How is it, that they too, are not then fulfilled in Christ?

Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, And teach out of Your law, 13 That You may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked. Psalms 94:12-13 (NKJV)

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, Who delights greatly in His commandments. Psalms 112:1 (NKJV)


Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. Psalms 1:1-2 (NKJV)

Oh never mind,

I thought I saw a pattern forming.

(Please, please, please note: nothing that follows has anything to do with meriting righteousness.)

At the end of Gary North’s book,Westminsters Confession, he has some appendix sections. One of them is a 33pg response to a big article that Christianity Today did in 1987,it was a deliberate hatchet job to discredit and dismiss, rather than answer men like Rushdoony, Bahnsen, North. That the author admitted to not even reading one book from any of these men was sad. The fact that this was the magazine that claimes to have its hand on the pulse of Christianity is both heart breaking and sickening as to what was happening, or was it, what had happened, to the mainstream church.

North’s response exposes that about 90% are straw men accusations, things never advocated, by them. It was an effective smear. As I have heard every one of these as late as the last couple of years. A lie will travel around the world before the truth even gets it shoe’s on, or something like that. That this happened within the context of the Church, ouch. We cannot be surprised at the lying and distorting of our politicians when the very bride of Christ needs to repent of it.

Has this not been a constant plea of Doug Phillips, that we in the church would at least be honest about the positions of those we disagree with.

In his, North’s response, he notes that he himself has “written thousands upon thousands” of pages on how relevant OT law is to economics today and makes this statement of the other side…”they have not done their homework. They have not shown just exactly how Gods laws against theft, debt, inflated fiat money, false weights and measures, and similar evils have been annulled by the gospel of Christ….”

That would be exegetically. Emphasis was mine. This too is the crux of his book. That no one, not the professors or the president at Westminster even tries to make an exegetical case for their positions.

Wilson would use a line like…"lets get our flashlights and crawl under the floor boards and take a look what presuppositions we are standing on."

And then see what happens if we are consistant with them.

In a way, the very name of Jesus is used as a rubber stamp to just dismiss his very own words? That if we just step inside his name, pin it to our statements , it is no longer that we...live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God...and... if you love me keep my commandments...and...why do you call me Lord,lord and do not do the things I say...and Paul saying...Yea,but we establish the law...or Jesus again speaking of HIS law...not one jot or title will disappear...because in Jesus, he has accomplished it all.

Now, even if you could exegete to the above conclusion,how do you again, by exegeting, turn it off, so it doesn’t include..I don’t have to give someone that’s thirsty a drink of water, because its already done in Jesus...or honor my mother and father, because that too, is done in Jesus, or take car of the widow and orphan....

For if we can take Paul’s statement about” yea, but rather we establish the law” and say its done in Jesus, then, these other statements of Paul’s, that “we should not forsake the gathering of believers” and the principle of “do not muzzle the ox” (supporting those who labor in the word for us). how is it, that they too, are not then fulfilled "in Christ"?

Somewhere Paul used a statement like… I must be crazy to speak like this.

Enjoyed the book, appreciated North’s broad and deep view of church history too.