by Adi Schlebusch During the nineteenth century, Marxism, as the logical outflow of Liberalism, purposefully strove to eradicate the God-ordained covenantal social structures of the family, the church and the nation. One of the most important means of achieving this end was by means of the central economic principle of communism, the abolition of private…
YHVH, through Torah, is the source of all definition, meaning, purpose, truth, life, law, and authority. Satan, through humanism (man as the determiner of right and wrong), is the source of obfuscation, meaninglessness, purposelessness, false witness, death, lawlessness, and tyranny. In other words, sin creates alienation from life. Alienists are people who hate YHVH and…
This may be a dangerous thing for me to say out loud… like sticking my head into a beehive as it is a very controversial topic. First of all, every couple is entitled to make their own choices about when to start a family. Totally up to you as I have absolutely no place in…
by Adi Schlebusch In 2006 the humanities scholar affiliated with Marquette University in Wisconsin, Howard Kainz, published an important article in Touchstone magazine entitled Liberalism as Religion, in which he rightly pointed out how the philosophy of Liberalism essentially amounts to a religion, complete with its own dogmas, hamartiology, holy scriptures, holy sites, relics and…
Feeling depressed over the evil in the land? Good. “Noah and Ezekiel honored the same God, even as He wiped out their own unrepentant families and friends, either by a flood or the angels. But first He marked those who mourned seeing the many evils around them and honored His holiness: they were His true…
Well, A Georgian at Princeton is a book that takes you backward in time. There’s a delight in its pages so that you hate to put it down. For a moment, you are with people of bygone age — good, solid people. I’m tempted to go a little further in the book and give you…
Within God’s Law, relationships are easy. Initiating them is easy and keeping them healthy is easy. Why? When everyone knows and obeys God’s Law there is harmony and peace. Seeming conflicts are easily resolved and just become avenues for greater understanding. When someone falls outside of God’s Law he or she is easily restored and…
Easton’s Bible Dictionary defines husband thus:Husbandi.e., the “house-band,” connecting and keeping together the whole family.A man when betrothed was esteemed from that time a husband (Matt. 1:16, 20; Luke 2:5).A recently married man was exempt from going to war for “one year” (Deut. 20:7; 24:5). From the KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon:to marry, rule over,…
The independent man who rules over his own life apart from God has nothing more at his command than his own feeble and frail power. But if Christ rules over us, we have at our disposal all the protection, power, and unfailing success of God Almighty. – RJ Rushdoony Men, in a word, must necessarily…
Exhortation from David Chilton to the Church: “We must stop acting as if we are forever destined to be a sub-culture. We are destined for dominion; we should straighten up and start acting like it. Our life and worship should reflect our expectation of dominion and our increasing capacity for responsibility. We should not see…
by Adi Schlebusch The question regarding the nature and meaning of culture is an extremely relevant one for the time in which we live. We often refer to “our culture” to distinguish it form foreign or alien cultures. We also often speak of “the culture” when referring to the contemporary mainstream anti-Christian culture prevalent in…
“Every attempt to pass, or every passing of fiat laws, of false measurements, in any area of life or thought, is an attempt to play God, it is an attempt to bypass work as the means of productivity and its eventual result is slavery and disaster. We must remember that consequence, a return to slavery.…
A denial of hierarchy and Biblical law, as Tom Shipley has shown, leads to an egalitarianism where men and woman are supposed to be equal. Only they are not. Men are in fact competitive and innovative while women are cooperative and contributing. This is why men vote in terms of free enterprise while women favor…
by Adi Schlebusch One of the central ploys utilized by Christ’s enemies in their attempt to overthrow his Lordship is launching attacks on those socio-covenantal structures or units which God has purposefully ordained for his own glory. In a previous entry we have already discussed the immense onslaught against the family unit. We have identified…
By Adi Schlebusch In a recent post I discussed how liberals, freemasons and various other secret societies such as the Bavarian Illuminati and their successors have long conspired to destroy the family as basic covenantal and societal unit. This is because the family, ordained by God to be foundational to society, is one of the…
“No society in a fallen world can exist without fear as an aspect of government. Without the fear of God, the fear of the state prevails. Since the French Revolution especially, the fear of the state has prevailed. It provides no order; it furthers tyranny, and it is the companion of moral anarchy. Modern man…
