The Theology of Cain

Covenant - Federal - Theology is not the servant of infant baptism; nor is it owned by those who would present it as the theology of Cain; a theology devoid of Spirit and denying the sovereignty of God in grace.

Cain was angry at Abel. Why? Because Abel had been regenerated by God, and Cain had not. Cain's reaction was typical of a reprobate. Anger and a desire for revenge. No doubt after killing Abel Cain went off looking for rituals that would get *him* regenerated just like Abel had been regenerated. "Yes, with rituals I'll have what Abel had, and God won't matter..."

This theology of Cain is what is currently being taught under the rubric of Reformed Theology at institutions such as Westminster Seminary California. Lately their professors have been bragging on social media that they are "getting a hearing for a reason." They think they are bringing what people want to hear. Don't worry about anything called 'spirit' (or 'Spirit' for that matter), it doesn't exist. And the faith is *not about you.* Put everything into the hands of *ministers* who are *ordained* to *minister* *grace* into you through *ritual.* (They'll speak slowly for you too, because as juvenile intellectuals, hand picked and hand held through downgraded, now culturally Marxist institutions, it is important for them to belittle their audience, especially when they get so much nasty - and strangely clever - criticism from social media, which should only be available to ordained intellectuals, hand picked by cultural Marxists. They don't have a clue that cultural Marxists, once they take over institutions, gate keep it to only allow in fellow cultural Marxists and village idiots.)

So, if you choose to attend Westminster Seminary California understand that you will be taught the Theology of Cain. And, according to them, it's what people want to hear. If they can't decree regeneration to be non-existent like they've decreed spirit (and Spirit) to be, then second best is to take regeneration out of the hands of God and put it in the hands of ordained ministers with rituals that effect things like baptismal regeneration, which is their default belief. Though as Reformed Christians they can't bring baptismal regeneration into their house in broad daylight like the Romanists, or in through the back door in broad daylight like the Lutherans, but only through the back door in the dead of night. It's still gets in the house though. And *dead* of night has such a relevant feel to it as a phrase to go along with the Theology of Cain.

The Devil has false fronts, Christianity being the true front

The Devil has all kinds of false fronts, Islam probably being the biggest (with only Communism over-shadowing it for a time); but that's the only thing that distinguishes Islam from the other false fronts.

Westminster California

This got be banned from Reformed Forum. Being banned from Reformed Forum is like being a homeless lesbian getting banned from government social services. It's unheard of. Oh, my...

As for issues of the Spirit, I find it interesting that Reformed Christians sense there is something wrong with Westminster California but can’t put their finger on it. I recently read an article by Kim Riddlebarger (who many times has taught at Westminster California) where under the rubric of defending dichotomy (something I agree with) he stated the spirit doesn’t even exist in man. That regeneration has nothing to do with having a new heart or new spirit given one. His waving off of Scripture to defend this dead view of the faith was astonishing. It gave me a new insight into the people who teach at that institution. This is Cain doing theology.

http://www.monergism.com/topics/anthropology/trichotomy-vs-dichotomy

Exposed

Somebody wrote this, wonder who...

"I appreciate your response. I read every word. You argue well for your belief. I would just say a person not in a visible church building is not necessarily not in communion with other Christians. Also, the very structure of modern churches goes against this: "...utilizing the spiritual gifts that he has been given for the very purpose of building up of the body in love..." Protestant churches have all devolved to hierarchical structures merely giving lip service to congregations voting or priesthood of all believers and so on. This is why I said 'quasi-Romanist.' I'm hardly the first Calvinist to point out the deadness of churches and the Spirit-less nature of churches, very much including Reformed churches. A regenerate Christian knows environments that are worldly.

Note this: "Protestant churches have all devolved to hierarchical structures merely giving lip service to congregations voting or priesthood of all believers and so on. This is why I said 'quasi-Romanist.'"

Natural Law

An email:

Of course 'moral' as well as 'God' has to be defined.

A related subject that is good to know is the subject of natural law. The Wikipedia page on it is good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law

To a Christian natural law is defined in Romans 1 where it is said that God has put His law in everybody's heart so that even unbelievers know right from wrong regarding murder and theft and lying and so forth.

