We are prepping for tribulation. A couple of weeks ago we looked afresh at the core of the Covenant of Christ — His Law is His love. Doctrine is frankly secondary; theology is merely human speculation. Jesus said that feudal submission to the Father and His love for His family is the substance of all that God really requires of us. Everything else is just the mechanics of how we implement the Covenant.
Having established that foundation, we move onto a brief review of the doctrine we build on that foundation. Kiln of the Soul is the organization, the name we call our community. Radix Fidem is the name for our approach to the task of building a covenant community of faith. Thus, the Radix Fidem Booklet is a separate study. Our community starts with that approach.
We are accountable to the Bible. Particularly, we are accountable to ensure we develop a Hebrew outlook in order to understand the Scriptures. The Bible is a Hebrew book teaching a Hebrew religion and requires a Hebrew worldview. We sometimes refer to the fancy word “epistemology” as an academic term for a set of assumptions about reality; the Hebrew epistemology of Jesus Christ is radically different from that of the West in general, and America in particular.
While we note that a genuine Hebraic epistemology takes a lot of study, we insist it should be so widely taught that believers should take it for granted. It’s the duty of community leadership to translate the obscure biblical studies material into the vernacular of common folks. It should be available to people who don’t have any college. They should be able to figure out what it requires of them in daily life.
That includes the thesis of the Unseen Realm. That thesis was taken for granted by the Hebrew people up through the time of Jesus. It underlies the whole New Testament, as well. We have had some two millennia of Greco-Roman and Germanic converts burying that thesis under their own mythology, which they brought to the Bible. Their pagan epistemology produced a growing distance between themselves and what Jesus actually taught.
Thus, we reject an awful lot of church theology as speculative nonsense arising from a pagan mythology. If we understand the word “mythology” as a major element in epistemology, then we should devote ourselves to the Hebrew “mythology” of Jesus our Lord. That would include the substance of the Unseen Realm teaching — Divine Council, Three Rebellions, Messianic Expectations, etc.
Along with that is the biblical doctrine of Divine Election. Not Calvinism; that’s a load of rationalist speculation about election. We reject a whole bunch of speculative theology and stick with the simple assertions of Scripture about such things. We don’t elaborate; we simply translate the ideas from Hebrew culture into our current cultural orientation. Thus, “getting saved” does not mean getting a ticked to Heaven. That’s already settled by election; no human can alter God’s choices. Salvation is a matter of embracing the Covenant and gaining the full blessings that God promised His children on this earth. We are redeemed from slavery to the Devil and released to the high privilege of walking in the Covenant of Faith in Christ.
That covenant assumes a Hebrew feudal organization and tribal orientation. Every community (AKA “church”) is a tribe of Jesus’ nation. We cannot obey His command to love each other as He loves if we reject the social structure He took for granted in His teachings.
We note in passing that the Hebrew epistemology of Scripture assumes the basic truth behind the Christian Red Pill/Christian Manosphere teaching about human sexuality and romantic relationships. Without male headship in the household, you cannot claim God’s promised blessings. Most western churches have adamantly rejected this message and have compromised with pagan feminism. We will not join them.
We emphasize the mystical approach to faith. This world is not our home and Jesus rejected any ambition to change this fallen world, only some of the people in it. Satan owns all human government to one degree or another. If you live by the flesh and the concerns of this world, you remain under the Devil’s authority. We have been crucified with Christ; we live in this world by His power to discount the importance of fleshly concerns. Human ambitions are death.
A community of faith should naturally be small in number. Decentralization was God’s command very early in human existence. The Bible mandates having a pastor/priestly figure alongside an elder/king figure. That’s God’s Two Witnesses on the earth. A community can have deacons and deaconesses, but everyone is commanded to embrace the shepherd mindset in dealing with each other and the rest of the world.
While any faith community is likely to include those who are non-elect, our mission in this world is to call out to His Elect. We should live in such a way that we signal to the Elect who we are and who they are in Christ. There are some called to go abroad from home and share the gospel, but evangelism is first and foremost simply living by the Covenant wherever you go and whatever you do.
Finally, this is not an official statement, simply a reminder to our community members what sets us apart from all the others. There’s no need for hostility, but some degree of separation from mainstream church folks is simply unavoidable, and separation from the secular world is an utter necessity. We cannot afford to assimilate to the world around us the way most church folks do.
