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Let’s be honest…Atheism is unadulterated S-T-U-P-I-D-T-Y!!! Logically, how can anyone possessing sufficient cognitive acuity to feed them self, walk, talk, and discern the environment around them, the supernatural Universe and Earth that surrounds them, the complex genome that defines them, truly and honestly believe that these things manifest from a naturalistic origin? That is not only illogical but irrational and could also be defined as a mental illness or inability to discern reality. The Universe, the Earth, our complex genome, are irrefutably beacons of unfathomable design necessitating a divine and omnipotent Designer…there is no other plausible explanation.
It is NOT possible that anyone who can walk, talk, think, communicate, with efficiency and clarity truly believe that our World and our complex genome are the products of happen-chance…NO WAY!!! If you profess yourself an atheist, you’re either a bold face liar, you’re existing in self-deception or you’re simply mentally ill and spiritually demonic at the core. You might reject Elohim, Jesus, as Creator of our World and our flesh, you might scoff at the Canon and its Creation Narrative, but to actually profess or believe that the World and our genome are the products of naturalism is insanity defined and I have absolutely ZERO respect for your arrogance and idiocy. You are offensive!
To those who mock the Church, faith, and espouse “universal salvation” and “predestination”….
Enoch, Noah, Abraham, were all Gentiles representing only a few of an untold number saved by “faith,” alone, long before the advent of Jacob and his 12-tribes known as Israel. Nothing, concerning the path to righteousness with Elohim, has changed and nothing Israel accomplished changed the fact that Elohim honors “faith,” not works or law or self-righteousness concerning righteousness with Him. Hebrews 11
Jesus’ primary mission,
Jesus’ primary reason for entering the Realm of Time was “to destroy the works of the Devil” at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b) via a battle strategy known as “The Gospel of Grace” (New Covenant) which was ordained “before Time began” 2 Timothy 1:8-10) and that divine battle strategy was first pictured for us by Elohim in Eden (Genesis 3:21).
The essential nature of “faith,”
Mankind has always found “righteousness” (a right standing) with Elohim by “faith” and this includes those of the Adamic and Noahic generations as well as those under the “Law Covenant” and “Blood Sacrifices” as it was not the Law or the blood of animals that engendered covenant relationship with Elohim but it was the one who expressed “faith” in what Elohim had promised (Hebrews 11).
Jesus’ implications concerning our justification/righteousness before the Father via the imputation (2 Corinthians 5:21) is relevant for the Kingdom; that is, no human being born of Adam’s seed (Romans 5:12), irrespective of their saving faith, could enter the Kingdom of Elohim void atonement for sin as “nothing impure will ever enter therein” (Revelation 21:27) and it was Jesus’ faithfulness at Golgotha, His shed blood, that fulfilled the mandates of Leviticus 17:11 and Jesus thereby became “The Door” to the Kingdom for all who “believe” (John 10:9-16; John 3); hence, the need for the temporary spiritual abode of Sheol/Hades-Paradise (Luke 16) where faithful Saints of faith were interned awaiting Messiah’s acceptable atonement before accessing the Kingdom.
Role of the Church,
The Church was never meant to be a substitute for one’s personal responsibility to STUDY Elohim’s written words and show themselves approved as a worker and servant of Elohim (1 Timothy 2:15) but the Church is a place of gathering, comfort, learning, sharing, a community, that believers in Jesus are commanded to not neglect their responsibility to gather together and encourage one another as Messiah’s 2nd-Advent approaches (Hebrews 10:25).
In closing,concerning universal salvation and predestination,
Only a relatively “few” will be saved from the “second death” in Hell (Matthew 7:13-14; Revelation 20:11-15) as per our Messiah Jesus. The heresy of “Universal Salvation” and Calvin’s “Predestination” are works of Satan among the theologically arrogant and those lacking knowledge of Elohim’s eschatological imperatives and the essential nature of “free will” among both the angelic and human creations.
A warning to the Jew/Israelite who believes heritage or genealogy ensures their salvation from death in Hell apart from faith in Messiah…
The Gospel message was foreordained to be taught to Jacob’s children to whom Messiah came specifically (Matthew 15:24) but Jacob’s children rejected both Messiah and the Gospel (Matthew 23:37) and consequently thwarted their ordination as ministers of the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20); therefore, the Gospel, the Great Commission, were given to the Gentiles until the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom (Romans 11:25; Acts 13:46). The Jew/Israelite finds this truism offensive but Elohim is not concerned about your feelings or your opinions.
