Last week, Evangelical Dark Web highlighted the defeat of the Antioch Declaration and the embarrassment that it posed for Doug Wilson, James White, and Joe Boot. Not only was the declaration poorly received, but it went nowhere. In what we have called Woke Wars II, the Antioch Declaration represented a pivotal moment for the liberals and moderates who wanted to exalt Modern Judaism as a separate category from other false religions.
The failure of the Antioch Declaration is widely recognized. However, there is some new information that makes the point even more clear, highlighting a division in Moscow over the occasion. After performing a cross reference on the leadership of Wilson’s Christ Church in Moscow, ID.
The Antioch Declaration has not updated its signatories since November 28. By the numbers, Christ Church has 11 staffers and only 4 signed, 36%, but this includes pastors Doug Wilson and Jared Longshore.
Christ Church has 30 elders, which is a lot. However, Doug Wilson would lead a minority of them to sign the Antioch Declaration, only 11 of the 30 elders signed or 36.67%. With deacons, the participation is even worse. Of the 14 deacons, only 2 of them signed the Antioch Declaration, a 14% minority. As a mitigating factor, it does appear that relatives of church leaders may have signed in lieu of the ones who did not, but these are not counted in the percentages.
And as an extra insult, Pete Hegseth, for whom the Antioch Declaration tolls, did not sign.
The Antioch Declaration failed to garner a majority consensus within the flagship church that launched it. Doug Wilson is the pope of Moscow, Idaho, yet the majority of elders either disagreed with his statement or did not prioritize it.
This stands to reason that if broad agreement did not occur in Christ Church, it was never going to occur in Christ’s church.
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I can’t imagine a church with ten elders let alone 30.
Ironicall Joseph’s Spurgeons Statement of Natural Affection comes off as something that would fit in almost any era of Christendom post WW II. https://natural-affections.com/signers/
Would be interesting to see your analysis of it at a later point and contrast it againt the Antioch Declaration.
I feel like all of the declarations are virtue signaling at best.
I’m not looking it up, but in Revelation, doesn’t God only have 24?
Will you be doing a comparison with the Natural Affections document? Douglas Wilson signed it, if that was truly him.
https://natural-affections.com/signers/
It feels like Doug Wilson and Joel Webbon were just pulling a psyop on us. They’re using the same software for these declarations, so they were in on it together all along. Just a big April Fools joke set in November and December.
It also seems like a Mott Bailey fallacy thing. Doug Wilson’s was the Motte and this one is the Bailey. They’re herding the cattle into embracing White genocide through race mixing in order to putatively oppose the Jews and their wordl-wide conspiracy of White genocide through convincing Whites to race mix. Although some level of race mixing might have been ok in the past, the churches should excommunicate any White who marries a black because it puts an unerasable stain on their descendants; whereas Latino or Asian children will still be White enough and by a second generation of race mixing will get Whiter, blacks will always be lost to blackness and criminality. Thus this second statement accomplishes through the backdoor what the first seeks to accomplish more directly, White Genocide, the Jewish Agenda.
The Statement on Natural Affections is failing even harder that the “Ain’t I woke” Declaration.