The epic debate between Stephen Wolfe and David Reece was a highlight of the Christ is King Conference put on by Right Response Ministries. However, it is also an example of two people who strongly disagree on the issues of not canceling each other and otherwise remaining on good terms.
A lot of debates regarding pagan religious groups, what is a nation, and Christian Nationalism have led to otherwise unnecessary strife and slander. But David Reece and Stephen Wolfe’s ideas vie for the hearts of Christian Nationalists and do not cause divisions among them. They are eager to see these ideas hashed out and let the best one win.
The David Reece-Stephen Wolfe debate was a model for how Christians should act in this regard.
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I wonder whether any of these thousand people paused to think about what it was like in the times of high scholasticism when natural law thinking ruled the day, and all the great Reformed thinkers that Wolfe so admires taught the same principles as the Catholics? It was called the wars of religion, and the Thirty Year’s War killed a third of the population of Germany. It was so horrible that the people looked for something else, something more certain, and what we got out of that was the Enlightenment. The era of modernity that everyone abhors so much today was an attempt to fix the even more horrible era of natural law.
Theonomy is stupid. General equity is libtardism. Any use of the word equiry is liberal. The Mosaic law was not a good law but was given to punish the Jews for breaking the 10 commandments while they were being given. The Law was intended to be opressive.
Abaraham Joshua Heschel, a famous Jewish author, wrote a book showing that Talmudic authors thought this. But Even in one of the prophets God says “I gave them laws which were not good.” Let me find it.
Ezekiel 20:24-25 “because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols. 25 So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live.” (NIV)
So this is why theonomy is always a failure. You are trying to find the “general equity” in a law intended as a punishment.