The New Covenant, as established in Messiah’s blood at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28), was taken from the Jew/Israelite and given to the Gentile and the Gentile remains in custody of the New Covenant this very day while Israel’s children overwhelmingly exist in Judaism (a works religion)-Atheism-Apostasy-unbelief and are blindly and obstinately seeking death in Hell due their rejection of Messiah Jesus; for this reason, only a “remnant” of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in Hell (Revelation 20:11-15) and that redeemed Jewish/Israeli remnant is primarily represented by Tribulation survivors proselytized by the 144,000 faithful Jewish witnesses as documented in Revelation 7 (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27).
If water baptism is not an element of salvation, why did Jesus command it?
Jesus commands that His faithful be baptized as this is integral with the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20) and the Great Commission is the teaching and preaching to the World concerning the power of the Gospel to save through faith in Messiah Jesus; therefore, water baptism is an outward demonstration to a lost and perishing World of the regeneration possible by faith in Jesus as Messiah; water baptism is a picture, an outward demonstration, of the death, burial and resurrection of Messiah…a concise yet powerful public demonstration of the Gospel message; for this reason, entering baptismal waters should be one of the first acts of obedience for anyone who has received the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with Elohim subsequent professing faith in Jesus as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14).
Is it possible to be saved from the “second death” in Hell through faith in Jesus, alone, yet NOT enter baptismal waters as commanded by Messiah?
Yes… but with a caveat; that is, water does not purify the soul from sin and Jesus’ blood atonement is more than sufficient to save by faith but why would anyone who truly loves Jesus and honors Him by faith as Messiah not obey His command to be baptized as He was?
If one is truly born again by the Spirit and the Holy Spirit indwells them and arbitrates their conscience in all moral discernment, daily; this, as they venture through life in daily sanctification, how can the redeemed conscience of the truly faithful be clear and honorable if they do NOT obey this most simple command?
I personally feel that if one professes they’re saved by faith in Jesus yet they “refuse” to enter baptismal waters as clearly commanded (Matthew 28:16-20), perhaps their faith is NOT legitimate?
Obedience to the Father, Son and Spirit is a hallmark sign of authentic faith and personal relationship. We don’t enter baptismal waters to be saved or to supplement the sufficiency of Jesus to save us by faith but we enter baptismal waters BECAUSE we ARE saved and our heart’s desire is to honor the will of our beloved Messiah and NOT grieve the Holy Spirit within us.
How can one walk in daily intimacy and joy and peace with our Lord and Savior yet not obey His will for our life? Is that even possible?
Why do Atheists possess greater FAITH and BELIEF than the Christian?
Atheist, you do “believe” that there is no Creator; therefore, you do “believe” absent natural and Scriptural evidence to the contrary. You can’t have it both ways; therefore, you “believe” and express incredible “faith” that all of Nature emanated from a naturalistic origin which is a much “greater” faith than that of the Christian who “believes” that Elohim (Genesis 1:1) is Creator yet you have NO evidence of a Naturalist Origin yet Elohim has expressed and articulated clearly the who, what, where, when, why, concerning the creation narrative and He has provided eschatology, fulfilled prophecy, that under girds His ownership of said creation narrative. Atheism is a “religion” of unbelief in a god or a creator and this “unbelief” is a “belief” in a naturalist origin of all things which is an expression of unfathomable “faith.” Atheism is kin to Secular Humanism-Darwinism where you worship and serve that which has been created rather than the Creator (Romans 1:18-32).
Does the Noahic Flood negate the reality of “free will?” The atheist says yes. What is the Truth?
The Noahic Flood manifest due the wickedness of the very seed that flows through your DNA as an atheist; both the Adamic and Noahic generations thwarted their ordination as progenitors of the Messiah (Genesis 3:15) by freely choosing compromise with the demonic, the sacrificing of their posterity to pagan gods, sexual defilement (Genesis 6:5; Romans 1:18-32); therefore, Elohim annihilated all but eight by water and began anew with Noah and his family, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (AKA Israel), Judah, Yeshua.
The true tragedy is…you do NOT understand that our entire creation is predicated upon WAR and we are in the midst of a most horrific WAR of cosmic proportions and you have been uniquely selected as a valid participant in that WAR and your sole purpose in this temporary life is to “choose” whom you will serve and act upon that free will choice. Elohim, our Creator, desires that you “choose” life in His Messiah who entered Time for the specific purpose of “destroying the work of Satan” (John 6:29; 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 John 3:8b).
