Romans 15:4

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

The big problem with the Theonomists is that they think we can establish doctrines just by appealing to the Old Testament. If they would read books by Marcionites such as D.G. Hart they would know that a Christian exegesis must prove everything from the New Testament. Obviously this ignores Paul’s exhortation that the Old Testament was written for or learning, and it ignores the fact that the New Testament does not condemn bestiality, but who cares about what the Bible says when you have the two-kingdoms theory to defend.

Job 1:21

“The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”

Theonomists believe that people have a right to private property, which may not be revoked except at God’s directive (i.e. when restitution must be made for theft). However, they fail to realise that in Romans 13, the apostle Paul writes the State a blank cheque so that it can tax at will in order to fund its various welfare and redistribution schemes.

So while Job’s words may have been valid at that point in redemptive history, in the current age it would be more accurate to say this: “The state gave, the state has taken away, blessed be the name of the state.”

Exodus 20:3

You shall have no other gods before me.

Theonomists do not realise that in the New Testament the civil government is supposed to be religiously neutral, and allow false gods an equal place at the political table along with Jehovah. They think that because the first commandment forbids the toleration of false gods that the civil government is supposed to observe it. Don’t they realise that it is a sin for the civil ruler to obey the first commandment when it comes to politics, and that he must have other gods before him in his official capacity?

Obviously if they had studied at Westminster Seminary California they would be aware of this, but they spend too much time reading the Bible R.J. Rushdoony, the Reformers, the Puritans and the Covenanters. However, they should realise that the likes of John Calvin, George Gillespie, Martin Bucer, William Perkins, Samuel Rutherford, William Ames, John Knox, Donald Cargill, and so on would not get a job at any decent Reformed Seminary nowadays.

Exodus 18:21

Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. (New King Julius Version)

The Theonomists think that this rule for picking civil magistrates still applies today. However, if they understood two kingdoms theology, they would realise that the civil realm is not to be governed by special revelation, and so this law no longer applies outside the Israelite theocracy. The fact that the law was given though Jethro – who did not belong to the Israelite theocracy – is totally irrelevant, because to take that into account would contradict Meredith Kline.

Since we are no longer required to elect men who are men of truth, who fear God and who hate covetousness, it is therefore perfectly legitimate to vote for compulsive liars, who hate God and are full of covetousness. Remember, if you do not accept this two-kingdoms interpretation, then you will have people on the Puritan Board tell you that you don’t understand the difference between the church and the civil magistrate…even if you are a Covenanter who agrees with George Gillespie and Samuel Rutherford.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The Theonomists love this verse because they think it teaches that God is interested in the material world. Granted, the text teaches that God created the world, but haven’t the Theonomists read D.G. Hart and John Muether who say that the church is to avoid this worldly tempations and stick to ministering in the bits of the Bible pietiests like word and sacrament, and restrict the influence of Christianity to little else than the four walls of the institutional church?

The Theonomists also think that this verse means that creation is a big deal, and we should take the Genesis account literally; here they display their sheer ignorance: don’t they realise that Meredith Kline has compared the creation account in Genesis with pagan ANE[1] sources and come up with a framework hypothesis which means the earth is probably hundreds of thousands or even millions of years old? You really do have to pity their simplicity.

[1] Ancient Near East

Psalm 2

Now therefore, O kings, be wise;be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. (Psa. 2:10-12)

Ah the silly Theocrats and Theonomists; their stupidity never ceases to amaze me. They think that the above text means that civil rulers are supposed to submit to Christ. Even though this is the view of historic Reformed theology and the Westminster Confession, don’t they realise that the text is really eschatological and refers to what will happen when Jesus returns. It has nothing to do with what is supposed to happen in time…at least that is what Lee Irons seems to think.

Of course the civil antinomian interpretation of Lee Irons is correct. Even though it overlooks the fact that in the opening verses of this psalm the inspired writer talks about the the rage of the heathen kings against Christ and of the Lord judging the kings who rage against His anointed throughout history, and even though it overlooks the fact that the Christians in the book of Acts know the psalm had reference to what happened in pre-consummation history [immediately after quoting Psalm 2 they said "for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place." Acts 4:27-28] – don’t they realise that Lee Irons must be right! After all does it not make perfect sense to say that God is angry with the kings of the earth rebelling against Him in history, but that he does not expect them to submit to him in history, but only at the return of Christ?

Greetings Latent Antinomians and 2Kers

This blog is designed to show that the nefarious teachings of Theonomy are totally contrary to human reason the Bible as understood through the lens of “two kingdom theology”. All Scripture quotatons, unless otherwise stated, are from the Autonomist Statist Version.

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