In my previous article, we began to revisit the question of the Jews from a Reformed perspective during our present Western “noticing.” What overlap or divergence is there between the woke right and confessional, Reformed Christianity? Having approached matters from the economic or redemptive-historical perspective of Scripture, especially as found in Romans 9 to 11, let’s consider some doctrinal issues relating to Original Sin, the “world” as enemy of the Church, and divine providence.
The Jews & Original Sin
In considering Jewish identity across the ages, we argued that the Jewish people have continued and must continue essentially intact and identifiably so for the fulfillment of the ancient promises to the fathers. Not in terms of temples and tribulations, mind you—but “natural branches,” being torn away by their unbelief, must by true faith be re-grafted in to their “own olive tree” by national repentance and faith in the Messiah and their inclusion within the catholic, Visible Church on purely equal terms with their Gentile counterparts.
But the woke right mood, when mixed with a generic Reformed Christianity, seems to produce at least a functional rejection of Original Sin. Specifically, the universality of Original Sin. Now, in all fairness, our kinist friends are not wide of the mark in pointing out that the Jews are unique sinners, having sinned against unique privileges. The prophets would have agreed with them, one and all! Moses was weary of living because of them. Elijah, their Moses redivivus, was pretty down on them too and was also pushed to the brink. Christ excoriated them as a “crooked and perverse generation.” And Stephen denounced them as incurably obdurate across the generations: “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.” It is also not hard to find similar witnesses among our Reformed divines. Thomas Boston, a most tender-hearted evangelist, yearning over the fallen Jews, himself did not blush to write in his sermon on Acts 2:40, “Save yourselves from this untoward [insufferably perverse] generation”:
(more…)
West Port Experiment 