Atheists and secularists in general think that natural law can be determined by man's reason and experience, but without an absolute standard it's all opinion and leads to might makes right, basically. Ultimately.

In the area of liberty vs. tyranny the subject of natural law can be seen like this: take the U.S. Constitution. Our laws and rights come from God (we are endowed by our Creator). This is because if our laws and rights (rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) came from man then what man gives man can take away, but what God gives man can't take away.

So it goes like this: our Constitution rests (or in grounded in) first English Common Law, then under that on Natural Law, but then ultimately under that on God's revealed law.

So, which law of God? Basically the Ten Commandments. The moral law that is for all generations. (I.e. not the civil laws of ancient national Israel, they became defunct upon the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ).

But that's Theocracy! the atheists and secularists scream. But when has America been a theocracy? Protestants don't think the state should have anything to do with regulating or policing an individual's relationship with God (the first table of the Ten Commandments, i.e. the first four which speak of how we are to act towards God, vertical), yet the second table of the Ten Commandments very much are what the state needs to regulate and police (thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, covet, give false witness, beat up your parents, rape and other sexual crimes, etc. i.e. horizontal, our relationship with other people).

There is a small group of Christians called Theonomists who say the first table of the Ten Commandments should be policed by the state, but they are a very small and trollish group, but sometimes louder than their numbers, or better stated, the media tends to focus on them because they fill the role better of their stereotype of Christians.

Morality has to be absolute, i.e. grounded in something higher than man's or a community's mere opinion or else it becomes merely the whim and demands of whoever has the most power to coerce others.

The great Satanic counterfeit of Christianity, Islam, attempts to ground their morality in their 'holy' book and sayings of their prophet and what not, but it all goes against what God - the real God of creation - has put in all of our hearts (re Romans 1). That's how we know, unless we are still in rebellion and our conscience is really buried, that Islam is false and the Ten Commandments are true. I.e. Islam preaches lying is OK if to an infidel, but that goes against the law God has put in our hearts which is the same law delineated in the Ten Commandments. Same with Islam's preaching that it is OK to murder infidels, to rape women, etc., etc. We know those Islamic teachings are wrong because they go against the law God has put in all of our hearts as Romans 1 states. That is Natural Law as a Protestant Christian understands it. I say Protestant because Thomas Aquinas, Roman Catholic Doctor of the Church, separated Natural Law from God's revelation, but that is getting too far into the weeds...

- C.

It's an attitude of rebellion against God that is in the priesthood of Critical Text scholars and their followers

Do garbage Critical Text bibles regenerate Christians?

Yes, but only if the person doesn't know any better.

Let me explain. (This argument, this reality, is never taken on by the Critical Text priesthood of scholars.)

There is enough of the living word of God in a garbage Critical Text bible to regenerate one of God's elect. I.e. despite all the mutilation and bad translation there is enough of the living, quickening word of God in even a garbage Critical Text bible to regenerate one of God's elect.

The situation changes, though, when a person knows better. If a person knows they are reading a mutilated and badly translated Critical Text bible and still chooses to read that bible then they are in a different state vis-a-vis the Holy Spirit. That person is someone who wants a bible with the authority of the word of man in it, not the authority of the word of God. That is a person who wants a bible that is a mere text document that they can look down on and say, "You need me more than I need you because I constructed you. Scholars, man, constructed you. You wouldn't exist without me." They want a bible they don't have to look up to. When a person is conscious they are reading a Critical Text constructed bible that is the attitude they bring to it. And why do they do it? Because they hate the doctrine of regeneration. They hate the very fact of regeneration. The reality of regeneration. The monergistic aspect of regeneration. They hate that regeneration is a matter of God's sovereignty and not man's ability and choosing. They hate regeneration like Cain hated Abel.

What does regeneration have to do with it? Regeneration is effected, when it is effected, by the word and the Spirit. That is the environment where regeneration potentially happens, usually. The Holy Spirit can, of course regenerate any way and at any time He likes, but generally speaking it occurs through the engaging of the living, quickening word of God itself.

