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C. The "Anabaptists" -- Non-Magisterial Reformers
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A Summary of Each Essay Below is Found Here Essay No. 1. INTRODUCTIONPATRIARCHY, CHURCH, AND WORSHIP
PATRIARCHY AND OBEDIENCE
THE DUTIES OF THE PASTOR
Duties Relating to Scripture Dissemination
Pastors Must Preach
47. Pastors Must be Mysterious Duties Relating to Rule and Discipline [?]48. Pastors Must Administer the Sacraments Traditional Considerations
Sacraments in the New Age
ORDINATION AND PATRIARCHY
88. CONCLUSIONS APPENDICES
Every man a Lawyer -- No man a lawyer
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Much more here: Separation of Church and State in the Modern World
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Law as Archetype -- God's Law: Conspiratorial Blueprints
The Ten Commandments
The First Commandment
The Second Commandment
The Third Commandment
The Fourth Commandment
The Fifth Commandment
The Sixth Commandment
The Seventh Commandment
The Eighth Commandment
The Ninth Commandment
The Tenth Commandment
Spirit-Empowered Obedience to God's Law
Produces Men Who Are:
| Accomplished | Accurate | Alert |
| Amiable | Analytical | Aspiring |
| Availability | Bold | Calm |
| Cautious | Charitable | Chaste |
| Cheerful | Composed | Concentration |
| Confident | Contentment | Cooperative |
| Courage | Courteous | Creativity |
| Decisiveness | Dependability | Diligence |
| Discernment | Discretion | Earnest |
| Endurance | Efficiency | Emotions |
| Energy | Enthusiasm | Expressiveness |
| Fair-mindedness | Faithful | Flexibility |
| Foresight | Forgiveness | Frankness |
| Frugality | Generosity | Gentleness |
| Goal Apprehension | Goal Direction | Gratefulness |
| Honesty | Hope | Hospitality |
| Humility | Industry | Initiative |
| Interest in People | Kindness | Loyalty |
| Manners | Maturity | Meekness |
| Memory | Motivation of Others | Music |
| Neatness | Non-violent | Objectivity |
| Organization | Overcomer | Parenting |
| Patience | Perfection | Perseverance |
| Persistence | Persuasiveness | Planning |
| Punctuality | Purposefulness | Reading |
| Recovery | Relaxation | Resoluteness |
| Resourcefulness | Respectfulness | Responsibility |
| Reverence | Security | Self-Assurance |
| Self-Discipline | Self-Education | Self-Improvement |
| Self-Respect | Self-Starting | Sensitivity |
| Sincerity | Speech | Success |
| Thoroughness | Thriftiness | Tolerance |
| Touch | Truthfulness | Virtuous |
| Wisdom | Work for Quality |
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The Christian Conciliation Manifesto - Overview
Away from a Vengeance-based Society
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The Christian Anarchism Homepage
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The Sixth Archetype - The Garden
Christmas: A Celebration of Paradise
A Survey of Edenic Themes in Scripture
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Pleadings in Court
Separation of Church and State: Key Cases and Comments
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Thesis: Anarcho-Calvinism
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Vine & Fig Tree's Web Pages advocate sweeping radical social changes in church, in politics, in family, and in every area of life. Our proposals are based on the belief that the Bible is the Word of God and a blueprint for all human action. Greater minds than ours have come to this conclusion. Among them, Simon Greenleaf, a founder of the Harvard Law School, and nearly every Signer of the Constitution.
Modern Americans have been trained to believe the Bible is "outdated" or "primitive." The modern world, by comparison, is "sophisticated," "scientific" and "secure." Who would ever want to go back to the world of the Bible?
It only takes a little thought to realize that "the modern world" is not all it's cracked up to be, and the world of the Bible -- the world of Vine & Fig Tree -- may have much to teach us. It is the "experts" of the modern world who have taught us to pooh-pooh the Bible.
They are wrong.
