A demonically-deceived atheist on FB stated: “Atheist and theist how do you define faith? Do you think faith is reasonable or reliable? I define faith as: the reason people give when they have no good reason to provide. So obviously, I do not find faith to be reasonable or reliable.”

A Christian response to Satan’s emissary…

Christian faith is observing the evidence in Nature i.e. the Universe, the Earth, the complex human genome, and coming to the conclusion that design is in-play; therefore, a Designer is mandated (Romans 1:18-32).

The honest seeker pursues the Name or identity of this Designer and notes that Evolution (historical science); Applied Science; Islam; Buddhism and a sundry of worldviews, ideologies, have no answer/no clue. The honest seeker then searches the pages of the most profound, best-selling Book in the history of mankind and finds that the Holy Bible/“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.” (Ravi Zacharias)

As the avid seeker reads through Scripture, a change in attitude-worldview-understanding-faith begins to manifest and as the avid-seeker continues to read and study the Bible (2 Timothy 2:15), the original languages, they find Jesus Christ-Yeshua to be irrefutably God-Creator-Lord-Intercessor-Messiah-Truth-Judge (Philippians 2:8).

The avid-seeker, in faith, reaches out to God the Father and finds a whole new life in Jesus Christ and then something absolutely miraculous manifests; the avid-seeker finds that God the Holy Spirit has taken-up residence within them (Ephesians 1:13) and the World is seen from a radically new perspective…the old life of narcissism, insatiable lust, has passed away and everything has become new and vibrant and understandable…peace and contentment begin to manifest and joy is abundant as a resultant of faith (2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 5:1). Though life’s challenges remain, the person possessing the Holy Spirit becomes more than victorious over the death and deception and challenges of this temporary life constrained by Time (Romans 8:37).

With Jesus as Lord, there is intuitive knowledge and awareness that all is well and contentment reigns supreme.

If one desires to know God, if one searches for God with their whole heart via faith, God will reveal himself to this person and God the Holy Spirit will enter their personal life and give them a new life that is infinitely superior to the life lived pursuing the desires of the flesh which leads to death of the body in sin and death of the soul in Hell (Jeremiah 29:12-14; John 14:23; Galatians 6:7-8).

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

A demonically deceived atheist in a FB forum stated that “the human brain has evolved to believe in Gods.” Is this servant of Satan correct?

A response to Satan’s emissary…

God created the human brain to worship Him and commune with Him forever (Genesis 1:26-28). It is the fool of Darwin’s hoax and Satan’s deceit (Psalm 14:1; Proverbs 1:7) that suggests the human genome and our Universe is the product of Time + Chance + Matter (Colossians 2:8). Those who suggest evolution is the answer to life’s mysteries are either fools, brainwashed, mentally ill.

Every human being has a God-shaped vacuum in their spirit as they are created in the spiritual image of the Living God and nothing/no one will adequately fill that vacuum except a relationship with God the Father by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and the indwelling Holy Spirit. It is the spiritually ignorant and rebellious that seeks to fill that God-shaped vacuum with sexual immorality, narcotics, risk-taking, narcissism, hedonism, moral relativism, all of which suffer from “diminishing returns” and leave the self-deceived victim spiritually dead-empty-addicted-hurting-lost in confusion and self loathing, seeking self destruction. This is the resultant of compromise with Satan.

Human KIND is programmed to search for God as God has provided extant, empirical, irrefutable evidence for His existence, His reality, His power and dominion by what He has made in Nature and placed before our eyes both daily and nightly; therefore, anyone who foolishly denies what is before them in reality is a liar, is self-deceived and “without excuse” when they stand before Jesus Christ-Yeshua in the Judgment of the Condemned in Eternity (Romans 1:18-32).

A question was asked in a FB forum: “Do you think demonic possession exists today?”

Christian response to this intriguing question…

A brief history…

Lucifer’s (Satan-the Devil) deception was initiated in Eternity before the creation of Time (Ezekiel 28:11-19; Isaiah 14:12-15; Revelation 12:7-9) and Lucifer-Satan was removed from the Kingdom of God (Luke 10:18) as God chose to deal with this rebellious angel apart from the Kingdom in order to negate the destructiveness of sin within God’s Kingdom where nothing impure is permitted to enter (Revelation 21:27). As opposed to eradicating Lucifer and the rebellious angels (demons) who supported Lucifer in his coup d’état to usurp God’s authority, God the Son, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, was commissioned to take elements from the Spiritual World and fashion same into matter that is interactive within the Realm of Time (Hebrews 11:3) thereby creating all things that are visible and invisible and constraining this matter by the laws of physics-Time (Gospel of John 1; Colossians 1:15-18; Genesis 1). God the Father set-forth a Plan called “The Gospel” before the beginning of Time and this Plan was dedicated to destroying the works of Satan and redeeming all of creation by selfless love and sacrifice that God Himself would provide, alone (1 John 3:8; 2 Timothy 1:10).

