Plodcast

This week Pastor Wilson talks about what he thinks is the Biblical response to the immigration and refugee problem in America. He also talks about Theodore Dalrymple’s book, “Romancing Opiates”, and the greek word antichristos. Happy plodding!   Show Notes:   Immigration and Refugees: What is a biblical response to the problem of refugees? Americans have fallen under the assumption that the state cannot run out of resources We are assuming that the state is God People who want to accept every single refugee into the U.S. are forgetting that the state has limited resources   Romancing Opiates: Written by Theodore Dalrymple He argues that there is a mythology that surrounds the use of opiates in Western culture that goes back to the 1700s We have grown accustomed to thinking of drugged up artists in a romanticized way Anyone who works with down and outers should read this book   Antichristos: Rendered as antichrist Only used 4 times in the whole bible: 1 John 2:18, 2:22, 4:3 and 2 John 1:7 The word antichrist is never used in Revelations A common understanding is to see The Antichrist and The Beast as the same thing In scripture, a beast is a civil ruler, persecuting the Church (like Nero, Hitler, Stalin…). An antichrist is a false teacher from within, one infected with all the latest ideational leprosy (a soft-spoken Anglican bishop for example).

Show Notes

This week Pastor Wilson talks about what he thinks is the Biblical response to the immigration and refugee problem in America. He also talks about Theodore Dalrymple’s book, “Romancing Opiates”, and the greek word antichristos. Happy plodding!

 

Show Notes:

 

Immigration and Refugees:

  • What is a biblical response to the problem of refugees?
  • Americans have fallen under the assumption that the state cannot run out of resources
  • We are assuming that the state is God
  • People who want to accept every single refugee into the U.S. are forgetting that the state has limited resources

 

Romancing Opiates:

  • Written by Theodore Dalrymple
  • He argues that there is a mythology that surrounds the use of opiates in Western culture that goes back to the 1700s
  • We have grown accustomed to thinking of drugged up artists in a romanticized way
  • Anyone who works with down and outers should read this book

 

Antichristos:

  • Rendered as antichrist
  • Only used 4 times in the whole bible: 1 John 2:18, 2:22, 4:3 and 2 John 1:7
  • The word antichrist is never used in Revelations
  • A common understanding is to see The Antichrist and The Beast as the same thing
  • In scripture, a beast is a civil ruler, persecuting the Church (like Nero, Hitler, Stalin…). An antichrist is a false teacher from within, one infected with all the latest ideational leprosy (a soft-spoken Anglican bishop for example).

What is Plodcast?

In the Plodcast, pastor Douglas Wilson covers anything related to theology and culture with his usual entertaining style. Whether it involves talking about Chestertonian Calvinism (not an oxymoron), the benefits of a Classical Christian education (not in that order), or the latest pomosexuality farce, the plodcast aims to apply all of Christ to all of life, for all the world. Douglas Wilson is an evangelical, postmill, Calvinist, Reformed, and Presbyterian (pretty much in that order) and is politically to the right of Jeb Stuart.