A viable third political party in America is a difficult proposition to sell. There are dozens of third parties that have fielded candidates in various elections. The Reform Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party of the United States and Constitution Party are but a few. I'm not advocating conservative Republicans depart and form a third party for they are the heart of the party.
There is an interesting thing going on though in the Presbyterian Church USA, the liberal mainline Presbyterian church. As of today, 1315 congregations with over 434,000 members have joined a movement called the Confessing Church Movement that is essentially signing on to three statements that affirm three of the five sola's of the Reformation, Solus Christus salvation through Christ "alone", Sola Scriptura the doctrinal authority of Scripture "alone", and Soli Deo Gloria to God "alone" be glory. It is shaking up the PCUSA. Whether it eventually results in a split of the denomination is yet to be seen.
The moderates of the Republican Party are making news today because their views and the views of the mainstream media share the same postmodern bent towards truth being relative and the pragmatism evident in globalization. The Confessing Church Movement is far from a panacea from the liberalism that has ravaged the church in the past century (recommended reading on this subject are Broken Covenant, Signs of a Shattered Communion by Parker T. Williamson, and Defending The Faith, J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America by D. G. Hart but it has wisely returned to the written Word and its original intent by God as made clear to His church. This political wing and change of party nomenclature that I am injecting here can raise the banner of Original Intent! Our Constitution is under attack by those who prefer to see a living document that can be interpreted, in any way, at any time.
God's Word to us has been under this same attack for much longer but in this country the higher criticism that came primarily from Germany in the 19th century has helped give us the secular religion that permeates higher education, the media and all the political agendas that have redefined the Democratic Party and threaten to do the same to the Republican Party. A rigidly secular America that fears any acknowledgement of God is pure revisionist history. Original intent is not a political bias rather it is a logical and reasoning method that deserves a seat at the table of political discourse. I don't want to see a Christian Party for a number of reasons, only two of which would be, it would be impossible, for Christians have too many theological differences and it would be unwise, for combining the Christian Faith so intimately within a political party would give serious doubt as to which one would influence the other.
On the positive side, it would be inclusive without being compromising as the adherents to this wing would have one thing in mind and that is to oppose revisionist history and the eclecticism of postmodernism that could not be forced to call the color red, red, without seeing red. If one cannot see that the Bible opposes abortion or same-gender marriage then one cannot see the intent of Scripture. If one cannot see that the Judiciary interprets the intent of the writers of laws, then one contradicts the meaning of not only our Constitution, but any contractual document, and plants the seeds for chaos and anarchy.
There is an interesting thing going on though in the Presbyterian Church USA, the liberal mainline Presbyterian church. As of today, 1315 congregations with over 434,000 members have joined a movement called the Confessing Church Movement that is essentially signing on to three statements that affirm three of the five sola's of the Reformation, Solus Christus salvation through Christ "alone", Sola Scriptura the doctrinal authority of Scripture "alone", and Soli Deo Gloria to God "alone" be glory. It is shaking up the PCUSA. Whether it eventually results in a split of the denomination is yet to be seen.
The moderates of the Republican Party are making news today because their views and the views of the mainstream media share the same postmodern bent towards truth being relative and the pragmatism evident in globalization. The Confessing Church Movement is far from a panacea from the liberalism that has ravaged the church in the past century (recommended reading on this subject are Broken Covenant, Signs of a Shattered Communion by Parker T. Williamson, and Defending The Faith, J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America by D. G. Hart but it has wisely returned to the written Word and its original intent by God as made clear to His church. This political wing and change of party nomenclature that I am injecting here can raise the banner of Original Intent! Our Constitution is under attack by those who prefer to see a living document that can be interpreted, in any way, at any time.
God's Word to us has been under this same attack for much longer but in this country the higher criticism that came primarily from Germany in the 19th century has helped give us the secular religion that permeates higher education, the media and all the political agendas that have redefined the Democratic Party and threaten to do the same to the Republican Party. A rigidly secular America that fears any acknowledgement of God is pure revisionist history. Original intent is not a political bias rather it is a logical and reasoning method that deserves a seat at the table of political discourse. I don't want to see a Christian Party for a number of reasons, only two of which would be, it would be impossible, for Christians have too many theological differences and it would be unwise, for combining the Christian Faith so intimately within a political party would give serious doubt as to which one would influence the other.
On the positive side, it would be inclusive without being compromising as the adherents to this wing would have one thing in mind and that is to oppose revisionist history and the eclecticism of postmodernism that could not be forced to call the color red, red, without seeing red. If one cannot see that the Bible opposes abortion or same-gender marriage then one cannot see the intent of Scripture. If one cannot see that the Judiciary interprets the intent of the writers of laws, then one contradicts the meaning of not only our Constitution, but any contractual document, and plants the seeds for chaos and anarchy.
