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Experience: (Jesus is LORD, Messiah) Husband of a beautiful wife (41-years and counting); Father of three-beautiful children and a handsome grandson Professional Experience: ---United States Marine Corps 1/1 - 0311 - NCO ---Retired 31-year veteran of the Houston Police Department (Uniformed Patrol/Motorcycle Officer/Commercial Helicopter Police Patrol Pilot ---Education: Master's Degree/University of Houston at Clear Lake

Atheistic obfuscation: “There is simply insufficient evidence for me to believe in God.” A rebuttal…

Atheistic obfuscation: “There is simply insufficient evidence for me to believe in God.” Is this true?

A Christian response…

Atheism is a ruse – a lie of the Devil. There are no true atheists but only those who deny what they intuitively know to be Truth i.e. our Creator and His reality because the “unbeliever” seeks to defer-negate a guilty conscience and pursue their aberrant lust, narcissism, moral relativism, void the moral law of God written upon their heart at conception which convicts them of their immorality as they love their genitalia more than Truth and moral absolutes (Romans 1:18-32).

“There are honest doubters and dishonest doubters. An honest doubter is willing to search out the truth and live by the results; a dishonest doubter doesn’t want to know the truth. He can’t find God for the same reason a thief can’t find a policeman.” Adrian Rogers

Three-forms of evidence validating our Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua…

1) Nature

2) The Incarnation of God in Time

3) The Written Covenant between God and Mankind

1) Empirical – Preliminary – Substantive – Observable Evidence = Nature

The Universe, encompassing the Sun-Moon-Stars-Earth, descending downward to the complex human genome (life), all provide empirical, preliminary, substantive, observable, evidence for design in Nature and therefore mandate a Designer (Isaiah 66:1; Acts 7:49).

The Holy Spirit has clearly articulated that anyone who denies these empirical, supernatural, inexplicable, forms of Nature as testimony relevant to our Creator’s validity will be “without excuse” when they stand in the Judgment before Jesus Christ-Yeshua in Eternity (Romans 1:18-32; Revelation 20:11-15). It is the preliminary evidence of Nature that confronts mankind daily/nightly and is so designed as to draw all men and women to seek knowledge of God and find life in His Name, Jesus Christ-Yeshua.

God has so uniquely created and ordained Nature as testimony and evidence relevant to Himself that He has nullified mankind’s ability to define origin of matter or understand the supernatural Universe He has placed before us (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Origin of matter will, until the end of Time, remain a mystery to mankind as man is cognitively constrained by Time and The Curse; all that is visible and invisible to the human eye in Nature was established, created, by elements from the invisible Spiritual World; therefore, the genesis of our Creation will forever remain an enigma, a mystery, to the mind of man. Anyone seeking Truth, void a personal bias against the validity of our Creator, can easily apprehend and discern the supernatural design of creation mandating a supernatural Creator.

“By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.” Hebrews 11:3 (NASB)

“He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NASB)

2) The Incarnate, Living Word of God, Jesus Christ-Yeshua

There exists no greater or more popular historical figure than Jesus Christ-Yeshua. The Atheist who rejects the historicity of Jesus simply rejects the overwhelming evidence for His validity readily accessible-available in Biblical and extra-Biblical as well as non-Christian, archeological, sources.

Our Creator did not leave His Human creation to wonder or ponder about the one-true-God and His Plan and purposes for Time and Eternity, but God left the Spiritual Realm some 2019-years ago, He divided history, and entered the Realm of Time in the flesh through a virgin birth that was essential to establish Him as Messiah who would selflessly give Himself to save mankind from death in sin and death in Hell (Philippians 2:5-11; Matthew 1:23).

During the 33.5-years of His Earthly sojourn, Jesus fulfilled over 300-Messianic prophecies as articulated in the Covenant of Law extending from the Genesis to The Book of Malachi. The statistical chances of

1 person fulfilling 8 prophecies: 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000;

1 person fulfilling 48 prophecies: 1 chance in 10 to the 157th power;

1 person fulfilling 300+ prophecies: Only Jesus!

In the Gospel of John, Chapter 14 v. 6, Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”

Anyone contemplating the Deity of Jesus Christ in light of the previous Scripture (John 14:6) must come to ONE of only three-conclusions concerning Jesus Christ. Jesus is either a…

1. liar.

