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Atheistic Misconception of Christian Faithfulness

The Atheistic misconception of Christian faithfulness…

Christians don’t seek goodness and obedience to our Lord because we fear Hell…we have a Savior that has defeated death, Hell and the grave for us. Christians seek morality, obedience, faithfulness, by the process of sanctification via the Holy Spirit because we know our Lord Jesus Christ, we love and adore Him and we know what He has done for us because of His great love for us; Jesus Christ left the splendor of Eternity some 2019-yrs ago and entered time in the flesh and suffered and died to pay our sin-debt, a debt we could not pay, so that we could live with Him forever. When one is willing to save my life by giving His own life in my place…the very least I can do is honor Him and respect Him.

Jesus said in John 10…

“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

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Atheist v. Christian Debate – Futility Defined!

The Futility of the Atheist v. Christian Debate…

As a Christian who loves and adores Jesus Christ-Yeshua, I have debated the façade of Atheism ad nauseam and as a result of these debates, there are irrefutable conclusions to be reached.

1) The Atheist is not simply an unbeliever but the Atheist is a radicalized enemy of the Living God. The Atheist does not only live in a façade of unbelief but they actively war against God in their obsession to justify their sexual immorality, narcissism, naturalism, moral relativism, secularism and nihilism.

2) Though our Creator, Jesus Christ, has provided extant, empirical, preliminary evidence for His validity through the Creation/Nature to draw mankind unto Himself in hopes that the honest seeker of Truth will find God in His Covenant Letter articulated within the Bible, the Atheist has NO interest in this Truth because they are spiritually dead, spiritually blinded by Satan and unable to internalize the Truth of the word of God.

3) Other than pointing to the evidence provided in Nature, the Christian’s defense of the faith is wholly rooted in the Written words of God and personal experiential relevance of the individual believer, all of which do not resonate with the Atheist; in fact, the Atheist is offended by faith, God’s words and the personal testimony of the Christian; therefore, any discussion with the Atheist, a radicalized servant of Satan, is futile and counterproductive for the Christian.

4) Jesus Christ never told His followers to argue over the Scriptures or brow-beat those who will not, cannot, internalize Truth but only to tell them of God’s Plan in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and if they reply in unbelief/disdain…walk away and shake the sand from your shoes. Pray for the Atheist and walk away in peace!

Jesus is wise and His words are wisdom! Personally, I have been in error in arguing with the Atheist and for this foolishness I apologize and repent.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Darwin and the Death of a Nation

YEC Statement on FB: “Whenever I bring up my views about young Earth Creation I often hear that it’s a ‘side issue’ and nothing to really worry about because, after all, all you need is Jesus. Which is true. However, as people enter adulthood and start using their newfound powers of reasoning they typically encounter a dilemma such as: ‘…how could I possibly believe the Bible if it was wrong from the very start?…’”

Christian response…

America is dying daily in apostasy, atheism, moral relativism, the shed blood of innocence/abortion, sexual perversion, destruction of the family unit, addiction, suicide, insane demands for socialism and if historians are truthful in the future and my Lord tarries for a sufficient period of Time, they will look back on America’s demise and the suffering of the American people and conclude that the turning point or the catalyst that initiated the fall of American society is the forced infusion of Darwin’s insanity into the American classroom in the early 1960’s; Darwin having replaced Jesus Christ in those classrooms via SCOTUS decisions like Engel v. Vitale (1962).

There is no greater progenitor of Atheism, secularism, nihilism, moral relativism, abortion, sexual perversion, addiction, suicide, hopelessness, than Darwin’s evolutionary nonsense that seeks to negate the creation narrative in the Biblical Genesis and teach our posterity that they are a cosmic accident from the goo to the zoo to you. When we teach our children that there is no God and no moral responsibility or culpability; when we teach our children that they are descended from apes…why are we so amazed when these same children conduct themselves as apes in our society?  America, a society of death and you wonder why, what has happened? This is insanity on steroids!

Personally, having policed this society for 31-yrs, I believe the infusion of Darwin was a Progressive-Socialist strategy, beginning with John Dewey in 1900, that morphed America from a God-fearing, Christian oriented society into an atheistic, nihilistic, secular society thereby preparing the minds of America’s youth for the infusion of Socialism-Marxism and the Globalist agenda of elitist control over the means of production/distribution of all goods and services and a sociological-class division of the bourgeoisie/socialist elites and a pauper class of proletariat void any intervention by an absent, God-honoring, patriotic, middle-class America. A Marxist utopia of death.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

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Atheist-Secularist Blather – A Christian Response

Atheist, Mikke Lister said: “Why must atheists struggle to keep religious influence out of educational institutions? Control of educational institutions in the past ensured the promotion of religious conformity among the young. In nations where control of education has been wrested from the evil of religious indoctrinators, secular education has immediately resulted in the fall of religious domination and the liberation of thought.”

