“Jews don’t proselytize.”

They do, but they have a very different evangelism program. Instead of making CONVERTS by persuasion of the truth, they make SUBJECTS by domination of national societies, and this they do by insinuating themselves into positions of power and influence by various means, and then coercively applying the self-serving principles of their religion to all men.

The word ‘community’ has become overused and ill-defined, in an age where many are lacking actual community and fellowship.

It is common today for people to refer to community when all that is meant is a group that is defined loosely by ideological ties or mental categories. This sort of ‘community’ is an idea which usually serves to advance some cause, but there is often little real communion in such an abstract and arbitrary construct.

We are meant for fellowship with people, being present with them in body and soul. The strongest ties are natural and spiritual, not ideological, and any idea of community that is not based on a commonality of place, ancestry, and religion, is not true community at all.

(written by Josh Tigro, with some changes made by me)

Lately I am seeing those who think of themselves as dissident Christians talk about reconquering the so-called conservative denominations.

I can agree with the sentiment behind this but in order to reclaim these organizations and fully reform them it would be necessary to purge all the apathetic, all the indolent, all the half-hearted, all the cowardly, and all the compromisers who made them what they now are. This would require excising at least 80% of the congregants and at least 90% of the professional ministers.

That's not going to be possible and it's not necessary. All we have to do is get small numbers of faithful Christians to leave the denominations and form new churches, then maintain and enforce strict standards in those churches. This will attract the godly and keep out most of the others, while also preventing the new churches from becoming like the ones we left behind.

Whenever you see some symbol or display of degeneracy in America, you should stop and think:

"This is a failure of the church."

The entire institutional church has been queered to one degree or another.

That portion of it which has not openly embraced sexual perversion has become tolerant of sexual perversion, and that portion of it which has not become tolerant of sexual perversion has become conspicuously effeminate, and that portion of it which has not become conspicuously effeminate has subtly taken on the female characteristics of reticence, passivity, and submission.

The entire institutional church has been queered to one degree or another.

Many young Christians have a desire to study history.

My advice to them: Don’t touch the stuff.

Historical study is the gateway drug to anti-semitism.

You might think you can get away with trying just a little, but I'm telling you, once you go down that road there's no return.

I've seen a lot of strong men fall.

The post shown above is referring to recent reforms in El Salvador instituted by their current president Nayib Bukele, which have transformed a war-torn and gang-infested country into a safe place with a very low rate of crime. The writer of the post is saying that all we need is a similarly strong political leader to reform America's degenerate society and that we don't have to wait for a religious revival to accomplish it.

This may be true but the circumstances in the USA are far different from those in El Salvador and here's why we shouldn't expect the same to happen in America any time soon:

Reform in El Salvador is very much religiously centered. The current government is avowedly Christian. How much of Salvadoran religion is truly godly, I don’t know, but what was described in an article I recently read is a battle between those who are overtly Christian and those who are overtly satanic:

“It [El Salvador] is the most religious population on earth, dominated by evangelicals, mostly pentecostals, and they responded strongly to his message of carrying out a holy war against the satanic gangs.”

Also, El Salvador is a very poor country that had been subjected to civil war and mass murder for almost four decades. No doubt the people, the vast majority of whom at least profess what they believe is biblical Christianity, were desperately crying out for reform.

America, on the other hand, has been very comfortably and peacefully residing in its decadent but affluent condition for many decades, and becoming less and less Christian every year even in profession, let alone practice. Political candidates here go out of their way not to show preference to any one religion, much less would they ever declare the USA a Christian entity. Many people have some complaints about modern American society but are otherwise quite content with the status quo. Very few are clamoring for radical change outside of a small number of religious conservatives and even most of them probably would not be willing to make any substantial sacrifice for their cause.

So I don’t believe we can expect to see political reform in America without some sort of crisis and/or religious awakening. Most Americans are far too comfortable in their sins and blind to how degraded the nation has become, and they don’t care all that much about anything as long as they can fill their bellies and watch their ball games and Hollywood entertainment in peace and comfort. As long as this is the case, I think it is very unlikely that there will be any radical change for the better.

In my SwordSearcher Bible software, there are six paragraphs missing from Calvin’s commentary on Jeremiah 34:8-9. If you read the following excerpts from the original text, it will be obvious to you why the entire section has been removed.

I agree with Calvin's view.

“Here a question arises, Is perpetual servitude so displeasing to God, that it ought not to be deemed lawful? To this the answer is easy — Abraham and other fathers had servants or slaves according to the common and prevailing custom, and it was not deemed wrong in them.”

“That since God permitted the fathers to retain servants and maids, it is a thing lawful; and further, as God permitted the Jews also, under the Law, to bear rule over aliens, and to keep them perpetually as servants, it follows that this cannot be disapproved.”

“And still a clearer evidence may be adduced; for since the Gentiles have been called to the hope of salvation, no change has in this respect been made. For the Apostles did not constrain masters to liberate their servants, but only exhorted them to use kindness towards them, and to treat them humanely as their fellow-servants.”

“If, then, servitude were unlawful, the Apostles would have never tolerated it; but they would have boldly denounced such a profane practice had it been so.”

“We hence see that the thing in itself is not unlawful.”