2. lunatic.

3. Lord

Every human being born subsequent to 33-AD and having attained an age of reason with sufficient cognitive acuity to discern the moral law as written upon our heart by our Creator (Romans 2:15) will have to choose between these three-options seeing that their eternal destiny will depend solely upon which option they choose.

3) The written word of God, the Holy Bible

God the Father has not only provided Nature/the Universe and the Son, Jesus Christ-Yeshua as testimony of His validity, power, dominion, but God has also provided a written “Covenant of Grace” (Matthew 26:28) to His human creation through the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit meticulously, supernaturally, moved through the inner-man of 40-men of antiquity, holy men set-apart specifically for the purpose of penning on parchment the Plan and purposes of our Creator; a journey of 1400-to-1600-years, three-continents, three-languages, explaining in detail our origin, our purpose and meaning, God’s moral law and God’s Plan for the destiny of Time and Eternity.

For those who scoff at the integrity of God’s written word and thereby call the Holy Spirit a liar, understand that the very same Creator who initiated visible matter from the unseen Spiritual World and used same to create this vast supernatural Universe and gave you the breath of life, this very same Creator is abundantly capable and qualified to provide you and provide me with the EXACT words He desires we have so that we can know Him, His Plan and purposes for Time and our individual lives. Irrespective of councils of men and theologians, critics, scholars, all of the efforts of men concerning advocating for or disparaging the Holy Scriptures, know that the Bible remains the best-selling Book in History and that God’s word will NEVER fade away (Matthew 24:35).

Conclusion

Our Creator has provided Human KIND with three-undeniable-forms of evidence relevant to His validity, reality, power, dominion, Deity…

1) Nature.

2) Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Living Word of God.

3) A written covenant, the Holy Scriptures.

Anyone who desires to know God intimately, personally, will find Him and enter into a relationship with Him if they will seek Him with their whole heart…He will be found by them (Jeremiah 29:11-13). God will NOT entertain or commune with a heart that does not truly desire to know Him but He is faithful to make His abode with anyone willing to come to Him in faith and believe that He is true.

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV)

Jesus - Romans 1 18-32

Atheist logic: Christians know nothing with certainty, they only have faith – a response…

Atheist logic – Christian Response: “What do you know? How do you know it? These two questions form the foundation of scientific inquiry. They have worked well in creating the world that we live in today. Now, let’s apply them to Christianity? What do Christians know? Do Christians know that Jesus is the Son of God? No. Do they know that heaven or hell exists? No. Do they know that Jesus answers prayers? No. Do they know that the Devil is more than a literary character? No. Do they know that Jesus is coming back one day? No. How do you know? Do Christians know what has been written about Jesus in the Bible is factually true? No. Bottom line: Christians don’t know anything. They have faith, but faith is not a virtue!”

Christian response…

I knew very little concerning our Creator, origin, meaning, morality, our destiny, until subsequent an initial read of the Covenant of Grace as provided by the Holy Spirit in the New Testament of the Holy Scriptures. During that initial read, a transformation manifest in my life – a transformation that human words cannot adequately express but this I do know, though I was blind and ignorant of God and His will, now, by the power and tutelage of the indwelling Holy Spirit, I understand God, I know Him personally and I am assured of who, what, where, when, why and how, concerning our origin, meaning of life, morality, destiny; pure and assured knowledge of these mysteries is only possible by entering into a personal relationship with God the Father by grace (unmerited favor) through faith (believing-trusting) in Jesus Christ as Lord and thereby receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit who walks you, daily, in the process of sanctification and teaches you about all things concerning this life constrained by Time and the life to come in Eternity.

jesus - holy spirit will guide you in truth

Why do Atheists argue with Christians – a discussion…

Premise concerning Atheism posited on FB: “The REAL reason why atheists want to argue all the time, they distract us from doing what we were told to do.” (Referencing the Great Commission)

A Christian response…

The real reason atheists argue with Christians is due to their beleaguered conscience and the truism that the atheist knows their ideology is a myth-a lie rooted in the demonic as atheism is a ruse/obfuscation for the sexually perverse, the moral relativist, the nihilist, naturalist, the baby mutilator-abortionist advocate, seeking to temper a guilty conscience while intuitively knowing that our Creator exists and that He has dominion and authority over the self-deceived atheist (Romans 1:18-32).

