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Why you should become a Bible-believing anarchist
who also believes the universe was created around 4004 B.C.
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I would like to persuade you to become a Bible-believing Christ-following "Christian."
I define "Bible-Believing" as "Bible-Obeying."
The story is told of an Explorer who hired a Native to guide him. They came to a river which looked frozen. The Native said "We had an unusually cold winter, and this river is so frozen that we can safely walk across it." The Explorer says "I believe you." But then the Explorer says "I'm going to walk around till I find another way to get to the other side of the river." Did the Explorer really believe the Guide? No, because in his actions the Explorer didn't obey the Guide.
The Bible says "Thou shalt not kill." Or even hurt them. Or even threaten violence.
The Bible says "Thou shalt not steal." Or destroy property.
I want to persuade you to obey these commandments, and not defend or excuse those who violate them.
"Government" was created to violate these commandments.
Evolution was invented to remove God the Lawgiver (Isaiah 33:22) from our consciousness so we could make our own laws.
Notice that chapter 8 of the Westminster Confession of Faith, "Of Christ the Mediator," is not complemented with a chapter on "Christ the Christ," that is, "Christ the King." The concept of Christ as King is in the Westminster Standards, but buried. This is good for the churchmen, who talk about "the Ordo Salutis" ("the order of salvation"), but not about business and the dominion mandate, and Christ's royal dominion over every area of life.
The word "gospel" means "good news."
What is the "good news" of the Bible?
First and foremost, it is a "gospel of the Kingdom."
In the days of Christ, the Roman Emperor claimed to be a "savior," and a bringer of "salvation." The empire sent "preachers" with a "gospel." Here's how an AI bot expressed this:
Based on the search results provided, the Caesars of Rome, particularly Augustus Caesar, claimed to bring "salvation" to the Roman Empire and the world:So in summary, the evidence shows that the Roman Caesars, particularly Augustus, did actively claim to be saviors and bringers of a new age of peace and prosperity, which the early Christians saw as a direct challenge to their message about Jesus Christ. This theological and political rivalry is reflected in the language and framing of the biblical Gospels.
- The inscription found in Priene, dated to 6 BC, refers to Augustus Caesar as being "sent to us and our descendants as Savior" and declares that he "has put an end to war and has set all things in order". This portrays Augustus as a savior figure who has brought peace and order.
- The inscription also states that Augustus' "birthday... has been for the whole world the beginning of the gospel (euangelion) concerning him". The term "gospel" was used in the Roman world to refer to proclamations of political or military victories. So this inscription presents Augustus' rule as a kind of "gospel" or good news for the world.
- The search results indicate that the Caesars, especially Augustus, were portrayed as divine figures and even "sons of god" who had brought salvation and peace through the Pax Romana (Roman Peace). This was a direct challenge to the Christian message of Jesus Christ as the true divine Savior.
- The Christian Gospels were written in this context, presenting Jesus as the true "Son of God" and bringer of salvation, in contrast to the claims made about the Caesars.
This is all very accurate.
I highlighted the word "challenge." When I think of a "challenger," I think of an upstart rookie who challenges the established, reigning champion. Caesar Augustus was born 63 years before Jesus was born. When Jesus was born, Rome had invaded and conquered Israel. Rome was the reigning champion. Caesar was the lord and savior, and Pax Romana was its gospel. The imperial herald who brought "the good news" of Caesar's salvation was called a "preacher," ( κῆρυξ [Kerux] ) who made official imperial announcements ("good news") about the empire ( κηρύσσω. [kerusso] ). While Latin was used extensively in the Roman Empire, so was Greek. The Greek name for the Roman Empire is often "Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων (Basileia tōn Rhōmaiōn)," or the "Kingdom/Reign of the Romans." Caesar -- "lord" and "savior" -- promised "salvation" throughout his "kingdom."
Then, 63 years after Augustus Caesar was born, Jesus of Nazareth is born, proclaims Himself "Lord" and "Savior," and sends (apostello) imperial heralds proclaiming a new "Gospel of the Kingdom [βασιλεία (basileia)]." Christians start using the same vocabulary that Rome was using. Christians are the "challengers."