God the Father deemed the extrication of Lucifer from the Kingdom as necessary in order to prevent additional destruction from iniquity and to maintain volitional love with the remaining angelic creation that was and is observing God’s response to sin – rebellion. God placed Lucifer-Satan and the rebellious angels-demons on the Earth and the cosmic struggle between Yeshua-Jesus v. Satan via mankind was first initiated in The Garden of Eden and that cosmic war continues to this very day as God is demonstrating to His faithful angelic creation the horror of sin and why same cannot be permitted to exist in the Kingdom of God (1 John 3:8; Genesis 3:15; Matthew 4:1-11; 1 Peter 1:12; Revelation 20:27). Though Yeshua was victorious over Lucifer-Satan via the Crucifixion, God is presently using Satan to separate the sheep from the goats, the wheat from the chaff, the faithful from the unfaithful, and Satan has been put on a short leash and is performing God’s will unaware (Matthew 3:12; Matthew 25:31-46; Colossians 2:13-15).

Examples of demonic possession and demonic persuasion in today’s World?

1) Every atheist-satanist-nihilist-naturalist that claims the facade of atheism-unbelief in our Creator is demonically possessed or heavily persuaded demonically as they seek the death of their body in sin and the death of their body-soul in Hell. Every atheist-unbeliever is a servant and emissary of Satan within the Realm of Time and does his bidding unaware (John 8:44; Ephesians 2:1-3; Romans 1:18-32).

2) Every human adult that advocates for the mutilation of babies in the womb does so by demonic persuasion or possession (John 8:44). Abortion is clearly murder as abortion is the taking of human life void due process and it is the father of murder, Satan, that inspires advocacy for the mutilation of children. God hates hands that shed innocent blood (Proverbs 6:17).

3) Every child and every adult that participates in or advocates for sexual perversion i.e. homosexuality – lesbianism – transsexualism – bisexuality – adultery – fornication – pedophilia does so at the behest of Satan or his demonic forces in the Spiritual World. Sexual immorality is not only sin against God’s Covenant of Marriage and holiness but sexual immorality is sin against one’s own body and without repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as Lord for the mediation of sin, those who engage in sexual immorality will suffer death in Hell (1 Corinthians 6:9-20). Death and Hell; this is Satan’s desire for all of humanity via his deception (Genesis 3:13; Revelation 12:9).

4) Every incident of antisemitic behavior throughout the World is directly related to Satanic influence or demonic possession. Satan HATES the children of Israel and Christians. The Jewish-Israeli people are God’s chosen and they are God’s eschatological time-clock e.g. if anyone desires to know where our God is positioned concerning the destiny of Time, the World, Eternity and the 2nd-Advent of Messiah-Yeshua and His coming Millennial Reign upon the Earth, God the Father tells mankind to watch MY PEOPLE – the Children of Israel.

Subsequent to the fall of Jerusalem in 70AD, God’s time-clock concerning eschatological events was stopped until the reestablishment of the Nation of Israel in 1948 and the capture of Jerusalem by the Israeli armies in 1967 (Six-Day War). From that point forward, eschatology is moving at a rapid pace and Satan is aware of this truism and he is exceptionally busy in these last days (Revelation 12:12). Satan will stop at nothing to eradicate the children of Israel (Jacob) and nullify God’s promises to them via an everlasting Covenant (Jeremiah 32:38; Genesis 12:3). Ninety-thousand Christians were murdered as well in 2016 and Satan burns with anger at those redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ-Yeshua!

5) The destruction of the Biblical family unit through obsessions with sexual perversion/same-sex unions (LGBTQ); drug addiction; secularism; hedonism; environmentalism; sexually transmitted diseases; these are the work of Satan as Satan strategically desires the eradication of the Biblical family unit which is the bedrock of any sustainable society (Ephesians 6:4; Proverbs 22:6).