By Adi Schlebusch In Psalm 2 we see that the sinfulness of mankind drives it towards conspiring against the Triune God. This is because sinners simply refuse to submit themselves to the Lordship of Christ. Hence, the conspiracies against God also entails making plans to overthrow Christ’s Kingdom. Whereas the believer prays with Christ for…
by Adi Schlebusch There is a branch of Philosophy which we call Social Ontology. The word “ontology” is derived from the Greek words ontos which means “essence” or “existence” and logos which means “word” or “doctrine.” Ontology therefore entails the study of the nature of being, while social ontology specifically deals with the nature, structure…
by Adi Schlebusch It is a well-known fact that 11 of the 12 apostles were martyred for the sake of their witness to the gospel. What is often overlooked, however, is the fact that it wasn’t necessarily the message of redemption as such that got under the skin of the Roman authorities of the first…
by Adi Schlebusch Few people realize that the New Testament actually emphasizes Christ’s Lordship just as much as His redemptive work with which it stands inseparably related. Luke 1:71-73 teaches that Jesus not only redeems his people from sin, but also from their enemies, so that we can serve Him without fear. In 1 Corinthians…
by Adi Schlebusch It is sadly still a widely-held misconception that Jesus only comes to the fore of redemptive history with His incarnation in the New Testament. As second Person of the Trinity, He is of course uncreated and His existence eternal. When king Herod inquired as to where the Christ would be born, Matthew…
by Adi Schlebusch The well-known Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837—1920) famously noted in a speech he delivered with the establishment of the Free University Amsterdam as a Christian university in 1881 that There is not a single square inch in the entire domain of human existence over which Christ, who is Lord over all, does…
Therefore, whoever relaxes one of these commandments, the least, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever does and teaches them, this one shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven. Matthew 5:19 Imagine that you have spent your life in the ministry and stood…
Christianity may be rightly understood as an Exchange Co-operative. Christ offers to bear our sins in exchange for our bearing His righteousness. We are then to turn around and offer to bear other’s burdens in exchange for ours in some measure. We are made such that our burdens are custom designed for just us and…
False weights, monetary and commercial, are, first, called injustice, and an abomination in the sight of God and hateful to Him. Second, a nation with just measures has the promise of a long life, whereas the implication is that God’s judgment is on those who falsify weights and measures in any and every area. Third,…
Missed out on a great investment? Here is a sure thing. Suffer some loss for Christ and His kingdom and God will pay you back many fold. “But true sacrilege is against God. And it requires restitution and restoration. Where man does not affect this restitution and restoration by his faith and obedience, God exacts…
His mind was the result of many centuries of careful cultivation in a carefully constructed Christian culture through carefully contracted marriages and the careful raising of godly children. Thus he had a great mental capacity for absorbing the knowledge out of books and remembering everything he read. Then, guided by the presuppositional philosophy (i.e., sola…
That cost untold suffering and the death of hundreds of millions “If you really long to save men’s souls, you must tell them a great deal of disagreeable truth.” – Charles Spurgeon “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to…
It is a mind bending and disconcerting experience to find yourself the object of psychological abuse from fellow Christians when you make a case for the ongoing validity of some Biblical law or other. It is then that you find out that they do not share your presupposition of the primacy of Scripture as the…
The Bible is a book of marching orders. And we don’t take well to orders. We want gifts from God, not orders. And we keep praying to God, not for orders, but for gifts. We have the whole thing reversed. We do not say, Here am I oh Lord, send me, what are your order…
by R.J. Rushdoony “Deliver us, oh Lord, from those who would convert our land into a place of freedom for murderers, freedom for adulterers, for thieves, perjurers and slanderers. And give us again, oh Lord, freedom under thee—responsible freedom, that we may again be a land of liberty. Establish us oh Lord in Thy Law-Word.…
https://pocketcollege.com/transcript/RR158A1.html Can education be neutral? Basic to the Biblical view of man and history are the facts of creation and fall. With respect to creation we are told very plainly by the apostle John all things are made by Him and without him was anything made that was made. This tells us that there is…
They are all: obtained with wisdom and hard work, are severely undervalued, considered disposable, and under appreciated at this time, are denigrated and their perceived value manipulated downward by the powers that shouldn’t be, are sound and full of character, have thousands of benefits and practical uses, are most beautiful in their pure form, they…
