Atheist mocks the afterlife; What happens when I die?

Atheist, June V, stated: “People that insist on believing in an afterlife, do so, because they refuse to deal with death on death’s own terms. My guess is, nonhuman animals don’t suffer from that same mental human type of blight.”

Christian response to June V…

In The Beginning, on the 6th-Day of Creation, our Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, created mankind in His spiritual image (Genesis 1:26) and endowed mankind with certain attributes possessed by God Himself. One of those attributes is an eternal spirit that will live and thrive abundantly beyond the death of the body constrained by Time and debilitating SIN.

Our Creator has infused Eternity into our heart (Ecclesiastes 3:11) and every man, woman and child is aware of a realm, aware of a life that extends beyond the brevity of this temporary life in Time (Hebrews 13:14) which the Holy Spirit refers to as a “vapor” that fades away like the morning mist (James 4:14). Only the man or woman, having given their hope and their Eternity into the hands of Satan through unbelief, have become numb to the glory that awaits the faithful in our Everlasting God, Jesus Christ-Yeshua (2 Corinthians 4:4).

A Christian’s hope in everlasting life as promised by Messiah-Yeshua/Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is not the resultant of fear concerning death of the body for we know that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) but we who love and honor Jesus Christ know that the human eye has not seen, ear has not heard of the unfathomable goodness that awaits those who dwell in the presence of our God who suffered and died so that we could live with Him forever (1 Corinthians 2:9).

It is written…

“But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:54-57 (NASB)

What happens when I die?

1) Death of the unfaithful/unbelieving.

2) Death of the faithful in Jesus Christ.

3) Death of babies, children, the mentally handicapped.

1) Death of the unrepentant/those who die having rejected Jesus Christ-Yeshua as Lord and Mediator for sin…

Every man and woman having attained an age of reason/accountability *(Numbers 14:28-30) possessing sufficient cognitive acuity to discern right from wrong, moral from immoral, to discern the righteous decrees (Natural Law) of our Creator as written upon our heart at conception…if this unfaithful man or woman dies in their body of flesh having rejected the pardon from death in sin and Hell freely offered by Jesus Christ-Yeshua earned for them at the Crucifixion, at the point of death of body, the unredeemed/unfaithful in their disembodied spiritual form will be instantaneously translated into the region Messiah-Jesus identifies as Hades-Sheol/Torments (Luke 16).

The disembodied spirit of the unfaithful at the last exhalation of the Earthly body in Time, will enter Hades-Torments fully cognizant, fully aware, fully interactive in the Spiritual World, more so than when constrained in the body of flesh that inhibited full cognition and reality due to the inherent limitations of sin/the fallen-nature/the curse inherited from our father, Adam (Ephesians 2:1-3).

The unfaithful that have been confined in Hades-Sheol/Torments from The Genesis of Time are currently awaiting the Judgment of the Condemned/The Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15) that will manifest subsequent to the Millennial Reign of Messiah-Yeshua that will manifest immediately subsequent to the coming Tribulation Period/the Apocalypse/a nuclear war that will be initiated by Islam-Allah/Satan v. Israel-Yeshua and consume the Nations of the Earth in the coming days.

Prior to the Judgment of the Condemned, the unfaithful detained in Hades-Sheol/Torments will receive a resurrected body of corruption (John 5:28-29) in order that they can stand in the Judgment before Jesus Christ-Yeshua (Romans 14:11; Philippians 2:10-11; Ecclesiastes 12:14). During adjudication, the condemned will be evaluated for the things done in the body while constrained by Time upon the Earth. No one will be found righteous for their works done in the body because God the Father has established an immutable Covenant between Himself and mankind that only by His grace (unmerited favor) through faith (trusting-believing) in His Son, Jesus Christ, and the innocent blood that Jesus shed at the Crucifixion can forgive, redeem, sinful mankind (John 3:16: Acts 4:12); therefore, the unrighteous man and woman at the Judgment of the Condemned, having rejected Jesus Christ as Lord, will be adjudicated “guilty” for sin, their name will NOT be found written in the Book of Life (Revelation 20:15) and they will be forced into the Lake of Fire/Hell/Gehenna and they will suffer for a period of time commensurate with the evil and rebellion performed in the body while constrained by Time upon the Earth; subsequent to this period of suffering, the unrighteous will die a “second death” and cease to exist forever (Revelation 20:14; Matthew 10:28). The “second death” is necessary because God the Father, in His purity-holiness-righteousness, will NOT permit the destructiveness of sin to enter the Eternal Kingdom of God (Revelation 21:27).