6) Satan’s most successful strategy in History has been the infusion of Darwinian Evolutionary Theory into public schools; Evolution being the most profound progenitor of atheistic thought in the history of mankind. Darwinism infused into public schools as early as 1963 is purely demonic as Satan has used men like Progressive, John Dewey (1900), President Woodrow Wilson to incrementally and methodically infuse historical revisionism, Darwinism, Socialism, into America’s mainstream via the brainwashing of millions of American youth via Darwin’s hoax i.e. Evolutionary Theory, the greatest lie ever told by science which is Satan’s attempt to negate the Genesis creation narrative and construct a naturalist, godless, moral-less, hedonistic, society of demonically possessed-persuaded atheists-hedonists-secularists-nihilists-moral relativists-naturalists which are found in overwhelming numbers within the modern-day Progressive-Socialist-Democrat Party of Satan in American politics.

Today, approximately one-half of the American populous radically advocates for the mutilation of babies in the womb; vile and vulgar sexual perversion destroying our posterity; socialism-communism which is the demonic construct of atheists-hedonists-the mentally ill seeking to destroy America’s Constitutional Republic. Satan is working overtime in America and in American politics and he’s gaining popularity via atheism-secularism-progressive socialism-naturalism/evolution!

7) Satan has visibly introduced himself to the World via the adulterous affair of the iconic Biblical figures of Abraham and Hagar manifesting in the illegitimate birth of Ishmael who is the father of the Ishmaelites who is the progenitor of the Arabic tribes who is the progenitor of Muhammad who is the progenitor of Islam. Satan laid claim to the Arabic Moon god – Allah and for 1400-yrs Satan-Allah has murdered-butchered some 270-million non-Muslims via the Islamic Caliphate.

Satan-Allah is at work around the World with an emphasis in America and American politics as he plans to destroy the Nation of Israel and the Israeli people which will be the initiation of a nuclear war in Jerusalem, Israel. Allah will ally with Iran-Russia-China-an Arab coalition to attack Jerusalem in the coming days and this will initiate the Apocalypse and the 2nd-Advent of Messiah-Yeshua and His Millennial Kingdom which will be headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. MARANATHA!

Conclusion

Satan is alive and well and is more active today than during Noah’s or Lot’s generation and it is wise for every Christian to know their spiritual enemy i.e. Satan and Satan’s emissaries.

Jesus has warned you…

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them. Matthew 7:15-20 (NKJV)

The Holy Spirit has warned you…

“Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” 1 Peter 5:8 (NASB)

“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 14 Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” Ephesians 6:10-17 (NASB)

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Atheist, Mark D, stated: “Can belief give rise to God’s existence? Yes, because God is a concept and concepts are thought based. When someone says that they believe in God, what they really mean is that they believe in the concept that they have formed in their mind. The existence of God outside of the mind is not something that can be determined by human intellect. The God that Christians, Jews, and Muslims worship is invented. It is a product of human thought that has no basis in fact and no confirming empirical evidence. What they worship is not God, but themselves. What say you?”

Once again, Mark is a voice for Satan. The Christian has not invented God but the Christian has observed the supernatural evidence provided us by the Moon, Stars, Sun, the complex human genome and logically, reasonably, empirically, inferred/deduced by said evidence that design is in play; therefore, a Designer is mandated (Romans 1:18-32).

An honest person will pursue the evidence in Nature provided them and search for the Name, the identity, of the One who designed our supernatural Universe and brought life into existence. Science and historical science, evolution, have NOT a clue concerning origin of matter and life. The Vedas is laughable; the Quran is plagiarized from the Jewish Torah by the false prophet Muhammad; the Egyptian Gods and Greek mythology, well, these are simply a very bad story; therefore, when one finally opens the Holy Bible, they find the Signature of our Creator in Chapter-one-page-one and that same Creator is confirmed over-and-over-again throughout the Covenant of Law and the Covenant of Grace.

When one seeks-out the Truth and possesses a contrite, humble, honest, heart, they will 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. When one truly trusts in Jesus Christ as Lord, the mysteries of the Universe, Life, Time, Eternity, are answered. There is ONE God and ONE Mediator for sin, Jesus Christ.