Atheists are tragically crippled psychologically, spiritually, so know that when you communicate as a Christian with an atheist, you’re dealing with an emissary of Satan as well as an untenable psychosis that is rooted in the demonic as the atheist is spiritually-dead and existing without hope.

Jesus - dead in trespasses and sin

Atheistic inquiry: “Why is it always the African Christians that are the most brainwashed?”

Atheistic inquiry: “Why is it always the African Christians that are the most brainwashed?”

Response to the atheist…

Because the African Christian’s have been overwhelming proselytized via Pentecostalism-Charismata which is a fanatical, pagan, cultic, aberration of true Christianity teaching the false doctrine of speaking in an unknown tongue (ecstatic utterances) and insisting that one cannot be saved without speaking in tongues; this, while also promulgating a false gospel generally referred to as the “Health-Wealth-Prosperity Gospel” or the “Name-it-and-claim-it-Gospel” where one is taught the heresy that our words command power and we have the authority as mere men to dictate to God what we want, when we want it and how we want it. In this false gospel, God the Father is likened to a heavenly Santa Clause who is beholden to mankind and must attend to man’s wants and desires. It’s all demonically oriented and initiated.

It is the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that points mankind to life with God the Father by grace through faith in Jesus, alone. It is only by repenting of sin and believing-trusting in Jesus Christ as Lord for the mediation of sin that one finds forgiveness of sin and life in Eternity (John 3:16; John 14:6).

jesus - false teachers for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine

Atheist logic: Believing the Bible makes you a Christian; Comprehending it makes you an atheist…a response…

Atheist logic: “Believing the bible makes you a Christian. Comprehending it makes you an atheist…”

Response to the atheist…

That is a lie of the Devil who is the spiritual father of the atheist. I know from experiential relevance that my first read through the New Testament some 27-years ago radically changed my life forever as I was convinced that Jesus Christ-Yeshua is God who died to pay my sin-debt (2 Timothy 2:15; 2 Timothy 3:15).

Discussion…

The reason the atheist does not comprehend the Scriptures is due to a deceived heart that does not desire to believe (Hebrews 11:6) because the atheist is either blinded by their spiritual father, Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4), or they are completely engrossed, obsessed, with their life of sexual perversion, debauchery, narcissism, hedonism, rebellion, that they make them self a dishonest doubter (Ephesians 2:1-10) – or – the atheist has existed and persisted for so long as an enemy of God and an emissary of Satan that the Holy Spirit has given said atheist over to believe “the lie” and internalize a “debased” or “depraved” mind and their journey to spiritual truth and life with God the Father in Eternity is in desperate peril (Romans 1:18-32). The longer the atheist lives in rebellion-rejection to God’s Truth, the more distant is the pathway to life in Eternity by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord as the Holy Spirit’s call upon one’s life grows increasingly faint with each passing day lived in atheistic foolishness (Ephesians 4:17-19).

Conclusion...

The Holy Spirit has clearly articulated the truism that the atheist-nihilist-naturalist-moral relativist is a “fool” – a liar – “without excuse” (Romans 1:18-32). There is nothing more that need be said about the subject of depravity, self-deception, futility and death that is “atheism.” There is nothing honorable or sustainable about a life lived in atheism – it’s an existence that culminates in death in sin as well as futility and meaninglessness in Eternity (John 8:24; Matthew 16:26)

Truth…

“There are honest doubters and dishonest doubters. An honest doubter is willing to search out the truth and live by the results; a dishonest doubter doesn’t want to know the truth. He can’t find God for the same reason a thief can’t find a policeman.” Adrian Rogers

jesus - spiritually dead man

Atheists Logic: God is just a “concept.” A response…

Atheist logic: “What is God? God is a thought, concept, idea, or metaphor. But that was not good enough for mankind, because in order to worship God, they had to bring God to life. A manufactured delusion that served man’s emotional needs. Genesis got it wrong when it said that God breathed life into Adam and Eve to bring them to life. It was rather mankind who breathed life into God that brought Him to life.”

