Robert Truelove

"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."

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Impartiality is a Biblical corollary to justice. “Class struggle” is not.

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For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

—Deuteronomy 10:17-19

Justice for the downtrodden means not despising the weak and not favoring the powerful nor bribes at the bar of justice (court of law).

Also note, God gives the foreigner food and clothing. That is not a reference to the “redistribution of wealth”. It is not something the state should do. It is what God does. The point is that since God loves the foreigner as is demonstrated by the fact that HE feeds and clothes him, we should love him as well.

To say this means the state should take by force from some to feed and cloth the downtrodden is to put the state in the place of God. On the other hand, since God is generous to the downtrodden, the Christian should be as well, but as an act of lovingkindness—not compulsion. Mercy is not justice.

Ideological “class struggle” is the antithesis of Biblical justice.

Millennial Madness and Apathetic Elders

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“The percentage of Millennials who said it was important to keep abreast of political affairs fell, from 50% for Baby Boomers to 39% for Gen-Xers, and 35% for millennials. The notion of “developing a meaningful philosophy of life” decreased the most across generations, from 73% for Boomers to 45% for millennials.

Millennials show a willingness to vote more than previous generations. With voter rates being just below 50% for the last four presidential cycles, they have already surpassed Gen Xers of the same age who were at just 36%.”

—The University of Michigan’s “Monitoring the Future” study of high school seniors (conducted continually since 1975)

With less interest in developing a cohesive worldview and keeping abreast of political affairs than that of previous generations WHILE HAVING AN INCREASED willingness to vote and desire for social change, Millennials are making a wretched bed for themselves. The sort of country we will be by the time they are my age and beyond is going to be bleak without divine intervention.

Those of my generation and beyond who are pandering to the whims of Millennial self-absorption are not doing them any favors. Too many of us are silent while they are destroying their own futures. Too many churches are more concerned with providing a “safe space” for snow flakes than proclaiming the whole counsel of God. Have we forgotten that Hell is not a “safe space” for anyone, especially snow flakes?

The Myth of Social Justice

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It is stunning how leftists who speak of “tolerance” and “diversity” limit such things to people who agree with them. The hypocrisy is absolutely stunning, but such hypocrisy has been seen many times before in history.

It happens in EVERY generation of man. Consider the Pledge of Allegiance first written in 1892. It boldly declares, “with liberty and justice for all.” In such a nation of “liberty” and “justice” why did blacks suffer segregation, lynchings, and victimization by a political party through the welfare system that would rip black families apart and put them back on the plantation in the form of the projects? The new crops harvested are votes to keep certain people in power. Promised liberty, they are kept in bondage to a system that merely feigns interest in their plight.

The list of social ills and injustice is stunning and universal. EVERYONE can rightly claim to be a victim in one way or another (yes, even white men!) Bitterness and sin blinds us to the injustices of those who are not on our side of the aisle.

“Social justice” is a myth because mankind is fallen and sinful. Once the oppressed take power, they inevitably become the oppressors. It has always been this way (with few exceptions) and will be until the coming of Christ.

In a fallen world, true justice is a mirage. The worst abusers are simply the ones who hold power because sin holds everyone in thrall…whether it be men, women, blacks, whites, communists, capitalists, etc.

This is not to say that all abuses are equal. For example, far greater abuses tend to happen under communism than capitalism. Blacks suffered far more injustice under slavery and Jim Crow than the sorts of injustices faced by whites in those times (which I also have to acknowledge is a massive understatement!). Whites are presently facing far more racial injustice in South Africa today than blacks.  “Social justice” under any system is never quite attainable.

What then is the answer? Should we just give up? For the world I have no solution other than to repent and believe the gospel. Come and sit at Jesus’ feet and follow Him.

For Christians, what we should be seeking is reformation according to Biblical truth and Christian unity in (Biblical) truth and (Biblical) love.

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

—John 17:2-23

If the church gave herself to the pursuit of oneness and love in the truths of the Scriptures, not only would many social ills vanish AMONG US, but the world would see a powerful sign that Jesus is Lord, just as he prayed in his high priestly prayer.

“Social justice” today is a political movement. It simply replaces one corrupt power with another and in our day the new power is utterly antiChrist. Let’s pray and seek “Christian unity”. Let’s pray the Holy Spirit work to heal the ills of society as we find them WITHIN THE CHURCH. May the inside be cleansed (the church ) that the outside (the world) would know the high king of heaven.

Rallying Around Heretics?

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I agree with Todd Freel regarding the MLK50 Conference. Christians should rally around the gospel and seek racial unity through the Christ of the Scriptures.

I am all for a conference promoting racial unity but when white Christian leaders rally around a man who taught gross heresy, I can’t help but think it is more about virtue signaling than it is about truly promoting racial unity. Christian unity is not promoted by promoting heretics.