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)
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!
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 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.
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).
Atheist hypocrisy and milktoast Christianity defined: “YOU CANNOT TREAT PEOPLE LIKE GARBAGE AND WORSHIP GOD AT THE SAME TIME.”
Response to the atheist and milktoast Christian…
First: To the milktoast, cowardly, Christian…
Christian impotence and cowardliness is why the abortionist and abortion advocates are free to murder our babies in the womb resulting in God’s wrath upon the American people; Christian impotence is why the atheist, the sexual pervert, is free to dictate policy in our Nation, LGBTQ policy that is destroying our posterity and bringing shame upon the American people; Christian impotence is why godless, mindless, murderous, socialists-communists have taken custody of our public schools, government, higher education and Christian impotence is why Darwin’s idiocy has captured the minds of America’s posterity and morphed them into sexually perverted, abortion loving, socialistic atheists.
Because Christians have bowed to Political Correctness and demonic WOKENESS in America, we have lost our Nation to Satan and his allies, the atheist, abortionist, sexual pervert, socialist-communist, evolutionist. SHAME ON YOU!
To the petulant and arrogant Atheist…
To the atheist who lives a lie, hates my Lord and curses those who love Him…any rebuttal to atheistic arrogance, petulance and vulgarity is interpreted as hate, bigotry, ignorance…it’s purely pathetic and hypocritical. There is a spiritual war raging around us and the atheist is the ally and emissary of Satan; therefore, if you’re an atheist…put your big-boy pants on because God’s Truth in Jesus Christ via the Gospel is inherently divisive and you and your father, Satan, have already lost the battle, you’re simply too naive and arrogant to understand this truism. As a Christian, I stand against your deceit in atheism and I hate your father, Satan, so let’s do battle and stop your whining!
It is written…
Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
For they speak against You wickedly;
Your enemies take Your name in vain.
Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:19-24 (NKJV)
Atheist logic: “You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, you lack empathy not religion.”
Christian response…
em·pa·thy /ˈempəTHē/ noun: empathy>>> the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Morality has very little to nothing to do with “empathy.”
Morality does not emanate from a religion but from our Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, who infuses same at our conception for primarily two-specific reasons:
1) The protection and continuation of human-KIND.
2) So that Judgment in Eternity can manifest with equity and due process and every human being having attained an age of reason will be “without excuse.”
The avowed, lost, deceived, atheist-nihilist-evolutionist, does not understand the moral law as having been infused within our inner-man at conception because the atheist seeks to live in moral relativism by which they justify their murder of babies in the womb i.e. abortion on demand; their unconscionable sexual perversion that is destroying our posterity and brings shame upon our Nation; their demonic obsession with the idiocy of Darwinian Evolution; their lust for socialism in their historical ignorance and blind greed for “free stuff.”
Every man and woman having attained an age of reason/accountability intuitively knows right from wrong, good from evil; every man and woman intuitively knows that our Creator exists as they observe our supernatural universe; therefore, the atheist-unbeliever is “without excuse” when they stand in the Judgment of the Condemned before Jesus Christ-Yeshua subsequent to His Millennial Reign (Revelation 20:11-15; Romans 1:18-32).
Atheist logic: In an attempt to defend the sin of homosexuality: “you obviously don’t know any gay people that have been in loving monogamous relationships…[you are] just another ignorant hateful bigot.”
Christian response to the advocate of homosexuality-lesbianism…
I policed “gay people” in one of the largest LGBTQ communities in the United States on four-different shifts. I am well acquainted with the hopelessness and sin of homosexuality-lesbianism. It matters not the permanence or solidarity of a homosexual relationship; it is a relationship of sin and will be judged by God as a violation of His Covenant of Marriage between one-man and one-woman becoming one-flesh for life.
The homosexual-lesbian possesses the free will to violate Nature and God’s plan for their life but unless the homosexual repents of their sins and sincerely trust in Jesus Christ as Lord, they will exist in futility and they will NOT see life in God’s Kingdom subsequent to the death of their body in Time!
It is not hateful or bigotry to tell the truth. Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the Truth.
Atheist logic: “You worship a god who created his own enemy, how smart does that make you?”
Christian response…
God created both the angelic and human creation in order to establish and enjoy relationship with them in love. In order for love to flourish in purity and authenticity, one must possess the free will to “choose” to love or hate, obey or rebel; otherwise, love becomes robotic and thus impotent. God’s chief cherub angel, Lucifer, opted to rebel out of covetousness for God’s authority and thus the causation for the creation of Time, the Universe, human KIND.
Presently, God is dealing with his enemy in Time apart from the Kingdom and you have been given a unique opportunity as a created human being to come along side of God and fight for Him and with Him and reap the benefits of your faithfulness in Eternity by trusting in His Son, Jesus Christ, who died so that you could live. It is your choice. Have a good weekend.
Atheist outlines family history of unbelief and notes that she has led a good life, behaved herself and obeys the law. This atheist asked why the religious insist that she is headed to Hell in her atheism. Please permit me, as briefly as possible, provide an explanation…
You will not find life in the Kingdom of God as an unrepentant atheist because you are a sinner, you have fallen short of God’s standard of perfection required to enter the Kingdom of God subsequent to the death of your body in Time (Romans 3:23). God the Father has so decreed that nothing impure, no sin, will exist within or ever enter the Kingdom of God (Revelation 21:27); therefore, all of mankind was lost and hopeless because all of mankind has sinned and fallen short of God’s glory.
The Good News is (the Gospel) that God the Father did not leave you and me in our hopeless condition but He sent God the Son, Jesus Christ, to enter Time in the form of flesh…as a man (Philippians 2:8) through the seed of the woman (Galatians 4:4) thereby circumventing the seed of the man (Adam) which passes the sin-nature (1 Corinthians 15:22).
Jesus walked this Earth for 33.5-yrs and He fulfilled the Law of God (the 613 Levitical Laws and the Commandments) perfectly, Jesus never sinned and was therefore an acceptable sacrifice for your sin-debt and my sin-debt (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus, out of obedience to the Father (Matthew 20:22-23), walked to the horrors of a Roman Crucifixion and suffered, died, shed His innocent blood to pay your sin-debt and God the Father looked upon the blood of His dear Son spilling onto the sands of Golgotha outside of Jerusalem and God the Father deemed that sinless blood of Jesus as payment for the sins of mankind for anyone who is willing to humble them self and repent of their sin, sincerely believe in their heart and confess with their mouth that Jesus is God who died to pay their sin-debt and believe that Jesus was resurrected for their justification leading to Eternal life with God the Father subsequent to the death of the body in Time (John 3:16; Romans 10:9-10).
As an atheist, you will not find life in God’s Kingdom because you refuse to humble yourself and repent of your sins and trust-believe in Jesus Christ as Lord as the Mediator for your sin (John 8:24)…you refuse to come to God the Father HIS WAY (John 14:6); therefore, unless you repent, you will die in your sin (John 8:24) and you will die a “second death” in Hell (Revelation 20:11-15) because God the Father is NOT going to permit your destructive, unrepentant, sin to enter His Kingdom (Revelation 21:27); after all, this is the very reason Lucifer was extricated from the Kingdom of God and the Father is NOT going permit the destructiveness of sin to dwell in His presence…there are NO exceptions and God’s Plan of redemption is immutable (Malachi 3:6) in the Age of Grace!
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