Analyzing a popular, but misleading maxim.

"If you say you are a Christian, then act like one."

The assumption behind this aphorism is that a particular (written or unwritten) moral code defines, confines, or constrains the ontology of a Christian. The Christian's actions must line up with this set of pearl-strung laws or he/she does not qualify to be one. But Christianity is not moral code. It is a response to a moral code. Christianity revolves around the basic fact that Jesus Christ, not our own personal actions or our ability to live up to and emulate a pre-selected list of rules, is our righteousness. Those who "act like Christians" are, nine times out of ten, seeking to follow a law of righteousness that they have built for themselves. But this is not, in any sense, a submission to God's righteousness. Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount that, "twisted as you are" you ought to come to the Father and expect good things from Him (in Luke Jesus modifies this teaching to disclose the receiving of the Holy Spirit). In other words: "I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

Pastors who engage in moralism in their sermons never take God's Holy Law seriously. They assume that if a person doesn't get drunk, sleep around, cheat their neighbor, or lie, he has sufficiently demonstrated enough good behavior to honestly call himself a Christian. Or positively, a person who writes encouraging emails to said pastor, attends church faithfully, participates in local ministries, and tithes generously is "acting" like a Christian. God's Holy Law will allow for none of this. According to the sacred writ in Romans, both the pious Jew and religious Gentile are forced to clap their mouths shut as God righteously damns them for their ungodliness and wickedness. They are unclean. Their good deeds and Christian actions are worthless in God's sight. They have aroused His wrath which burns to the grave below and cannot be quenched. They have sighted God's free gift of salvation and erected a triple-barrior of requirements in front of it. James says," Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it." To this day, I have not met a man or woman who takes this verse seriously. Since it is most certainly true, the one embodiment of truth and knowledge that a Christian has to guage the autheniticity of his "Christianess" stands clearly and immutably against him. His flimsy structure of good deeds and partial fulfillments fall before one word. He has kept certain commands but has neglected others (love your neighbor as yourself? love your enemies? love God with your whole heart? Be perfect? Be holy as God is holy? Avoid so much as a hint of sexual immorality, greed, and impurity?) and thus he has kept no commands. He has broken all of them.

"If you say you are a Christian, then act like one" is a lawless statement. It is a call to take up that filthy pile of fishy-smelling menstrual rags and build up a ramp to Heaven. You may be certain that God will come down and scatter your pride.

Why I haven't been posting lately.

I'm still a lazy bum. This can only mean that you as a reader have neglected to pray for me. There is no progress in sanctification unless brothers and sisters intercede for one another.

A good reason why women should not be "in" theology.

http://witheology.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/what-would-we-do-after-abortion-became-illegal/

Abominable. Any person who can so snidely and wickedly weigh in against the "problems" of making abortion illegal does not deserve to bear the title of "theologian". These women are a disgrace to the cause of theology, and they further my already conclusive thesis that women have no business teaching the subject.

Jim West was correct to compare the abortion movement to the "Holocaust". Much worse yet than holocaust, abortion signifies sinning against little ones, an evil which stands so far above any act of genocide in its inherent repugnance, that the scriptures reserve no mercy for those nations which are guilty of it. Not even Judah, after all of its heartfelt repentance, escaped God's fierce and agonous wrath for the crimes of Manasseh in sacrificing children in the fire.

I can already predict that the only reaction this blog will get out of people is against its "chauvinist" bent. Oh what a damnable society we live in! We get all out of sorts when grown women aren't given their due in one sector of the academic realm, but can hardly bat an eye at the millions and millions and millions of babies that have been liquified by saline products under the "troubled" consent of their depraved and irresponsible mothers. What the hell is wrong with you? I can hardly contain my rage at your dull and wretched liberalism.

Women or men or anyone who support abortion, who even consider the matter a topic for debate....I hold them in as much esteem as the most foul and disgusting Nazi. Our country is no better than the third reich.

My mind can wander....

So I was listening to a feminist babble the other day, and suddenly my troubled mind became soothed by the formation of a beautiful series of images. To be sure, we do not live in a perfect world, but I can always dream....

Schopenhauer: Timely remarks on women.

Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted- in a word, are big children all their lives, something intermediate between the child and the man, who is a man in the strict sense of the word.

Thoughts to ponder! If a writer said these things today he would be lynched, thrown out of the university and forbidden to speak in public. This is because our feckless and brutish society can only handle free thinking as long as freedom is in slavery to egalitarianism. Stupid feminists.

A verse to have in view whenever a feminist opens her mouth.

"Do not spend your strength on women, your vigor on those who ruin kings." (Pr.31:3)

Wise words from King Lemuel's mother. And if kings profit well from this wisdom, I imagine scholars of today would do well to heed the lesson.

Quote of the century.

"As I heard N.T. Wright's preface to the Epistle to the Romans being read, my heart felt strangely pissed...." -Marc Regier