“Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.” Genesis 3:26

“Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”  Genesis 11:7

” … and He saw the spirit of God descending as a dove … and behold, a voice coming out of the heavens, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Matt 3:16-17

‘The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.”  2 Corinthians 13:14

There is perfect fellowship of the three persons of the Godhead, and the doctrine of the trinity perfectly solves the long standing philosophical problem of the one and the many (here see Rousas J. Rushdoony, “The One and the Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy”).

Without the trinity, there is no salvation, there is only death to those who do not believe.  God decreed the salvation of His elect, Jesus accomplished it, and the Holy Spirit applies it by regeneration and the gift of faith.

WCF:

In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.(o) The Father is of none, neither begotten, nor proceeding: the Son is eternally begotten of the Father:(p) the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.(q)

Via David Codrea, our friend Dave Hardy is trying to help out fight the forces of totalitarianism.

BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today filed an amicus brief in a federal case that is trying to force the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to define certain firearms components as “firearms.”

“Forcing ATF to adopt the new approach to classification of certain gun components that the plaintiffs in this case are demanding would greatly expand ATF authority beyond the 1968 Gun Control Act,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “If their effort succeeds, it would violate rights protected by the Second Amendment by imposing restrictions on otherwise lawful Second Amendment activity excluded from the GCA.”

Consistent with congressional intent under the GCA, ATF long ago determined that unfinished frame and receiver blanks without any machine work or indexing have not yet reached a stage of manufacture in which they are classified as firearm frames or receivers under the GCA. Various special interests are now challenging ATF’s interpretation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The case is known as City of Syracuse, NY et al v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives et al.

The lawsuit was filed last year by the Cities of Syracuse, N.Y., San Jose, Calif., Chicago, Ill., and Columbia, S.C. along with the billionaire-backed Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund. In addition to ATF as an agency, defendants include Acting ATF director Regina Lombardo in her official capacity, plus the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney General.

At issue are such things as frame blanks or partially-manufactured frames for firearms, also commonly known as “80% frames” or “unfinished receivers.”

Because you see, unless you’re a member of a control freak cult, a box of aluminum is just a box of aluminum.  Beyond that, a complete receiver is just an additional collection of springs and a few parts.

They didn’t get to it until the end, but use of a hollow point bullet also helps stability in flight.  Explaining that fully would probably require an experienced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) engineer and some serious parallel processing computational time.

Here is a demonstration of the new COVID-19 testing methods in Chinese airports.

Have you printed your boarding pass yet? pic.twitter.com/3HCo5yaImD

— Dr. David Samadi, MD (@drdavidsamadi) January 29, 2021

The exposure and immodesty to strangers and the un-trusted is both unbiblical and reprehensible.

Therefore, I would expect this to come to America.

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Of course I don’t know the future, but here’s a prediction. Feel free to remind me of this post if I turn out to be wrong (I hope I’m wrong).

Any future winner of machine gun contracts with SOCOM will be foreign, not U.S. manufacturing.

One thing the ban on machine guns fabricated after 1968 has done is stop development in open bolt weapon systems in the U.S.

With FN the manufacturer was at least connected to American intellectual abilities with John Moses Browning.  Now with the worship of Sig, H&K and others, I suspect the die is cast.

I didn’t know this was a “myth” to be busted.

News from New Zealand.

The New Zealand Police summarized the newly prohibited firearms as follows:

• Semi-automatic pistols (semi-automatic firearms less that 762mm in overall length) that are not “small” semi-automatic pistols.

• Note: a “small semi-automatic pistol” (excluded) is a semi-automatic pistol that:

• has an overall length of 400 millimetres or less, excluding any silencer, pistol carbine conversion kit, or other muzzle-fitting attachment; and

• has a barrel length of 101 millimetres or more; and

• is capable of firing specified ammunition (ammunition used on pistol shooting ranges approved by the Commissioner) only at a muzzle velocity of 1,600 feet per second or less; and

• is suitable for shooting on a certified pistol range.

• Centrefire pump-action rifles that are capable of being used with a detachable magazine, or that have a non-detachable magazines (tubular or otherwise) that are capable of holding more than 10 cartridges commensurate with that firearm’s chamber size.

First it was long guns, now it’s pistols and believe it or not, repeaters.  Pump action centerfire rifles.

All gun control is wicked has its roots in government fear of the people.  If not for government malfeasance and corruption, they would have no reason to fear the people. The government of New Zealand is literally fearful of the people owning repeaters.

John Guandolo.