See it this way: the Roman Catholic Church use to call people to sacraments all day and all night, come one, come all, everybody welcome. Ritual for everybody. Priestcraft for everybody. Yet, they kept the word of God away from people upon penalty of torture and death. Why? Because the Devil and his spiritual children know that ritual sacraments don't regenerate, but the word of God does. So the Devil's Kingdom has been attacking the word of God from the Garden. And after their defeat at the Reformation they knew their only evil hope was to put people off of the real word of God and get them to accept bibles made from corrupt manuscripts they provided - Sinaiticus and Vaticanus - the manuscripts every modern bible translation is derived from today. And they knew that it is the attitude adopted by users of those bibles that would condemn them; not those who read them in innocence and get enough of the living, quickening word of God to be regenerated by the word and the Spirit, but those who know better and still adopt the corrupt bibles because they hate God's word because they hate the authority of God's word in His revelation and they hate the very reality of God's sovereignty in regeneration.

The Authorized - King James - Version remains alone as the only true Received, or Traditional Text Bible available to God's elect in the English language. It's the only Bible in the English language one can't look down on but one has to look up to and accept that it has the authority of the word of God in it, and not the authority of man.

"Oh, but the Received Text has to be edited too!"

There's a difference between editing a manuscript that derives from the same stream of sources vs. constructing a manuscript from divergent sources including historically rejected, comically corrupt sources.

Interesting observation on different realms

An email:

Point 1: I've just recently seen something. I've been reading Diana West's American Betrayal about how the Soviet Union since 1933 has been subverting and undermining the United States and western Europe and all English speaking countries and so on, and then how the current coming to life of Islam is doing the same thing using the same tactics.

Point 2: Diana West's book exploded onto the scene, was viciously denounced by neo-conservatives (former leftists and former communists who are now supposedly conservatives) and was ignored by the left since the right was attacking it, and it was ignored by the big mainstream press overall (New York Times, Washington Post, etc.) yet still made it into the mainstream at lesser levels (the Washington Times reviewed it, the mainstream blogosphere has championed it, etc.) and it's published by a mainstream publisher, and she herself is a mainstream columnist and journalist.

Point 3: just recently I watched one of those Christian videos about the *four hidden dynasties*. The four dynasties, or kingdoms, or systems, being 1. Government, 2. Economy, 3. Religion and Education, and 4. News and Entertainment Media. And how the spirit of antichrist works through those four dynasties to subvert and defile and attack nations and peoples and individuals.

The realization I had was twofold: 1. what I'm reading in Diana West's book isn't new because I use to be *onto it* when I use to be into the mesoteric, spiritual warfare side of Christianity (Arnold Murray even use to talk of such subject matter). So that means my resentment at the Soviet Union getting such a victory over us used to be seen simply as the usual attack from the Kingdom of Satan on everybody all the time and I didn't necessarily associate it with communism or the Soviet Union, though they certainly have played the agent for the Devil in it over the last 80 years no doubt. 2. Diana West's book exploded on the scene *because* it brought spiritual material into the mainstream where it is hardly ever seen or allowed to be. David Horowitz even said, during the initial attacks he and others made on the book: "This book should never have been written." And nobody could figure out why he, a defender of free speech and a foe of political-correctness and so on would say such a thing. It's because unconsciously he was expressing the worldly demand that things from the spiritual realm not be talked of in the mainstream worldly realm.

And as I've been reading the book my overriding thought has been that she is talking about spiritual warfare things, the spirit of antichrist as it attacks through those four things, Government, Economy, Religion and Education, News and Entertainment Media; yet she obviously is not writing about it all from that angle. That would make the book just like the video I referenced above, something in the mesoteric/esoteric realm that never makes it into the mainstream worldly realm.

Interesting... - C.

Obvious known realization

An email:

Man, I am an obnoxious crank on the Plain Path Puritan blog. I know the reason. It's because I'm beating a drum in an empty hall. I could never have a conversation with the people I'm berating over there. They've already kicked me off of probably 50 of their blogs, forums, etc. if not more.