“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

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Christian? What defines a true Christian? Unfortunately, most Atheists don’t know. Let’s discuss that…

“for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,” 1 Corinthians 14:33 (NASB)

“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 (NASB)

Introduction

Having debated the Atheist ad nauseam, I am often confronted by Atheists who lack knowledge relevant to true, Biblical, Christianity. The Atheist oftentimes incorrectly identifies a groundswell of religions, cults, sects, falsely flying under the banner of Christianity as actually being Christian; the Atheist does not understand that these pagan cults and religions reject the core tenets of the Christian faith and Scripture and are therefore, at best, a Christian-cult.

In addition, the Atheist is quick to accuse Christianity of atrocities over the Centuries subsequent to Messiah’s Ascension, but when challenged, these atrocities were not Christian oriented at all, they were deeds performed in the name of Roman Catholicism or by men and women who “claimed” to be Christian but their actions were a direct contradiction to their profession. Jesus has told us that we would know them by their works; that a man or woman can be identified by the way they act (Matthew 7:15-20). So then, what is a true Christian?

Subsequent to the death, burial, resurrection, of Jesus Christ-Yeshua, self-serving, greedy for money and power, men and women throughout the Centuries following that cataclysmic event have sought to re-define the Person and Deity of Messiah-Jesus and His purposes relevant to Time and Eternity.

These self-indulgent men and women polluted and convoluted the Truth of Jesus Christ, the simplicity of His message, the Gospel (Good News); The Gospel, a written Covenant of Grace between God the Father established by the work, obedience and sacrifice of the Son, Jesus Christ-Yeshua at the Crucifixion and said Covenant having been Sealed and Guaranteed as binding by God the Holy Spirit and articulated-chronicled within the written word of God as inspired by the Holy Spirit (John 3:16: Ephesians 1:13-14).

Who is a “true” Christian according to the written word of God?

The Authority of God’s Word

1) A true-authentic Christian is a man, woman, child, who sincerely believes that the Holy Bible, the Scriptures, the written Word of God, is the Holy Spirit inspired mind of God penned on parchment by specific holy men of old who were chosen to chronicle and safeguard those words by inspiration of the Holy Spirit; the Christian believes that the Original Scriptures are the absolute perfect Truth, inerrant, irrefutable, words of God to mankind given as a gift, a love letter, to human KIND from our Creator so that every man, woman, child, can personally know God the Father, God the Son – Jesus Christ, God the Holy Spirit and God’s perfect will for Time, Eternity and our individual lives.

The Christian believes that the same God who created Time, the Universe, the complex human genome, is perfectly capable of articulating, chronicling, protecting and transmitting His written word down through Time so that His creation can know Him, love Him, commune with Him, forever.

The Confession

2) A true, authentic, Christian is one who has agreed with God the Father that they’re a sinner (Romans 3:23) and has agreed to repent, turn-away from their sin and sincerely believe in their heart, confess with their mouth that Jesus Christ is the Eternal God who died to pay their sin-debt, a debt that they could not pay, and that Jesus Christ was resurrected for their justification leading to eternal life in the Kingdom of God subsequent to death of their body constrained by the Realm of Time (Romans 10:9-10; John 8:24; Philippians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 5:8).

The Guarantor of Relationship

3) It is the true and authentic Christian that has received the indwelling Holy Spirit of Promise as the Seal and Guarantor of the Covenant of Grace with God the Father as established by grace through faith in Jesus Christ-Yeshua as Lord for the mediation of sin (Ephesians 1:13-14; Acts 19:2; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 4:30).

The Exclusivity of Jesus Christ as Lord

4) A true and authentic Christian believes and understands that there is absolutely NOTHING they can do to earn or deserve the Gift of Salvation that provides a pardon from death in sin and the second death in Hell. The true Christian knows that there is no work, no philanthropic endeavor, no personal sacrifice, that can earn God the Father’s forgiveness of sin (Ephesians 2:8-9).

A true Christian knows, believes and understands that Jesus Christ, through His suffering and death at the Crucifixion, performed the work of Salvation on our behalf i.e. Christ died to provide mankind a pardon from sin and death in Hell (2 Corinthians 5:21).

The true and authentic Christian believes and understands that ONLY by grace (unmerited favor – that which cannot be earned by human effort) through faith (trusting-believing with a sincere heart) that Jesus Christ – Yeshua is God who died to pay our sin-debt; only by believing and so confessing can a man or woman find forgiveness of sin leading to Eternal life with God the Father in the Kingdom of God (Romans 10:9-10).

