Conspiracy

From Chalcedon . I too, used to be all worried about conspiracys controlling the govenment, controlling this, controlling that. I first heard this type of world view concerning conspiracys from , Paul Jehle. (a charsimatic no less! of the reformed variety) I think it was from the History of the World Mega Conference and also he briefly touches on it in the dvd set Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy. His sense of humor kills me and I have watched his 3 part episode on the Law of Nations more than once! Excellent. This is from the Chalcedon blog, you have to scroll down the page to get to it.

The part about bearing false witness torwards God caught my attention. My view of the 9th commandment was again way to compartmentalized just like it seems for all of the commandments. I've use my shorter Bible for too long.

Thursday, August 02, 2007
Conspiracies: Satanic Determinism RJ Rushdoony

Too many churchmen have laid the foundation, over the centuries, for a doctrine of satanic determinism. We can call it also the conspiracy theory.

Now very clearly Scripture affirms the fact of conspiracies; Psalm 2 is a classic statement of their reality. This same psalm, however, strongly underscores their futility; God laughs at the conspiracies of the ungodly nations and summons His people to share in His laughter...

...The commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness," means that we must bear true witness concerning all things. We must not bear false witness concerning God or man, and we are not to bear false witness concerning Satan by ascribing to him power that belongs only to God. The true witness of the apostles was not a testimony about the powers of Satan but of the triumphant Christ. The world they faced, as a very small handful, was far more entrenched in its evil than our own, but the apostles did not spend their time documenting the depravity, perversity...
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