from God’s curse on disobedience? Is there any substitute for obedience to Biblical Law? How about good will? Any one can agree to that. Maybe positive thinking? Norman Vincent Peale thought so. Surely self-sacrifice! Just lay your life down for the cause. Yes! Rational philosophy. The great philosophers say yes. Why not give theological sophistry…
God’s law defines good and evil and gives us the rules for relationships. The definition of love is to put God’s law into action, to enforce His laws within the jurisdictions we are responsible for. Wisdom is understanding how, when, and which laws to apply to a particular situation. But isn’t the law a tutor…
Gods law, as the character of Christ, is the mediator of all relationships to bring life, healing, and a harmony of interests to them all. Where God’s law is not followed, for whatever reason, then rifts grow and wounds fester and relationships are broken. In cases of offense there is first the offender and the…
by Stuart DiNenno For Christians, pessimism about the future is cowardly and faithless. A view that the world is going to become worse and worse, and that Christianity will not ultimately prevail among the nations, is a heathen view. It is to believe that the gates of hell shall prevail against the church and the…
-by R.J. Rushdoony No society has yet existed without its share of lower class people, that is, persons who are incapable of a future-oriented life and who are often parasitic in their living. Very often, the number of upper and middle class minds in a culture has been very limited, a thin strata of future…
People can be very upfront about their presuppositions, or what they tell themselves their presuppositions are. But a quick read or listen will tell you that rather than “Logical Analysis & Critical Thinking” being the basis of their views, they are really extreme religionists and faith practitioners. If they give unquestioning loyalty to “evolution” and…
Deut. 14:8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass. https://pocketcollege.com/transcript/RR130Z48.html IBL06: Sixth Commandment Dietary Laws Deuteronomy 14:1-21, dietary rules. “14 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not…
Scripture lays out the definition of right and wrong in laws, cases, and jurisdictions. You would think this would be authoritative enough for Christians to believe and act in terms of it. But wizards are always ready to test that belief. They will challenge the authority of Biblical law citing philosophy or history or some…
WE WORSHIP WHAT WE FEAR “That which we most fear, we worship as our God. For fear is an act of worship. He who fears, worships that which is feared—which is unquestionable when his fear is transcendent. The whole worship of God is frequently in Scripture expressed by this one word “fear” (Mat. 4:10; Deu.…
We are not to judge by our own or by tradition or the state’s or anyone else’s standards of right or wrong, but by the law of God in the Scriptures alone. He made us and He alone is the source of right and wrong. To apply any other standard is to give fealty to…
Does chasing blessings get you blessings? Does running from curses save you from curses? The world thinks so. Sadly, so do many Christians. But Scripture teaches otherwise. It says that chasing obedience gets you blessings and running from disobedience saves you from curses. Think about it, because if you can’t get this straight then you…
32 New Courses – 512 New Lessons added to Pocket College: 103 2nd Corinthians104 Systematic Theology – Authority105 Systematic Theology – Church106 Systematic Theology – Covenant107 Systematic Theology – Creation and Providence108 Systematic Theology – Eschatology109 Systematic Theology – Family110 Systematic Theology – Salvation111 Systematic Theology – Sin112 Systematic Theology – The Land113 Systematic Theology…
February 17th, 2011 Author: Ian Hodge, Ph.D. Part 1 – Fond Personal Memories R.J. Rushdoony left this life in March 2001, just 10 years ago. At that time I wrote a tribute to a remarkable man, a friend, and a mentor. Here’s my updated version of that tribute. It is with sadness, yet a spirit of…
It is clear that rather than just providing one platform (www.pocketcollege.com) for Rushdoony’s tapes and hope people will find it and use it, we need to proactively follow the audience to the platforms where they already are and present the tapes, books, and transcripts there in the appropriate format. This means formatting, conversion, and organizing…
Confusion reigns in the hearts of Christians when it comes to understanding what the Bible means when it talks about love. The good news is that its a misunderstanding that is easily corrected. Law and love are often put at odds with each other in the preaching we hear. “Doctrine is important but love is…
Imagine having R.J. Rushdoony sitting beside you giving you his thoughts about whatever you are reading on your browser or on your phone. Now that would be cool; the best tutor in the world mentoring you and counseling you as you sought God’s kingdom and fought the devil and his minions. And now, thanks to…
Pocket College is an online Christian college equipping the saints to advance the kingdom. Why Pocket College? For all the same reasons you homeschool. For ages 12 and up. Learn on your schedule, where ever you are. Learn while you work full time or start your own business. Everything presented in the context of the truth…
