"Answering Tough Questions About Christian Reconstruction"

The current issue of Faith For All of Life "Answering Tough Questions About Christian Reconstruction" is out. I haven't recieved mine yet. Looks like it will be fun reading. You can read this article from it online for free. It's big, 10 pages on my printer, like the topic. You can go read it from the horses mouth as it were. I love the name of the magazine "Faith for all of Life".

I haven't read the whole thing yet. Printed it up and maybe sit down with some ice cream tonight. I know this about Rushdoony's Chalcedon, they will come from the Word, they don't use a shorter Bible and my Lord always seems to be sitting on a more fitting throne no matter what the topic is. I do think they glorify God in their thinking. Martin here, also talks about a cultures god...Here's a sneak peak...

"Answering Tough Questions About Christian Reconstruction"
Martin G. Selbrede

1. There is much contention over the type of society that Reconstructionists are seeking to build. Given your position within the Christian Reconstruction (CR) movement, perhaps you can give us a definitive statement of what that is. Let me ask it this way: if CRs do indeed get everything they want, if they could design the future to achieve their goals, how exactly do you see both how and what you would achieve?

At the apex of a culture's value system is that culture's god. Within humanistic societies, the state takes that fundamental role, agreeable to Hegel's assertion that the state is God walking on earth. The god of a society is the source of law for that society. All of society then is ordered around that god's prerogatives, and institutions shaped to facilitate and expedite the state's agenda...

...The God of modern evangelicals is squeezed into too small a box to represent any kind of competition to the idea of the modern power state. Secured inside such a box, the evangelicals' God is no match for the power state: containment of that God keeps the power state front and center when people think of "power." Accordingly, when people think of "power" in our country, they think of Washington, D.C.

What kind of power could an absentee God inspire? No wonder Christians are the object of continuous political exploitation: they've mastered doormat theology. They've fallen for the siren song of politics, and thereby implicitly endorse the state's view that state power is the ultimate power in society. Let the manipulation of Christian voters begin. But their delusion begins far earlier in the thought sequence: they've unknowingly swapped gods. Evidence of this is the ease with which most Christians exercise their "faith" on Sunday morning, and live the rest of their lives as if God were the Great Cosmic Mute...

...Why are so many Christians culturally impotent, socially irrelevant, and in general lockstep with the humanistic power state? Puritan John Howe put it best: "An arm of flesh signifies a great deal, when the power of an almighty Spirit is reckoned as nothing."

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