A Christian’s warning to the Jew, the Israelite, seeking eternal life through the Torah/Tanakh.

Sin is violating God’s moral law…that law having been extant from the creation of the angels as LAW is the arbiter of free will. Unrepentant/unatoned for sin will not be permitted to enter the Kingdom of God as God is Holy and sin’s destructive nature will not find acceptance in His presence (Revelation 21:27). The Torah/Tanakh only defines sin, culpability before God but is completely absent atonement and without the shedding of blood there is no atonement or forgiveness of sin (Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 10).

The Torah is NOTHING NEW but simply a reiteration of the moral law with the addition of ceremonial-civil-dietary edicts given specifically to Jacob’s children through Moses as they were set-apart for God’s eschatological purposes concerning Messiah and the Gospel. You will not be judged in Eternity by the Torah…you will be judged by the moral law written upon your heart at your creation/conception. Unless Yeshua is your Lord to atone for your disobedience to the moral law, you will NOT enter the Kingdom of God (John 14:6). The Torah provides ZERO atonement (Romans 3:20) and without Yeshua’s shed blood to atone for your sin, you will die in sin and die in perdition without hope or excuse (John 14:6; John 8:24).

Does Ezekiel 18:20-22 suggest God honors a works salvation? In other words, does Ezekiel suggest that a man or woman can be sufficiently good and obedient to the Law to be saved from death in Hell?

20 The person who sins will die. A son will not suffer the punishment for the father’s guilt, nor will a father suffer the punishment for the son’s guilt; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

21 “But if the wicked person turns from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall certainly live; he shall not die. 22 All his offenses which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced, he will live. Ezekiel 18:20-22 (NASB)

Christian response,

Do not be deceived into thinking that Ezekiel 18:20-22 suggests a man can inherit eternal life by good works or obedience. Even on our best day, our works done in the flesh is likened to a filthy menstrual cloth in the nose of God (Isaiah 64:6).

For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our wrongdoings, like the wind, take us away.” Isaiah 64:6 (NASB)

First of all, note the “all” in v.21 of Ezekiel 18; herein lies a major problem; that is, the Law requires perfection in order for righteousness (a right standing) with God to be attained through it (James 2:10; Galatians 3:10; Deuteronomy 27:26) and mankind is sinful by nature (Romans 3:23; Isaiah 53:6-8) and we’ve all violated God’s Law; therefore, the Law only defines sin and condemns all of human kind void atonement (Romans 3:20); therefore, one’s attempt at obedience to a Law can never provide eternal life (Romans 8:3-4).

What about Ezekiel and good works?

Ezekiel was under Law and man’s good works done in “faith” out of regard for God and His dominion upon the Earth…that “faith” could provide a right standing with God (Hebrews 11) but this is NOT a “works salvation” as it was not the works that garnered God’s favor but the faith that preceded the works done for God that mitigated God’s wrath. It was not the blood sacrifices that saved, it was the faith of the one offering the sacrifices believing that God is true that mitigated God’s wrath (Hebrews 10-11).

Concerning sin and atonement?

Interesting, even “faith” in the Old Testament was NOT sufficient to forgive sin because without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin (Genesis 3:21; Leviticus 17:11); And we know that the blood of animals could never provide atonement for sin (Hebrews 10). So then, those who died in the Old Testament having placed their faith in God could NOT enter the Kingdom of God because nothing impure is permitted to enter there (Revelation 21:27); King David understood this conundrum when he made the following statement…

“For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; You will not allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.” Psalm 16:10 (NASB)

David understood that he would NOT enter the Kingdom of God upon death of his body in Time because the Holy One, Yeshua, had not yet manifest and made atonement for sin; so then, every Old Testament saint that died in faith was relegated, detained, in Sheol (Abraham’s Bosom or Paradise) awaiting Messiah’s atonement (Luke 16). When Yeshua cried out “It is finished” (John 19:28-30), Yeshua announced the end of the Law’s curse upon mankind (Galatians 3:10) and the dawning of a New Covenant established in His blood, Yeshua’s sinless blood, that the Father accepts as the ONLY atonement for the sins of the whole world (Matthew 26:28; 1 John 2:2; 2 Corinthians 5:21). That atonement is only accessed by the one who “believes” that Jesus is Lord who died to pay their sin-debt (Romans 10:9-10).

Death of the body in the New Covenant,

Those who die in the New Covenant having believed in Jesus-Yeshua as their Lord, these redeemed are now ushered directly into the presence of God awaiting the coming resurrection of the justified (2 Corinthians 5:8). No longer do the saints of God await atonement in Sheol (Hades-Paradise) but atonement for sin has manifest through Jesus’ selfless love at Golgotha and Heaven’s Gates are open to the one who “believes” in Jesus as Lord (John 3:16).