Wealth is knowledge, growth is learning, money is time, the human mind is exactly not a machine. Punishing China for being capitalists is self-defeating. Trump is eliminating 18 old regulations for every new one; a very positive development for the economy and out future. The scientific understanding of the universe is a form of worship.…
Lasst uns Gott anbeten. Gnade sei mit euch und Friede von Gott, unserem Vater, und vom Herrn Jesus Christus. Gib dem Herrn die Herrlichkeit seines Namens, bete den Herrn in der Schönheit der Heiligkeit an. Gott ist ein Geist, und diejenigen, die Ihn anbeten, müssen Ihn im Geist und in der Wahrheit anbeten. Lasst uns…
A Vision Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. Prov. 29:18 A vision for keeping Biblical Law is the key to the life of a people. Today that vision is inaccessible to the vast majority of Christians. They don’t get it from the pulpits, certainly…
We must stop acting as if we are forever destined to be a sub-culture. We are destined for dominion; we should straighten up and start acting like it. Our life and worship should reflect our expectation of dominion and our increasing capacity for responsibility. We should not see ourselves as lonely outposts surrounded by an…
By Peter Hammond From this distance, across the Atlantic, in another hemisphere, it seems clear to me that McDurmon & Marxinov’s miscegenation is not a Biblical agenda, but is part of the Marxist Frankfurt School cultural termite agenda. It is Marxism at work to confuse, divide and conquer. Also to corrupt and conquer. The Communist…
Publisher’s note: Peter Hammond did not ask me to publish this letter. I did so of my own accord. Greetings in the precious Name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. It was a surprise to see your article: “Inter-racial Marriage and Racism in Modern Ministry: Two Prominent Examples.” It was forwarded to me by…
by Tom Shipley Federal Headship The imputation of guilt to the human race is not reckoned against the first sin, nor to their mutual sins, but to the one sin of the one man. If Adam was not the lawful authority over Eve before the fall, then Adam’s sin could not logically be imputed to Eve…
by Arnold Jagt – written in response to George Gilder’s statements in First Glimpses of the Book After Telecosm in Speaking of George Gilder by Frank Gregorsky. What makes a scientist or inventor or innovator shout “Eureka!” and what is the theological significance of it? What do math and Scripture have in common? The theology…
God the Lord is bringing judgment upon the nations
“We are moving now as never before in history into a time of world wide judgment, God the Lord is bringing judgment upon the nations, and we shall see that judgment for a generation or more perhaps in one sphere after another, in the life of the church, for judgment begins at the house of God. As those whose faith is weak as water depart from among us, we will see it in the state which is teetering on the brink of moral and financial bankruptcy, we will see it in every economic area, we will see it and are beginning to see it all over the world now in the weather, we are seeing it in heightened activities, earthquakes, volcanoes and more.
God is going to bring this generation to its knees. It is a time of unequaled opportunity for us. Men’s hearts will fail them for fear, and if we proclaim the undiluted word of God, the lord God of hosts will use us to reap the greatest harvest in all of church history. I believe that and I am living and working in terms of that. May God prosper you as you serve Him to that end.”
Foundations of Social Order I – Pocket College
The battle of the definition of Christ is underway again. Is Christ the incarnation of the Mosaic Law or is He a statist humanist (Whom we define as we go along)? There are those who, in a vain attempt to justify studied ignorance of God’s Law, pit the summary of God’s Law against the nitty…
The ongoing validity of all of Gods Law is here defended. This is also a call for the end of Christian double mindedness with regard to the Law of God. Tom Shipley has taught me the importance of the unity and harmony of Scripture. God cannot contradict himself. If He appears to do so, then…
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.Isaiah 40:15
4 Parts Judicial Body … 5 Parts Gay Bath House
How to apply God’s LawWord to the economic crisis we face.Christians are tempted to fall into depression and despair along with the world as we face hard economic times. But we live under a different set of rules than do those who reject the written or the walking Torah of YHWH. We live by these three rules of economics:
1. Deut. 28:1-14 If we obey YHWH’s directives, regulations, ordinances, rules, laws, statutes, and judgments, being thoroughly bridled to His way in every thought, word, and deed, then we will be blessed and prospered in every way imaginable. But we know we fall short, even as saved people, so what can we do? Look to Galatians 6:2. If we will bear one another’s burdens, within the bounds of His LawWord, then we will have fulfilled the Law of Christ and thus become eligible for those promises. This is the law of substitution. See Charles Williams (of the Inklings) for more on this long unappreciated truth.
