I met a theonomist online, and we quickly found ourselves disagreeing about whether a government should be modeled after the Biblical Monarchy, or the System of Judges.

I guess a Christian State is farther off than I hoped.

It was a polite discussion though, not heated at all.

After a short time, I asked him "here's a question I bang my head over all the time: What about the future of the Christian State?" And then explained my thoughts about how there should be one &c..

He stopped responding after that.

It wouldn't surprise me if there was a small paranoia present in proponents of the Christian state -- our ideas are revolutionary (not in the "exciting" sense so often abused by politicians; rather in the "terrifying" sense, which is comes from an understanding of the historic turmoil following any dramatic change of governmental system). I don't think we could rightly be called "treasonous", because Bernie Sanders isn't called a traitor in any serious way, although he disagrees with the structure of the American government, and we aren't executing Muslims in our borders, although they also disagree with the structure of American government. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the world, because of its historic and Biblically acknowledged hatred for Christianity, labeled Christian Nationalism as a radical and treasonous ideology. I'd hate to be proved right about that.

But since a perfect application of our ideas requires the establishment of a new government, distinct from every existing human government, I can see how a Christian Nationalist or Theonomist (but not a Reconstructionist) would be nervous about strangers who ask too much.

Then again, maybe he likes to advocate Theonomy without advocating its implementation. I'm sure I can think of a few other examples of that kind of thinking present among people.

I think that God is guaranteed to win the earth. Therefore, there is no circumstance wherein I should ever pretend not to be what I am -- a citizen of God's victorious nation. Therefore, there's no reason for me to compromise in my description of my beliefs or hide them from any inquirer, and if I do (whether because of social or political pressures) then it is to my shame.

These days I've noticed that my mind isn't as sharp as it has been in the past. I can't reconcile systems as well as I used to, and some of the mistakes I make are becoming really quite silly. I don't know if this is due to a temporary burnout, an aging body, or some other ailment, but I'm glad that I at least got my argument to the place where it currently is before I started to recede. I hope God protects my testimony (what's left of it after all my failures) and continues to use me until I die, and I honestly welcome any change indicating old age. What a blessing, to be continually one and another step closer to the end of the race.

"Some of them were on the bench. Some of them were doing dead-lifts. Some of them were reading Nietzsche."