The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Rushdoony, Bahnsen and Van Til

Thanks Joe,


All of this is quite confusing to me with an added, nearly unfathomable complexity. It is very hard for a layman such as I to try and understand where any of these reconstructionist are coming from. As you said, "Ideas have consequences", and their ideas (reconstructionist adherents) are causing great consternation, sometimes vicious opposition and confusion in the public sphere as well as in our churches. Personally, I don't see any sort of "Political Mandate" in Scripture.


I'm very afraid the reconstructionist explainations would go over my head also. So, I have three questions, and I hope they're not just rhetorical.

How do the reconstructionists consolidate their ideas with; "My kingdom is not of this world"?

Is it a postmillenial eschatology (or something else) that might be driving these reconstructionists in the first place?

I do believe that premillenial dispensationalism has had a devastating and destructive impact on American foreign policy. Might not this "reconstructionism" have the same negative and damaging impact on American internal affairs?

It's very hard for me not to say that this reconstructionist movement appears to me to be very suspiciously Roman Catholic in nature.

Denny

Romans 3:22-24