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Sunday, 10 December 2023

Did Maarten Labuschagne Have a Right to Challenge God Like That?


I once was both pro-ANC and pro-Desmond Tutu. The Lutheran Church where I had been baptised was asking us to collect money for the peaceful projects of ANC — like schools and so.

I was at a boarding school. Another pupil, whom I was in love with, was born in Zuid-Africa. I did not know that, I asked her for a coin for ANC's peaceful project, and she told me about ... well, what Maarten found out:

After high school, Maarten worked briefly for the railway before entering the South African army for compulsory military training. While there, his distrust and hatred of other races, particularly tribal Africans, grew considerably. Army training sessions often featured footage of widespread unrest in black townships during the 1970s and 80s. The films often portrayed graphic violence, including the infamous public ‘necklacing’ of suspected collaborators. This involved placing a tyre doused in gasoline around the victim’s neck and lighting it. His reaction, he said, was always,

“These perpetrators are sub-human! Just animals! Otherwise, how could they act like this?”


I did certainly not conclude that black Africans were subhuman, just that ANC was making them act in highly unchristian ways (like the kind of things that the Christian Beowulf poet left out: he made no remarks about "Hygelac" — "Hugleik" to us — Beowulf's uncle on his mother's side, actually dying as a robber trying to pillage and possibly rape Christians). I had collected my last Swedish Krona for ANC.

But to the point:

In September 1998, in utter desperation, Maarten cried out to God: “God, you have to change me!”, even challenging God’s right to send him to Hell if He failed to do this.

My cry was mingled with doubt over whether God was real or would respond. But it was utterly genuine, a recognition that I could not save myself. I didn’t then understand the assurances His Word gives for the repentant heart, but I certainly knew that Hell was real, and I didn’t want to go there.


Did he have the right to make this challenge? This is what I asked in the title. Actually yes.

You see, he had been baptised as a child. Baptism had done two things, since he posed no obstacle by clinging to heresy or personal sins when he was baptised:

  • it had cleansed him from Adam's sin (though not cured all of the consequences, like mortality and being subject to illness and aging and mood swings);
  • it had also given him the character of baptism.


Actually, it would have given him the character of baptism even if he had posed an obstacle to being then and there justified. What does this character mean?

It does not mean that your name being written in the book of life can never be blotted out from it. But it does mean, as long as you are alive, that you have a right to ask God for the graces needed to repent. You have a personal right to call Jesus your Saviour. A person who is already justified, and who then sins mortally, certainly has no right in and of his state of mortal sin, to get justified again. However, he does have a standing through his baptismal character to appeal to God to help him out of sin.

This is obviously so whether the sin involved gang violence like that of Maarten's former life, or gang violation 1 Tim 4:11 by stamping someone else as a sinner and mixing oneselves in his affairs when clearly not asked to and when repeatedly told it annoys him. Perhaps some guys over here in Paris should take note.

As his Christian faith grew, he was baptized and went to Bible College. He was also a pastoral counsellor at one of the biggest drug rehabilitation centres in South Africa.


I was already supposing he was baptised as an infant, i e his parents were of Presbyterian and not Baptist confession. If I was not wrong, I cannot congratulate to this re-baptism, since it is objectively a sacrilege. I'd suggest he repent of that, and get out of congregations that re-baptise when the only reason to doubt an already extant baptism is, he was supposedly too young for it.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
II Lord's Day of Advent
10.XII.2023

Clips of Maarten's story are from:
CMI : From radical racist to passionate preacher
https://creation.com/racist-to-preacher

Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Heard of BRICS?


It's a reason I don't trust Putin.

Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Myn excuuses, Zuid-Afrika!

Here are some news from Zuid-Afrika:

Faithwire : ‘They Shot Him in the Head’: South African Security Expert Details Horrific New Wave of Attacks on White Farmers
http://www.faithwire.com/2018/08/27/they-shot-him-in-the-head-south-african-security-expert-details-horrific-new-wave-of-attacks-on-white-farmers/


Featuring another article:

Faithwire : ‘FARM MURDER and RAPE’: Nearly 400 White Farmers Killed in South Africa in 12 Months
http://www.faithwire.com/2018/03/25/farm-murder-and-rape-nearly-400-white-farmers-killed-in-south-africa-in-12-months/


And a very horrible news apart from the headline:

The ruling political party in South Africa is seeking to amend the nation’s constitution in order to allow the free seizure of land from white farmers. Earlier this month, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared that the time had come for a mass expropriation of land without compensation — a clear and aggressive action against the white farming community.


Meanwhile:

President Ramaphosa and President Putin signs Joint Statement on Strategic Partnership
GovernmentZA | 26.VII.2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMrwBPy1Jpw


OK, white Europeans, Christians, do you still trust Putin?

Suppose we had been dealing with the times of French Revolution. Suppose the King of England had openly made an agreement with Robespierre? Would one have trusted England in the reactionary camp? I think not ... Czar Alexander made a deal with Napoleon, and at least one conservative Monarch, Gustav IV Adolf, concluded Alexander was playing on Antichrist's team. That is how we lost Finland to Russia (the Czar did change teams a few years later, when we already had lost Finland).

And, one other guy who seems to have been silent on violence in S .. Zuid-Afrika ... is Bergoglio.

Or perhaps even not:

VaticanNews : South Africa’s season for repentance, dialogue, conversion and change
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2018-02/south-africa-zuma-ramaphosa-jesuit-institute-pollitt.html


Russell Pollitt, SJ, would be giving a hint on how his "Pope Francis" sees things, as they are both Jesuits.

Ramaphosa’s first state of the nation address takes place on Friday signaling a new dawn for the nation, and Pollitt agrees Zuma’s resignation on the evening of Ash Wednesday poignantly highlights the need for South African leaders to pause and reflect in penitence and conversion.


On balance, I don't see Russell Pollitt as making any special mention of white farmers, though ... was I just sloppy? You read that link and judge ...

I consider it is timely to quote St. Augustine:

City of God, IV, 4:

Without justice what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers? And what is a band of robbers but such a kingdom in miniature? It is a band of men under the rule of a leader, bound together by a pact of friendship, and their booty is divided among them by an agreed rule. Such a blot on society, if it grows, assumes for itself the proud name of kingdom.

Quoted from: Political Philosophy Part I. Extracts from St Augustine: The City of God.
http://imagining-other.net/pp4augustineextracts.htm


After all, it's his day today.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Augustine of Hippo
28.VIII.2018

Hippone Regio, in Africa, natalis sancti Augustini Episcopi, Confessoris et Ecclesiae Doctoris eximii, qui, beati Ambrosii Episcopi opera ad catholicam fidem conversus et baptizatus, eam adversus Manichaeos aliosque haereticos acerrimus propugnator defendit, multisque aliis pro Ecclesia Dei perfunctus laboribus, ad praemia migravit in caelum. Ejus reliquiae, primo de sua civitate propter barbaros in Sardiniam advectae, et postea a Rege Longobardorum Luitprando Papiam translatae, ibi honorifice conditae sunt.

Friday, 20 October 2017

Afrikaaners, Trudeau and what has BRICS got to do with it?


Afrikaner family’s refugee application deemed “racist propaganda”
Rebel Media, added, 20.X.2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7c4QjFWaIc


Note very well : South Africa which is trying to hide its crime is very often targetting whites, Boers or Afrikaners more than English, is part of the new alliance NOT including US or Western Europe:

BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Originally the first four were grouped as "BRIC" (or "the BRICs"), before the induction of South Africa in 2010.

Some white nationalists may be looking up to Putin. Note, he is associated with South Africa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS