The Liberal’s “Dominion Theology”

I’ve been reading up on Dominion Theology for a few years now.  It’s been an incredibly exciting study, and I’d love to blog about it.  What’s been stopping me?

I googled it.

I spent one hour searching for ONE POSITIVE THING on this topic…and all I found were horrific articles written by both atheists and Christians (funny how both sides agree on this issue…something is definitely amiss here, and I find that extremely fascinating…) that smear “Dominion Theology” into the ground.

I was mystified.  I mean, the articles were written by folks who really had NOT studied it at all, so they were writing all kinds of lies and half-truths and hyper exaggerations all couched in frenetic emotional rhetoric.  I did not find one intelligent discussion on it anywhere.  

Then the following article came to me in my e-mail in-box.  It came from a completely different angle…and it made a great point.  Every ideology is about having dominion.  The only question is…which ideology’s dominion places Christ where He belongs (He is, after all, the Author and Creator of the universe…does that count for anything?) and results in liberty and justice for the human race?  Which ideology brings about the establishment of true order, civilization, and rational thinking?  Which ideology can be proven by empirical evidence, logic, and rationality?  Which ideology is TRUE?

And that is the crux of it all.

If you believe truth is relative, your answer is the world’s answer.  “No ideology should place itself front and center.  What’s true for you may not be true for me.”  That sounds really sweet and open-hearted and all tolerant and everything.  But it isn’t rational.  If everything is true, nothing is true.  And if nothing is true, then nobody has any right to say that anything someone else does is wrong.  Can you see the chaos that results?   Under this kind of “tolerance”, why should we not allow children to be torn alive limb from limb while they are in their mother’s wombs?  Why not after?  If it suits us? Does it look sweet and loving now?

Dominion Theology was the widely held belief of the Church for 2,000 years.  It was one of those “no-brainers” for the Reformers and the Puritans.  I mention those two groups in particular because they are two of the most intelligent, studious, and influential groups that have risen in the history of the Church.  They studied their Bibles, wrote prolifically, and lived out the Word of God in every facet of life.  They are the founders of the most blessed and free nation in the world.  Really…giants in history.  Perfect?  Of course not, but nevertheless, examples for us to consider as we compare our own modern version of the Christian life to their ardent pursuit of God in all things.

In fact, if you lived during those times and you didn’t believe in the Church triumphant through the unfailing work of the Holy Spirit, you were considered off kilter.  So what happened in the last 100 years to make this historically held and treasured belief an anathema? And what has been the fruit of the last 100 years?  Well, we’re losing our grip on the “most blessed and free nation in the world”, for starters.  I don’t have all the answers, but it is something I’m studying and pondering because I think it deserves a closer look.

This article is excellent…really.  I am so hoping you will all take the time to read it.  Maybe someday I will blog about Dominion Theology and what I’ve been learning.  But in the meantime, let me pass on a little wisdom and perspective from American Vision founder, Gary DeMar.  I’ll post a teaser below, and then you can click on the link underneath to partake of the entire article.  And as always, I ADORE hearing your thoughts.  Inspired?  Leave a comment!

It seems that there are more nutball Leftists than there are grains of sand at Myrtle Beach. One of the kookiest is Michelle Goldberg. Here’s her latest “journalistic” screed: “Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry aren’t just devout — both have deep ties to a fringe fundamentalist movement known as Dominionism, which says Christians should rule the world.” Here’s a little known secret: It’s liberal Dominionists like Michele Goldberg who want to rule the world. She’ll tell you otherwise, but it’s Liberals who use the power of the State to implement their worldview and force everyone to live under their draconian laws. It’s Liberals who want to centralize political power in a national system. It’s Liberals who want to control education, the media, healthcare, financial institutions, oil companies, and business and make us pay for their hair-brained schemes.

I met Miss Goldberg at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church at a creation conference a few years ago. I was one of the speakers. She was there doing research for her book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. Here’s some hyped jargon from the site promoting it:

 

Journalist Michelle Goldberg has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism, disregard for the national budget, and poorly disguised self-interest had been reinstated, Goldberg traveled through the heartland of a country in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism: the America of our time. From the classroom to the mega-church to the federal court, she saw how the growing influence of dominionism — the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule nonbelievers — is threatening the foundations of democracy.

I’m sure you noticed what I noticed. Change a few words here and there, and you would swear that Miss Goldberg was describing liberalism in general and the Obama administration in particular. You see, dominion is an inescapable concept. Every ideology is about dominion. But unlike the Dominionists on the Left, who want to increase the power of the State, tax the productive into poverty, and remove all limits from government spending, Dominionists on the right want to decrease the power of the State, shrink the onerous tax burden on productive Americans, and force the federal government to live and spend within its constitutional boundaries.

Read the rest of this fabulous article HERE.

 

 

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