Ichabod - God's glory has departed

Why should we care about the General Assembly in Pittsburgh? It is said, “You should never read a book you could write.” Why observe a meeting whose results are already established, done, and set? I mean this, of course, in a penultimate sense, we already know that nothing will happen there that violates God’s perfect plan of judgment on the PC(USA) for giving its consent to the death of millions of children. Yet, on a human level, the fix is in. That is how it is has been with every such meeting.

Some deal will be brokered to save face regarding the blatantly Anti-Semitic appeal to the so-called “peacemakers” who would have a relatively peace loving people drop their hands in passive resignation while a dozen Arab nations prepare for their extermination. This move ought not to be brokered; it ought to be broken into pieces and those who keep putting it forward ought to be publicly rebuked by the Assembly.

In one voice with the war-making peacemakers, the primary action of the unprincipled sexual anarchists is to redefine the word “marriage.” God established the covenant of marriage while humanity was still innocent, before the corruption of sin. God provided a woman to a man for the cure for his loneliness and for the procreation of human creation. By so doing, He established the most foundational of all social institutions: the family.

Only married a man and a woman can, with the righteousness of fidelity, look fondly at a baby and say, “this is child is ours.” A child can say of his parents, “I am the sum of them and more.” This covenantal foundation creates a home begun in response to and not in rebellion against the Creator’s order. Neither two men, nor two women, can create a family where the children truly know they belong. If circumstances require the adoption of a child by a married couple, that is one thing, but to intentionally bring a child into a place where his or her parents cannot say, “This child is from our sexual union” is a violation of a foundational covenant.

When the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) redefines marriage, it touches on the most foundational social institution which flows naturally from God’s covenant of marriage. It is only to further what the Confession of 1967 (ironically) calls “sexual anarchy.”

What the Assembly comically does well is create badges, buttons and banners carrying slogans – little plays on words. It begins to look like a drunken Shiner’s convention – with funny costumes and jocular sayings. There is a tragic exchange of prayer for puns. This turns into a contest between two human agents, each crafting schemes to outwit the other. These plans are often founded on lies.

Any governing body that condones the willful killing of children while their heads crown from their mother’s birth canal is capable of justifying anything. The Presbyterian Pro-Life have all but given up trying to make a meaningful impact on the policies of this wayward denomination. Who could blame them for pronouncing “ichabod” (God’s glory has departed) on such a once great evangelical “church.”