It is faith in Jesus that results in our adjudication before the Father declaring us “NOT GUILTY.” No one is saved by their works, the Law, their obedience to a Law…it is ONLY by faith in Jesus as Lord that the Keys to the Kingdom are granted (Ephesians 2:8-9; John 3:16-18, Romans 10:9-10).

Those absent the Holy Spirit refer to the Trinitarian as an “antichrist.” What has the Holy Spirit said about God revealing Himself as a Trinity within the Realm of Time? Are we to disbelieve what the Holy Spirit has said simply because our 3-pound brain lacks the ability to fully understand our omnipotent God?

The Trinity is extant from The Genesis to the Revelation for the one willing to believe God and what He has said. God reveals Himself as a Trinity first in Genesis 1:1 with the plural noun, singular verb, “Elohim.” The Holy Spirit is first introduced in Genesis 1:2. The Father, Son, Spirit, are seen working together to create the complex human genome in their spiritual image in Genesis 1:26-28 as “Our” and “Us.” The Son is first introduced in Genesis 3:15 as emanating in Time through the seed of the woman (virgin) and doing battle with the Devil (1 John 3:8b). The battle strategy used by God to destroy the works of the Devil is first pictured as the Gospel in Genesis 3:21 with the shedding of innocent blood to clothe mankind in a robe of righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21) while rejecting the works of man to cover his own sin (fig leaves). In the first-three Chapters of the Canon…we see the Trinity at work but there are those who don’t see and won’t believe. Jesus often spoke of the Trinity, but you refuse to believe.

Who is the “true” antichrist?

“Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.” 1 John 2:22 (NASB)

Muslim asked: “Why is Jesus Christ only a God in John’s Gospel?”
Christian response,

Matthew initiates his Gospel declaring Jesus as God as well as do the words and works of Jesus documented in all four-Gospels, but John’s Gospel is unique and set-apart from the synoptic Gospels as John focuses on Messiah’s deity, Matthew focuses on Messiah’s Jewishness in the flesh; Mark focuses on Messiah’s miracles; Luke focuses on Messiah’s birth and healing from a physician’s perspective.
The Holy Spirit has coordinated this so that mankind can understand God and internalize God’s purposes in Time and Eternity through the body of Jesus and His ministry upon this Earth. Jesus is Elohim (Genesis 1:1) and John emphasises this in the introductory paragraph of his Gospel as Jesus is the Living Word of God who became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:1-14).
Unless Jesus is your Lord as Mediator for your sins, you will die in sin and not enter the Kingdom of God (John 8:24). Jesus is the ONLY WAY to life in Eternity (John 14:6).

FB contributor stated: “As far as I’m concerned, Judaism is the right religion.” Is he correct?

Christian response,

Judaism is a religion for sure and Judaism is death to the soul in Hell because Judaism, the Covenant of Law, the Torah, only defines sin void atonement (Romans 3:20)…no one entered or enters the Kingdom through obedience to Law because we’re sinners (Romans 3:23) and the Law demands perfection (James 2:10); therefore, the Law, the Torah, Judaism, only condemns the one seeking righteousness through it (Galatians 3:10).

It is ONLY by faith in Jesus as our Lord, the One who died for us; the One who kept the Law in perfection; the One who imparts HIS righteousness over the life of the one who believes in Him as Lord (2 Corinthians 5:21) that will be saved and enter the Kingdom of God subsequent to death of the body in Time (John 14:6; John 3:16-18; 2 Corinthians 5:8).

No one, nothing, but Jesus Christ as Lord provides atonement for sin, covenant relationship with the Father, life in Eternity via the Gift of the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of relationship (Acts 4:12; Ephesians 1:13-14). Trust, believe, in Jesus as your Lord and LIVE!

Darwin’s contribution to America’s Death in Atheism and Apostasy

Engel v. Vitale (1962) removed Jesus from the Public Schools advocated by radical atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair; one-year later (1963), the “progressives-communists” (initiated by John Dewey as early as 1880-1900) infused demonic Darwin into our classrooms as a “biological science” and methodically infused Marx into the “humanities” as an alternative to capitalism; subsequently, America’s high schools and universities have vomited-out the Millennial’s and Gen-Z generations of atheists, nihilists, communists, who hate America and are methodically transforming our Nation into a communist stronghold…these are the “useful idiots” labeled by and spoken of by Communist Dictator Lenin and as a result, America is dying a slow and painful death and our posterity will suffer horrifically. From the Genesis forward, there has been no greater progenitor of atheism than Darwin’s idiocy forced upon our children in the absence of Biblical truth as a buffer to apostasy promulgated via evolutionary theory i.e. the demonic.

Question on FB: “What does the Bible say about predestination v. free will?”

Christian response,

God desires that all men and women be saved and therefore predestines us to be conformed to His image in righteousness by faith in Jesus as Lord (1 Timothy 2:4; Romans 8:29); this, as the Gospel was ordained “before the beginning of Time” (2 Timothy 1:9-10); unfortunately, only a “few” will humble them self before the Lord and trust in Jesus Christ for the mediation of sin (Matthew 7:13-14) and thereby enter into an everlasting covenant with the Father through the Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14).

