Confession

What We Believe

A Statement of Faith and Ecclesial Commitment — the Redblades Anabaptist Church

TAAS — Thomist-Arminian-Anabaptist Synthesis

The RAC’s theology is not an eclectic assembly of preferred positions. It is a derivation. Every confessional commitment below follows by eliminative necessity from the Quantum Hylomorphic metaphysical framework established in The Redblades Architectonic. What cannot be derived is not confessed. What survives eliminative scrutiny is confessed without apology.

I. Foundations in Classical Theism

We believe in the one true God — sole and sovereign source of all being — as understood in the historic, philosophically rigorous tradition of Classical Theism. God possesses all perfections without limitation or composition. Twelve attributes constitute the doctrine:

Aseity — God exists a se, from Himself alone. All creation is radically contingent upon Him at every moment. Divine Simplicity — God is not composed of parts; His essence is identical with His existence. Omnipotence — God can accomplish anything logically possible and consistent with His perfect nature. Omniscience — God possesses perfect, immediate, and timeless knowledge of all things. Omnibenevolence — God is essentially and perfectly good; His will is the absolute standard of goodness. Eternality — God exists outside and above time, possessing His entire life in one indivisible eternal present. Immutability — God is absolutely unchanging in being, essence, nature, and will. Impassibility — God is not subject to involuntary passions caused by external forces. Sovereignty and Providence — God exercises perfect governance over all creation. Creatorhood — God freely created all that exists ex nihilo. Unity — There is only one God; the divine nature is absolutely unique and singular. Transcendence and Immanence — God is infinitely beyond creation yet actively present and operative within it.

This Triune God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — is the sole object of our worship, faith, and life.

The RAC does not presuppose Classical Theism and then defend it. It derives Classical Theism from the formal requirements established by Quantum Hylomorphic metaphysics — then confesses it.

II. The Nicene Creed (381 AD)

We confess the historic, universal faith of the Christian Church:

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets. And we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

III. The Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation

Sola Scriptura Scripture alone is the final, sufficient, and infallible authority for all matters of faith and practice
Sola Fide Justification is received through faith alone, entirely apart from works of the law or human merit
Sola Gratia Salvation is by grace alone, a free and sovereign gift of God, not earned or merited by human effort
Solus Christus Christ alone is the mediator between God and humanity; there is no other name by which we must be saved
Soli Deo Gloria All glory for salvation, creation, and the whole of life belongs to God alone

IV. The Enhanced Schleitheim Confession — Seven Planks

Our church order is built upon Michael Sattler’s Schleitheim Confession of 1527, now enhanced through covenantal pattern recognition and Quantum Hylomorphic principles. The RAC is the first denomination to formally recover the Sattler-Hubmaier synthesis: Sattler’s anti-statist, separatist covenantalism joined to Balthasar Hubmaier’s sword-bearing doctrine — the position Hubmaier’s martyrdom in 1528 interrupted and that no Anabaptist body has formally recovered in five hundred years.