They say we can't believe in miracles. They are wrong.
They say Biblical Morality is "harsh" and the God of the Old Testament is "cruel." They are wrong.
The Failure of Non-Christian Ethics
Are we being "Judgmental?" Yes, definitely!
From Moses to Malachi, the Bible sets forth an unchanging standard of Justice, Mercy, and Faith (Matthew 23:23). When faithfully taught and obeyed, observance of Biblical Law mends the torn fabric of life. Bringing our lives under the total jurisdiction of the Bible is the key to social renewal, not reforming the lives of others through the impersonal violence of statist bureaucratic regulation. Biblical Law is God's pattern for peace, justice, and harmony.
Can you be a Christian if you don't “worship” God?
Can you “worship” God if you don't worship the Bible?
The Gospel Message is a Word from God. Every Word of God is Law.
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One of the reasons some people hate the Bible is because the God of the Bible is a Sovereign, Predestinating God, who has more power than man the would-be god, and is far better able to bring us "national security" than the big-wigs in the Pentagon. But to those who are willing to say "God is God, I am not" the Gospel ("Good News") is that a loving personal God is indeed sovereign.
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Explaining the First Archetype
IMMANUEL
I. The Kingdom:
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* God with us * Reconciliation * The Kingdom of God *
Many Christians are not participating in The Christmas Conspiracy because they believe that they must wait for Christ to come to earth a second time. The Old Testament Prophets foretold (and Christ's Apostles confirmed) that the Messiah's Kingdom would be established when the following had taken place:
Christ accomplished all these things at His First Advent.
The New Testament clearly states that Jesus lived, died, and rose again in “the last days” of the Old Covenant order. His last act under the Old Covenant was the destruction of the Old “House of the Lord” (Matthew 24) and the establishment of a new House, a new Mountain (Daniel 2:35,44; John 4:21,23).
This is the beginning of The Christmas Conspiracy. NOW is the time to begin fulfilling our mandate (Genesis 1:26-28) to exercise dominion under Christ.
The Christmas Conspiracy Extends Christ's Kingdom
Explore First Archetype: Victory
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Victory: The Present Presence of Christ's Kingdom
Justification: What does God require to be in the Presence of God?
The Prophets foretold the coming of "peace on earth, goodwill toward men." Jesus said His Kingdom would grow slowly and cover the entire earth. Study this "Good News" of the world-wide spread of Christianity.
II. The Gospel:
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We sometimes decide whether or not to follow Christ based on whether it's popular. We don't want to be “different.” We should realize that what is important is the long-term, and in the long run, Vine & Fig Tree Christianity will be “mainstream.” “Extremist fringe” today; dominant culture tomorrow.
What is the Gospel? Is “Vine & Fig Tree” a “new gospel”? NO! The word means “Good News” The Good News is victory. “The Gospel” is the predestined success of “The Christmas Conspiracy” (Galatians 3:8).
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Catholicism: The entire planet — all races, all cultures, all languages — will be governed by Christian principles.
“Roman Catholicism”: A Contradiction in Terms. Ecclesiocentrism: racism; statism.
Optimism: The Gospel (“Good News”) is predestined to succeed.
