I read Brian Walsh's transforming vision, which was good except for his horrendous appeals to Ron Sider. He came out with a commentary on Colossians which highlights the anti-Caesar cult in Paul's theology (which would be helpful for a church coming under persecution for not participating in Caesar Worship).

And then someone recommended a work on Genesis 1 that also had a similar thrust:

Amazon.com: Colossians Remixed: Subverting the...
Amazon.com: The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei...

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

Christianity versus Statism. The totalitarian state - all throughout Scripture - is presented as the church's primary earthly enemy. IMHO This is something which we in the Reformed faith have neglected.

See chapter 5 of A Conquered Kingdom: Biblical Civil Government for more on this theme.

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

Jacob, I hope you change your socks as often as you change your Avatar, I cannot keep up with you from day to day.

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Stephen Welch
PCA Teaching Elder
Nova Scotia

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In Christ's love and service

Mr. Tim Cunningham, Dip. CS (Regent College)
Member, First Baptist Church
Vancouver, BC

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"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar of 1500-year-old, 200 proof grace—a bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel—after all these centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your own bootstraps—suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home-free before they started. Grace was to be drunk neat: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale." – Robert Farrar Capon

I agree - however, faithfulness in carrying out the Reformed faith necessitates working toward a eschatological realization of it which is anti-statist in it's scope. I would be interested in your opinion as to what is the main reason for the decline of Reformed Christians failure or neglect in this area? We certainly don't find this to be the case during the era of orthodoxy in England or in the establishment of the United States.

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Thomas Weddle
Member, Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church
Evansville, Indiana

I tend to agree with R.J. Rushdoony that the Reformers were so suspicious of the ecclesiastical megalomania of the Roman Catholic "Church" that they were not as wary of state power as they should have been. Thus many Protestant churches were Erastian, and even Calvin's commentary on Isa. 49:23 is basically a Christian Welfare Statist manifesto (though I agree with him about church establishment).

I've seen him go from a studly country singer to a grizzled old cowpoke in a short period of time. Yikes! At this rate, he will be using Methuselah (Metushélach -מְתוּשֶׁלַח / מְתוּשָׁלַ) for an avatar before long!!!

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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QUOTE=DMcFadden;378652]I've seen him go from a studly country singer to a grizzled old cowpoke in a short period of time. Yikes! At this rate, he will be using Methuselah (Metushélach -מְתוּשֶׁלַח / מְתוּשָׁלַ) for an avatar before long!!![/quote]

Is there a picture of Methuselah online anywhere?

A google search finds one at Answers in Genesis

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David Graves
Lakeview Pres, PCA
Gahanna, OH
1689 London Baptist Confession
"And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people." Leviticus 26:12