day no. 15,937: all things in every way and everything all the way

"We must stop being experts in only seeing these things in bits and pieces. We have to understand that it is one total entity opposed to the other total entity. It concerns truth in regard to final and total reality -- not just religious reality, but total reality. And our view of final reality -- whether it is material-energy, shape by impersonal chance, or the living God and Creator -- will determine our position, on every crucial issue we face today. It will determine our views on the value and dignity of people, the base for the kind of life the individual and society lives, the direction law will take, and whether there will be freedom or some form of authoritarian dominance." -- Frances A. Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto, chapter 3: The Destruction of Freedom and Faith

The doctrine of the anti-thesis is without exception.

Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise His heel.

There can be nothing but enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of Eve. Where there are appear to be agreements, there are only compromises being made by those who should know better. The serpent never forgets his hatred. He never forgets what's at stake and what's being fought over. He is not content to occupy a small patch of land, even if we are. He wants the whole thing and knows that everything counts, when the aim is everything.

"We conclude then that when both parties, the believer and the non-believer, are epistemologically self-conscious and as such engaged in the interpretative enterprise, they cannot be said to have any fact in common. On the other hand, it must be asserted that they have every fact in common. Both deal with the same God and with the same universe created by God. Both are made in the image of God. In short, they have the metaphysical situation in common. Metaphysically, both parties have all things in common, while epistemologically they have nothing in common. Christians and non-Christians have opposing philosophies of fact. They also have opposing philosophies of law. They differ on the nature of diversity; they also differ on the nature of unity." -- Cornelius Van Til, Common Grace and the Gospel

Christians need to recover a vision of world conquest. An etiolated enthusiasm has produced surrender and compromise in abundance. But if grace once built a civilization, it can do it again... if only we remember and return to it as fuel for completing the final command of our Lord Jesus Christ who said, "make disciples of ALL nations."

"Oh, no single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest, and there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: 'Mine!'" -- Abraham Kuyper

Christians must again begin to think things all the way through -- all things in every way and everything all the way.