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False Catholicism: Christ vs. The Imperial Church of Rome
The Anabaptists vs. the Imperial Church of the Reformers
Patriarchy and The End of Churchianity
The Institutional Church is Not the Kingdom: The Priesthood of All Believers
The Triumph of the Gospel in the New World
C. The New Romanism: The Reformers and their Step-Children
A Theonomic Defense of the Anabaptists1. Introductions 2. Who Were the Anabaptists? 3. In Praise of Humanism 4. Anabaptists and Heresy 5. Anabaptists and Orthodoxy 6. Baptism and Statism 7. When Did Protestantism Begin? 8. Pagan Education and the Reformers 9. The De-Education of the Anabaptists 10. Politics from Seneca to Calvin 11. Theonomy and Justification by Faith 12. Statism and Justification by Faith 13. From Victory to Defeat: The Reformers and Theonomy 14. Should We Celebrate Reformation Day? 15. Deformed Reform 16. The State as Pastor 17. Macho Theology 18. Police State, Police Church 19. Plato and Calvin: Artistry in Dictatorship 20. A Legacy of Compulsion 21. Fascism and the Reformation |
| Patriarchy and The End of Churchianity |
A Truly Catholic Priesthood |
A Summary of Each Essay Below is Found Here Essay No. 1. INTRODUCTIONPATRIARCHY, CHURCH, AND WORSHIP
PATRIARCHY AND OBEDIENCE
THE DUTIES OF THE PASTOR
Duties Relating to Scripture Dissemination
Pastors Must Preach
47. Pastors Must be Mysterious Duties Relating to Rule and Discipline [?]48. Pastors Must Administer the Sacraments Traditional Considerations
Sacraments in the New Age
ORDINATION AND PATRIARCHY
88. CONCLUSIONS APPENDICES
Every man a Lawyer -- No man a lawyer
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Much more here: Separation of Church and State in the Modern World
The Christmas Conspiracy is Rooted in Sovereign Grace
Explore Second Archetype: Catholicism
III. God's Law:
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The whole Bible -- including the Old Testament -- is God's Law-Word.
From Moses to Malachi, God sets forth an unchanging standard of Justice, Mercy, and Faith (Matthew 23:23). When faithfully taught and obeyed, observance of the Law of God mends the torn fabric of life. Bringing our lives under the total jurisdiction of Christ is the key to social renewal, not reforming the lives of others through the impersonal violence of statist bureaucratic regulation. Biblical Law is God's pattern for peace, justice, and harmony.
Can you be a Christian if you don't “worship” God?
Can you “worship” God if you don't worship His Law?
The Gospel Message is a Word from God. Every Word of God is Law.
The Christmas Conspiracy is Grounded in God's Law
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Law as Archetype -- God's Law: Conspiratorial Blueprints
The Ten Commandments
The First Commandment
The Second Commandment
The Third Commandment
The Fourth Commandment
The Fifth Commandment
The Sixth Commandment
The Seventh Commandment
The Eighth Commandment
The Ninth Commandment
The Tenth Commandment
Spirit-Empowered Obedience to God's Law
Produces Men Who Are:
| Accomplished | Accurate | Alert |
| Amiable | Analytical | Aspiring |
| Availability | Bold | Calm |
| Cautious | Charitable | Chaste |
| Cheerful | Composed | Concentration |
| Confident | Contentment | Cooperative |
| Courage | Courteous | Creativity |
| Decisiveness | Dependability | Diligence |
| Discernment | Discretion | Earnest |
| Endurance | Efficiency | Emotions |
| Energy | Enthusiasm | Expressiveness |
| Fair-mindedness | Faithful | Flexibility |
| Foresight | Forgiveness | Frankness |
| Frugality | Generosity | Gentleness |
| Goal Apprehension | Goal Direction | Gratefulness |
| Honesty | Hope | Hospitality |
| Humility | Industry | Initiative |
| Interest in People | Kindness | Loyalty |
| Manners | Maturity | Meekness |
| Memory | Motivation of Others | Music |
| Neatness | Non-violent | Objectivity |
| Organization | Overcomer | Parenting |
| Patience | Perfection | Perseverance |
| Persistence | Persuasiveness | Planning |
| Punctuality | Purposefulness | Reading |
| Recovery | Relaxation | Resoluteness |
| Resourcefulness | Respectfulness | Responsibility |
| Reverence | Security | Self-Assurance |
| Self-Discipline | Self-Education | Self-Improvement |
| Self-Respect | Self-Starting | Sensitivity |
| Sincerity | Speech | Success |
| Thoroughness | Thriftiness | Tolerance |
| Touch | Truthfulness | Virtuous |
| Wisdom | Work for Quality |
IV. Pacifism:
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Christ is the Prince of Peace. His vassal-subjects must be committed to Peace. The Prince of Peace commanded us to love our enemies. True Christians are willing to follow Christ to the cross (Matthew 16:25; 1 Peter 2:21).