2) Death of the body relevant to the faithful in Jesus Christ…

Every man and woman having placed their faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and having received forgiveness of sin and having received the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Seal/Guarantor relevant to the Covenant of Grace established by God the Father through the Son, Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:13), these faithful men and women having trusted in Jesus Christ as Lord, at the point of death of the body in Time, they are instantaneously translated into the presence of God the Father in the Kingdom in their disembodied state that is fully cognitively acute/aware (2 Corinthians 5:8). Those who die with Jesus Christ as their Lord, will serve God in the Kingdom in a variety of occupations and positions as they were prepared for same during the process of Sanctification while in the body upon the Earth (1 Corinthians 6:3; Revelation 1:6 & 5:10).

At the resurrection, the faithful in Jesus Christ will receive a resurrected body fashioned like the resurrected body of Jesus Christ (Philippians 3:21) that is impervious to death, disease, pain, suffering (Revelation 21:4). Forever, the faithful in Jesus Christ will serve Him in the Kingdom and beyond if He so chooses and in the presence of our God there is joy and peace and assurance that is everlasting and beyond human comprehension (1 Corinthians 2:9).

3) What about babes (unborn/born), children, the mentally handicapped, who die in the Realm of Time?

The Holy Spirit has articulated within God’s Covenant (the Scriptures) that where there is no Law there is no sin (Romans 4:14; 5:13); therefore, babies, children having not attained an age of reason *(Numbers 14:28-30), the mentally handicapped, these lacking the ability to fully understand God’s righteous decrees via the Divine-Natural Law are NOT culpable for sin; therefore, upon the death of the body, these innocent before the Lord are escorted into His presence and they are restored to full acuity and spiritual life in order to enjoy the fullness of joy and peace that is found only in the presence of our loving God.

But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14 (NASB)

Speaking of the Eternal Realm, Jesus said…

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.”  John 18:36 (NASB)

Atheist, June V, stated: “After spending about 3 years on Topix forums and being informed on a daily basis that my religious beliefs were stupid … I came to finally agree. However … when I wanted others to agree that their religious beliefs were also stupid … I found out in a hurry that they didn’t agree with me. For mysterious reasons, agreement only seemed to work one way.”

A Christian response…

June represents “the seed that was sown on rocky places” as she is part of the unrepentant “many” in this lost and dying World seeking death in sin and Hell (Matthew 7:13-14); June is knowledgeable about God and His righteousness as per the Scriptures but she never truly trusted in Jesus Christ as Lord. There are “many” who have a mental assent relevant to Jesus’ deity and His reality but never trusted in Him as Messiah (Matthew 7:21-23). It is these unfaithful people my Lord spoke of in the Parable of the Sower and the Seed in Matthew 18.

Jesus and the Parable of the Sower and the seed…

Hear then the parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road. The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away. And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.”  Matthew 18:13-23 (NASB)

Jesus said…

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ Matthew 7:21-23 (NASB)

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I too walked in a World of compromise from my teenage-years to my mid-30’s playing games with God, possessing a knowledge of partial Truth, but justifying my sin by spiritualizing the few Scriptures I knew and twisting them to mean something they did not mean; I was fully aware of my self-deceit but found comfort and justification in same none-the-less.

It was not until my first actual read/study of the New Testament, at 35-years-of-age, that I found Jesus Christ was truly Who He claimed to be and it was during that first read that my life was changed forever. That was 27-years ago and I only give thanks and praise to my God for His mercy and faithfulness for having given me the grace to know Him personally.

Those who play games with God are rather easily swayed away from the Truth because they have no root in the Holy Spirit and they live according to the old proverb…

“For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them. It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.” 2 Peter 2:20-22 (NASB)

But Jesus has said concerning those who have truly entered into a relationship with God the Father by grace through faith in the Son and having been subsequently sealed by the Holy Spirit of God…

Jesus said concerning His faithful…

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” John 10:27-30 (NASB)

So then, we see a sharp delineation and contrast between those who play games with God and straddle the fence of faith, unbelief and disobedience compared to those who have humbled themselves and fully trusted in Jesus as Lord and subsequently received the Holy Spirit as a Seal of relationship (Ephesians 1:13). The differentiation is as stark as death v. life in the Spirit and Heaven v. Hell in Eternity.

Atheist, June V, stated: “The idea that gods exist … to in turn perceive humans as being special … should be laughable. And from my perspective … now that I am out of religion … it IS laughable. Why I couldn’t see it before, is because the religion itself kept me blind-sighted.”

