The 5 Points of Christian Reconstruction

1. Calvinism
   From our perspective, it seems like we choose to submit to God and get saved. But the Bible says that God is in control of everything. We will someday see that God worked our lives out to His glory and we receive no credit for our salvation. We all deserve hell. God chooses to save some people out of His mercy. No one can choose God apart from Him enabling us to do so (Romans 3:10, John 6:44). Good passages about this are John 6, 8, 10, 17 and Romans 3, 8 and 9.
   
   

Here’s a video I made on this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGieiIai98k

2. Presuppositional Apologetics

Presuppositional apologetics is examining the presuppositions of unbelieving worldviews and showing that none are adequate to explain the world we see. This is as opposed to evidential apologetics where we offer evidences for the faith and hope that unbelievers eventually decide in favor of Christianity. Here’s why:

1. People who are dead in their sin can’t reason their way out of being dead (Calvinism).
2. We are commanded to not put the Lord to the test (Matthew 4:12, Deut. 6:16). Applied to apologetics this would mean that we ought not lead unbelievers to think that they have the freedom to weigh evidence and decide a verdict for or against God.
3. Those who are humble and seeking should be given the gospel. Those who are fools should be answered according to their folly (Proverbs 26:5). This means that we apply their worldview to their claims using presuppositional apologetics, leaving them without a leg to stand on.
4. Everyone knows the God of the Bible is the true God and they suppress that knowledge in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18-19). Since the Bible says they all know God, we ought not pretend that they don’t really know or attempt to convince them that God exists.

Presuppositional apologetics is striving to do apologetics the way Scripture says it ought to be done, and doing it consistently with what it says about unbelievers. Christians love evidence for the faith and evidence is great for believers.

3. Theonomy

Just as presuppositional apologetics teaches that morality, the laws of logic and truth are absolutes (the standards for these things have always been true for all times and people because they are part of God’s character), justice and freedom are absolutes in the same way. Is theft a crime? What is the punishment? If Scripture defines what justice is in that case, anything other than that would be injustice. If we don’t answer questions like those from Scripture, we are left with men deciding those things. Romans 13:4 says that government’s only job is to carry out God’s wrath on evildoers. In that passage, God decides what actions make a man evil and earn His wrath. Governments only carry out what He says. The New Testament doesn’t go into great depth on those topics because it’s assuming that we know the Old Testament.

Christ fulfilled the ceremonial law, but not one jot or tittle of the civil law and the moral law, will pass away (Matt. 5:17-19). Our job is to teach then nations to observe all that Christ has commanded (Matt. 28:18-20). Christians alone know what justice and freedom are and our job is to spread that knowledge.

4. Covenantalism
Covenantalism means that God deals with people through covenants. This is as opposed to dispensationalism.

Scripture presents God’s dealings with humanity through covenants that provide the framework for redemption and history. In Genesis 17, God established an everlasting covenant with Abraham and his offspring, tying covenant promises to households. Exodus 19-24 describes God making covenant with Israel as His “kingdom of priests,” while Jeremiah 31:31-34 promises a New Covenant that continues God’s redemptive structure rather than discarding it. Ephesians 2 and 3 portray Gentiles as grafted into God’s covenant people. These passages support the idea that God works covenantally with families, nations, and history, and that His covenants define responsibilities, blessings, and sanctions.

• 5. Postmillennialism

Premillennialists believe that the Church and the gospel is pretty much defeated by the end of history. At that point Christ returns and kills His enemies. This is as opposed to postmillennialism where the gospel slowly spreads and God’s kingdom grows to fill the whole earth through peaceful means. The church will be victorious by the means given in Scripture.

The gospel isn’t accepted and spread by the sword but by God’s mercy, grace and truth. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Christ and He commands us to disciple the nations. Psalm 110:1 is the most-quoted verse in the New Testament, and it declares that Christ will reign until all His enemies are made His footstool. 1 Corinthians 15:25–26 says this footstooling happens happening before the end of history. Parables such as the mustard seed and leaven (Matt. 13:31–33) depict the kingdom growing gradually until it permeates the whole world. These passages teach an era of gospel-driven cultural transformation prior to Christ’s second coming.