But the religion of Secular Humanism (America's State religion) teaches vengeance. Modern Man believes it's better to make someone else die for you than to give your life for another. Entire populations are organized on the principle of institutionalized vengeance.
The State was invented to replace Pax Christi with Pax Lamech, Pax Nimrod, Pax Pharaoh, Pax Babylonia, Pax Romana, and Pax Americana.
“The Christmas Conspiracy” is a conspiracy to crush the “New World Order” into powder (Daniel 2:44).
Biblical Law teaches us to pray and work for peace: personally, locally, globally. Obedience to Biblical Law will eliminate “the State.” Justice is altruistic, not adversarial.
Jesus Christ was executed as a threat to the “New World Order.” His followers must be prepared to be punished as “anarchists.”
The Chief End of Man: The Glory of God, not the Glory of the “Fatherland”
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: War is the Health of the State
Militaristic Industrialism or Decentralized Harmony? Swords into Plowshares.
The Christmas Conspiracy is the Discipling of the Nations
Explore Fourth Archetype: Peace
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The Christian Conciliation Manifesto - Overview
Away from a Vengeance-based Society
The retreat from Christianity and the advance of Secular Humanism has paved the way for total war and endless genocide. The religion of evolutionism is the religion of genocide:
"Religion" (Christianity, the Bible) is sometimes blamed for war. This is an outrageous lie.
V. The Family: The Nursery of Global Reconciliation |
For from Zion will go forth the Law |
From the days of Thomas Jefferson to the modern-day "Jesus Seminar," arm-chair theologians have crafted theories about what Jesus "really" said. And if there's one thing that Jesus truly, inescapably said, it is that we should call God "Father."
"Of whom every family in heaven and earth is named . . . " (Ephesians 3:15).
Human beings are created in the Image of God, and family-ness is basic to being human. Broken homes mean broken people.
If we learn to accept and obey the authority of our parents, we learn to accept authority in every sphere. We become productive, stress-free, confident.
Then He went down to Nazareth with his parents and was obedient to them.
And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. (Luke 2:51-52)
In the Garden of Eden there was the Family. There was no priesthood, no State.
All human beings are created in families. Patriarchy is an inescapable concept. If the Christian pater does not train his family in the Ways of Peace, he will be oppressed by a “paternalistic” State.
The Institutions of Church and State are unBiblical. They reflect rebellion against God's Law.
The whole history of man as recorded in the Bible is the history of sinful rebellion against society as created in the Garden of Eden, and the construction of institutions based on coercion and violence. It is the history of Politics vs. Patriarchy.
Not Priesthood, nor Statecraft: The Family is God's Central Institution.
Training Ground for Morality, Forgiveness, Self-Discipline, Competence.
Obedience through the Family eliminates tyranny, protects property.
Institutions such as Church and State were formed in rebellion, not faith.
The Christmas Conspiracy Is the Product of the Home
Explore Fifth Archetype: Family
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In 1831, the French political writer Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States of America, a nation which, by today's standards, existed in a state of anarchy. The citizenry had deemed unnecessary such things as income taxation, welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public schooling, drug wars, economic regulations, gun control, and immigration controls. Tocqueville described the chaos:
The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence. It contracted no alliance with the turbulent passions of anarchy; but its course was marked, on the contrary, by an attachment to whatever was lawful and orderly.
