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The Armed Conventicle provides links to websites of various Reformed and Presbyterian organizations, because we are in broken times, and there is no visible church that is both faithful to the Truth, Scripturally organized, and free of moral corruption. It is incumbant on the people of God to search the Scriptures and judge all teachers and teachings. Those you embrace any teacher above the Word are in great danger.
Ieriemie is correct in his identification of, for example, the PRCA as antinomian churches. For example, Herman Hoeksema discusses the Covenant of Works as a mere "theory" and then rejects it (Reformed Dogmatics pp.214-217). From the (erroneous) perspective of a covenant in no aspect conditioned on our human response, a Covenant of Works is absurd.
The solution to the question of Divine unconditionality and human conditions is to be found in the doctrine of providence (wcf ch. 5). The secondary cause of the believer's inclusion in God's covenant is his true repentence and saving faith. The first cause is God's eternal election of His people. The first cause does not destroy the second, but establish it.
In other words, one can be saved only by repenting from sin and believing in the Savior, Jesus Christ. But it is God who soveriegnly decreed the believer's believing. And God who regenerates the helpless soul.
The Armed Conventicle fully concurs with Pastor John Brown of Haddington, who condemned the following as an error of the Remonstrants and Lutherans: "The covenant of grace is made with, and proposed to all men, without exception." It is obvious to this webmaster that Ieriemie has a wider grasp of the historical particulars than I. Yet I will hazzard to say that the question is not simply between antinomianism & orthodoxy. The faithful must steer between the rock of antinomianism and the hardplace of arminianism. In order that the covenant be conditional as to secondary causation, it need not also be, as some would have it, intended for the reprobate. There are some men with whom the covenant of grace is not made. This is because of their unrepented sin and lack of belief (secondary cause), which is efficaciously caused - yet not destroyed - by the First Cause of all things.

2. You have ascribed the second cause of salvation to providence, not to grace. Isn't this Arminian?
Please notice that I included the statement it is God who regenerates the helpless soul. Let me be clear that helpless means utterly helpless. In His providence, God justifies and regenerates His elect, only by the efficacious and gracious working of His Spirit. There is a chain of causation from election to glorification. In answering question number one, I considered describing this, but decided to be brief by sticking with the question of the covenant, and not the specifics of its application. Grace and providence, of course, are not contraries; the latter includes the former.

3. Why do you defend a televangelist like Jerry Falwell who uses a tragedy like the World Trade Center terror to scare us?
The webmaster of the Armed Conventicle did recently criticise a nasty liberal who slandered Mr. Falwell in the Lancaster Papers. (Intelligencer Journal September 21, 2001) Mr. Falwell is an anti-paedobaptism and a congregationalist, and would not endorce the True Reformed Faith. Nevertheless, he, like all men, is to be commended when he speaks the truth boldly. It is not the job of a minister to make the corrupt society happy, but to preach God's truth.
In short, Falwell was correct to blame America's sin for God's sending of judgement. And his critic was godless in her obvious assumptions that the Bible is pro-abortion and pro-sodomy, and that "god" whould never judge us.
When we warn our fellow citizens of public guilt and private need for repentence, we are only doing what our Lord Jesus did when asked why a tower had fallen on by-standers. (Luke 13) It's too late for the dead. Will we persist in our unbelief and wicknedness untill our own buildings fall?

4. What is your position on God's Law (Theonomy)?
A visitor named Steve has asked what are in fact two seperate questions. This is the first thing that should be said: God's Law is His perfect will revealed in the Bible. "Theonomy" is simply the Greek composite word for God-law; but it is the name chosen by a recent theological movement.
God's law is perfect, converting the soul. Not that fallen men can obey God perfectly; instead, the law condemns us as sinners, and points us to the Savior Jesus Christ. Still, the law of God shows us our duty. One cannot sin himself into freedom from the law! It is a true statement of God's intentions, however short we fall of keeping it.
Biblical law must be understood carefully it it's three-fold aspect: moral, civil, ceremonial. The moral law, summarized in the Ten Commandments, defines ultimate and unchanging ethical principles. The civil or judicial laws given to ancient Isreal were a wise application of the moral law to a particular nation; they have expired with that nation - not to be repudiated but to be consulted with caution. A wise Christian magistracy would certainly seek for wisdom in the principles of the Mosaic judicial code. Abrogation is the fate of the ceremonial laws - those which typified Christ. The reality has come, and the mere shadows are scattered. SEE the WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH CHAPTER 19.
The modern Theonomy or Christian Reconstruction movement is unfortunately that, a broad and disorderly movement. It has raised awareness about God's law, and refuted some forms of antinomianism, for which we are thankful. Bahnsen, in particular, has written useful things as a spokesman for "theonomy" However, prelates, idolaters and independants fill it's ranks. I have known "theonomists" who keep Popish festival days, eat kosher, break the Sabbath, or call themselves also anarchists. Often the emphasis is on the second table: reparations and corporeal punishment, while our duty to God is forgotten by "theonomists".
There is nothing wrong with the creeds as they have come down to us. The world needs Christ's Church to preach His gospel and gather His people for pure worship. Broad "parachurch" movements that unite Presbyterians with their malignant enemies are a tactic of Satan to further weaken denominations that are already pitifully declined from their past attainments.
The world needs God's law to convict it of sin and to hold out its duty. It is a duty of all Christians to seperate from man-made worship, judiazers and Sabbath-breakers.