A spiritually lost and deceived Jew mocks Jesus as Messiah: “What is the added value of believing in Jesus as a way to ‘life’ if this way already existed?”

Christian response,

There is no life without Jesus as your Lord. The Torah does NOT provide life nor atonement but only condemnation through a Law that defines sin and condemns the soul to Hell (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16) as the Law mandates perfection (James 2:10) and you’re a sinner by nature (Romans 3:23) and you’ve already violated the Law and you are under its condemnation and curse (Galatians 3:10). It is Jesus, alone, that is worthy to make atonement for sin as Jesus entered the World through the hypostatic union fully God and fully man (Philippians 2:8) and circumvented the sin-nature via the seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15), a sin-nature that plagues all of mankind born of the seed of Adam (Romans 5:12); therefore, Jesus, alone, kept the Law in absolute perfection (Matthew 5:17; John 8:46) and walked to the horrors of a Roman Crucifixion and shed His innocent blood as payment for your sin and offers you HIS perfection in place of your imperfection IF you will trust-believe in Jesus as your Lord and Mediator for sin (John 3:16-18; 2 Corinthians 5:21); otherwise, you will die in your sin and you will not be named among the Jewish remnant nor will you enter the Kingdom of God (John 8:24; Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27).

Has the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and other Sabbatarian sects become divisive “cults” and legalists clothed in Christianity? Please allow me to explain?

Repeatedly, I observe SDA insisting that Christianity fails to worship on the Sabbath and there is a distinct condemnative tone that accompanies this allegation. Jesus never infused the 4th-Commandment (ceremonial law) into the New Covenant as Jesus IS the Sabbath’s rest and the Sabbath’s fulfillment for the one who trusts in Him as Lord (Hebrews 4). The Sabbath Day was not given to anyone as an edict until Moses (Exodus 16) and the Sabbath was then codified at Sinai (Exodus 20), some 2500-years subsequent to the creation narrative in Genesis and Day-Seven’s rest. Elohim did NOT give the Sabbath Day command to Adam, Enoch, Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, NOT ONCE nor does God chastise any Gentile from Adam forward for disobeying the Sabbath but He does hold the Gentile culpable for violating the nine-moral Laws of the Decalogue and the Moral Law of Conscience (Romans 2:15).

It’s also noteworthy that the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 did not burden the Gentiles with the Torah or the Sabbath in the New Testament Church as the Gospel was received with great joy among the Gentiles in the First-Century. Jesus did infuse the other nine-“moral laws” of the Decalogue into the New Covenant via His Earthly ministry but the Sabbath IS Jesus in type (Colossians 2:16) and Jesus provides the faithful a “rest” from the arduous and condemnative Law of “sin and death” that only defined sin void atonement (Romans 3:20; Romans 8:3); therefore, the SDA member and other Sabbatarian’s violate Scripture when they suggest or demand that a Christian must rest or worship on Saturday and these groups unfortunately morph into a legalist cult seeking dissension among the brethren in their OBSESSION with a Day in lieu of true substance; that is, Christ crucified and Him victorious over sin for one who believes; this divisive legalism is evil (Romans 14).

It is becoming readily apparent that SDA and other Sabbatarian sects’ verge on the title of “Christian cult;” therefore, please check yourself and your Church’s doctrine. If you are in Christ, you are free to worship and “rest” any day or every day, including Saturday and-or Sunday, to honor our Lord as you are NOT under Law but under GRACE (Romans 6:14) in Jesus as Lord; NO ONE possesses the authority or the divine right to chastise a Christian in this matter; therefore, PLEASE stop with the condemnation of Sunday as the Lord’s Day?

Romans 14 (ESV), It is written…

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. 2 One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. 3 Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. 4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master[a] that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. 5 One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 for it is written,“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” 12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Atheist mocks God’s Judgment: “There is no evidence that would lead a thinking person to conclude that we are judged by God after we die. So why believe it?”

