Paul's Passing Thoughts

I was adopted by a wonderful man named Harry Dohse when I was two years old. I still have the original certificate with my birth name, Paul Martin Stein. Harry had one son with my mother who was born exactly two years from my birthday on September 5^th,  Harry Kent Dohse. My older brother David was not adopted by Harry; therefore, his name is David Stein.

David and I were in business together in the 80’s, but rarely revealed that we were brothers, and because of prejudice I was often the point man in business dealings for that reason. In one case, when a person found out he was dealing with a Stein as well as a Dohse, showed us his 38 revolver, and it wasn’t show and tell time.

Throughout our time together as business owners, many railed against my brother to me unawares that we are brothers. He was usually the brunt of money jokes and references to Jewish greed. If you watched our TANC conference last week, you heard John Immel trace this motif about the Jews from Luther to Hitler’s National Socialist Workers Party platform. The idea of “greedy Jews” in Luther’s On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) shows up again in said platform, and initially got the ball rolling towards Auschwitz. John Calvin also aped the same anti-capitalist rhetoric against the Jews and complained of their detriment to Christian merchants.

As grammatical historical Christians, we affirm that God originally made His covenant with the Jews, promised them a land where they will dwell in peace forever, and made a new covenant with them from which the Gentiles share in the election of Israel. We affirm that God promises blessings for those who bless Israel, and cursing for those who curse Israel. Hence, we affirm that God has promised to curse all who hold to supersessionism or any doctrine that undercuts a grammatical understanding of Scripture regarding promises to Israel.

There is a biblical predestination that guarantees historical outcomes. It guarantees a happy ending for Israel. Presbyterians are big on election until it comes to Israel. However, this is somewhat consistent because they also believe, like their father Calvin, that you can lose your election. According to Calvin et al, Israel lost its election because of sin and was replaced by the church who apparently is unable to lose its election because of sin—regardless of the fact that Protestantism has adorned the soil of earth with more blood than any other movement in history.

Why then are we surprised that the Presbyterian Church recently divested Israel in favor of the Palestinians? Other historical offshoots of Protestant whoredom did the same in 2012. This is not only expected fruit from the false gospel of progressive justification, but we must remember that John Calvin shared the exact same presuppositions about mankind as Islam, Communism, Socialism, and Fascism. The kinship is the belief that man must be governed in every detail of his life to prevent chaos. Protestants are not strange bedfellows with Islam at all—violence will no longer be needed if democracy can be eliminated, and Muslims will immediately beat their swords into plowshares. Right.

I suppose it’s predestined because God doesn’t break His promises: those who curse Israel will be cursed, and Presbyterians have been cursing Israel for 500 years.

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