From the creation of the angels forward and with the creation of mankind, free will has been central to God’s will and His Plan for both the angelic and human creation. God is defined as LOVE (1 John 4:7-8) and God’s greatest desire in both Eternity and in Time is “relationship” with both His angelic and human creation; therefore, in order for love and relationship to manifest with authenticity, purity, honesty, integrity, wholesomeness, reciprocating fulfillment, the parties involved in that relationship of love must possess the volition, the free will, to “choose” to love, to engage in relationship; otherwise, love and relationship are impotent and unfulfilling. Authentic love and relationship cannot be predestined or coerced nor can love exist in fear.If God created some for life and some for death in Hell; if God predestined some to love Him and others to hate Him with the certainty of judgement and death in Hell, where is LOVE? Where is equity? Where is due process? Where is love? Where is morality?

I ask you, what is the purpose of God’s moral law? Is the law of God not an arbiter of free will? Are we not free moral agents possessing the ability to “choose” right and wrong; love and hate; good and evil? Why then the LAW if free will is nonexistent and we’re nothing more than pre-programmed robots?

Consider this,

Our entire creation in Time is the resultant of a war, a coup, initiated by a rebellious cherub angel practicing free will in the Kingdom of God and our Earth was created specifically as a battle ground for this war between good and evil allowing God to remove the destructive sin of the rebellious angel and those who followed him in the coup and place that evil upon the Earth to be dealt with partially constrained by Time and physics; this, as nothing impure is permitted to exist in the Kingdom of God (Revelation 21:27). God is currently demonstrating to the faithful angelic creation that did not follow the rebellious angels the horrors of disobedience, the suffering caused by sin, the death that naturally follows violations of God’s moral laws; so then, I ask you this…If God predestines some to life and some to death in Hell, why not simply destroy the rebellious angel and be done with it…why does God tolerate a defiled, rebellious, narcissistic, human creation that has caused Him nothing but consternation, pain and sorrow?

If God predestined angels to love Him and predestines men and women to obey and disobey, why is God striving so diligently to maintain volitional love with His angelic creation as opposed to simply destroying the rebellious angels and circumvent the suffering on Earth? Why the suffering and death of Jesus Christ for our sin?

A sincere but sincerely lost and deceived child of Jacob denies Messiah’s deity because Jesus prays to the Father.

Christian response,

Jesus prays to God the Father because the Son and the Spirit commune with the Father and have delineated authority to the Father and His will in all things. Jesus left the Spiritual Realm (John 18:36) and entered the Realm of Time to do the Father’s will, not his own (John 6:38); specifically, Jesus entered Time “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b).

It is the Father that Satan rebelled against, specifically (Ezekiel 28:11-19); it is the Father who is responsible via federal headship for the Kingdom and order-peace-righteousness in that Kingdom. This spiritual war we’re infused into as humans constrained by Time and physics (Ephesians 6) is between the Father and His former chief cherub angel we’ve come to know as Satan (Luke 10:18); the Father is the Strategist and the “Commander-and-Chief,” the Son is the Warrior (John 3:35); the Spirit is Logistics…these three are One-God.

Those who trust in the Father through Jesus as Lord are the Father’s servants, warriors, and our servitude to our God, Father-Son-Spirit, will transcend Time and Eternity in the New Jerusalem.

“And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.” Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NASB)

God’s moral law and His views concerning same have not and will never change. God provided the moral law to His Angels and then to human kind through the conscience (Romans 2:15). God ordained the moral law for human kind…

1) …as a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism which would inevitably lead to the extinction of the species.

2) …so that God’s judgment for sin could manifest with equity and due process. Note that the moral law was extant throughout the Adamic and Noahic generations as God judged the World in accordance with the moral law and destroyed same by water save eight.

3) …as an arbiter of free will. It is the moral law and the conscience that are the arbiter of free will.

God’s moral law has been written upon the heart of mankind from Adam forward and that law is arbitrated by the conscience. The Covenant of Law simply codified the eternal moral law in stone and scratched it upon parchment via Moses but the only changes were an addition of a civil-ceremonial-dietary law that was and is ONLY applicable to Jacob’s children, Judaism, those under the Law Covenant.

In the New Covenant, those who are born again by the Holy Spirit via faith in Jesus as Lord, they receive the Commandments of Jesus infused within their heart and mind by the Holy Spirit (John 14:26) and the Spirit walks them in obedience to those Commandments of Jesus via the process of sanctification. Nothing has truly changed other than Messiah has extrapolated the moral law, the Covenant of Law, and placed it within the heart and mind of the faithful in Him and increased culpability by adding mens rea or the thought life as an element to committing sin; that is, no longer must one actually physically commit the sin to be culpable before God but in the New Covenant the mere thought of the sin is culpability (Matthew 5:27-28).