2. Malachi 3:10 We must tithe according to His LawWord. This includes the disposition of our tithe:
a) to the Levites (that is those who teach and labor in correct understanding of YHWH’s LawWord),
b) to the poor, widows, orphans, sick, and strangers in our land and
c) for the celebration of YHWH’s feast days which would require us to reform our calendar (you will know you are on the right track when you have a new moon sabbath).
When we do this we are assured, as a matter of actually testing YHWH Himself (the only time we are allowed to so test him) that he will bless us, regardless of the current economic climate, to the point of heaped up, pressed down, and overflowing riches.
3. Matthew 6:33 If we will seek His Kingdom and the rule of His Law as our first priority, He will make it His concern to add to us all the good things that ungodly people normally seek as a priority.
4. We seek to apply the rule to cancel all debts every Sabbath year. It is reflected in our day in bankruptcy laws.
5. Money is, within the context of Biblical Law, a way to keep score of how well you bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Greater clarification on all these does entail a study of Biblical Law. The best teacher available to us for this purpose is R.J. Rushdoony. His books and audio lessons are widely available and easily accessible. See: www.pocketcollege.com
You have probably heard or read that to gain internal peace you just have to forgive the perpetrator of whatever injustice had been inflicted on you. But this is wrong. It leaves the question of justice unresolved. So how do you gain peace? Sometimes the perpetrator has died. Sometimes the injustice goes on. Often there…
Several things have served to make me immune to the despondency that I once was susceptible to and I see others trapped in. 1. The Eucatastrophe: See below – and tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Eucatastrophe explain it. It is at the heart of God’s modus operandi. 2. Biblical Law – God’s tool of dominion. He will defeat our enemies and bless…
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We often think of education in terms of the 3 R’s – Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. But, of course, there are 4 R’s. The most important is Religion – passing the Christian faith on to our children. Here is how Dr. RJ Rushdoony put it:
The goal of our humanistic statist education is the goal of the fall, of Satan. It is the goal of Genesis 3:5. Whereas the goal of Christian education is summed up by Moses and our Lord, Moses says in Deuteronomy 10:12-13, “And now Israel, what doth the Lord require of thee but to fear the Lord, to walk in all his ways and to love Him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.” And our Lord tells us in Matthew 22:37-40: “Thou shalt love thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment and the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” These words give us the purpose of life as God requires it, they do not give us a world wherein we can be neutral either in regard to man or our neighbor. The purpose of education can be no different because education is preparation for life. We include or we exclude in terms of that goal, certain things, because we are governed by our faiths. As humanists we exclude God as irrelevant, as Christians we see Him as the starting point of all wisdom and learning, and to exclude God, to exclude the Bible from education, is not neutrality, it is warfare.
Every curriculum is an affirmation of faith; it tells us what we believe is essential for life, what we believe a child needs in order to face this world and become a conqueror therein. Humanistic education does not see Christ as essential, but as a road block. It claims to be neutral but there is nothing neutral about it, only warfare against our faith. Any education apart from Jesus Christ is for us, mis-education and it produces not education nor an educated man but a new race of barbarians who are today busily destroying their civilization. It is our duty through our schools to create a new one, a God-centered one. We are told in Proverbs 8:35-36 “For who so findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord. But he who sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul. All they that hate me, love death.” Humanistic education is the institutionalized love of death. Christian education, because it serves Him who said I am the way, the truth, and the life, is the love of life.
Religious Nature of Education or Can Education Be Neutral? – RR158A1
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Here is a list of resources we used with our family to help pass the faith to our children.
This is a PDF of the different documents we use: http://urclearning.org/wp-content/uploads/3_forms.pdf
And for younger children we use this: http://www.opc.org/sc.html
These were written 300-400 years ago and are very solidly based on Scripture but we need an updated catechism that addresses the same issues that www.pocketcollege.com/wiki (for ages 12 and up) does but at a level appropriate to younger children. I hope to get that project going soon with your help.
