Atheist mocks God and Hell: “I love my Creation so much that I’m sending several billions of those made in my image to hell for not believing in my invisible self. if that was me, I could have said I was making excuses for just liking to see them in pain.”

Response to the Atheist…

Hell was NOT created for mankind but for Satan, the angles that followed Satan in his rebellion along with the False Prophet and The Beast. Mankind will enter Hell by choice. Mankind will enter Hell by first climbing directly over the Cross of Jesus Christ who died to provide you a pardon from death in sin and death in Hell (John 3:16).

Hell is an unfortunate repository for those who refuse to repent of sin and find atonement and redemption in Jesus Christ as Lord (John 3:36); Hell is necessary because God the Father is NOT going to permit your destructive sin to enter His Kingdom subsequent to the death of your body in Time (Revelation 21:27).

You can deal with your sin during the Age of Grace and find life by trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord for the mediation of sin or you will deal with your sin at the Judgment of the Condemned and die the “second death” in Hell…the choice is yours to make (Revelation 20:11-15)!

Atheist blasphemes God the Father: “There is no greater love than this? I disagree. God did not get the Father of the Year Award when he allowed his son to be crucified. No good Father permits his son to be sacrificed and in a time of dire need forsakes him as the Bible says God did to Jesus. God obviously did not have the much-lauded family values that Christians talk about, because if he did, he never would have allowed his son to suffer so much. Jesus was abused by his Father, rejected by his Father, and sentenced to die by his Father, so I ask you What kind of loving Father is that?”

Response to the Atheist…

Mark, please? Mark, do you understand the theological ramifications of the term Hypostasis or the Hypostatic Union as it relates to our Triune God?

1) n hypostasis That which underlies something else; that which forms the basis of something; foundation; support.

2) n hypostasis In theology, a person of the Trinity; one of the three real and distinct subsistences in the one undivided substance or essence of God. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Mark, as you unfortunately die daily in your sin within your spiritual prison of Naturalism, you don’t understand the divine nature of Messiah-Yeshua and His relationship, His oneness with the Father. The Father did not give the Son, in biological terms, to humanity but the Father Himself gave Himself in the Son…the Son is not a biological son of the Father but the Son is the EXACT-PERFECT image of the Father having manifest in flesh in order to complete His primary purpose for having created Time, the Universe, the human genome; that is, to “destroy the works of the Devil.”

It is written…

“…the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.” 1 John 3:8 (NASB)

Mark, you mock our God, His love for you, His sacrifice for you, in your lack of knowledge and Mark, it is a difficult thing to watch as you are running headlong into Hell in subservience to your spiritual father, Satan; this, in complete naivete (John 8:44). Mark, God the Father suffered in agony as the Son suffered in agony as He suffocated to death during the horrors of Roman crucifixion. The Spirit suffered in this horror as it is the Spirit that consumed Messiah and worked through Him. Even nature grimaced at the sight of its Creator screaming in agony; nature itself vomited-out the dead in response to our Creator’s unconscionable suffering.

Mark, please understand the differentiation between what you understand as a biological offspring compared to the hypostatic union of Father, Son, Spirit. These identifiers, these theological Nouns are given you for understanding because you and I are cognitively constrained by Time and The Curse of Sin. In our humanity, we cannot fully comprehend a God that is omnipresent-omnipotent-omniscient, but God, in His mercy, presents Himself to humanity in a Trinity that exemplifies and defines these attributes in a simplistic format for our edification; this, because God desires relationship with you.

Mark, as one who loves Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I plead with you to study the word of God and come to know the Word of God, Jesus Christ, and find life in His precious Name (John 1). Mark, please don’t die in your sin (John 8:24).

Theological conundrum? “To Armenians: God orchestrates everything. To Calvinists: God manipulates nothing.”

A Christian response…

God’s Plan concerning Time and Eternity is immutable, the process by which that Plan attains fruition is fluid. God has so decreed that His created beings, both angelic and human, possess free will in order that love and relationship with Him can manifest in purity and authenticity. God, in His omnipotence, works through and around our personal choices to accomplish His perfect will. This is essential for judgment in Eternity to manifest with equity with due process. It matters NOT what Armenians or Calvinists or any man or woman has said or believes…the only Truth that is relevant and eternal is what the Holy Spirit has revealed.

Theological question posited on FB: “Please explain Genesis 3:14?”

Genesis 3:14-15 NKJV

So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”

Explanation…

Genesis 3:14-15 is the articulation of the struggle that was initiated in the Kingdom when Lucifer initiated a coup d’état that was causation for our Creation. It was Lucifer’s coup and Lucifer’s enticement of the angels to follow him in that coup that initiated God the Father commissioning of the Son, Jesus Christ, to take elements from the Spiritual Realm and form them into matter that can be apprehended by life constrained by Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3; John 3:35; Colossians 1:15-18; John 1; Genesis 1).

God the Father then extricated Lucifer and the rebellious angels from the Kingdom and placed him upon the Earth in Eden (Ezekiel 28:11-17). Lucifer was given access to mankind and was successful in introducing evil/sin into the Realm of Time. This is the initiator of Genesis 3:14-15 where Elohim prophesied that Lucifer would ultimately be defeated by One who would enter the World through the seed of the woman (virgin) and that this Anointed One would crush Lucifer’s head and Lucifer would bruise the Anointed One’s heal. This prophecy was fulfilled at the Crucifixion as Messiah defeated death, Hell, the grave and Satan.

In 1 John 3:8, we see that the Son of God entered Time specifically to defeat the works of Lucifer/the Devil. In Genesis 3:21, God provides a word picture explaining that He Himself would pay for sin through the shedding of innocent blood and that God Himself would clothe mankind in God’s righteousness not by man’s righteousness i.e. the fig leaves.

Genesis 3:14-15 is the introduction of why God created and God’s Plan to deal with sin and rebellion introduced initially by Lucifer in the Kingdom.