Christian response to June…

“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

It is beyond human understanding and even basic commonsense when one seeks Truth concerning God that this Universe, the Moon, the Sun, the Stars, the complexity of the human genome, could manifest with such design void a Designer. Furthermore, it is absurd to believe that the Creator of this vast Universe and its inexplicable complexity would not clearly identify Himself and His Plan and purposes to that and to those which He has created; therefore, God the Father through the Son, Jesus Christ-Yeshua and by the power of God the Holy Spirit has provided,

1) The testimony/irrefutable-extant-empirical evidence provided by Nature that validates our Creator’s reality. The Holy Spirit declares this preliminary evidence as beyond refutation and articulated that anyone who denies God’s Creation as evidence for His validity will be “without excuse” at their adjudication/judgment in Eternity (Romans 1:18-32).

2) The Incarnation of God in Time through Jesus Christ-Yeshua, God in flesh Who walked among us for 33.5-years articulating and demonstrating God the Father to all who would believe (Philippians 2:5-8).

3) The Scriptures/the Holy Bible that span 1400-years and 40-writers inspired by God the Holy Spirit which explain, define, demonstrate, God’s Plan, purposes, eschatology, love and our reason for being/our purpose as we are constrained within the Realm of Time (Matthew 24:35). The Scriptures are God’s Covenant of Grace to YOU as per the work of Jesus Christ at the Crucifixion and this Covenant is Sealed/Guaranteed by the Holy Spirit of God to everyone who believes (John 3:16; Ephesians 1:13).

It truly is “the fool” (Psalm 14:1; Proverbs 1:7) and the rebellious individual seeking obfuscation, justification, for their aberrant lust, their sin, their rejection of God’s authority who reject the irrefutable evidence for our Creator and His power, dominion, authority over life. It is this rejection of truth that culminates in death of the body and death of the soul in Hell because our Holy and Just and Righteous God will NOT permit destructive, unrepentant sin to enter His Kingdom (Matthew 10:28; John 3:1-21; Revelation 21:27 .

In closing…

It is irrefutable Truth that God will not reveal Himself to anyone who truly does not desire to know Him. Unless a man or woman is willing to humble them self (James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:6) and acknowledge their need for God’s wisdom, His direction and His forgiveness for their sin, God the Father will remain an enigma and that person absorbed by narcissism, pride, arrogance, obsessions with aberrant lust, they will ultimately die in their sin and lose their soul in Hell for having rejected God’s Way to life in Eternity with Him i.e. by grace (unmerited favor) through faith (trusting-believing) that Jesus Christ is God who died to pay their sin-debt and that He was resurrected for their justification (Romans 10:9-10; John 14:6). It is the atheist that stumbles over the Rock of stumbling.

Atheist, Mark D, as he fervently kicks against the goads in his defense of Satan and the hopelessness that is Atheism, stated: “Christians believe in spiritual warfare. Angels and demons fight it out, while tempting humans. Isn’t that utterly ridiculous?”

Christian response to Mark,

The Truth of the Spiritual World and Spiritual Warfare is only ridiculous to the one deceived by naturalism via the lies of Darwinism. Our entire existence in Time is predicated upon the Spiritual Word; in fact, the origin of matter, the most basic building-block relevant to the presence of our Universe and the human genome, finds its origin in the Spiritual World.

Our Creator took elements only available in the Spiritual World and formed them into matter that is visible/apprehended by the senses concerning life constrained within the realm of Time (Hebrews 11:3); this is why mankind, cognitively constrained by Time and The Fall of Adam/the fallen-nature, will NEVER define origin of matter. Though scientists desperately seek an answer to the origin of our Universe, they search in vain because the genesis of matter is not visible, testable, verifiable, repeatable, via the laws of physics and the scientific method. The origin of matter finds it genesis in the Spiritual World and the intricate details relevant to God’s work in this area is unknowable by mankind (Job 36:26).

God is a Spirit…

God is a Spirit (John 4:24) and human kind is created in His spiritual image (Genesis 1:26) and every human being is simply a spirit encapsulated within a body of flesh; the human body being essential for interaction within the constraints of the Realm of Time and the physical laws that define same (Ecclesiastes 12:7; 2 Corinthians 5:8). Upon death of the human body in Time, the spirit of mankind will transition home to Eternity/the Spiritual World; the destiny-location of the disembodied/cognizant spirit of man subsequent to death of the body will be wholly dependent upon what one has decided in the Age of Grace relevant to Jesus Christ as Lord.

What happens when you die?