It was never assumed in the United States that the citizen of a free country has a right to do whatever he pleases; on the contrary, social obligations were there imposed upon him more various than anywhere else. No idea was ever entertained of attacking the principles or of contesting the rights of society; but the exercise of its authority was divided, to the end that the office might be powerful and the officer insignificant, and that the community should be at once regulated and free. In no country in the world does the law hold so absolute a language as in America, and in no country is the right of applying it vested in so many hands. The administrative power in the United States presents nothing either central or hierarchical in its constitution, which accounts for its passing, unperceived. The power exists, but its representative is not to be perceived.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol.1, p.70
America's Founding Fathers were animated by Micah's vision of a decentralized, law-abiding, peaceful world of Vine & Fig Tree.
Micah described the world as resting on "the Mountain of the House of the Lord," a reference to a restored Garden of Eden. In the Garden of Eden there was the Family. "The State" did not exist. The Prophet Micah speaks of a day when Edenic conditions will be restored throughout the earth. This means the disappearance of "the State." How do we describe a stateless society?
All human beings are created in families. Patriarchy is an inescapable concept. If the Christian pater does not train his family in the Ways of Peace, he will be oppressed by a “paternalistic” State. The Family is the basic social unit of a prosperous society.
The Institution called "The State" is unBiblical. It reflects rebellion against God's Law.
Obedience through the Family eliminates tyranny, protects property.
The whole history of man as recorded in the Bible is the history of sinful rebellion against society as created in the Garden of Eden, and the construction of institutions based on Humanistic power: coercion and violence. It is the history of Politics vs. Patriarchy.
The word comes from two Greek words meaning "rule of God." Most people think it means "the rule of priests." It does not. What would happen if everyone obeyed God's Law? What would happen if a nation were truly "under God," and could say without hypocrisy, "In God We Trust?"
200 million people in America claim to be Christian. If all of them would
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One reason many of these Christians don't actively work for Micah's Vine & Fig Tree society is that they believe God has predestined the world to get worse and worse. This is an unBiblical view.
A second reason many Christians don't actively work for Micah's Vine & Fig Tree society is that they believe God has "ordained" the State, and that God commands us to have a State, and abolishing the State would be contrary to His will. This too is an unBiblical view. It begins with an erroneous interpretation of Paul's Letter to the Romans.
Romans 13 says "the powers that be are ordained of God." Defenders of the State take this to mean that "the State" is an idea that conforms to God's ethical standards, and that "the State" has God's ethical approval. Nothing could be further from the truth.
By using the word "powers" the Apostle Paul uses a Greek word which means "demonic" everywhere else in the New Testament. But does God "ordain" evil? Yes, emphatically: God ordains evil. The State is evil, and the message of Romans 12-13 is directly counter to the agenda of modern evangelical defenders of the status quo. Highlights:
- Angels and God's Throne of Government
- Stars and Idolatry
- Why the State Always Encourages Immorality
- Unlucky 13 -- Romans 13, Revelation 13 and Isaiah 13
- A Roman's-Eye View of Romans 13
- "Principalities and Powers"
- Lakes of Fire in "Smoke-Filled Rooms"
- Romans 13: The Burden is on the Archists
- Taxation, "Consent of the Governed," and the Myth of the State
- Why the State is not a "Divine Institution"
- Angels and Autarchy
Nowhere in Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, does God ever say to man, "I think now is the time to form an institution which substitutes vengeance for love of enemy, and funds all its activities by theft and fraud, buttressed with threats of unspeakable violence." Concerning the language of Romans 13 ("the powers that be are ordained of God"), James Benjamin Green, in his Harmony of the Westminster Standards, noted that: "It is not meant that God directly ordained the state by saying to man, Thou shalt set up a government or organize a commonwealth." Americans don't read the Bible from cover to cover, as they would a "Harry Potter" book. They quote John 3:16 and a few other verses. The following survey of the Bible cannot be a substitute for your own reading of the volume cover to cover.
Vine & Fig Tree advocates a Churchless Theocracy. A Christian society without temples and without priests, a world which is a Temple and all are priests. A deeply religious civilization without religion, a culture without liturgy where all of life is a sweet-smelling sacrifice pleasing to God.
