When 21st century evangelicals look down from their ivory towers to judge the sins of our forefathers saying “farewell” to Edwards, or throwing away gavels, or generally just dismissing the orthodoxy of faithful men it reveals 3 things:

1. They are caught up in the current cultural revolution. This revolution has no atonement. It’s end is death.
2. They have no concept of the pervasiveness of their own remaining sin. They don’t accept simul justus et peccator

3. They have no concept of the magnitude of God’s Grace. They can’t explain, for example, David’s life. How he had multiple wives and concubines and yet how we also rightly learn from him in so many other areas. This doesn’t condone his wrongs.

As the faithful have preached for a long time, chattel slavery is a black eye on our country. And it was wrong for otherwise faithful men to embrace and/or perpetuate the practice.

Yet, to bid them farewell makes a mockery of Christianity.

The evangelical elites are laughing at the nakedness of their forefathers while clothed in the finest tapestry fig leaves have to offer.