Albert Mohler said recently:

"While we affirm the sentence “black lives matter,” without hesitation and with full enthusiasm, we simply cannot use the sentence, because it will be heard, nearly universally, as a movement, not as a sentence. The sentence is no longer a sentence—

it is a movement, a platform, an agenda of revolution at odds with the gospel, contrary to and destructive of God’s creational order."

Mohler seems to misunderstand how the Bible employs common grace to explain biblical truth. The Bible frequently uses words and ideas that

are originally from non-Christian (and even anti-Christian) movements and ideologies and turns them on their head. "Covenant" is a word that would have had very clear pagan roots in the ancient near east, yet it is used and co-opted in the OT as the definitive word of

relationship with God. Platonic terms like "head" and "members" and "body" are used in Paul's writings, as well as "shadows" and "realities" in the letter to the Hebrews.

Mohler seems to misunderstand how theology by nature employs common grace as tools and "handmaidens" in the

theological work. The Reformed scholastics used Aristotelian causality to explain the ordo salutis and the different causalities of justification. Cornelius Van Til borrowed Kant's noumenal/phenomenal metaphysics to explain transcendental apologetics and epistemology.

Just pull up Calvin's commentaries and see how many times he quotes pagan philosophers and uses their terms and phrases.

Mohler's proposal is insufficient as a Christian posture toward common grace and interaction with the culture around us. It ultimately ends

up siding with fundamentalism and biblicism instead of healthy, faithful, missional engagement with the world around us.