In the last week I have seen videos online, interviews on television, and personally experienced on numerous occasions people explaining to me that I must wear a mask “because it’s the rule/mandate/law.”

As we wrote about HERE, in America we are supposed to govern as a REPUBLIC, which means the majority rules while minority rights are respected. In order to do this, there must be a moral standard.

Only just laws can be legislated. No law can be legislated which violates the moral standard of “the Law of Nature and of Nature’s God” legally defined at the time of the founding as “the will of God” and “Holy Scripture.”

Therefore, telling someone they must do something immoral/unjust – something that harms them or infringes on their unalienable rights – per the moral standard “because it’s the law” or because “I’m just following orders” makes one no better than a Nazi gate guard.

I spent ten (10) years as an Advanced Capability Medic in the FBI, and a few years as an EMT prior to that in and out of the Marine Corps. I spent a lot of time in hospitals, on flight/trauma teams, and treated many patients in the U.S. and overseas, worked in surgery, and taught combat medical skills courses in the FBI.

Masks and other protective gear (e.g. glasses) are meant to protect the wearer from blood, vomitus, and other bodily fluids of the patients. Store bought surgical masks are not meant for preventing influenza virus from passing through them. Just read the box.

The cloth masks people are buying with funny pictures and sayings on them or the bandanas are even more useless. Like throwing sand through a chain-link fence, these masks do not stop the covid virus from passing through.

To say masks stop the spread of Covid-19 is a lie, and everyone with the capacity to process information knows it. See Dr. Fauci say it HERE.

The lockdowns and mask mandates are tools of oppression used by totalitarian statists to subdue the population. It appears to be working.

In the past week, I have taken the time to speak with several people who insist I wear a mask. From the grocery store manager, to the manager of a high-end Dallas restaurant, to the usher at church, to the TSA officer, they all say the same thing.

“It’s a rule.”

“It’s a mandate.”

“It’s church policy.”

After relating a recent experience with the TSA, John succinctly sums up America at the moment.

“Stop being a troublemaker.”  “Just get on the train.”

“The secret things belong to Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.”

Deuteronomy 29:29.

Here we have wrapped up in a tidy package both the (a) decretive will of God, and the (b) preceptive will of God.

God decrees (or foreordains) “whatsoever comes to pass” (Westminster Confession of Faith, 3.1).  Why? Because of the counsel of His own will.  Not yours, not mine, not according to anything in the creature, and not according to what he foresaw would happen.

God forbids us to try to see His decretive will.  He calls this sorcery, witchcraft, and idolatry, and such things are to be shunned.

God ordains His law, and that is ours for obedience forever.  He says so in the passage.

Do you see the mistaken notion of the Charismatic movement ideations of trying to pry into the secret things?  Do you see that what God has given us in His Holy word is enough?  Would that Christians work a little harder trying to obey His revealed will and leave His secret will to Him.

“All Scripture is inspire by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”  2 Timothy 3:16-17

For pleasing God, you don’t need to know what He has decreed and somehow discern it through any means other that the Scripture.  God does not tell you what job to take, what college to attend, or even whom to marry.  Not in a secret voice, not in your prayer closet, not in happenstances, not in getting a “peace” about things (Christians are seldom at peace, and for good reason, we are in a spiritual war).

He gives you rules, laws, requirements, that govern all of the above.  You cannot take a job where you must be dishonest or engage in tyranny.  You cannot cheat homeowners by putting studs on center any measurement but code (or less).  You cannot attend a college where you must deny Him.  And you cannot marry in such a manner as to be unequally yoked.

Scripture is sufficient.

Sola Scriptura.

Ammoland.

For the 2021 legislative session, Representative Bobby Cox (R-19) introduced House Bill 3094 to allow citizens who hold a concealed weapons permit to carry a handgun in the manner they choose. Currently, South Carolina is one of just five states that do not explicitly allow open carry, among them Illinois, New York, and California. Self-defense situations are difficult to predict and everyone has different circumstances. It is unreasonable for the law to impose a one-size-fits-all method of carrying a handgun for self-defense.

Yet another chance.  This has been on the agenda of some patriots for a long time in South Carolina, but alas, they have to fight three lobbies: (1) Columbia, S.C., (2) Greenville, S.C., and (3) Lower State (esp. Charleston, S.C.).

What will happen this time?  Here’s a prediction.  The cowards in South Carolina won’t even let it get to the floor for a vote.  If it does, the progressives have to self identify, and we couldn’t have that, could we?