Wikipedia: Gary North

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QUOTES FROM GARY NORTH:

Gary North is a leader of the [Christian Reconstructionist]? movement. (He is son-in-law of [R. J. Rusdoony]?, one of the movement's founders). Christian Reconstructionists are postmillenialists?, meaning they believe that Christ will return to earth only after conservative Christianity has become the religion of the majority of the planet, and those who reject it are persecuted by the state. They believe that Old Testament laws, such as those providing for stoning for adulterers, should be followed literally; this belief they call theonomy. Theologically, Gary North is a Calvinist. He is President of the [Institute for Christian Economics], which propagates Christian Reconstructionism.

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Gary North argues for the abolition of the [fractional reserve banking system]?, and a return to the [gold standard]?.

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"Full Preterism" : Manichean or Perfectionist-Pelagian?

"I recommend the immediate public recantation and personal repentance of Russell's theology (Preterism). Barring this, I recommend the heretic's excommunication by his church's judicial body. The elders should allow the accused member to identify the heresy for which he is then excommunicated."

"Church officers who learn of any member's commitment to the doctrine of "full preterism" have an obligation to help this member clarify his or her thinking, and either become fully consistent with the full-preterist position or else fully abandon it. The member should be brought before the church's session or other disciplinary body and asked the following six questions in writing:"

"the member must also be asked to sign an affirmation of Chapter XXXIII of the Westminster Confession of Faith and answer 90 of the Larger Catechism. This signed statement constitutes a formal rejection of the "full preterist" position. The member must be told in advance that this signed statement can be shown to others at the discretion of the session. If the member refuses to sign such a statement under these conditions, the elders should continue the disciplinary process."

"There are only three lawful ways out of a local congregation: by death, by letter of transfer, and by excommunication. Presbyterian laymen who have been brought before the church's session because they are suspected of holding heretical preterism, and who persist in their commitment to heretical preterism by refusing to sign a statement that is consistent with the Westminster standards, must be removed from membership in the local congregation by excommunication."

(On the fulfillment of Prophecy)
But there was: the fall of Jerusalem to the Roman army in A.D. 70. That historic event was clearly prophesied by Jesus (Luke 21 :20-24), yet it took place long ago. It took place after the New Testament writings were finished but long before you or I appeared on the scene. The fact is, the vast majority of prophecies in the New Testament refer to this crucial event, the event which publicly identfied" the transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant.." (P. 44)

(On Matthew 24:34, Luke 21:20-22)
"Rather than conclude this, dispensational commentators have played exegetical games with Jesus’ clear statement regarding the tribulation that would face the early Church: "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things have been fulfilled (Matt. 24:34). The Great Tribulation took place in A.D. 70: the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple, just as He warned (Luke 21:20-22). It is finished. (p.90)

(On Modern Israel)
"There is only one Bride; God is not a bigamist. He took no gentile wife under the Old Covenant, and He will not accept a pale imitation of Old Covenant Israel – modern Judaism – as His wife in the future. Gentiles could become part of God's Bride in the Old Covenant only by abandoning their national gods and accepting the God of the Israelites, as Shechem did, by circumcision (Genesis 34). Today, the same rule applies in the New Covenant era: Jews can become part of the Bride only by abandoning their Judaism by being baptized. God is not a bigamist." (Gary North, The Judeo-Christian Tradition: A Guide for the Perplexed (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1990), pp. 16-17.)

(On the Great Tribulation)
"What the Bible teaches is that it took place in A.D.70, and Christians did not go through it." (preface, The Great Tribulation, xi.)

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Gary North is well-known for predicting that Y2K would be a global catastrophe; he was proven wrong. [1]

Gary North argues for the abolition of the [fractional reserve banking system]?, and a return to the [gold standard]?.

Gary North is well-known for predicting that Y2K would be a global catastrophe; he was proven wrong. [1]