Liberating Planet Earth

140 Liberating Plunet Earth
The follower of Satan cannot expect to match the church intellectually
in the long run, for Christians have the mind of Christ
ethically (1 Corinthians 2:16). The only thing that keeps covenantbreakers
from going mad and committing suicide is that God restrains
their ability to follow the logic of their anti-God presuppositions.
God also restrains their suicidal impulses. He does this for
the sake of His people, who in history need the cooperation and
added productivity of the unregenerate. God restrains them simply
to make them productive. Without God’s restraint, they
would be powerless.
This is why the kingdom of God will win in any open competitive contest
with Satani rival kingdom-s. Christians unfortunately do not believe
this in our era, which is why they are so fearful. They see the
satanic world system getting worse, evil getting richer, and Christian
influence declining. The kingdom of righteousness in their
view cannot survive a fair fight, let alone an unfair fight. They
conclude that God’s people are doomed to be historical losers.
Abandoning Responsibility
They simultaneously believe that since Christians cannot win
in open competition — socially, intellectually, culturally, economically
— any attempt to establish Biblical law as the foundation of
law and order must be the recommendation of potential tyrants.
“After all, if these people are really trying to build a selfconsciously
Christian society, and if they really expect to win,
then they must be planning to impose tyrannical force. We know
that Christianity cannot defeat the power religion. Therefore, any
program that proposes such a victory must have as its hidden
agenda a rival program of power.”
Christians have generally accepted as valid the worldview of
the power religion. They have concluded that power, and only
power, is the basis of successful political programs. They have accepted
Mao’s dictum that power (and everything else) grows out
of the barrel of a gun. They do not accept the operating principle
of the dominion religion, namely, that long-term authority is the
product of a bottom-up extension of God’s strategy of dominion,