, and I don't consider Arian/Romanist-corrupted manuscripts that liberal academics and spiritualists call 'critical text' to be the pure and whole Word of God. This causes the Village of Morality, man-fearing warriors of the Reformed world to call me crazy. So be it. I'm a big fool in this world. I can actually discern - and value - the Word of God...

Say no to formalism, ritualism, clericalism, and moralism...