Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 9: National Defense 9.1 National Defense in a Free Society (Cont’d.) Raising an Army Picking up from our review of the first major passage on preventing the warfare state, the second relevant passage covers both the laws for a militia and for waging warfare, all found in [...]
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A colleague asked me about a claim made by Michael Horton: allegedly John Calvin referred to “Christendom”—the idea that Christianity should prevail in all aspects of society—as a “contrived empire.” “Did Calvin really say that?” was the question, because, “I can’t find it anywhere.” So, I set out to see what Horton said that Calvin [...]
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Joel Richardson believes the Bible teaches “that the biblical Antichrist is one and the same as the Quran’s Muslim Mahdi.”[1] As I mentioned in a previous article, there’s nothing new about making Islam the end-time bad guy when it comes to prophetic speculation. It has a long history, something Mr. Richardson seems not to be [...]
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One of the most sobering chapters in all of Scripture can be found in Deuteronomy 6. In this well-known portion of the Old Testament, we are informed that the Law of God is more than just a series of directives handed down by a Divine Deity. In fact, we learn that obeying the Law is [...]
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“America is ungovernable. Those who served the revolution have plowed the sea. The only thing to do in America is to emigrate.” These words were written by Simón Bolívar, the Liberator of Latin America, a month before he died at the age of 47. At the time he was writing this letter he had sent [...]
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[The following is an excerpt from John Calvin's sermon on Deuteronomy 28:1-2, given on Tuesday, March 10, 1556, as found in The Covenant Enforced (Tyler, TX: ICE, 1990), 84-94.] “If you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, and be careful to fulfill all the commandments I command you this day, all these blessings [...]
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Life is full of little surprises. Some are welcome, others not so much. I would like to tell you about one of the welcome variety. It comes as a very pleasant surprise to me personally and to the work and ministry of American Vision in applying God’s ethical standards to every area of life. This appears as the fruit of a modern French reformed scholar named Jean-Marc Berthoud who has devoted his life to resurrecting the thought and writings of a forgotten reformer, Pierre Viret. The results are simply astounding.
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Joel McDurmon explores more of the worldview John Calvin held of the Mosaic Law and it’s application to Christianity in his life time.
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What did John Calvin believe about the natural and moral law? Michael Horton has claimed that he and Calvin very much agree on the realm of heaven’s jurisdiction and man’s to bring order to a people, but Joel McDurmon begs to differ with Michael Horton.
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As a student at Reformed Theological Seminary in the 1970s, I was taught that certain cultural applications flowed from a consisÂtent appliÂcation of Calvinism. Calvinism is synonÂymous with a comprehenÂsive biblical world-and-life view not just the doctrine of predestination.
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