Christian response,

All that we see in this World finds its foundational origin in the Spiritual and much of our government is patterned after the form of Government articulated within the Scriptures and our government codifies laws with the intent to protect the citizenry via the Bill of Rights in our Constitution. One of the purposes for God’s Law (the Law of Conscience) is the sustainability of the human species as that Law acts as a bulwark against narcissism, hedonism, moral relativism, that would ultimately lead to the extinction of human kind through violence. God’s Laws will also play a vital role in Judgment as these Laws written upon our heart by our Creator will ensure equity with due process at Judgment in Eternity, everyone will be “without excuse” (Romans 1:18-32).

Man’s jurisprudence involves the codification of laws, enforcement, prosecution, judgment, punishment, as a deterrent to dangerous and destructive behavior and it’s no different in God’s Government as God’s Laws seek the very same end. Jesus is both our Judge and Attorney. For those who believe in Jesus as Lord, He has removed His black robe, exited the bench and taken our position as the guilty party in front of the bench and agreed to pay our debt to God the Father for us via a Roman Cross; that is, Jesus has paid our sin-debt in full through the shedding of His innocent blood. The sin-debt of mankind is cancelled via Covenant for everyone who believes with a sincere heart that Jesus Christ is Lord and that He died to pay their sin-debt and that Jesus was resurrected from the dead for their justification (Romans 10:9-10).

For those who reject Jesus as Lord, He will be Judge and prosecutor and you will pay your own sin-debt to God and ultimately lose both body and soul in Hell because your unrepentant sin and its destructiveness will not be permitted to enter the Kingdom subsequent to the death of your body in Time (Revelation 21:27); so then, in God’s jurisdiction and in His jurisprudence, mankind has been provided a pardon from sin i.e. death in Hell and given Eternal Life through faith in Jesus’ sacrifice via Covenant – or – mankind can choose to pay his own sin-debt with his own soul and his own resurrected body of corruption that will ultimately cease to exist in the Lake of Fire subsequent to adjudication (Revelation 20:11-15); ultimately, the choice is ours to make. God pleads with every man and woman to choose “life” by trusting in the selfless love of the Son, Jesus Christ, who died to pay our sin-debt. Doubting God’s Judgment is not wise or prudent.

Theological critic mocks the temptation of Jesus by the Evil One: “If Christians insist that Jesus is God, how is it possible for the Devil to take God to a very high mountain and show God all the kingdoms of the World when God is the creator of the kingdoms of the world and all that lies therein?” Matthew 4:8 & Luke 4:5

Christian response,

The Evil One formerly held a position of great authority in the throne room of God the Father (Ezekiel 28:11-17) and the relationship between the Son and this cherub angel was one of former intimacy as said angel was a special anointed creation of God. Our entire creation narrative in Time is the resultant of this anointed cherub angel’s rebellion in the Kingdom and that destructive sin having been extricated from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18) and this Earth having been created by the Son for cause with rapidity (Genesis 1; John 1; Colossians 1; Hebrews 1) and the Evil One, his demonic minions, placed here as a war between the Son and the Evil One was declared in Genesis 3:15 and the strategy the Father would use to defeat the Evil One was pictured in Genesis 3:21 (a gospel of grace involving selfless love not man’s works) and this war ultimately came to fruition 4000-years later at Mt. Golgotha with the words shouted by the Son, Jesus Christ, “It is finished.”

The relationship between the Son and the Evil One is not fully known to humanity but it’s safe to say that in Eternity there was mutual love and respect between the two until iniquity was found in the angel of light; therefore, the pride and lofty spirit of the fallen anointed angel having met with Jesus before the culmination of the war between them and then taking Jesus for a last temptation before Messiah’s ministry of victory over this fallen angel is not unusual and both Jesus and the fallen cherub angel are truly spiritual beings and neither is constrained by Time or physics; therefore, Messiah and the Evil One could have chosen any “high place” on Earth or the 2nd or 3rd Heaven to discuss alternatives to the coming battle involving death, Hell, the grave…why do you mock and disparage the power of God and His Holy Spirit?

