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November 2K
The title of this post meshes “November 2,” the USA election day this year and “2K,” as in “Two Kingdoms.” Christians in the USA (except those who have committed felonies, who are aliens, and/or who are underage) have an opportunity to govern their land through the ballot box. The expectation is a large swing in…
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What Would Machen Say to Darryl Hart?
“There is not one law of God for the Christian and another law of God for the non-Christian.” (source) “Are then Christianity and culture in a conflict that is to be settled only by the destruction of one or the other of the contending forces? A third solution, fortunately, is possible—namely consecration. Instead of destroying…
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Revised Wesminster Standards vs. R2K
The radical separation of church and state proposed by some folks that I would designate as “R2K” rather than “2K,” is contrary to the Westminster Standards. Practically everyone knows that such positions are contrary to the original Westminster Standards (and, of course, to the Standards as modified by the RPCNA testimony), but these positions are…
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Easily Dismissed Propaganda from Hart
Hart has a new post up arguing that 2K is confessional (link to post). He tries to characterize the matter this way: “critics of 2k have repeatedly claimed that two-kingdom theology is outside the bounds of Reformed confessionalism,” referring readers to a comment box at Greenbaggins (link to box). Actually, though, if you look through…
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R2K Tries to Biblically Defend Itself
Give Darryl G. Hart some credit: he’s attempted to make a Biblical case. Here’s his attempted Biblical case: [We] have explicit repudiation of the kingdom of grace using arms when Jesus said in John 20: 36 “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by…
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A Series of Unfortunate Arguments for R2K
Darryl G. Hart is continuing to attempt to defend R2K in the comment box at GreenBaggins. His arguments, however, are getting less and less Biblical – less and less Confessional – and less and less rational. Let me provide some examples: DGH wrote (source): Here’s the thing, how many citizens of the U.S. make killing…
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Does the Bible Bind the Civil Magistrate?
Kurt A. Scharping posed a couple of propositions to one member of the radical two kingdoms group (I’m hesitant to name him, lest I embarass him). The propositions were these: 1. The Scripture says things that bind the civil magistrate. 2. The Church can proclaim those things that bind the civil magistrate. He then asked…
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Radical Two Kingdoms – Both Anti-Biblical and Worthless
Jason Stellman wrote an article (link) in which he suggested that preachers preaching against the sins of the nation is somehow improper. I can’t imagine an article that would be more universally dismissed by not only all the Reformers but also by all the Presbyterians and Puritans from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Even…
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Hugh Martin on the Duty of the Civil Magistrate
A beloved family member recently brought to my attention the following passage from Hugh Martin’s (1822-85) Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 19, on Jonah 3:6-8, 10, pp. 277-81 (1995 Banner of Truth reprinting, but I think the pagination is unchanged from the first edition). The passage is relevant to the issue of whether or not the…
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Radical Two-Kingdoms and the Reformed Confessions
Everyone already knows, I suppose, that the radical, supposedly Lutheran, view of the two kingdoms (R2kT for short) advocated by folks like Darryl Hart is contrary to the 1646 (original edition) Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF1646). In fact, advocates of R2kT typically brag that the American revisions to the Westminster Confession (WCF-AR) removed the language…