Christian response to the atheist…

Anyone who is not deceived and blinded by Satan and their obsessions with aberrant lust and their genitalia; anyone possessing a modicum of commonsense, logic, reason, can stare at a clear night sky and discern design and the necessity for a designer (2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 2:1-10).

It is the honest and sincere person that will seek to know the Designer of the Universe and when they seek Him with their whole heart they will ultimately discover that Christianity is the only coherent worldview with corresponding truth that defines origin-meaning-morality-destiny and directly answers with logical consistency, empirical adequacy, experiential relevance. There is ONE God and ONE Mediator for sin, Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:4; Jeremiah 29:11-13; 1 Timothy 2:5-6).

The Holy Spirit has clearly articulated (MEME) that the unbeliever-the atheist, is a liar, a “fool” and “without excuse” (Romans 1:18-32). Please don’t live and die as “the fool” of Time and Eternity i.e. an atheist (Psalm 14:1; Proverbs 1:7 & 9:10)

Jesus - Romans 1 18-32

Why fight for the Lord Jesus Christ in a fallen and dying World?

Rational and theological question – a reminder to the faithful in Jesus Christ: “Why tell this lost and dying World about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ when our Lord has clearly articulated the truism that “many” will choose to die in their sin and die in Hell? Why care and endeavor to speak Truth to those who are volitionally blind, deaf, dumb, concerning spiritual Truth?”

Jesus Christ said…

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.” Matthew 7:13-14 (NASB)

Discussion…

It matters not that an overwhelming number of human-kind have and will choose to die in sin and Hell by rejecting the grace and mercy of God the Father via the Son, Jesus Christ, who suffered and died to pay the sin-debt of mankind and offer all men and women a pardon from death in Hell by believing that Jesus is God who died to pay their sin-debt (Romans 10:9-10; John 3:36). What does matter and that which is most relevant is the Christian’s obedience to God’s command to go and tell and warn.

Jesus commanded…

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-19 (NASB)

The Apostle Paul admonishes the faithful…

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 15:58 (NASB)

For the Christian, it’s important to remember that we’re in the midst of a pervasive spiritual war that was initiated in Eternity before the creation of Time and placed upon the Earth to be dealt with here apart from the Kingdom (Genesis 3:14-15); therefore, it is most relevant that we understand the truism that every person born into Time has been given a unique opportunity to come along side our Creator and ally with Him as a faithful soldier in this cosmic war between good v. evil, righteousness v. iniquity, Truth v. the lie.

It is important to remember that the atheist-nihilist-moral relativist has been deceived, captured by an enemy possessing great cunning and influence and he has used man’s base-nature to deceive and capture the hearts and minds of countless billions over the previous 6000-years of mankind’s existence in Time; therefore, continue to shout Light and Truth into the darkness and stand boldly for the merciful and gracious God who gave His all so that we could live with Him forever!

jesus - who will go for me saith the LORD

Atheist suggests God’s omnipotence negates free will…does it?

Atheistic confusion: “…if God is omnipotent doesn’t that mean that free will is nonexistent?”

Christian response…

Omnipotence has little to no correlation with free will concerning the angels or mankind. Generally, the atheist is adamant that God’s “omniscience” negates free will but as in most things in this life concerning wisdom and logic and truth, the atheist is incorrect.

Our Creator, Jesus Christ, has infused free will in both His angelic and human creation in order that love and relationship with Him can manifest in purity and authenticity. For some reason, God the Father desires relationship, true and loving relationship with His created beings; therefore, in order for love to manifest in purity and authenticity, one must possess the capacity to hate. In order for relationship to exist in purity, one must possess the free will to reject that relationship. In order for one to choose to do “good”…that person must possess the capacity to choose evil. If we’re programmed to act or think or respond in a predisposed-predestined manner, our actions-decisions and emotions are robotic and thus impotent and useless for God’s purposes.

I know my wife of 34-yrs with intimacy as I do both of my children. I can predict their decisions relevant to almost every choice they will make in this life. My ability via intimacy to know my wife’s or my children’s choices before they make them does NOT negate their free will to make those choices. God knows each of us intimately; in fact, He knows our thoughts before we think them (Psalm 139:2) but this omniscience does not negate our free will. God simply maneuvers through and around our decisions to accomplish His perfect will, His perfect Plan, which is immutable (Malachi 3:6).