In the Garden of Eden there was the Family. There was no priesthood.
The Institutions of Church and State are unBiblical. They reflect rebellion against God's Law.
The whole history of man as recorded in the Bible is the history of sinful rebellion against society as created in the Garden of Eden, and the construction of institutions based on religious rituals rather than faithful obedience to God's Grace.
Patriarchy And The Early Home-Churches
Patriarchy In "The Millennium"
Catholicism: The entire planet — all races, all cultures, all languages — will be governed by Christian principles.
“Roman Catholicism”: A Contradiction in Terms. Ecclesiocentrism: racism; statism.
Optimism: The Gospel (“Good News”) is predestined to succeed.
False Catholicism: Christ vs. The Imperial Church of Rome
The Anabaptists vs. the Imperial Church of the Reformers
Patriarchy and The End of Churchianity
The Institutional Church is Not the Kingdom: The Priesthood of All Believers
C. The New Romanism: The Reformers and their Step-Children
A Theonomic Defense of the Anabaptists1. Introductions 2. Who Were the Anabaptists? 3. In Praise of Humanism 4. Anabaptists and Heresy 5. Anabaptists and Orthodoxy 6. Baptism and Statism 7. When Did Protestantism Begin? 8. Pagan Education and the Reformers 9. The De-Education of the Anabaptists 10. Politics from Seneca to Calvin 11. Theonomy and Justification by Faith 12. Statism and Justification by Faith 13. From Victory to Defeat: The Reformers and Theonomy 14. Should We Celebrate Reformation Day? 15. Deformed Reform 16. The State as Pastor 17. Macho Theology 18. Police State, Police Church 19. Plato and Calvin: Artistry in Dictatorship 20. A Legacy of Compulsion 21. Fascism and the Reformation |
A Summary of Each Essay Below is Found Here Essay No. 1. INTRODUCTIONPATRIARCHY, CHURCH, AND WORSHIP
PATRIARCHY AND OBEDIENCE
THE DUTIES OF THE PASTOR
Duties Relating to Scripture Dissemination
Pastors Must Preach
47. Pastors Must be Mysterious Duties Relating to Rule and Discipline [?]48. Pastors Must Administer the Sacraments Traditional Considerations
Sacraments in the New Age
ORDINATION AND PATRIARCHY
88. CONCLUSIONS APPENDICES
Every man a Lawyer -- No man a lawyer
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VI. The Garden: Paradigm of Reconciliation |
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“The Mountain of the Lord” is a reference to the Garden of Eden.
The original Garden had the following characteristics.
- Fellowship in the Presence of God
- Springing forth like rivers of water
- Flowing from a mountain plateau
- Producing abundant vegetation
- Decorated with precious jewels
The Life of Man was characterized by the following:
- A Mandate to Exercise Dominion
- over a Fruitful Garden
- gaining Knowledge
- in Harmony with Nature
- enjoying the Freedom to Glorify God
- in a Family-centered life
- lasting many healthy years
- as Stewards over the creation
- Planted Securely on the Land.
In general, each of the characteristic Blessings of the Garden and of Man's Life in the Garden are reversed as man rebels against the Lordship of the Creator. We will soon post links to the anti-parallels:
Instead of water Thirst Instead of the Mountain of the Lord a desert Valley Instead of the Botanical Garden a Wilderness Instead of Precious Stones Clay, wood, stubble, asphalt Instead of God's Presence Separation, “Hell on earth,” alienation The Life and Nature of Man are also ruined by Man's rebellion
Instead of Dominion Man Neanderthal Man Instead of a Garden “The Concrete Jungle” Instead of Knowledge Mythology Instead of Harmony with Nature Conflict, Pollution Instead of Freedom to Enjoy and Glorify God Economic Scarcity Instead of The Family “Singles,” “Careerism ” Instead of Long life-spans Sickness, Death Instead of Unmolested stewardship over land Serfdom, slavery Instead of Stability Wandering, Unpredictability
The Christmas Conspiracy is a conspiracy to restore Edenic conditions throughout the globe.