If one dies having truly believed in Jesus as Lord, they are instantaneously translated into the presence of God the Father (2 Corinthians 5:8). If one dies having rejected Jesus Christ as Lord for the mediation of sin, they are instantaneously translated to the region our Lord refers to as Hades-Sheol/Torments (Luke 16). It is in Hades that the unbelieving dead in their disembodied spirit, fully cognizant/aware, will await the Judgment of the Condemned to manifest subsequent to the Millennial Reign of Messiah-Yeshua/Jesus (Revelation 20:11-15).

Why will the Atheist not find life in God’s Kingdom?

The unfaithful, the unbelieving, those who have rejected Jesus Christ as Lord for the forgiveness of sin, will NOT be permitted to enter the Kingdom of God subsequent to death of the body because NOTHING IMPURE will be allowed to enter the Kingdom of God due to the destructive nature of SIN (Revelation 21:27).

Jesus and the Spiritual Realm…

Jesus Christ clearly articulated that His Kingdom is NOT of this Realm of Time…

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.” John 18:36 (NASB)

Mankind is a spirit and is constrained by the flesh for only a short time (James 4:14) as we are in preparation for servitude in Eternity. Jesus has clearly stated that “many” will die in the body and die in Hell in destruction/futility for having rejected Him as Messiah for the forgiveness of sin (John 8:24). Jesus also said that only a “few” would actually find the path to life in Eternity i.e. grace through faith in Jesus as Lord (John 14:6). Jesus 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)

Why the unrepentant Atheist denies the Spiritual…

The atheist mocks the Spiritual World because their spiritual father, Satan, has blinded their mind so that they cannot see the glory of the Spiritual World and its paramount relevance in both our existence in Time and in Eternity (2 Corinthians 4:4). The atheist is deceived by naturalism that is the demonic tenet of Darwinian Evolutionary Theory which is the most profound and destructive HOAX-Ruse to manifest among mankind subsequent to Lucifer’s deception of Eve in The Garden. Evolutionary theory is a most effective progenitor of Atheism, Secularism, Moral Relativism, Humanism, Naturalism. It is the naturalistic ideology of the atheist that makes the Truth of the Spirit seem as foolishness to them thereby setting them on the path to death in sin and death in Hell in unbelief in Jesus Christ as Lord. It is written…

“But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.” 1 Corinthians 2:14 (NASB)

The Spiritual World and our struggle with Satan, the demons, that were extricated from the Kingdom due to their SIN and placed upon this Earth to be dealt with apart from God’s Kingdom (Revelation 21:27; Luke 10:18; Ezekiel 28:11-17; Isaiah 14:12-15 ) is the focal point for our entire creation in Time and when the atheist denies this reality, they deny the foundation for all Truth and they deny/reject God’s Plan and His purposes for their life.

The atheist is a slave to their aberrant lust, a slave of Satan due to their rebellion of God’s authority over their life (Ephesians 2:1-4; Ephesians 4:17-19); therefore, in their continued rejection of Jesus Christ and their hatred for all things Spiritual, the atheist has been given-over to a debased mind to do those things and to believe those things which bring shame and indignation upon any people as the atheist revels in a lifestyle/ideology that will culminate in meaningless/futility in Hell lest they repent and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord (Romans 1:18-32; Matthew 16:26).

Atheist, Mark D, stated: “The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.” “Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent — slimy, sneaking and abominable.”

The quotes above are from American journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken. What do you think?

Christian response to Mark,

Christianity is under girded by extant, empirical, irrefutable, evidence relevant to the validity of the Creator of the Universe while Atheism is likened to a fish denying the reality of water.

God initially draws the inquiring mind and sincerely searching heart to Himself via what He has made in Nature and through His written word while Atheism defies logic, reason, evidence and commonsense. Atheism is truly “the fools” domain (Psalm 14:1; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 9:10). Please permit me to explain…

What is true and lasting knowledge?

The beginning of knowledge, wisdom and Truth is ONLY acquired by,

• Humbling oneself before God the Father (James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:6; Isaiah 66:1-2; Hebrews 11:6)

• Acknowledging/believing in Jesus Christ as one’s personal Savior for the mediation of sin (Romans 10:9-10)

• Receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit of Truth (Ephesians 1:13-14)

• Diligently studying the word of God and walking in obedience to same in pursuit of Sanctification (2 Timothy 2:15)

Then and only then will a life constrained by Time begin to take-on true reality and one’s eyes will be opened, their mind enlivened to see and understand God’s Plan and purposes for Time and Eternity (Romans 12:1-2). Void the indwelling Holy Spirit, true knowledge and a fulfilling life will never be realized (1 John 2:27).

