Ronnie W. Rogers, Author at Ronnie W. Rogers

How Marxism and Critical Race Theory Plan to Topple Christianity and America

By Ronnie W. Rogers / October 2, 2023 /

I believe there was systemic and structural racism in America’s past. Such can be seen in objective ways like slavery, discriminatory practices, and laws during reconstruction and post-slavery agreements, unions, and segregation—Jim Crow laws. I do not believe ubiquitous systemic and structural racism exists in America today. Those who promote that it does, do so…

Calvinism Makes Conditional Prayers, Statements, and Commands Nonsensical

By Ronnie W. Rogers / September 18, 2023 / Comments Off

The Calvinist may respond that I err when I say determinism (compatible style) makes conditionals in the Scripture nonsensical. They would probably base this on the idea that, according to compatibilism, man is considered to make a free choice to meet or not meet the condition as long as he chooses according to his greatest…

The False Security of Capitalism against Communism

By Ronnie W. Rogers / September 4, 2023 / Comments Off

People in free capitalist countries like America often have false security regarding the threat of Marxism. Two ideas feed this false security. First, they believe that Marxism can never get the needed majority of support to be a threat in America. Second, they believe the evidence for the superiority of capitalism is so strong that…

Some Thoughts on Creation, Sin, Depravity, and Redemption: Extensivism and Calvinism

By Ronnie W. Rogers / August 21, 2023 / Comments Off

God created the world in holiness, love, and grace. God provided sufficient grace for Adam and Eve and their offspring to live for Him in fellowship and holiness by means of His creative grace. Every aspect of His original creation was by grace. Adam and Eve possessed everything in superabundance to fulfill His will, to…

Critical Theory: A Marxist Call to Radicalize Citizens and Our Children for Revolution

By Ronnie W. Rogers / August 7, 2023 / Comments Off

Marxist educator, Michael Apple, said, “Yet it is crucial to remind ourselves . . . Marx felt that the ultimate task of philosophy and theory was not merely to ‘comprehend reality’ but to change it.”[1] This is the essence of Critical Theory (CT) developed by neo-Marxists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, even though Marx was…

Why Calvinists’ Attempts to Make Regeneration Logically Prior and Not Temporally Prior to Faith Fails

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 24, 2023 / Comments Off

Calvinists seek to make Calvinism more biblically compatible by contending that regeneration is only logically prior to faith and not temporally prior to faith; I believe their attempt fails. Regarding Calvinists who believe regeneration precedes faith, Jeremy A. Evans says, “This relationship is intended to be understood logically, not temporally. Temporally, the cause and effect…

A Practical Working Definition of Critical Race Theory

By Ronnie W. Rogers / July 10, 2023 / Comments Off

Biblically, genuine racism is the sin of partiality, something the Scripture condemns (Lev 19:15; Jas 2:1–9; 3:13–18). Accordingly, the biblical perspective of race necessarily rejects race or racism as defined by critical race theory or as popularly used in American culture, which effectively reduces the words to a weapon to divide and silence anyone who…

A Biblical Perspective on Race, races, and Racism

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 19, 2023 / Comments Off

All people belong to the human race. Because all people are created in the image of God (Gen 1:26–28), they are essentially equal. Bearing God’s image is an essential and uniquely human property, which is the irreplaceable principal locus of our human identity. Other identifying qualities drawn from experience or development do not and cannot…

The New Testament Reserves the Designation Pastor for Men

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 5, 2023 / Comments Off

The Baptist Faith and Message (BFM) says of the pastor’s office, “The office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.”[1] The meaning of the term pastor in the 2000 BFM is not in question, though some try to make it unclear. However, three of those who served on the 2000 BFM committee…

Why We Must Seek to Repudiate Resolution 9 in New Orleans in 2023

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 22, 2023 / Comments Off

In 2019, the messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) adopted Resolution 9. It was passed based on the stated value of using critical race theory (CRT) and intersectionality (INT) as neutral “analytical tools.” The second Whereas of Resolution 9 states, “Critical race theory is a set of analytical tools that explain how race has…