22^nd December 2015

Why the hate?

Why at every opportunity is biblical Christianity  mocked, debased  and spurned? And across those nations most blessed by this same belief system, the West? Examples are too many and so obvious recounting is superfluous. (Just scan the way the media presented Hastie and Keogh in the 2015 Canning by-election)

British retired judge Sir Micahael Tugenhadt expressed concern over growing lawsuits against Christians in UK and likened it to the vicious Tudor dynasty. Respected British commentator Melanie Phillips probes;  “As for antisemitism, it was the Jew Karl Marx himself who believed that society’s ‘new man’ would be created only by repudiating Judaism altogether.”

Is that it? The new fascism has to destroy the only real obstacle to its state embodiment of humanity – the Bible. The most banned Book in the world and increasingly so at least publicly in the West.  

Have we had it too easy to be surprised? It is rampant in Syria and Iraq, Pakistan and Nigeria. It was so in the Sanhedrin and from the lawyers in the Temple courts.

But why? Why is church, Christianity, Bible, Torah so reviled by media , columnists opiners  and politically correct fashionists?   It has to be more than abuse or disappointment with the church.

I believe the cause is deeper. Compton’s lauded authoritative volume on ‘Civilisation  and Homosexuality’ gives a clue sheeting the cause of homophobia to Pauline theology. The Bible is sensed at least, to be transcendent. Its teaching rings true and the rebellious know it and hate it.

Reject the Gospel for a ‘mess of pottage’ and refuse to come back to the Author of life to receive mercy and the heart hardens beyond ability to change. Deep within them registers the dread spectre of judgment to come.  Spurning the Fathers discipline ‘roots of bitterness’ inevitably sprout. Rejecting the glorious Gospel  of mercy  there is only one option left: destroy the fact of judgment and the existence of the Judge! Futile, fanciful and awfully fatal.

Were such caustic haters  once  within the sound of Gospel and the shadow of the Son of Righteousness and the sweet law of God?  But forgiveness was spurned for conscience searing lusts.

If your notion of God’s justice concerning you is this, then the warped best you can hope for is the annihilation of anything Christian and Biblical. Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism are all OK –because deep down the heart knows they are all fake when it comes to Truth. These are all tolerated, even lauded as the Word of God is savagely rejected.

That portrays the anger of the outwardly nice but the inward  seething of some of our media and and policy makers  who fiercely reject the only escape from the wrath of God.

Persecution mounts because the rebellious must eradicate all resemblance of testimony which stands as judgment against their angry disobedience. Persecute means to pursue driving the haters against the righteous. Christians- brace yourselves by first of all rejecting the idolatry of niceness and needing to be liked  and take courage in the Gospel.

You may be useful  even yet in not only holding your own faith but snatching one of these  ‘dry sticks’ from the fire. Only God knows.

Rev Ian Clarkson