Christian faith is substantiated by God’s evidence…

A Christian’s faith is not impervious to evidence; in fact, it is the irrefutable evidence of our Creator’s reality that has motivated many Christian’s to pursue that Creator’s Name and His purpose in Creation. Even as a child, the clear night sky confirmed for me that what I was observing mandated design and a Designer though I did not know said Designer’s Name. Denying what is before one’s eyes can be equated to a form of psychosis. Atheism, for all intents and purposes, is a form of mental and spiritual illness. Consider the following,

1) Our Creator has provided extant, preliminary evidence relevant to His reality and validity via what He has made in Nature; therefore, the atheist will be “without excuse” at their Judgment in Eternity. There is NO scientific explanation for the presence of the supernatural Sun, the Moon, the Stars, void design which mandates a Designer (Romans 1:18-32).

Mankind nor his science can explain origin of matter; the Universe; the complex human genome; science and the insanity of evolution i.e. “historical science” fail to explain these supernatural evidences of design and a necessitated Designer; these supernatural forms of evidence will testify against the foolishness of atheism and the rebellious atheist at the Judgment of the Condemned in Eternity! (Revelation 20:11-15)

Our Creator, Who is a Spirit (John 4:24), took elements from the Spiritual World and formed those elements into matter that is visible to the human eye/senses and constrained this matter within the Realm of Time (Hebrews 11:3). Mankind, cognitively constrained by Time and limited in cognitive function by The Fall/the Curse on Adam, will NEVER define/explain origin of matter because all that we see finds its genesis in the unseen Spiritual World.

2) Another form of empirical-extant-irrefutable evidence is the truism that our Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, left Eternity (the Spiritual World) some 2019-years ago and entered Time through the seed of the woman (a virgin) as prophesied in Genesis 3:15; Jesus walked among mankind in the flesh for 33.5-years defining God to everyone who would receive His Gospel of Grace through faith (Philippians 2:5-11) and then humbly/obediently/faithfully walked to the horrors of a Roman Crucifixion thereby shedding His perfectly innocent blood as payment for the sins of mankind (Genesis 3:21 is the 1st-Prophecy concerning blood sacrifice of Messiah).

3) Our Creator has provided His creation with a written Covenant (The Scriptures – The Gospel) explaining origin-meaning-morality-destiny and anyone who rejects this Covenant as articulated within the Holy Bible will die in sin and die a second death in Hell for rejecting Jesus Christ as Lord and Mediator for sin (John 8:24). This second death in Hell will be necessary because unrepentant sin will NOT be permitted to enter God’s Kingdom subsequent to death of the body constrained by Time (Revelation 21:27).

Therefore, it’s NOT that evidence for our Creator’s reality is absent; it’s NOT that “the believing mind is externally impervious to evidence;” it’s the Truth that the atheist rejects the extant evidence for our Creator because they love their sin, their sexual immorality, their antisocial conduct, their moral relativism, more than Truth and life itself. The atheist loathes the moral authority of our Creator over their life; therefore, the atheist makes a futile attempt to assuage themselves of guilt, the moral law/natural law/divine law and conscience (Romans 2:15) through rejection of that which they intuitively know to be the Truth (Romans 1:18-32). This deception is a lie of the Devil and anyone deceived by him in such a manner will suffer a similar fate as he in Hell (Revelation 20:10; Matthew 10:28).

In conclusion…

Understanding and acknowledging these forms of empirical, irrefutable, evidence relevant to the validity of our Creator is the only pathway to tangible, useful, eternal, knowledge and wisdom that surpasses human intellect/understanding which is constrained/limited by Time/the Curse/the sin-nature; the knowledge provided by the Holy Spirit is that which originates in the Spiritual World (John 14:16-18) and is carried-over into the Eternal Realm subsequent to death of the body in Time (1 John 2:27; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Matthew 24:35); unfortunately, the Atheist is carnal, worldly, fleshly, in thought and in deed (Romans 8:6-10); therefore, the atheist will never understand life’s deeper Truths in Time nor will they ever acquire knowledge that is relevant in both Time and in Eternity as they “exist” in unrepentant sin apart from the love, forgiveness, redemption, eternal life, only available by grace through faith in Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 2:14; 2 Corinthians 4:4).

It is written…

“For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” Romans 8:5-8 (NASB)

Finally…

Tragically, the Atheist is a slave to their flesh and therefore a slave to their sin (Romans 6:17-23) and a slave to the god of this World, Satan (Ephesians 2:1-4: John 8:44); therefore, the unrepentant atheist is destined to die in sin and die the “second death” in Hell in futility (John 8:24; Revelation 20:14); their worldly knowledge under girded by foolish men like H.L. Mencken (Quoted in Mark’s OP above) will culminate in nothingness and their brevity in Time will be erased forever as if they never existed (Matthew 16:26).

