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Scripture, is an argument in favour of its adherence to Scripture."The Rev. Dick Begbie of the Evangelical Church of England in South Africa -- Protestant,Reformed and Evangelical -- is a retired Colonel of the British Army who went to settle in SouthAfrica. In a written statement, Begbie declared that it was not the English-speaking forty percentbut the Afrikaans-speaking sixty percent of the White population of South Africa which held theserious view that righteousness alone exalteth a nation."It was the Afrikaans section of the nation -- those of the Reformed persuasion -- who were the realhope of South Africa's future. This statement from one who was a Colonel in the British Armybefore being ordained, speaks volumes for the strength and moral stability of the Reformed Churchof South Africa -- which is the real backbone of the Afrikaans people."Unpalatable as it is for us who are English-speaking to hear such things as this, plus the added factthat it is not the English-speaking but the Afrikaans students who are securing the top places inschool examinations in South Africa, the blunt truth remains that a liberal theology produces aliberal discipline. And a liberal discipline soon degenerates into a license which spurns laborioustasks, and seeks the easy way out."I repeat, the future of South Africa as a nation is with the sober-minded sixty percent of theWhites who are traditionally wedded to the belief that righteousness alone exalteth a nation -- theAfrikaners, who embrace the conservative view of the Book which preaches this austere yetsalutary truth. I look to see revival in South Africa come from this Afrikaans-speaking segment ofthe South African Church. I came back to Australia more convinced than ever -- that if we wish tosee revival in our country, we must believe the Word of God and honour the Holy Ghost." Thus,Dr. Whitney, after his last visit to South Africa.And now I, Francis Nigel Lee -- born in Britain but raised and educated in South Africa -- amrelinquishing my professorial work in the United States to go to the uttermost end of the earth totrain Calvinistic Preachers in the vast world-continent of Australia.At a theological conference in Georgia where we were both co-speakers back in 1976, Dr. RichardGaffin (Professor of New Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia), kindlyreferred to me as "the prototype of the new international Calvinist of the future."By that I think Dr. Gaffin meant I try to combine the best of French, German, Swiss, Dutch,Scottish, American and South African Calvinism -- in my own personal doctrine and practice. It isindeed true that I have been much helped especially by the Frenchman Calvin; by the GermansOlevianus and Ursinus; by the Dutchmen Kuyper, Dooyeweerd and Van Ruler; by the AmericansEdwards, Van Til and Rushdoony; and by the South Africans Potgieter, Stoker, Kock and Venter!In conclusion then, I would like to suggest my own program for the Calvinistic takeover of thewhole world. It hails from my fusion of Calvinian predestinarianism and of Kuyperian culturalphilosophy and of Van Tilian Trinitarianism and of Stokerian structuralism and of Edwardianeschatology and of Rushdoonyan reconstructionism.First and foremost, I believe we need to study the Bible -- before developing a doctrine of science.We need to start with the Triune God -- the real Former of culture. We must start with God'saseitas or independence -- yet recognise He is not a Deus otiosus or a lazy God. He is thetranscendent Creator -- yet also the immanent Maintainer. He is the Creator Who began everything-- and Who now , culturally, forms everything. He is: the Father, alias the Creator and Maintainerof all nature as the raw material for man's culture; the Son, alias the Recreator and Redeemer of all
nature and of human culture (Proverbs 8 and Psalm 19); the Holy Spirit, alias the Completer andRuler of all nature and culture (Psalm 33 and 104).This is the Triune God. The Author of all things is the Father. The Giver of every good gift is theSon, the Mediator, the Logos. And the consummative Spirit of both nature and culture is the OneWho created the world -- in order to make it; to make it through man; through the actions of man asthe image of this Triune God.I believe we must next move on from the Triune God -- to the unfallen Adam as His image. Adamwas God's image in every respect -- spiritually, materially, culturally; in holiness orwholesomeness; in knowledge; and in righteousness or Law-keeping. Adam was a law abidingperson in respect of the cosmic implications of all Ten Commandments. The covenant of workswas established with him. The cultural mandate was enjoined to him. This was imperative, andcomprehensive.Man was and is the dresser and the keeper; the developer and protector of all things; the custodianof the gold and the onyx-stone. He is the protagonist of mining and adorning; the name-giver to theanimals and to his wife; the one who cares; the one who develops science and poetry; the one whoneeded to multiply in order to be able to "make" the earth further through his descendants; the oneentitled to ultimate cultural reward, eternal life and the eternal Sabbath, after his cultural labours inthis life where he enters into the consummation.I believe we next need to understand the teaching of the Bible regarding the Second Adam, JesusChrist. His coming was already predicted in the Protevangelion -- which says that the Seed of thewoman, our Saviour, would crush the serpent's head. This has cultural implications. Christ is thedivine Logos and the human logos. He enlightened the Canaanites. Calvin tells us in hiscommentary on John 1 and John 8, and in Book II of his Institutes, and in his commentary onGenesis 4, that Jabal-Jubal-Tubalcain and the Cainites could only achieve what they did through thework of Christ -- and by His Spirit enlightening them without regenerating them.Christ it is Who is the Ark of the nature-culture covenant. The Old Testament theophanies and thewisdom literature all point to Him. His earthly mission itself had cultural implications. Hisheavenly session, after His ascension into heaven, has further cultural implications.Indeed, at the time of His second coming or parousia from heaven, He will return to bring aboutthe apokatastasis toon pantoon -- the reconstitution (and the consummation) of all things.Next, I believe we need to understand the teaching of Scripture relating to the Holy Spirit -- as the"Engineer" of man's cultural development. He is the Author of the "life spirit" given to the unfallenAdam -- one of the "Us" in Genesis 1:26. He is the Ruach hayyom, the Spirit of the day, in Genesis3; the Spirit Who developed whatever was valuable in Cainite culture (according to John Calvin).He is the Spirit Who strove with man before the flood (Genesis 6); the Spirit of understanding andof art (Exodus 31); the regenerative and task-enabling Spirit (Ezekiel 37). He is the poured-outcosmic Spirit of wind and fire and rain (of Acts 2). He is the comprehensive and fruitful Spirit (ofGalatians 5). He is the gift-giving Spirit (of First Corinthians 12). In short, He is the cosmic; theall-embracing; the heavenly Spirit -- of re-creation. Yes, He is the Spirit of culture!We need to understand the teaching of God's Word as it relates to the lost sinner -- totally depraved,yet still cultural. Cain was a city-builder; Jabal, a cattle-raiser and an architect; Jubal, a musician;Tubal-Cain, a metallurgist; Nimrod, a hunter, imperialist, and a tower builder; Terah, an idolmanufacturer;Esau, a hunter; and Pharoah, a constructor of a treasure city. Aaron crafted thegolden calf; the Philistines were metal-workers; Hiram Abiff was an architect; Sennacherib a great
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