Putin’s Christian Vision
BY PGF
2 years, 3 months ago
This has been my point for years. America is antichrist, and communists are taking over for the very reason cited in the article about Russia. It’s what happened in Russia which led to the Bolshevik Communist Revolution. I know next to nothing about Eastern Orthodoxy; we’re not endorsing it. We’re merely pointing out what should be evident to anyone truly converted to Christ: the rejection of His Law-word means judgment.
The key message of these philosophers is of Russia’s messianic role in world history and of its need to preserve itself through Orthodoxy and restoration of its historic borders.
Studying the causes of Russia’s 20th century tragedy, Ilyin wrote [at the time]:
“The Russian revolution is a reflection of the religious crisis we are living through now, an attempt to establish an anti-Christian public and state system thought up by Friedrich Nietzsche and economically and politically realized by Karl Marx. This anti-Christian virus was exported to Russia from the West…..
Losing our bond with God and the Christian tradition, mankind has become morally blind and gripped by materialism, irrationalism and nihilism.”
In Ilyin’s view, the way to overcome this global moral crisis is for people to return to “eternal moral values”, which he defined as “faith, love, freedom, conscience, family, motherland and nation” but above all “faith and love”.
Christians have nobody to blame but themselves for what’s happening to America. Communism is a bloodthirsty antichrist religion. They will kill us all if we let them.
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On September 6, 2022 at 9:53 pm, Herschel Smith said:
My assessment.
(1) Beware the man who wants to control everything forever, and remember my mantra on the signal pathology of the wicked.
(2) I have many theological differences with Eastern Orthodoxy.
(3) Putin has no Messianic role in world history or affairs, and more than Trump had, any more than any American president or Russian leader.
(4) Russia has no Messianic role in world history. American has no Messianic role in world history. There is only one Messiah. He shares His throne with no one. No man can accelerate nor hinder His plan for His kingdom. No world government in all of history, nor to come, is identified with, can claim credit for, or nor can catalyze the Almighty’s sovereign control over each and every event that occurs throughout history, nor stay His hand, nor move Him. He alone is the only potentate, and His plan will obtain without interference with or help by any man.
On September 6, 2022 at 10:15 pm, PGF said:
The Russian Christian “philosophers” cited sound both post-mil and reconstructionist. But, as you say, they claim Russia, instead of Christ through the spread of the Gospel, as the vector.
I debated whether to post this or not. I didn’t want the point to be lost which has nothing to do with Putin or eastern Orthodoxy. The lesson is historical; they quit following God and communists took over killing millions. That’s the point.
On September 6, 2022 at 10:21 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@PGF, I fully understand your points.
It’s the vector that I focused on. One gigantic failure of Eastern Orthodoxy is its fealty to the state. The Christian Reconstructionist (ala Rushdoony, Bahnsen, North, etc.) would say that there are three great facets in God’s economy: Family, Church and State (North includes more, but mildly so).
And it is certainly the case that the state is beholden to follow God’s law-word. But no country can be the shining city on a hill unless they are following that. And the point of the shining city is to set the example, not to take over the rest of the world or seek identity of state and church.
On September 7, 2022 at 4:58 pm, luke2236 said:
Sorry author Ilyin, but marxism did NOT infiltrate from the West; marxism is a jewish construct. marx was a jew and the bolsheviks were jews. Yes, they were financed by Western jews like schiff, but it is a wholly jewish affair.
Dont believe me? Read their own words! See the words of maurice samuels, ‘rabbis’ ravage, robinowitz, reichmen, finklestein and hundreds of others. See the jewish encyclopedia. They brag about it in their own writings. The evidence is incontrovertible.
Yes, I too have some theological [and political] issues with Russian Orthodoxy, but at least the Russian state is giving credence to Christianity and not trying at every turn and opportunity to eliminate it and its adherents like here…