Question…Are Atheists generally smarter than religious people and is it not a rather hypocritical statement because Atheism is also a “religion;” therefore, the entire premise is a contradiction, yes?

A Christian response…

If by religious, you include Christians under that wide-banner then…Atheists are not smarter…they’re simply self-absorbed and know much about nothing important. Atheists are typically the first-born of Darwin’s idiocy; therefore, Atheists know much about men’s lies and deception involving historical science but they know little to nothing about that which under girds and supports a life that is worth living and a life that is honorable to God.

Knowledge is a deceptive thing when one possesses an abundance of knowledge that is eternally irrelevant/insignificant i.e. Atheism; knowledge that will die with the body and have zero-impact on their eternal destiny. True knowledge is honoring our Creator, His words, and pursuing a life seeking the glory that is to come in Jesus Christ, not the temporary narcissistic self-glory that fades with age and dies with the body of the one who serves Satan and their own self-interests in this temporary life constrained by Time.

Atheist, Mark D, wrote: “A Christian poster told me yesterday that she would under no circumstances vote for an atheist for President of the USA. I asked her if the person had the best ideas for the country, would she reconsider? “No”, she said. This is a fine example of a Christian putting her religion over the interests of her country. Millions more embrace her misguided values at the voting booth. They believe that atheists can’t be moral people, so they shouldn’t hold high public office. Nonsense! What is so striking is that they never mention that the Presidents who have committed the worse deeds in the modern era identified as Christian. God only knows when narrow minded Christians like this will come to realize that God has no place in the White House. Thoughts?”

A Christian response…

Atheists are demonically influenced and don’t have America’s best interest at heart. Atheists are servants of Satan, either aware or unaware. Atheists typically represent behaviors that are the antithesis of mores, norms, values, foundational to a sustainable Constitutional Republic and behaviors that have brought God’s wrath upon America i.e. atheism = abortion, sodomy (LGBTQ), antisocial conduct, Socialism-Communism/deadly Marxism-Leninism, secularism, moral relativism, nihilism, hedonism, pedophilia. These behaviors and ideologies cannot, will not, do not, promote a healthy, sustainable, productive, happy, honorable, society.

God’s wrath and His anger are present in America and Progressive-Socialism, represented by Atheism, is the manifestation of that wrath and anger. We see the tenets of Atheism at work in the modern Progressive-Socialist-Democrat Party, the Party of Satan, that mutilates babies by the millions and froths over supporting unconscionable sexual perversion that is destroying America’s posterity as well as seeking to morph America into a Socialist-state; Socialism, a demonic ideology that is responsible for the death of 100-million people over the last 100-years.

No thanks, but at as a Christian who loves and honors the Word of God, Jesus Christ, I choose to NEVER support an Atheist from school board elections to the Presidency; the Atheist does not represent Christ, my family, my values or my Nation in any way. The Atheist represents evil in our society and without Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit reigning supreme in the hearts and minds of the majority, America’s Constitutional Republic cannot be sustained.

I fear that void another Civil War to once again force the demonic ideology of Progressive Socialism i.e. the demonic Democrat Party into the oceans, America will surely die in apostasy and it is the Progressive Socialist represented by the Atheist-Secularist-Naturalist that will lead the way to unconscionable suffering and death of America’s posterity. May God have mercy on my beautiful Grandson!

“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is their duty – as well as privilege and interest – of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” – John Jay

-John Jay – First Supreme Court Justice of the United States

Letter 1 – The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, Henry Johnston, editor (New York: G. P. Punam’s Sons, 1893), Vol. IV, pp. 391-393, 403-419, letters to John Murray, October 12, 1816 and April 15, 1818.

Atheist, Jim Mader, stated: “Circular reasoning doesn’t prove God exists.”

Response to Jim, (content added for OP publication)

I grow so weary of atheistic obfuscation and foolishness. God has proven His validity, initially, through what He has made in Nature and placed before our senses; therefore, in your atheism, you’re “without excuse.” I’m not your fool; you’re smarter than to truly believe there is no Creator (Romans 1:18-32).

Even an immature child can observe the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, life, and understand design and the necessity for a Designer. That child may not know God’s Name but they know the undeniable intricacy of our Creation mandates a Designer. Until and unless you can prove God a liar, why not be ashamed of the absurdity and embarrassment that is Atheism and stop advertising this ideological facade to the World?

You insult yourself in the futility of Atheism and, according to the Scriptures, you make yourself “the fool” of Time and Eternity (Psalm 14:1; Proverbs 1:7).