I'm hamstrung by not being able to use Work language [don't ask] as well. I'm just not in that domain, so what am I doing? Indulging hammering people over the head.

OK, I have to say there is a tiny bit of relevancy and unique and possibly even valuable contribution I am making (I write that with the realization that blogs are like lone shadows of no known object in abandoned universes). But I should probably stop now. - C.

Got blocked by Peter Enns

Peter Enns is promoting his new, upcoming book on his blog. You have to read his description, but all I said was:

Another book by Enns where he is projecting his lack of faith onto the entire body of Christ.

What does this tell you? One thing it tells you is Enns is not use to getting negative feedback. He gets stung easily. Certainly nobody in the Reformed academic community will do it. Maybe a book gets written and forgotten so they can all say it's been taken care of. Truth be told, Enns has probably had enough compromising conversations with them all to keep them from criticizing him in public.

To Westminster California

Michael Horton, the reason I don't respect you is because you're a juvenile academic and nigh Romanist. Develop into a man and into some understanding then we'll reassess.

R. Scott Clark, stop coining phrases that you put into acronyms then pretend they have become common usage when you are the only one using them. That's silly behavior. And, the guild talk, the back-slapping, the cleric-lay people mentality, no real born again Christian (regenerated by the word and the Spirit) takes that seriously.

The 'it's not about you' mantra you guys have developed is pure Deism. Yes, you fear the doctrine of monergistic regeneration because being inane academics first, Christians second, you question the supernatural and you don't have the background with literature to be able to see how the Bible is different from any other book. Your ratty, dumb Marxist pedagogues you were too stupid to identify were very happy to let you through the institutions they've taken over without ever asking you to read a single work of literature. Downgrade is not a strong enough word to describe what's happened to such institutions.

And your absolute objectifying of the faith is a juvenile intellectual's attempt at being original while he unconsciously operates in a post-modern environment, all the while thinking that because he's obviously smarter than the 'lay people' he can get away with it. No, you're going up against the discernment that comes from the Holy Spirit in Christians. We see you, young, silly lad. Stop affecting to be a teacher and a leader of Christians.

We're not telling you evil is good, yet we are telling you good is evil...there's a difference

Allow me to summarize this podcast from R. Scott Clark and Michael Horton for you:

"Let us explain this carefully and slowly to you... We don't believe in baptismal regeneration... We believe in regeneration by baptism. We are not sacerdotalists, per se. We are sacerdotalists only in a context of a definition given by an outside entity unknowing of the objective reality internally of the language as we carefully and slowly express it in our domain, though a definition we won't necessarily gainsay, but for reasons that follow a narrow line which needs to be carefully followed if we aren't to fall to the one side of error or the other."

Got that? They don't believe in baptismal regeneration, yet they do believe in baptismal regeneration. They are not sacerdotalists, yet they are sacerdotalists.

They aren't Jesuits, yet they are Jesuits. They are not Soviet spies, per se, implanted into the State Department in 1938, they are American citizens working for Rome, Moscow.

They are a religion of peace. Just because they cut throats and get their followers to blow themselves up in crowds of people doesn't mean they are not all about peace and love.

They are not of the Devil, they are just all about peace and love as the Devil's mantra would have it.

They will not tell you that evil is good, yet they will tell you that good is evil.

Oh, and that whole faith and Bible and plan of redemption thingy? It's not about you.

Oh, and if you think you've experienced some kind of individual regeneration by the word and the Spirit you are self-deceived and you need to allow a Jesuit priest to fondle you in a special place, preferably when you are young, and worship man as mediator between you and God, and listen to the word of man and stop reading that Bible thing you pretty much shouldn't even own. At least get a garbage critical text constructed Bible like a good little 'christian' who knows it is not about you, and who willingly enters the Devil's synagogue where Jesuits posing as Protestants can make sure you never see the light of the Kingdom of God you worthless, ignorant piece of garbage.

Bow to Satan, do it NOW.

- R. Scott Clark, PhD
- Michael Horton, PhD