“Deep” Creationism vs. Evolutionism / “Deep Ecology” / Fascist Genocide
Dominion vs. Domination: The Model of Christ or The Survival of the Fittest?
Culture vs. Commerce: Salvation by Grace or by the Machinations of Man?
Agrarianism vs. Industrialism: Covenant Blessings or Humanistic Idolatry?
Vine & Fig Tree
is a movement to restore Edenic conditions throughout the globe.The Christmas Conspiracy Embraces All of Creation
Explore Sixth Archetype: Garden
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The Sixth Archetype - The Garden
Christmas: A Celebration of Paradise
A Survey of Edenic Themes in Scripture
VII. The Remnant:
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Patriarchal Communities: Beyond the “Nuclear Family” and “The American Dream.”
Standing Against the Principalities and Powers
Perseverance of The Saints in Community: Encouragement from Believers vs. Social Peer Pressure
The Weak and Illegal: Social Darwinism vs. Personalism
The Christmas Conspiracy Creates Community
Explore Seventh Archetype: Community
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The Seventh Archetype - Community
Theocracy: A Sanctified SocietyVine & Fig Tree is a vision of a society sanctified -- "set apart" -- for God's Glory. This vision is: |
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Theocracy: The Biblical Requirement
The Oath and Theocratic Government
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Ancient History
The Reformation: Rebirth of Theocracy
America: Theocracy in the New World
"Vine & Fig Tree" in American History
American Law
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Theocracy Defended by the U.S. Supreme Court
Famous American Theocrats
"The Separation of Church and State"
Theocratic Education
Revisionist Cases in the U.S. Supreme Court
Pleadings in Court
- Case History
- Petition California Supreme Court Contents
- California Petition: Introductory
- California Petition: Summary and Allegiance
- The State's Compelling Interest in Secularism
- Theocracy and Oaths -- The Biklen Case
- Petition before California Supreme Court
- Appendix A Petition Before the California Supreme Court
- Appendix B Why be a Lawyer?
- Appendix C "Religion" in the Constitution and in Torcaso v. Watkins
- Appendices D - F California Petition: Under Construction
- ACLU -- Not uploaded yet
- Cases in the California Petition
- Appendix G: The Myth of the "Settled Question"
- Petition for Certiorari - U.S. Supreme Court
- Interrogatories
- U.S. District Court Complaint
- Federal District Court: Petition for Rehearing
- Petition for Certiorari - U.S. Supreme Court
- Petition for Certiorari II
Separation of Church and State: Key Cases and Comments
Voting for a "Conservative" who is not a Theocrat
is worse than voting for a "liberal."
Vine & Fig Tree News
About the Author
Guide to IssuesClick here for A-Z Alphabetical listing"Why I am Running for Congress"
See "Domestic Issues" Morality and Culture
Domestic Issues - Domestic Ills
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Guide to CharacterVine & Fig Tree America: A Christian Nation
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The links on this page should not only convince you that America was designed to be a Christian nation, but that America was intended to be a Christian Theocracy.
"Theocracy" literally means "ruled by God." It has nothing to do with priests. America was supposed to be a nation "under God." If America is under God, then God is over America. That's the literal meaning of "theocracy." All the evidence points to theocracy. All the evidence is against the idea of America as an atheistic nation. And when it comes to a nation's allegiance to God, none of the Signers of the Constitution believed that "neutrality" was an option. If you read all the evidence linked from this page, you will at least end up agreeing with "Christian nation," and will probably admit that America was intended to be a theocracy.The mainstream media use "theocracy" as a scare word. Neutralize the word here.
Theocracy Throughout History Additional SourcesAncient History
The Founding Fathers were keen students of ancient history. They knew that religion had always been considered of great utility by ancient governments. There has never been a separation of religion and state in the history of man. The Founders did not intend to change this.