It is your decision via free will as an “atheist” to reject Jesus Christ as Lord, Creator, Messiah, Judge and as a result of said decision, it is your option to die in sin and die in Hell but please, be honest and admit that your rejection of God is motivated by narcissistic and aberrant sensuality purposes and NOT a lack of evidence?

I do wish that all Atheists would please stop with the charades and the deceit that defines Atheism; I’m not buying your nonsense, I know better…sorry. 😊 At least Huxley made an attempt to be honest and forthright.

Atheist/Agnostic/Confused? Jim DeMaegt, stated: “Everything that Exists Had To Have Had a CREATOR! THEREFORE SATAN CREATED THE UNIVERSE!!”

Response to Jim,

Satan is created not Creator; Satan-Lucifer is an anointed cherub angel that coveted God’s creative ability. It is Lucifer’s-Satan’s introduction of destructive SIN into the Kingdom of God that is causation for our Creation in Time (Ezekiel 28:11-19). Please permit me to explain with as much brevity as possible…

How and why did God create the Universe?

God took elements of the Spiritual World (Hebrews 11:3) and formed them into matter that is visible within the constraints of Time and He then created the Universe, Earth, mankind, at which time our Creator (Jesus Christ-Yeshua) removed Lucifer-Satan from the Kingdom and placed him upon the Earth along with the rebellious angels that supported Lucifer in his coup d’état (Luke 10:18). Lucifer was provided access to mankind who relented to Lucifer’s enticement to rebel against God’s Covenant of Provision with Adam (Genesis 3).

The entire Biblical account stemming from The Genesis to the Revelation is God’s Plan for dealing with Lucifer apart from the Kingdom as he is constrained here in Time as the faithful angels in Heaven observe the horror and unconscionable destruction of SIN at the behest of Satan and his demons. We are in the midst of an unconscionable spiritual war (Ephesians 6:12).

This has been done because had our Creator simply destroyed Lucifer and the rebellious angels at the moment of their attempted coup, the faithful angels that remained loyal to God would no longer love God via free will/volition but out of fear. Pure and authentic love and relationship cannot exist in fear; therefore, our Creator is allowing SIN to play-out within the constraints of Time as the faithful angels look-on; at the summation of Messiah-Yeshua’s Millennial Reign, the faithful angels in the Kingdom, having observed thousands-of-years of carnage at the hands of Satan, they will agree with God that Satan does indeed deserve confinement in Hell forever (Revelation 20:10).

The primary purpose for Messiah’s incarnation (God becoming flesh) some 2019-yrs ago was to destroy the works of Satan which He has done successfully at the Crucifixion (1 John 3:8). Mankind is playing an intricate role in the cosmic struggle that is manifest before our eyes. We can witness elements of this cosmic struggle in the strife between Allah-Islam (Satan) v. Yeshua-Israel (God). It will be Allah-Satan/Islam that will be the aggressor which initiates the coming Tribulation/Apocalypse (nuclear war) that will manifest initially in Jerusalem, Israel (Zechariah 14:12). It will be Messiah-Yeshua’s victory over the armies that come against Jerusalem that will initiate His Millennial Reign over the Nations of the Earth.

Gary Labuscagne stated on a FB debate site: “Forcing any religious views into a child is child abuse and has very real negative consequences”

Gary’s OP statement was accompanied by an article-heading and a photo of a Catholic Nun and children under the Nun’s tutelage. Let’s discuss Gary’s premise relevant to training our children to be good, honorable, faithful, citizens.

Response to Gary…

Having policed the mentally and spiritually ill society in America for 31-years and having experienced America’s public education system up through a Graduate program and more importantly, as a Christian who loves and adores God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, I will concur with Gary relevant to his warning concerning “religion” and its potential detrimental effect on our children.

For clarification, when I speak of religion I point to Catholicism, Islam-the Quran, Buddhism, Hinduism- the Vedas, certain specific cults and sects such as Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, radical off-shoots of Christianity such as ultra-charismatic movements defined by Pentecostalism and Church of God charismata, those Churches teaching a “health-wealth-prosperity Gospel;” such beliefs and teaching are not of God as they’re a demonic confluence of Truth and Hersey = confusion.

Having walked with my Lord Jesus Christ for 27-years, I believe there is only one viable solution to America’s woes and that is the purity and simplicity and life-changing aspects of the Gospel of Jesus Christ taken literally and honestly from the Scriptures and applied to one’s personal life; anything other than the purity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ will ultimately be self-defeating and Eternally futile. Please allow me explain…

My personal observations subsequent to 62-years of life…

In my life-span of 62-years thus far, I can testify that there are three-demonically-based entities that have destroyed the faith, the future, the lives, of millions of America’s children and this destruction is presently seen coming to fruition in the Millennial and Gen-Z generations. These three-demonically-based entities are Progressive Socialism, Roman Catholicism, Darwinian Evolutionary Theory.