Question on FB concerning Adam and law: “Which law had been transgressed that required the death of humanity? Since where there is no law, there is no transgression.”

Christian response, (I apologize for the length of the narrative)

The moral law or law of conscience (Romans 2:15) has been extant from the creation of the angels. The moral law was created in response to the necessity for free will among God’s created beings; free will being essential for love and relationship with our Creator to manifest with purity and authenticity. God created the moral law and infused same into mankind as we are created in His spiritual image and have received certain communicable attributes from our Creator; this was done primarily for two-reasons:

1) The Moral Law of Conscience acts a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism, hedonism, moral relativism, thereby ensuring the sustainability of human kind as God works through creation via the Son “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) which is accomplished via the Gospel ordained “before the beginning of Time” (2 Timothy 1:9-10).

2) The Moral Law of Conscience is of necessity in order that God’s Judgment in Time and in Eternity can manifest with equity, due process; therefore, all of mankind will be “without excuse” (Romans 1:18-32).

Not only was Adam infused with God’s Moral Law of Conscience, but Adam received a Law directly from His Creator to not compromise with evil and the ramifications of same, should Adam disobey, were clearly articulated. Adam relented to the enticement of his wife, Eve, and sought the knowledge of evil in lieu of obedience to God’s Law; therefore, spiritual death, a chasm between God and man, manifest immediately and physiological death manifest in due time.

Adam’s rejection of God’s Covenant of Sustenance and Provision manifest in a curse upon the human genome and nature thereby setting forth the introduction of the Son born of the seed of the woman (virgin) who would do battle with the originator of evil (Genesis 3:15) and the strategy used to destroy the works of the Evil One was pictured in Genesis 3:21 (A Gospel of grace not works). The following Scripture within the Canon, as inspired by the Holy Spirit, simply details this cosmic war between good and evil having been placed within the Realm of Time as God set-apart a people group to be His sign-post or historical and eschatological marker identifying where God is positioned in the framework of Time by observing this chosen people-group and their historical station in Time from moment to moment.

Finally, it is important to remember that mankind was created to live eternally and it is sin, rebellion, rejection of God, that has resulted in death of the human species, why? God the Father has ordained the Kingdom as inhospitable to sin; therefore, mankind’s sin will not be permitted to enter the Kingdom (Revelation 21:27); in fact, this is the causation for the creation narrative as sin was introduced into the Kingdom by a rebellious cherub angel necessitating the extrication of sin and the sin-bearer from the Kingdom and a repository for the Evil One on this Earth as God deals with him and his sin partially constrained by Time and physics. It is the foolishness of man that suggests God will wink at our sin and permit our entrance into the Kingdom void repentance and atonement as God Himself suffered and died to provide atonement via His selfless and eternal love.

How can mankind redeemed by Messiah yet burdened with a sin-nature in the flesh obey Messiah’s command: Matthew 5:48 “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

Christian response,

Though perfection is the goal in the Christian life, we know that we remain burdened with a sin-nature inherited from our father who ultimately inherited it from our first father, Adam (Romans 5:12); therefore, our New Nature in the Spirit struggles with our old nature in Adam and the Curse (Romans 7); therefore, perfection is a lofty goal but in practicality, not attainable while constrained by decaying flesh within the Realm of Time – BUT – we can attain the perfection and righteousness of Messiah imputed into and over our lives by grace (unmerited favor unattainable by human effort) through faith (trusting-believing) in Jesus as our Lord and Mediator for sin (2 Corinthians 5:21); it is Jesus and Him alone having been born of the hypostatic union (Philippians 2:8) and circumventing the sin-nature that permitted Him to observe the Law of Moses/the Decalogue in absolute perfection (Matthew 5:17) and thereby become our propitiation for sin; therefore, the one who trusts in Jesus as Lord receives Messiah’s perfection, just like that of the Father, imputed into and over their life; therefore, the one who trusts in Jesus is spiritually and positionally “right” before the Father, forever via a Covenant of Grace established in Messiah’s innocent blood (Luke 22:20). Perfection remains the goal in the Christian life as we walk in sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit and His tutelage; this, as the Spirit prepares us for service in the New Jerusalem (1 John 2:27).