Caveat: Does water Baptism save?

The Christian understands that the act or work of water Baptism does NOT save anyone but that water Baptism is obedience to the command of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:18-20) and that water Baptism is a demonstration to the World that the Christian has placed their faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

The Christian understands that water Baptism represents the death-burial-resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and represents our pledge before man and God to walk in a new life, the new birth, received by our confession of Jesus as Lord before the act of Baptism (John 3:3; Ephesians 2:8-9; John 3:16; John 3:36; John 3:18; John 14:6).

Obedience – Validation of Salvation

5) The true and authentic Christian understands and believes that though they cannot work them self into God’s favor relevant to salvation/the forgiveness of sin, the Christian understands that “subsequent” to having entered into a relationship with God the Father by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, alone, the Christian understands that works – obedience – servitude to God is essential because it is the works-obedience of the Christian SUBSEQUENT to salvation that provides validation of the authenticity of the Christian’s relationship with God and the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit (James 2:26; Ephesians 1:13).

Justification and Sanctification

True and authentic faith/salvation i.e. “Justification” will be demonstrated by the process of “Sanctification” as the Christian walks daily, matures daily, by the tutelage, intercession, wisdom, discernment, of the indwelling Holy Spirit (1 John 2:27). Sanctification, the incremental maturation process of the Christian, is achieved by diligent, fervent, study of the written word of God via the tutelage of the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 2:15; 1 John 2:27).

Disdain for Wilful Sin

The true and authentic Christian no longer desires to live in willful sin against God neither in word, thought or deed, but the authentic Christian seeks to live a life of obedience to God’s will and always, continually, seeks to please and honor God the Father through obedience to His written word, the Scriptures and His Living Word, Jesus Christ. (James 2:14-26; Galatians 5:16-23; John 1).

The Struggle between Two-Natures

6) The true and faithful Christian understands that even though they have been “born again” by the Holy Spirit as a result of their belief-faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, the Christian is aware that in the new-nature imparted by the indwelling Holy Spirit they will struggle with the old sinful-nature that remains behind due to the body of death that constrains-houses the spirit of man in the Realm of Time (Romans 7:14-25); therefore, the true and authentic Christian strives for excellence and perfection in their daily walk with God (Galatians 5:16).

Security of the Believer

There is also an understanding that sin is ever-present and in the struggle between the new-man v. the old-sin-nature the Christian knows that unintentional sin does not threaten the security of their eternal relationship with God (John 10:27-29). When the Christian does sin by omission or commission, they are to seek forgiveness for that sin – NOT to reestablish their salvation which is secure in the Holy Spirit forever (John 10:27-30) – but the Christian seeks forgiveness in order to reestablish and reaffirm intimacy with God the Father as the Christian knows that sin fractures intimacy through our conscience and it is intimacy-joy-peace-contentment with our God that is paramount and cherished above all else in the life of the faithful Christian (1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:1-2; Romans 5:1).

Summation

So then, we see that a Christian is one who has repented of sin, believed in and confessed Jesus Christ as Lord, exclusively, for the forgiveness of sin; we see that salvation manifests not by works, not by deeds, not by Baptism, not by men, not by Church membership, not by family affiliations, not by indulgences, not by birth, but ONLY by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord – exclusively.

What is False Christianity?

Anything, anyone, who denies the sole-sufficiency of Jesus Christ-Yeshua as God for the forgiveness of sin, that person is NOT a Christian. Any “religion” or “sect” or “cult” or “denomination” that denies the SOLE-sufficiency of Jesus Christ as Lord for the forgiveness of sin is NOT Christian.

There is a plethora of counterfeit “Christian” religions in the World and there are “many” counterfeit Christians in the World (Matthew 7:22-24) and anyone who adds anything to or detracts from the purity, simplicity, of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that demands the sole-sufficiency of Jesus as Lord for the forgiveness of sin leading to eternal life, that person or institution denying the Deity of Christ (John 8:24) or adding works, behavior, deeds, money-indulgences, the Mass, Baptism, the pagan Doctrine of Tongues, to earn or confirm one’s salvation, that person or institution is NOT of God and they are NOT Christian but they are heretical and damned lest they repent of their false doctrines of denying the exclusivity of Messiah-Jesus as Lord (Matthew 24:36; 7:15-20; 2 Timothy 4:3-4; Acts 20:28-30; 1 John 4:1-6; 2 Peter 1:12-21; 2 Peter 2; Ephesians 2:8-9).

