Monday, February 21, 2022

Our Chosen Slavery

 It is fine to tell Americans and Canadians that they need to become ungovernable, particularly in relation to the tyrannical powers that always seek to overstep their God-given bounds in their control over us. This is a problem that has needed correcting for a long time in the West. The problem, though, is that Americans and Canadians in general live in rebellion against God. Tyranny always arises and gains strength first and foremost because a person or a group of people refuse to live in obedience to God. Lawlessness with regard to God always leads to slavery under the hands of men. We are currently slaves, because we refused to “worship and serve…the Creator, Who is blessed forevermore” (Rom. 1).


Do you want to be free from tyranny? Then kiss the Son (Psalm 2). Submit to and live in obedience to King Jesus. Take responsibility for your own life, do what he tells you to do, love and worship him in faithfulness, and live to promote his kingdom. There is no such thing as autonomous free will. There is no such thing as absolute freedom. You will either serve God, or you will serve a multitude of false gods. There is no other way.

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Doctor Strange and the Will to Power

 Potential spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 


I suspect that the scene on the streets of New York that involves Doctor Strange and America Chavez fighting Gargantos appears early on in the film. America and Gargantos, while fighting in another universe, pass through one of America’s portals into the current MCU universe, and Doctor Strange joins the fight. This is the first time that Doctor Strange and America Chavez meet. We see later in the trailer that Wong engages the battle, trying to lasso Gargantos. It is more than likely that he is the one who ends up bringing its rampage to a halt. It is after that scene from the trailer that he lectures Doctor Strange for having opened up the paths between universes and creating that situation.


The MCU has been quite open in its intention to go a more “Woke”, that is, a Cultural Marxist, direction. It was first embarrassed by the fact that in the comics Wong was actually Doctor Strange‘s servant. The solution to that was to make him a sorcerer himself, and to ignore his history as a servant. Making him Sorcerer Supreme was a step even further in a Woke direction. It was a deliberate, anti-western and anti-American imperialism and colonialism move, in the same vein as what was done in Thor: Ragnarok. The same philosophy also ran as a thread throughout the second Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Ego was cold, ruthless, and narcissistic in his colonizing of other planets, just as Odin was in his warring against others. 


Doctor Strange himself, in both the recent Spider-Man movie and the upcoming Doctor Strange movie, represents the Western, American white male, acting as he sees fit, with no respect for how his actions may affect others. He acts according to the principle of the Will to Power - whatever he desires to achieve he should be allowed to achieve, simply because he desires it. There is no transcendent standard of right and wrong by which he must be tethered.


In the scene where America Chavez is suspended in the air and a star portal opens behind her, she is actually being tortured by Wanda and the monster in front of her is something manifested by Wanda. Wanda is doing this in order to get her children from another universe.


America Chavez is a character who, in the comics, has two mothers rather than a father. Even though she comes from another planet, she resembles a Hispanic woman and is regarded as being Hispanic. And she herself is a homosexual. A close look at the trailer shows that she is wearing a rainbow flag on her jean jacket, as an intentional mark of LGBTQ representation. That this has some importance with regard to her being tortured should be very obvious.


The automatic assumption with regard to the Illuminati is that they are a good counsel looking to correct the bleed between the universes. But it could be that they are in fact of evil or questionable intent, or that some of the members are corrupt in their intentions while others are good. I suspect that this version of Professor Xavier is not the one from the Fox universe, but maybe an evil version. When in the trailer he says, “We should tell him the truth,” we should question whether or not they actually will. The Illuminati seems in part to be made up also of a version of Baron Mordo from another universe, Reed Richards, Captain Carter, some version of Tony Stark, an alternate version of T’challa, and maybe even the version of Doctor Strange, Defender Strange, as seen in the trailer. The latter sacrifices himself in some fashion, turning into Zombie Strange.


Which is true, free will, or determinism? In Liberal Western culture today, our god above all gods is individualistic free will. What modern Western man desires above all things is a world where no god exists, no one to whom each man must give account. This was at the core of the Loki show, just as it has been for countless movies and TV shows over the past few decades. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will continue to explore that.


But if we are to accept free will, which form is right? Is it the Western, American Will to Power, or is it that of the Marxist? There is no difference. When the existence of God and any transcendent truth have been rejected, all that’s left is power. All that’s left is a vacuum where not even love can exist. All that’s is left is meaninglessness, nihilism, death, and chaos. Such a vacuum always leads back to tyranny.


If there’s one lesson should be learned from the past few years, it’s that the pursuit of individualistic free will, a life fully liberated from the one true Sovereign God, only leads to the worshiping of false gods, of other created things, a life where no freedom exists at all, a life of slavery.

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Sic Semper Tyrannis

 Resistance to tyranny is fundamental to the Christian faith. From the Hebrew midwives of Egypt in Exodus, to Daniel and his friends in the Book of Daniel, to the disciples in the New Testament, to Jesus himself, we are given examples in Scripture to follow. Whenever the State begins to violate human freedom, then it is the duty of Christians to resist.

Mad at the Church

 The person who rejects organized religion doesn’t then have no religion. What he has is his own religion that he has organized around himself, where he is the center of it all instead of God.


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God doesn’t in His Word pretend that churches are full of sinless people, and He doesn’t suggest that we should pretend that. He’s very open in His Word with His rebukes toward the churches in the New Testament as well as Israel in the Old Testament when they were sinning wickedly. We see this in the New Testament especially in 1 Corinthians and Galatians, as well as in the letters to the churches in Revelation 2-3. God is as angered when people sin against us as we are, and he doesn’t want us to be naive about how evil people can be.


Whatever anger or disappointment you may have toward ministers, church leaders, or other believers for mistreatment you may have suffered from them, God is in agreement with you. He is shares your anger and disappointment.


Nonetheless, the Church was created by God as the means by which He ministers to individual Christians and demonstrates His grace and power to the watching world. While some local churches may become so wicked that they can no longer be considered a part of the universal body of the Church (Rev. 1-3), that never happens to every local church. Some sin will always exist, there are no perfect churches, and yet God always maintains His presence and witness throughout the world through groups of faithful but flawed believers.


It is the duty of all who profess faith in Jesus Christ to join and attend a local church that teaches the Bible correctly and that seeks through all its ministry to be obedient to Scripture. To be a part of a local church is, very simply, what it means to be a Christian.


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Anger towards God, and distrust towards God, aren’t things you can just ignore until they go away. They don’t just go away. There’s only one option in dealing with them: you have to go to God in worship and prayer and study until you have the thing dealt with for good. If you don’t, they will just hang around and mess up your life until you do.