The Kinist Review

Alienist critics of Kinism, such as the vocal pastor Brian Schwertly[1], being neo-Docetists, deny the Regeneration, or Paliggenesia, of Christ by their derogation of materiality, and further deny the orthodox biblical Doctrine of Nations, in their opposition to the ontological status of “families” of men, an error which also partakes of the logical fallacy of continuum.

When Paul writes of the creation “groaning together in the pains of childbirth”, this birth is not a birth of pure spirit, but a birth of the renewed creation in which is the entelechy of the perfect confluence and unity of spirit and flesh. Thus Paul relates in 2 Corinthians 5:4 that this renewal is not so that we might be “unclothed” (pure spirit) but that what is mortal (flesh) may be swallowed up in life (made imperishable, unlike cursed, mortal flesh)[2]. Flesh is particularistic, and this particularism is what Kinists celebrate. If flesh possesses no haecceity, then there is no necessity for each thing to have its own “tent,” as it were. The differentiation of the flesh corresponds to that of the spirit. We know that men are saved as differentiated spirits, since God has elected to save many men, and the “you” that God knew before the formation of your “tent” is also possesses a “this-ness”, a particularity, or the salvation of a plurality of men is wasted energy, imperfection, and is the equivalent of God denying his own divinity.