Hubmaier died for holding that Christian faithfulness and the right of community defense are not in contradiction. The RAC holds his position without apology and derives it without remainder from Quantum Hylomorphic political philosophy.
Plank 1
Believers' Baptism
Baptism is administered solely to individuals upon conscious, credible confession of faith in Jesus Christ. It is the initiatory sign of the New Covenant, the public covenantal union of the believer with the local body and the universal Church.
Plank 2
Memorialist Communion
The Lord's Supper is a commemorative meal instituted by Christ Himself — a memorial of grace, not a re-sacrifice. His presence is spiritual rather than corporeal in the elements. We partake in remembrance of His sacrificial death, proclaiming it until He returns.
Plank 3
Three-Tiered Episcopal Polity
Three governance tiers, each with bounded authority: the Presbyter-Patriarch holds sovereign spiritual and ministerial authority over a Covenant Community of no more than 150 persons. The Bishop holds no direct administrative authority but monitors the health of multiple communities and arbitrates biblically-grounded disputes between patriarchs. The Archbishop holds no governing power — he is the denomination's figurehead and diplomat, representing the collective will of the bishops and patriarchs to the wider world.
Plank 4
The Ban — Restorative Discipline
A five-step process: private admonition, witnessed confrontation, communal revelation, the Ban, and — upon genuine repentance — joyful restoration. The Ban is not final damnation. It is severe mercy: temporary separation from sacramental fellowship designed to provoke repentance and protect the community's spiritual coherence. Any member may leave without soteriological penalty at any time.
Plank 5
Separation from Evil
Deliberate communal boundaries govern permanent residence and membership, not commercial or cultural engagement. We maintain open, free trade with the outside world. Visitors are welcome for transportation, commerce, and tourism. Permanent membership requires full doctrinal and covenantal agreement. We affirm a universalist soteriology and welcome all peoples, colors, and cultures into the denomination.
Plank 6
No Oaths — Singular Allegiance
Following Matthew 5:33–37 and James 5:12, we refuse to swear oaths or vows to any earthly power, institution, or kingdom — including the RAC itself. Our "Yes" means yes. Our singular allegiance is to Christ alone. This is a structural immune system against authoritarian totalism: no RAC leader may demand oath-like submission from members.
Plank 7
Doctrine of the Sword — Contextual Non-Coercion
Standing in the direct tradition of Balthasar Hubmaier, we affirm three contexts: Lawful Self-Defense against criminal aggression (Luke 22:36); Strategic Non-Resistance when facing overwhelming tyranny without the infrastructure for effective resistance; and ADI Just War Theory (Asymmetric Decentralized Insurgency) — when a network of covenant communities possesses the requisite resources and manpower, we affirm the right and duty to organize just defense against systematic tyranny, waged as a decentralized insurgency, not as a standing army.

V. Voluntary Patriarchal Monogamy (VPM)

VPM is a conscious, non-coerced religious vocation — freely adopted by members as the formal-architectural response to the civilizational crisis created by Feminist Autonomism. The word “voluntary” is not rhetorical softening. Coercion negates VPM’s normative character by definition. Women who enter VPM under compulsion have not entered VPM at all.

Female self-reported wellbeing has declined consistently across precisely the decades of maximal feminist material success. The framework's own metrics run inverse to women's flourishing. VPM addresses the root, not the symptoms.

Covenantal Marriage — the lifelong covenant union of one man and one woman. Three biblical grounds for dissolution: adultery, apostasy, and abandonment (the Pauline Privilege, 1 Cor. 7:15).

The Domestic Vocation of Women — within the Covenant Community, women voluntarily abstain from hormonal or mechanical birth control (remaining open to life); from secular higher education and external workplace employment (the industrial-careerist model systematically separates the mother from the home); and from owning property or managing a household unilaterally outside of the patriarchal structure (to ensure intergenerational covenantal integrity).

This is not a denial of women’s worth. It is a defense of their cultivational telos against the framework — Feminist Autonomism — that has alienated them from it. Female self-reported wellbeing has declined consistently across precisely the decades of maximal feminist material success. The framework’s own metrics run inverse to women’s flourishing. VPM addresses the root, not the symptoms.

VI. Membership Commitment

To join the Redblades Anabaptist Church, one must sincerely affirm: Classical Theism as articulated above; the Nicene Creed as a true and sufficient summary of the Christian faith; the Five Solas as the essential pillars of the recovered gospel; the Seven Planks of the Enhanced Schleitheim Confession; submission to the authority and discipline of the local Presbyter-Patriarch and three-tiered polity; active embodied participation in Covenant Community life; and singular allegiance to Christ’s Kingdom under VPM and Contextual Non-Coercion.

VII. On Catholic and Orthodox Christians

The RAC recognizes the genuine Christian faith of Catholic and Orthodox believers. We do not treat their baptisms as invalid or their salvation as imperiled. We affirm a universalist soteriology: God’s salvific reach extends beyond denominational boundaries, and we say so explicitly in our confession.

We hold with equal confidence that the RAC is the denominational form most fully conformed to Christian truth as derivable through eliminative reasoning from first principles. The Catholic and Orthodox traditions each contain architectonic vulnerabilities — epistemological and metaphysical commitments that generate, by internal logical necessity, pathways toward rather than away from the civilizational crisis we face. These arguments are made in full in The Redblades Architectonic, Sections IV and VIII. We make them without malice and invite the formal engagement.

For the complete theological and philosophical framework undergirding these confessional commitments, see:

The Redblades Architectonic: A Complete Theory of Reality →