INTERVIEW: Mark Van Der Molen (Attorney/URCNA Confessionalist) & Rev. Do...
Mark Van De Molen (Attorney, URCNA
Elder, and Reformed Confessionalist) and I discussed the Ten Commandments, both
tables, as applicable to all without exception or exemption, including the
public, government, education, and other spheres. Mark worked with the Belgic
Confession, Article 36, and the explanatory note on the historical background
to its revision. He cited Dr. R. Scott Clark’s obfuscation of that historical
remark. Mark rebutted Dr. Clark. It is noted that Dr. Clark has refused to
debate Mark. That is a standing denial insofar as the scribe views it. As for
the full table of the Law for all, Mark worked backwards from the 4th
to the 2nd commandments vis a vis public arenas and the civil
magistrate. As an aside, Mark spoke of his solid, cordial and unimpaired
relationship with Dr. Cornelius Venema, Dr. Mark Vander Hart and Mid-American
Theological Seminary. Having been defamed by a Professor of Theology, that record
was rebutted here. Additionally, we spoke of Bret McAtee’s book “Saved to be
Warriors” which, we hope, can be discussed in the future. Correlatively, tomorrow,
we will discuss the sovereignty of God with Dave Knott (Dordtrechtian Reformed),
but that’s an aside to our discussion.
We also moved towards God’s
sovereign Law in education. Mark quoted Prof. Machen’s infamous quote about the
recovery of the Ten Commandments. “There is really only one remedy. It is the rediscovery of the law of God.”
~ J. Gresham Machen (‘The Christian View of Man’ p.192). I offered two quotes.
The first was: “I am sure as I am of the fact of
Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national
education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the
most appalling engine for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief,
and anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political, which this
sin-rent world has ever seen.” -- Dr. Archibald Alexander Hodge of old Princeton
Theological Seminary. 283-284 of A.A. Hodge's work, Popular Lectures on
Theological Themes, as part of Lecture XII, The Kingly Office of Christ. The last
quote was from the idolater, profaner of God’s law, condemning of God in disrespect,
the murderousness of children, and the theft of public monies to support Godless
public education. Here’s the idolatrous and condemned sinner, Dr. Christopher
Pearce: “Every child in America entering school at the age of five is MENTALLY
ILL because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding
fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a
supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity.
It's up to you teachers to make all of these sick children well by creating the
international children of the future.” ~Dr. Chester M. Pierce.
Yet, Radical Two Kingdom defenders are absent in public policy discourse?
Pietistic retreatism? Weakening of the sovereignty of God? Adherence to
Biblical infallibility but not authoritative for public discourse?
The goodly discussions with Mark Van Der Molen and I, God willing, shall
continue. On a positive note, some are waking up to all this.
Here’s one podcast where a PCA Minister, a graduate of an R2K school, WTS-CA,
is examining the issue.
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