The Reformation: Rebirth of Theocracy
It is important not to confuse anti-clericalism with secularism. The author of this web page, a fanatic Christian Theocrat, has not been a church-member for 15 years.
The pages linked below discuss Early American history in the context of Theocracy (a nation "under God") and Anarchism (a People with a divine wall protecting them from incursions on their rights by archists in church and state). There is no compelling evidence that the Founding Fathers intended to separate God and government.
America: Theocracy in the New World
Modern secularists have problems understanding the American relationship between religion and government because they do not understand that the Founders believed that
Every single person who signed the Constitution agreed with these four premises, and they agreed that the true religion was Christianity. It doesn't matter that they didn't agree among themselves as to the details of the Christian religion. It doesn't matter that they made sure that one variety of Christianity would have no legal power over other varieties of Christianity. What matters is that not a single signer of the Constitution believed in the "separation of church and state" where the word "church" means "Christianity, the true religion."
The pages below are designed to explain these propositions and to show that they were universally held by the Founding Fathers.
"Vine & Fig Tree" in American History -- Homepage
American Law
Theocracy Defended by the U.S. Supreme Court
Famous American Theocrats
"The Separation of Church and State"
Theocratic Education
The Myth of Secular Governments
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Constantine: A Dying Paradigm
The Anabaptists were the first opponents of the medieval church-state. They glimpsed the Vine & Fig Tree vision and were brutally persecuted by the Romanists and the "Magisterial Reformers."
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1. Introductions 2. Who Were the Anabaptists? 3. In Praise of Humanism 4. Anabaptists and Heresy 5. Anabaptists and Orthodoxy 6. Baptism and Statism 7. When Did Protestantism Begin? 8. Pagan Education and the Reformers 9. The De-Education of the Anabaptists 10. Politics from Seneca to Calvin 11. Theonomy and Justification by Faith 12. Statism and Justification by Faith 13. From Victory to Defeat: The Reformers and Theonomy 14. Should We Celebrate Reformation Day? 15. Deformed Reform 16. The State as Pastor 17. Macho Theology 18. Police State, Police Church 19. Plato and Calvin: Artistry in Dictatorship 20. A Legacy of Compulsion 21. Fascism and the Reformation |
We live in exciting times. The modern religion of Secular Humanism is collapsing into immorality and tyranny. Atheistic statism is responsible for the murder of nearly half a billion people in the 20th century alone. We are ready for a "paradigm shift."
The Vine & Fig Tree paradigm is so old it seems new. 500 years ago the vision of a Christian world was brought to the Americas. Just as Ancient Israel, entering the Promised Land, failed to be grateful to God and attributed their prosperity to their own hands and their false gods, so America's prosperity has tempted us to forget God.
We are smarting under God's judgment. We made a wrong turn. We are are ready to go back to the crossroads and continue on the paths of righteousness, a journey to the Promised Land.
America broke with a long-standing tradition of church-state union. Christians have been reluctant to embrace the vision, and atheists have exploited their hesitation. The men who signed America's new Constitution did not envision an atheistic America. But neither did they fully understand Micah's Vine & Fig Tree vision of a priestless Christocracy.
The first step toward understanding a Churchless Theocracy as Micah foretold it is to obliterate the modern myth of "the Separation of Church and State." That slogan no longer means
In 1892 the United States Supreme Court opened the door to Christian Reconstruction when it declared that America is "a Christian nation." Christians in America missed their opportunity. Instead of taking dominion, Christians retreated into pietism and premillennialism.
"These and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation."
Unless we are willing to conclude that the 1892 Supreme Court of the United States was supremely ignorant or supremely deceptive, we must admit that America was founded as a Christian nation, and nothing in the U.S. Constitution changed that. The Supreme Court of the United States has given us a nice survey of the Christian history of America.
Having studied this page and the links, the modern concept of "separation of church and state" will appear utterly ridiculous.