God the Father desires that all men and women be saved and come to a knowledge of the Truth (1 Timothy 2:3-4) but He knows that “many” will reject Jesus Christ as Lord and die in sin (Matthew 7:13-14) but this knowledge does not negate our free will to choose to die in sin and Hell and God is faithful to allow our free will to reign supreme even if it means our own self-destruction by rejecting Jesus Christ as Lord for the mediation of our sin (John 3:16; John 8:24).

Atheist mocks God’s Marriage Covenant

Atheist logic – sexual intercourse: “A Christian friend of mine told me today that having sex with someone when you are not married to them is a sin. I asked her why it was sin, but she was hard-pressed to tell me. To think that the creator of the universe that made billions of planets and stars is concerned about a marriage contract between sexually active couples is absurd. It makes the Christian God small-minded, petty, and vindictive. I, for one, do not believe in sin.”

Response to the atheist…

God the Son, Jesus Christ, created them male and female in the The Beginning and provided a “Covenant of Marriage” as a bulwark for holiness and protection for the woman and the man as sexual intercourse is much more involved than a simple physical act (Genesis 2:24; Mark 10:6-9). When one engages in sexual intercourse, there are cells, emotions, neurotransmitters that are affected for life and the person with whom one engages in sexual intercourse become “one” with that person for eternity.

‘Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says,’ “THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.” 1 Corinthians 6:16 (NASB)

God the Son, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, created them male and female to be joined together in the protective bonds of the Marriage Covenant, one-man/one-woman becoming one-flesh for life. The only permissible exceptions to the Marriage Covenant i.e. divorce, is adultery – unfaithfulness (abuse), death of a spouse.

1) If one engages in sexual intercourse before marriage it is fornication and will be judged as sin in Eternity lest the participants repent and turn to Jesus Christ as Mediator for their sin (1 Corinthians 7:2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11).

2) If a married individual engages in sexual intercourse with or lusts after another who is not their spouse, it is adultery and will be judged as same in Eternity lest the culpable party sincerely repents and seeks forgiveness by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord (Matthew 5:31-32; Exodus 20:14; Matthew 19:9; Leviticus 20:10; Proverbs 6:32).

3) If a married couple divorces for any reason other than adultery-abuse and remarries, they commit adultery and cause the individual they marry to commit adultery. All parties are guilty of adultery and will be judged for same in Eternity lest they repent and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord for the remission of sin (Matthew 5:32; Matthew 19:9; Jeremiah 3:1).

4) If a same-sex couple engages in sexual intercourse, anal intercourse, oral copulation, they have committed sexual sin before our Creator, a defilement of the Covenant of Marriage between one-man and one-woman becoming one-flesh for life. The homosexual or the lesbian will die in sexual sin lest they repent of their sin and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord for the remission of sin and salvation for their soul (1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Romans 1:18-32; 1 Timothy 1:10; 1 Corinthians 10:8; Ephesians 5:5; Hebrews 13:1-25).

Conclusion…

God has given the Marriage Covenant as protection-stability for the male and female and the family unit – the bedrock of any society; God has given the Marriage Covenant to ensure stability and holiness before our Lord and only death, adultery-abuse mitigate the immutability of God’s Covenant of Marriage.

male and female

Atheist logic: “Morality is an order. Ethics come from within. F–k Morality.” A response…

Atheist logic: “Morality is an order. Ethics come from within. F–k Morality.”

Christian response…

Morality is provided mankind at conception in the womb by our Creator who has ensured His edicts are etched upon our heart…

1) …to protect the human species from self-destruction in unrestrained narcissism…

2) …to ensure that judgment in Eternity manifests with equity and due process.

God’s law is written upon our heart at conception and even if a man or woman never glances at God’s words via the Scriptures, they intuitively know God’s righteous decrees upon their life and they will be “without excuse” when they stand in the Judgment in Eternity.

It is man in his narcissism, atheism, nihilism, naturalism and aberrant lust that relativizes morality and makes himself a god and ultimately serves Satan in moral relativism culminating in death in sin and death in Hell (Romans 8:24). Without Jesus Christ as Lord to mediate your sin, there is only hopelessness and futility in both Time and Eternity (Matthew 16:26).

Rick Holtsclaw