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Our faith should be an informed one because the God who created all things speaks to every sphere of life, and all facts should be studied in light of the revelation of God in Scripture. This is the foundation of Christian dominion. For R. J. Rushdoony, true government was the self-government of the Christian life in terms of God's law, so he wrote his position papers to better equip Christians to apply their faith to all of life. His objective was not to empower the state, or the organized church, but rather to call every person and institution to God's Word, which often put him at odds with both church and state. (Position Papers from 1979-2000)
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Modern rationalism begins with René Descartes, whose famous claim “I think, therefore I am” made human self-consciousness the starting point of reality. Instead of God creating and defining all things, man’s thinking bec
Show notesReason and rationalism are not the same. Reason is the God-given capacity to think, understand, and draw conclusions; rationalism makes human reason the final authority for truth, judging revelation instead of submitting
Show notesThe belief in secret, unseen rulers controlling history is a way of avoiding responsibility. Scripture teaches that all men already know the truth of God but suppress it in unrighteousness (Rom. 1), choosing instead to b
Show notesThe Hegelian revolution completed a long philosophical shift that began with Descartes: reality and truth were relocated from God and creation to the human mind. For Hegel, reason itself became sovereign, and what the ra
Show notesThe myth of nature treats the created world as a moral authority—something inherently good, normative, and self-justifying. While nature is real, the myth arises when people read into it laws, meanings, and moral standar
Show notesTitanism is the glorification of human effort that seeks to do the impossible, often disguising pride as virtue. Rooted in Greek mythology and revived by Romanticism, it celebrates defying limits, fate, and even God, tre
Show notesThe debate over monergism vs. synergism concerns who is decisive in salvation. Monergism teaches that salvation is entirely the work of God’s sovereign grace from beginning to end; man contributes nothing but receives gr
Show notesCatharsis is the belief that health—personal or social—comes through the uninhibited expression of inner impulses. Originating in Greek tragedy, it was later moralized by Christians but eventually reverted to its pagan m
Show notesClaims that Christianity borrowed from ancient mystery religions rest on superficial similarities and miss the real contrast. The mysteries offered secret rites, mystical experiences, spiritual escape, and vague hopes of
Show notesKenoticism turns Christianity into a religion of surrender, teaching that holiness means self-abasement, passivity, and acceptance of defeat. Borrowed largely from Eastern religions and filtered into the West through Pie
Show notesKenosis falsely teaches that Christ emptied Himself of divine power and that true Christianity means self-abasement, passivity, and surrender to evil. Over time, it turned humility into victimhood, portraying holiness as
Show notesTheosis teaches that salvation is deification—that man becomes god. Rooted in Greek and Neoplatonic thought rather than Scripture, it blurs the Creator–creature distinction and drifts toward pantheism. Salvation is redef
Show notesThe Great Fear marks the collapse of societies when faith dies. As seen in the French Revolution and repeated throughout history, fear begins in the human conscience before it erupts socially. When people abandon God, me
Show notesQuietism turned Christianity into passive inward spirituality, separating heart from mind and prayer from action. It treated engagement with doctrine, law, and society as unspiritual, redefining holiness as withdrawal fr
Show notesCartesianism makes the human mind the source of truth and reality (“I think, therefore I am”), replacing God’s revealed world with subjective ideas and symbols. In theology, this turns Biblical history into “myth” or “me
Show notesPietism rejected doctrine as “dead” and reduced Christianity to emotion and private experience. Being “born again” was emphasized without Biblical definition, while theology, catechism, and the full counsel of God were s
Show notesPietism began as a reaction against cold formalism, but it quickly became a distortion of the Christian faith. By dismissing doctrine, theology, and systematic teaching as “dead knowledge,” Pietism reduced Christianity t
Show notesCatharism was a medieval revival of Manichaean dualism that masqueraded as true Christianity while denying its foundations. By asserting two ultimate powers—a good spiritual god and an evil material god—the Cathars rejec
Show notesPelagianism places man at the center of salvation, treating God’s grace as an aid rather than the decisive cause. By denying original sin and affirming human ability, it recasts conversion as a human choice God merely ap
Show notesPelagianism teaches that man is not fallen in his whole being and can choose God by the power of his own will. Sin is minimized, original guilt denied, and salvation becomes a cooperative project between human decision a
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