A few examples of Cults and Religions that fly under the banner of Christianity but are NOT Christian

1) Roman Catholicism: Catholicism is a “works” salvation, a pagan religion that rejects the simplicity, exclusivity, of Jesus Christ as Lord, Savior, Redeemer. Catholicism has never been Christian. Catholicism was founded by Constantine in 312-313AD via the Edict of Milan by merging Babylonian Paganism/Roman Paganism with elements of Christian and non-Christian (Apocrypha) doctrine in order to make the pagan religion palatable to the masses.

The Mass; The Sacraments; Transubstantiation; Purgatory; The Rosary; Statues in Worship; The Perpetual Virginity of Mary as the Goddess of Heaven; The Idolatry of Mary Worship; calling Catholic Leadership as “Father;” confessing sin to a Priest; The Magisterium; Indulgences; these are NOT Scriptural and undermine the purity and simplicity of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord; thereby, leading the innocent millions/billions in the way of deception and hopelessness. Tragically, the Catholic parishioner never knows for certain if they are saved or condemned due to false Catholic Church doctrine and Church tradition of men.

“These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” 1 John 5:13 (NASB)

2) The Church of the Latter-Day Saints – Mormons: Mormonism is a works salvation – Christian cult. Mormonism teaches doctrines that are in direct contradiction to the essentials of the Christian faith. Mormonism denies the true nature of God, the true nature of Christ, and the true nature of salvation.

Mormonism teaches that the forgiveness of sin is obtained by obedience to the laws (works salvation) and ordinances of the Mormon church. Mormons will claim they are Christians because they say they follow the Jesus of the Bible, in reality, they are following a false Christ. Jesus is not the brother of the devil as Mormonism teaches. Jesus is the second Person of the Trinity. Jesus did not atone for our sins in the garden of Gethsemane as Mormonism teaches; Jesus died to pay our sin-debt at the Crucifixion (1 Peter 2:24; John 3:16).

Mormon’s, in their book “Doctrines of Salvation,” vol. 1, page 188, claim that there is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith as a prophet of God. Joseph Smith is the founder of Mormonism. Jesus Christ said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” John 14:6 (NASB) See: (https://carm.org/mormonism/is-mormonism-cult)

3) The Jehovah’s Witnesses: A works salvation-cult that denies the exclusivity and deity of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the doctrine of the Trinity and claim that Jesus was not divine and that the Holy Spirit is an “active force” and not a Person of the Trinity. Jehovah’s Witness’ organization distorts the essential doctrines of Christianity by denying the deity of Jesus Christ, His physical resurrection, and salvation by grace through faith, alone.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses, to support their false doctrines, has altered the Canon Bible to make it agree with its changing and non-Christian teachings. The Jehovah’s Witnesses consider themselves to be Christians because they believe they are serving the true and living God yet they deny the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the person-hood of the Holy Spirit, Jesus’ physical resurrection, and salvation by grace through faith, alone. See: (https://carm.org/is-the-jehovahs-witness-religion-christian)

Jesus said that unless you believe He is God, you will die in your sins…

“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” John 8:24 (NASB)

4) Pentecostalism – Charismatic non-denominationalism: Though these charismatic Churches do follow Christian doctrine rather closely, far too many make the heretical error of teaching the cultic practice of ecstatic utterances or speaking in an unknown tongue. A pagan practice that finds its pagan roots in Delphi, a town in ancient Greece across the bay from Corinth. The pagan activities-traditions-practices in the pagan temple located in Delphi obviously negatively affected the Christian Church at Corinth.

Intoxicated oracles-utterances offered by a pagan priestess in the Temple of Delphi carried-over into the Christian Church at Corinth creating much confusion and division. Charismatic denominations today teach this pagan practice of speaking in an unknown tongue thereby morphing themselves into a pagan cult; these charismatic Churches err doctrinally when they require their parishioners, even children, to speak in an unknown tongue, unintelligible gibberish, to authenticate their salvation and prove the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Such pagan oriented practices place tremendous burdens on sincere seeking men and women and children, burdens that God the Father NEVER intended for them to bear and when these parishioners are honest with themselves and admit they don’t actually speak in an unknown tongue, confusion, doubt, worry, fret, consume them because they never know for sure if they’re saved or condemned to Hell. This is heresy!