So contrary to the wording of the AI bot, Christianity challenged Rome. Christ challenged Caesar. It is not so much that Christians saw Caesar-as-Savior as a "challenge" to their message about Jesus the Savior-Christ, as that Christians were a direct challenge/threat to Rome.
R.J. Rushdoony writes about the German historian, Ethelbert Stauffer, who wrote about a direct challenge by Peter to the religious principle of the Roman Empire, from the days of Augustus on: salvation by Caesar. Before Jesus was born, the "preachers" of Rome heralded this "gospel":
“Salvation is to be found in none other save Augustus, and there is no other name given to men in which they can be saved.”
St. Peter was very bold to proclaim a new Gospel when he said of Jesus Christ,
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Rushdoony says:
War between Christ and Caesar, the Christians and Rome, was thus inevitable. The state and its emperors claimed to offer salvation. The church declared only Christ does.
We are again in the age of Caesars, of political saviors. All over the world, politicians proclaim their plans of salvation....
Trusting the empire for salvation is a cult. See these comments by David Chilton, who speaks of the cult of Caesar worship, and these comments by N.T. Wright.
Not just the Roman Caesars, but all ancient rulers claimed to be divine saviors. For more on the claims to divinity made by ancient empires like Egypt, Babylon, Medo-Persia, -- the empires of Daniel's statue (Daniel 2) -- see chapters 3-6 in the important work by R.J. Rushdoony, The One and The Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy.
Phrases like "Salvation" or "The Kingdom of God" do not point to heaven or some non-material dimension. In most cases where the words "save," "savior," and "salvation" occur in the Bible, Israel is "delivered" from pagan empires, and everyone dwells peacefully "under his vine and under his fig tree," "with no one to make them afraid" (Micah 4:1-7).
"Pax Romana" was the world peace promised by Caesar. The Bible proclaims a "Pax Christi." The Gospel is good news about a global empire of peace. Tens of thousands of verses must be ignored to classify the "gospel" as something that only applies to individuals after they die.
There are different versions of "the Gospel."
The organized church preaches a gospel of individual "salvation" -- misery in this life, but a ticket to heaven upon death.
Jesus preached a "Gospel of the Kingdom."
Matthew 6:33 says:
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Gary North comments on this verse:
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Jesus made it clear that seeking God's kingdom is priority number one for the individual. Not every person knows this. Most people today and in the past have not known this. This does not mean that Jesus was wrong, that seeking the kingdom is not each man's top priority. It means only that most men are in rebellion against God. Evangelical Christians too often believe that God's top priority is the salvation of men. This is a man-centered viewpoint, a kind of baptized humanism for Christians. It makes them think that they are the center of God's concern. They are not. God is the center of God's concern. The universe is theocentric. If the salvation of men were God's primary concern, then He is surely a failure, for comparatively few men so far have been saved. The glory of God ... is God's chief priority. [This] includes hell and the post-final judgment lake of fire (Rev. 20:15), The salvation of men is God's means of extending His kingdom in history, but building His kingdom, not the salvation of men, is God's top priority for man. Jesus defined men's personal salvation in terms of entering into the kingdom of God. This kingdom is spiritual because men enter it through the Holy Spirit. "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5). It is also eternal (Rev. 21; 22). Finding and then building the kingdom of God in history is the central theme of the New Testament, culminating in the fulfillment of the New Heavens and New Earth (Rev. 21; 22). This theme is an extension to the gentile world of a commandment and promise of the Old Testament: the building of God's city, Zion. This theme is ultimately a recapitulation of the pre-Fall dominion covenant: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth" (Gen. 1:26-28). Adam, as God's agent, was assigned this task representatively for all mankind. Through their adoption by God, God's people are commanded to extend His kingdom. God's kingdom is not limited to the church or the Christian family. It is all-encompassing. God is the creator. Everything that He created is part of His kingdom. To deny this is necessarily to affirm that Satan, through Adam's rebellion, possesses a legal claim to part of the creation. He does not have such a legally valid claim. Adam was merely God's steward, not the original owner. Adam could not forfeit to Satan what he did not own. God's kingdom is therefore co-extensive with the earth: every realm in which men work out their salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12). Wherever there is sin, there is an area fit for re-conquest. |
We "build" the Kingdom as we obey the law of the King, Who says:
Matthew 5
17 Don't suppose I came to do away with the Law and the Prophets. I did not come to do away with them, but to give them their full meaning. 19 If you reject even the least important command in the Law and teach others to do the same, you will be the least important person in the kingdom of heaven. But if you obey and teach others its commands, you will have an important place in the kingdom.