1) PROGRESSIVE SOCIALISM: Progressive Socialism, as initiated by John Dewey in 1900, incrementally-systematically infused revisionist history into America’s public education system by subtly planting the seeds of Socialistic-Marxist Communist thought into the classroom while teaching falsity relevant to America’s founding, America’s Founders, America’s founding documents. The resultant of John Dewey’s strategy and the Progressive Socialist’s who have implemented said strategy is the present-day historical ignorance that is rampant in the Millennial and Gen-Z Progressive Socialist.

2) ROMAN CATHOLICISM: The second-entity that has destroyed the faith and future of millions of America’s youth is the pagan cult of Roman Catholicism. Catholicism has never been Christian. The abuse of children in the Catholic Church is demonic and is a natural manifestation of any pagan cult. Catholicism was founded by Constantine in 312-313 AD 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 cult more palatable to the masses. Nothing has been more damaging to the Christian faith, grace, Truth, the purity and Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ than the pagan cult of Roman Catholicism.

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, Infant baptism; 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 in both Time and in Eternity.

3) DARWINIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY: The third-entity culpable for the destruction of the faith and the Eternal future of millions of American youth who will ultimately lose their soul in Hell is the demonically-based Progressive Socialist strategy of infusing Darwinian Evolutionary Theory into America’s classrooms in the early 1960’s.

Darwin’s unsupported theory of historical science is a most efficient progenitor of radical Atheism, Secularism, Nihilism, Eugenics, Abortion, Moral Relativism, manifesting in mass hopelessness, destruction of the Biblical family unit, youth suicide, addiction, demonic persuasion, sexual immorality, Socialism, Communism, hatred for religious thought with an emphasis on hate for Jesus Christ and Christians. Darwin’s theory emanates directly from the mind and motives of Satan and is the greatest and most destructive deception since Satan’s deception of Eve in “The Garden.”

If my Lord tarries another Century…

If Jesus Christ tarries for another 100-years, honest historians will reflect back on the destruction of America’s Constitutional Republic and they will point to Progressive Socialism, Roman Catholicism (and related cults and sects), Darwin’s idiocy, as the three primary culprits that led to the destruction of the World’s greatest hope for peace and prosperity i.e. the United States of America.

As America has moved away from faith in the purity and simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; as America has “progressively” rejected the Bible as Truth while seeking an ideology of demonically-based secularism through radical atheism, naturalism, nihilism, moral relativism, America began systematically murdering millions-upon-millions of its posterity in the womb (61-million American babies slaughtered to date since 1973) while America’s youth have compromised with the most unconscionable forms of sexual immorality, self-degradation, self-mutilation, gender-confusion, Socialistic thought and Socialistic ideological implementation; Socialism, an ideology that has led to the death of 100-million people in the last 100-years; as a result, America and America’s Constitutional Republic is dying before our eyes.

Parents, the only solution…

Parents, use caution, wisdom, discernment, in choosing educational facilities for your children as an overwhelming number of America’s High Schools and Universities are nothing more than Progressive-Socialist Indoctrination Centers. Parents, the only answer/solution to raising productive, loving, patriotic, honorable, honest, moral, mentally and spiritually healthy children is to raise them by the precepts of the Holy Bible, involve them in a Bible believing and Christ honoring Church and train your children in the purity and simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; otherwise, your children will also become hopeless, directional-less, godless, fruitless, atheistic-socialists, who will not only ally with those seeking to destroy the greatest Nation ever known to mankind but they will destroy themselves and their soul and their Eternity in Hell through living a life of unbelief in and disobedience to Jesus Christ as Lord; Faith in, obedience to Jesus Christ is the ONLY Way to an honorable and sustainable life in Time and in Eternity.

America’s future…

America has gone too far for too long in its rebellion toward Jesus Christ; therefore, America will die in apostasy under God’s wrath, but there is hope for your children in Jesus Christ if you will raise them to know, to love, to honor, God the Father – God the Son – God the Holy Spirit through teaching your children the Scriptures, praying with them daily, modeling a Godly life for them and loving them with the love of God as they are His children and you are their caretakers but for a very short time. Though your children may suffer horrifically under the demonic tenets of Progressive Socialism, their faith and the faithfulness of the Holy Spirit will guide them through this life and into the glorious life that is to come in the presence of our Creator, Jesus Christ.