Concerning calls for “unification” between Republicans and Democrat-Progressives…
Subsequent the assassination attempt on President Trump, there is a call for unification and a “coming together” between Conservatives and Liberals; Republicans and Democrat-Progressives; Christianity and Atheism; Faith and Secularism.
For the record, Light and darkness cannot coexist; Good and evil will not mingle; Life and death are antithetical and it is not possible that a Conservative unify with a Liberal or a true Republican come to terms with a Democrat-Progressive or a Christian ally with an Atheist/Secular Humanist nor more than Faith can compromise with Secularism; therefore, America’s fracture and divide has but one solution, a second civil war where Republicans, once again, nullify the demonic agenda of the Democrat-Progressive.
A Political Party, an ideology, that is based in, founded upon, the murder of babies in the womb; the celebration of unconscionable sexual perversion via LGBTQAI++ spiritual illness; open borders destroying the sovereignty of America and the safety of Her citizenry, a Political Party that worships the creation and express hatred for the Creator, this Political Party is NOT sustainable in a Constitutional Republic; therefore, it cannot be allowed to exist and rule in tyranny nor can those who love America coexist with those who seek to destroy Her. Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Atheists-Secular Humanists are horrible people and they have no place in a Land founded for the free and the brave and the worshipers of Jesus Christ to His glory, forever.
Why did Elohim create a rebellious cherub angel that would rebel against Him and why does Elohim expect humanity to handle Satan when Elohim has apparently failed to do so Himself?
Discussion,
Elohim is handling Satan through a divine eschatological plan that is essential for Elohim’s continuing intimacy with the two-thirds of the angelic creation that remained faithful to Him during the Great Kingdom War…a War that was extricated from the Kingdom and placed upon a created temporary entity known as the Earth which is constrained by Time and physics (Revelation 12:7-10; Ezekiel 28:11-19; Isaiah 14:12-17).
Elohim’s eschatological plan concerning Satan necessitates a tactful strategy that ensures continued intimate relationship with the faithful angelic creation that Elohim adores beyond human understanding. This battle strategy is also relevant as a bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom, a divine deterrent, where free will remains extant by necessity.
Elohim is dealing with Satan this very moment and He ultimately defeated the rebellious cherub at Golgotha via Messiah via self-less love; a spiritual war first declared in Genesis 3:15 and a battle strategy first pictured in Genesis 3:21, the Gospel of Grace.
Jesus is victorious over Satan (Revelation 5:5) as this is the primary reason Jesus entered the Realm of Time (1 John 3:8b); that is, “to destroy the works of the Devil” via a battle strategy known as the Gospel which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
Had Satan not rebelled, there would be absolutely no reason for Elohim’s creation narrative (Genesis 1) and His striving with a rebellious and defiled and unfaithful human kind (Genesis 6:5).
Our entire existence within the Realm of Time finds its meaning and its reasoning as participants, warriors, in the Great Kingdom War that rages around us and through us daily and our eternal destiny is wholly contingent upon whom we freely “choose” to ally with; Jesus by faith in victory or Satan by default in unbelief.
The human conscience and free will – controlled by random atomic particulates, matter or a divine gifting?
Free will – your choices is/are governed by your conscience that is given you by your Creator for His eschatological purposes in Time and in Eternity. You possess a moral foundation, a spiritual law, written upon your heart beginning with Day-6 as you are created in the spiritual image of your Creator (Genesis 1:26-28) thereby possessing certain divine communicable attributes of your Creator, one such attribute being the natural-spiritual law present within you, a spiritual law that is arbitrated by your conscience and not random atomic particles.
Your conscience, subsequent to being ignored repetitiously by human free will motivated by aberrant lust, narcissism, hedonism, selfishness…grows progressively “seared” and “numb” to divine Truth and over time it is this perverse conscience that is given-over to aberrant lust and behaviors that dishonor the individual and the society in which they serve ultimately culminating in the death of the soul, mind, body, in Hell (Revelation 20:11-15).
The Holy Spirit articulates this progressive weakening of the seared conscience and the natural resultant of prolonged disobedience to Elohim’s will (John 6:29, Atheism-Secular Humanism) in Paul’s letter to the Church at Rome, Chapter One.