The Kingdom is extended as we teach others to obey the King. This includes false kings, Pharaohs, Caesars, and Führers, who must be persuaded to repent and abdicate. The Kingdom of God is Statelessness in the eyes of false kings. This is our calling today, not in the distant future.
Anarcho-Preterism is not tangential to the Faith. It is central.
Freedom from archists is the Gospel (good news).
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, "In thee shall all nations be blessed."
The Scripture preached "the Gospel" to Abraham.
Q.: What was the good news?
A.: World-wide blessing.
Q.: What is "blessing?"
A.: Salvation: Being delivered from our enemies and living securely in peace and prosperity, free from archists in a “Vine & Fig Tree” world.
Q.: How do we obtain God's blessing?
A.: By faithfully obeying His commandments.
Q.: Is that possible before the Second Coming?
A.: That is the promise of the New Covenant.
- Jeremiah 31
- 31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
- Ezekiel 11:19-20
- 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.- Ezekiel 36:27
- 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Jeremiah 31:33 + Galatians 3:8
New Covenant = obedience to God's Law
New Covenant = blessing throughout the world
New Covenant = salvation/peace/safety
New Covenant = freedom from archists
Your church will not likely support you in pursuing New Covenant obedience to God's Law.
Especially if God's Law is understood as prohibiting archism.
You may be interested in joining "The Perfect Club."
Your church may become your mission field.
The word "gospel" means "good news," and "anarcho-creationism" is the best news I can think of. Most people who call themselves "Bible-believing Christians" think the "good news" is "I get to go to heaven when I die." After living 80 years in a hell-on-earth. Waiting to be raptured away from "archists" who seize your paycheck and drop a bomb on children every 12 minutes.
There are 30,000 verses in the Bible, and only a handful have anything to do with where you go when you die. In my opinion, most of the Bible is about "anarcho-creationism" -- and the mandate we have to create heaven on earth. Jesus taught His followers to pray "Thy will be done, on earth as in heaven." That's not happening, in my opinion, because most Christians think it can't happen. They believe God has predestined life in this age (before the "second coming") to get worse and worse. (Some Christians won't say "predestined;" they prefer to say "prophesied." Same result.)
I doubt you've ever heard news as good as this website. In fact, you've been taught all your life that the good news of "anarcho-creationism" is actually bad news. The worst of all news.
The government does not want you to obey the "gospel of anarcho-creationism."
Everything about that claim is confusing or offensive to modern Christians.
Romans 10:16
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”2 Thessalonians 1:8
in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.1 Peter 4:17
For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
Isaiah said "believe," but Paul says Isaiah's word proves "obey."
- Acts 6:7
And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.- 1 Peter 2:7-8
The opposite of "believe" is "disobey."
2 Thessalonians 1:8
in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.Romans 1:5
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:Romans 2:8
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,Romans 6:17
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.Romans 16:26
But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?Galatians 5:7
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?Hebrews 5:9
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;Romans 15:18
For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,2 Corinthians 10:5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;Hebrews 5:9
And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him;Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Hebrews 11 is a catalog of faithful believers. What made them faithful was obedience. Obedient action. Every single name in the chapter is characterized the same way: "By faith [name] acted obediently."
"Natural" is the heart of "evolution."
"Supernatural" is the heart of the Gospel
Consider this text:
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
Everything about this "gospel" is "unscientific" according to the modern way of thinking. A "resurrection" is just as "unscientific" as a global flood. God becoming man (John 1:1) is "unscientific."
Belief in "the Scriptures" is "unscientific":
If you think you can gain acceptance in the secular halls of academia and the R&D Labs of the Military-Industrial Complex by professing faith in long uniformitarian ages with a vague "god" behind it, while still professing belief in the Biblical Gospel, you are sadly mistaken. In the eyes of those who hold to "natural selection," your claim to believe the Scriptures and the Gospel therein makes you a buffoon, no matter how old you think the earth is.
Christians must reject the uniformitarian religion of natural selection in favor of the supernaturally punctuated religion of the Bible.
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