Jewish legalist insults Christianity: “Christians live under a false Covenant.”

Christian response,

The New Covenant is the ONLY Covenant that provides life through atonement for sin (Matthew 26:28). The Covenant of Law only defined God’s mandates via ordinances yet was absent atonement (Romans 3:23); therefore, the Law only condemns the hearer who is a sinner (Romans 3:23) and unable to acquire atonement through works of the Law as the Law mandates perfection (Galatians 2:16; James 2:10).

If you reject the atonement for sin ONLY provided by faith in Jesus – Yeshua as your God and Mediator for sin (John 14:6; John 3:16-18), you will die in your sins and you will not enter the Kingdom of God (John 8:24) nor will you be named among the Jewish remnant in that Day (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27) but you will be exiled into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth…hopelessness.

Judaizer mocks Messiah’s suffering, death and resurrection: “Jesus died for your sin except He didn’t actually stay dead. So, what did He sacrifice, His weekend? Jesus gave up His weekend for your sins.”

Christian response,

Jesus’ shed blood makes atonement for your sin (Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 10; Matthew 26:28); Jesus died to defeat death and the grave for you and me through the resurrection as the First-fruits of those who will die in Jesus as Lord (Romans 6:9; 1 Corinthians 15:20-28) and find life in the resurrection patterned after His own death and resurrection (Philippians 3:21). The redeemed in Jesus Christ will live with Him forever in resurrected bodies in the New Jerusalem upon a New Earth within a New Heaven (Revelation 21-22); paradise lost will be paradise restored and this New Kingdom will be Physical not entirely Spiritual.

Atheist suggests atheism is absent faith: “A Christian poster claims it takes MORE faith to believe that universe popped into existence out of nothing than to believe God created it. Why is this poster wrong?”

A Christian poster’s response,

I am not incorrect. Commonsense, logic, reason, an unbiased summation, demands that our Universe has been created by intelligence far superior than ours and that intelligent creator is obviously not constrained by Time and physics; therefore, it requires infinitely more “faith” to believe that a “Big Bang” of unknown origin consisting of matter and energy of an unknown origin “popped” or exploded into existence our Universe and then a speck of that Universe was accidentally formed that somehow sustains the fragility of life constructed with a genome, the complexity of same being beyond human understanding; NASA and Harvard’s best are without explanation.

The atheist possesses tremendous faith, more than any Christian in the history of the faith-based New Covenant. The Big Bang, molecules to man evolution – abiogenesis; descent with modification; macroevolution – a fish becoming humanity through positive genomic mutation/speciation/adaptation…I simply lack the faith necessary to believe these things, especially seeing that our Creator has taken the due diligence to provide me a personal letter explaining, carefully articulating, my origin and purpose, my destiny, while carefully preserve that letter through history when mankind has gone to great length to destroy that letter; then, this same Creator entered the Realm of Time in flesh and demonstrated His power and dominion and authority among men.

I see no other plausible explanation for the supernatural Universe that consumes me through my senses other than a Supernatural God as its Creator. I choose to trust in this God who has introduced Himself as Jesus Christ and I completely reject the explanations provided by men with an agenda of narcissism, moral relativism, hedonism. As the antithesis of Atheism, I find a life of faith in Jesus Christ to be incredibly wholesome, joyful, peaceful, meaningful, replete with assurance and contentment; therefore, I cannot deny what I see with my eyes and know with my heart and have experienced through personal application of God’s Truth.