Conclusion

Jesus said:

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (NASB)

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” John 14:6 (NASB)

The Apostle Paul, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit said,

“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9 (NASB)

The simplicity of the Gospel must not be defiled by men. It is God the Father who has given the Son, Jesus Christ, to die for the sins of mankind and only by trusting in Jesus as Lord can mankind find forgiveness of sin and life in Eternity in God’s Kingdom. Nothing more, nothing less than Jesus, alone, will find righteousness (a right standing) with God the Father through the forgiveness of sin!

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Atheist mocks Christian morality by suggesting Nietzsche has a better way. Let’s discuss that.

Atheist, Mark D. stated: “Friedrich Nietzsche argued that there were two fundamental types of morality: “master morality” and “slave morality”. Master morality values pride and power, while slave morality values things like kindness, empathy, and sympathy. Master morality weighs actions on good or bad consequences, unlike slave morality, which weighs actions on a scale of good or evil intentions. Shouldn’t Christians be concerned that they have adopted a slave morality, given the fact that a morality based on consequences has proven throughout history to be more beneficial than one based on intentions?”

Response to the Atheist…

Mark, you will NOT find truth or life by groveling at the feet of Satan and his representatives in time exemplified by demonic-men like Nietzsche, Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Dillahunty. Mark, you’ll only find death and Hell in servitude to these fleshly demons.

Mark, the atheist, seeks his wisdom from an atheistic demon named Nietzsche, a self-proclaimed anti-christ. Mark suggests there is a “master morality” and a “slave morality” and then equates Christian morality to a “slave morality” where behavior is evaluated on a scale of good or evil intentions. Mark, I ask you, who defines what is good or evil? Men or God?

Source of morality for the Christian…

Sadly, Mark and an overwhelming number of Atheists have absolutely no idea what defines a true Christian. I will elaborate on this subject in another Post if time permits. Christians have ONE-form of morality i.e. the objective moral law which has been written upon the heart of human KIND by our Creator at conception (Romans 2:15). It is the Christian, by the power, wisdom, discernment and influence of the indwelling Holy Spirit that seeks to do good; to love and honor their fellowman; to love God – Family – Country and to honor God through obedience to His written word and His Living Word, Jesus Christ. Christians seek good because they are “born again” by a Good-God and have internalized His Nature via the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, Christians don’t evaluate behavior/morality based on one’s intentions but by what our Creator has said and obedience to His Law infused within our inner-man at conception. Christians seek moral good because their new nature via the Spirit desires good and the Christian seeks to honor and please our God who is the definition of “Good.”

Source of morality for the Atheist…

The atheist, on the other hand, espouses an alternate form of morality i.e. Moral Relativism, a rejection of God’s morality by aligning with a demonically-based ideology that promulgates the demonic-secularist paradigm of “if it feels good, do it”; Mark, this form of “morality” is not based on consequences; Mark, moral relativism espouses NO consequences for behavior, the moral relativist insists that there are no ramifications for sin; every man and woman is free to do what is right in their own eyes (Judges 17:6); therefore, murder/mutilate your baby in the womb if the child is inconvenient; enjoy and engross yourself in vile sexual immorality void shame, embarrassment, blushing i.e. homosexuality-lesbianism-bestiality-pedophilia-transsexualism; laugh and mock at the idea of a Biblical family unit promoting a stable, moral, law abiding, society espousing sustainable mores, norms, values, under girded by a belief that all men and women, from the womb to the tomb, are of value because they are created in the image of God; Atheism espouses “just do as you please” because in Atheism and its demonic tenet Nihilism, there is no God, there is no justice, there is no meaning in life; nihilism is king and one’s genitalia is to be worshiped and pleased at all cost.

Conclusion

Atheism is an untenable ideology of the demonic involving spiritual death culminating in death in sin and death of the body and soul in Hell in futility. Atheism is likened to a metastasizing sociological cancer that destroys the mind, body, soul, of a society and the individual in both Time and Eternity.

NOTE: In the attached MEME describing the Atheist, “Gentiles” in this context represents the unfaithful, the unbeliever, the Atheist.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Atheist mocks God’s authority and dominion over His creation within the Realm of Time. Let’s discuss that.

Atheist, Mark D., asked: “Why should Christians praise God when 30,000 children die from preventable diseases and malnutrition every day?”

