Dominionism and Mainstream Evangelical Orthodoxy

https://currentpub.com/2021/05/08/seven-mountain-dominionism-at-the-mississippi-national-day-of-prayer/

Seven Mountains Dominionism is simply the Charismatic iteration and packaging put on the Kuyperian doctrine brought to them by the Calvinistic world. It's a little more blatant and crude in how it sets out its agenda as it openly proclaims its desire to capture key cultural institutions.

The story here is that it's not a story. John Fea's Current may cover it, but no one else really takes notice. This kind of thinking and the doctrinal assumptions which undergird it have become normalised and normative – to the point that it can be publically proclaimed without any real controversy.

Aside from the normalisation of heresy, the press release also reflects the errors we've grown accustomed to in American politicised Christianity – in other words the Scripture is ripped from its context and terms are conflated and redefined. The liberty Paul speaks of is redemptive-historical and in reference to the Mosaic Law juxtaposed with the freedom from sin and condemnation found in Christ and life in the Spirit.

These heretics instead conflate this New Testament concept of liberty with Enlightenment concepts of rights and civil liberties, freedom of expression, speech and the like – libertarian concepts that were nowhere in the apostle's mind and are actually at odds with Christian ethics. And on a more wicked note, the country's origin in these principles – one found in rebellion and bloodshed – is celebrated and equated with Christian ethics and imperatives. This sort of thing has been happening since America's founding and don't think such continued perversion and twisting of Scripture exempts the nation from Judgment.

For those of us committed to the New Testament, these countless examples of Dominionism's ascendancy just shows the magnitude of what we're up against. The extremist camp of thirty years ago has now become mainstream and increasing numbers of Christians won't even understand there's a controversy. In fact those who oppose this error will be looked at as not only crazy and misguided but heretical. And we'll be called radicals, communists and the like. It's not true, but the reaction is always extra harsh when those claiming to be 'Biblical' are exposed by those actually wielding the Scriptures.