Response to the Atheist…

Mark, as I have commented to your previous defenses of your father, Satan; understand, our Creator, Jesus Christ (John 1), provided our first Earthly father, Adam, with a Covenant of sustenance/provision that was predicated upon one requirement, obedience i.e. do not compromise with evil (Genesis 2:8-17).

Why does mankind suffer death?

Unfortunately, Adam opted to ingratiate his flesh at the behest of his wife as opposed to honoring our Creator through obedience; therefore, upon Adam’s rejection of God’s Covenant, God, Who cannot lie (Numbers 23:19) honored the warning of judgment for disobedience as given to Adam i.e. spiritual death and physiological death ultimately resulting in a curse upon the human genome (progressive genomic malformations), a curse upon Lucifer and all of Nature (Genesis 3:14-19; Romans 8:19-23; Romans 6:23; 1 Corinthians 15:22).

The Curse upon Adam also created a fracturing/chasm between God and mankind due to man’s spiritual death from The Fall resulting in a sinful-nature that manifests in a propensity to dishonor God through rebellion, narcissism, pride, arrogance, aberrant sensuality i.e. SIN. For these reasons, God gave man over to pursue the lust of his flesh and live life in accordance with unfettered free will and in conjunction with man’s disobedience, our Creator annulled His Covenant of Provision and Sustenance entered into with Adam before Adam’s rejection of same through disobedience; therefore, disease – suffering – pain – sorrow – aberrant lust – jealousy – pride – hate – murder, spiritual and physiological death, entered into the World through the corruption of the human genome and the spiritual death of mankind.

Death of children?

Mark, this is why thousands-and-thousands of men, women and children die in their body daily and why thousands of babies are murdered in the womb of their mommy daily via abortion; this is why certain men and women choose to engage in homosexuality-lesbianism; this is why the naive and unfaithful compromise with Darwin and this why you have a propensity to war against God in your atheism – because you are spiritually dead (Ephesians 2:1; 2:13) and you follow the spirit of disobedience that has consumed your life and blinded your mind i.e. Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4). For this reason, God allows mankind to continue in his disobedience and God has told us that “many” will die in their sin and die the “second death” in Hell because they have “chosen” a life of rebellion to God’s Truth in Jesus Christ as Lord (Matthew 7:13-14; Romans 1:18-32).

What is God’s Plan for mankind in Time?

Therefore, God the Father is currently active within the Realm of Time NOT to heal and redeem this lost, sick, decaying, dying World that is passing-away with every second of the clock and will be consumed as by fire (2 Peter 3:10; Hebrews 13:14), but God is defeating the works of Satan in Time and concurrently searching to-and-fro for a faithful and obedient people who desire to know Him, love Him, honor Him as the King of Kings and Lord of Lord’s and serve Him faithfully in His Kingdom forever subsequent to death of the body in Time (2 Chronicles 16:9; Revelation 1:6; 5:10; John 14:3).

A summation…

Mark, mankind has chosen to reject God’s provision and protection; therefore, mankind is reaping what mankind has sown (Galatians 6:7-8). So then, Mark, don’t blame God for what mankind has brought upon himself through disobedience and don’t blame God for His faithfulness to His written word, His promises, seeing that our God is Holy, Just, Righteous, Truthful and He will do just as He has promised (1 Thessalonians 5:24).

Conclusion – What about those children?

In closing, Mark, I want you to remember that God has deemed that where there is no Law there is no culpability (Romans 4:13; 5:15) therefore, every child who passes from life in the body via death to life in the spirit having NOT attained an age of reason/accountability, these children are forever secure in my Lord (Matthew 18:3; 2 Samuel 12:23) and at the moment of their last exhalation in Time they are instantaneously translated into the presence of our Creator in their disembodied spirit, fully conscious, fully aware, free of pain-suffering (Revelation 21:4), awaiting the glorious resurrection of a new body fashioned like that of my Lord Jesus Christ (perfection) subsequent to His resurrection (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 3:21; Matthew 19:14).

So then, Mark, as opposed to questioning Christians and their loyalty to Jesus Christ, why not study the Scriptures and perhaps find Truth and Life in Jesus Christ as Lord as opposed to dying in your sin and dying in Hell without knowledge; at least make an informed decision about your Eternal destiny before the Age of Grace ends for you at death (2 Timothy 2:15; John 3:16)?

It is written…

“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.” Titus 2:11-14 (NASB)

Rickey D. Holtsclaw