Response by Rick Holtsclaw…

America’s societal demise began with SCOTUS decisions such as Engel v. Vitale (1962) along with the infusion of Darwin’s demonic nonsense into the American classroom in 1963. The Mental Health Act of 1963 also inadvertently led to the closing of State-run insane asylums around the Nation and their inmates were released to underfunded private institutions and ultimately into America’s urban areas essentially unsupervised. It was in 1973 that the Humanist Manifesto was published. Then, in 1973, SCOTUS affirmed demonically-based Roe v. Wade while the APA declassified homosexuality as a mental illness.

Over the next few decades, America’s moral and ethical foundation was decimated by secularism, moral relativism and there has been no greater progenitor of atheism, nihilism, moral relativism, secularism, addiction, abortion, hopelessness, sexual perversion, Progressive-Socialism, than the forced infusion of evolutionary theory into the minds of America’s posterity.

The horrific SCOTUS decision of Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) was the nail in the coffin of America’s dismal future as America was solidly under God’s wrath for having murdered 61-million babies in the womb. Rampant, unencumbered, sexual perversion is the tell-tale sign that God’s wrath is upon a people group or a Nation. (Romans 1:18-32)

This current generation of lost and deceived Progressive-Socialists-Secularists-Atheists-Moral Relativists via Millennial’s and Gen-Z zombies who are seeking secularism and a godless America will discover that without Jesus Christ as Lord ruling and reigning in the heart of the majority, America’s Constitutional Republic and the mores, norms, values, necessary to sustain its integrity will fail and America’s posterity will suffer horrifically.

There has never been a more lost, deceived, morally bankrupt, politically and historically lacking knowledge generation in America’s history as those in the Millennial and Gen-Z generation of modern-day America. It is the atheistic fool and the sexually perverted and the demonic that will ultimately destroy the United States of America in their demonic insanity and alliance with Satan, unaware.

Apostasy is the metastatic malignancy that will consume America’s future.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Also see:

Why Atheism is Killing America: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2019/02/21/why-atheism-is-killing-america/

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If I’m Gay and Believe in Jesus – am I Okay?

Question is asked: “Is it a sin to be gay because I believe in Jesus with all my heart?”

Christian Response…

Even the demons believe in Jesus and they tremble with fear. (James 2:19) Though “belief” is a component of the salvation process, belief must be accompanied by repentance of sin. If you truly “believe” in Jesus Christ, you will seek to obey God’s will for your life. Homosexuality-Lesbianism is sin against God’s Covenant of Marriage as established in The Genesis and reiterated in the Gospel of Mark.

Concerning the sin of homosexuality…

“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [f]effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (NASB)

If you truly love God and your “belief” is authentic, then you will seek to be pleasing to God and honor Him through your obedience. It’s good to have faith but your faith is authenticated by your works-your behavior. Though mankind cannot be saved by works and good behavior but only by grace through faith in Jesus, alone, we must first agree with God that we are a sinner and we must be willing to REPENT of sin.

Obedience is better than sacrifice. Jesus said…

“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” Luke 6:46 (NASB)

“I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” Luke 13:3 (NASB)

God does not leave you alone in your struggles but through your enduring faith and desire to be obedient to His will, He will strengthen you through His indwelling Spirit and give you the power and ability to be one who overcomes life’s obstacles and the weaknesses of the flesh.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

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Atheist Questions the Reality of the Spiritual

Atheists asks in sincerity: “So why call it spirit? Why not just call it body? Can you show me spirit that is not inside a body?” (Atheist v. Christian debate forum)

Christian response…

We cannot perceive the spirit with our senses that are constrained by Time. I can show the resultant of the spirit’s absence…simply visit a mortuary or a grave yard.

“For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.” James 2:26 (NASB)

The spirit of man plays a limited role relevant to the Realm of Time; the origin, foundational function and purpose of the spirit is interaction within the boundlessness of the Spiritual World. What many don’t understand, especially those pursuing a naturalistic ideology, is the truism that even the origin of matter was created from that which is NOT visible to our human eye.

Our Creator, Who is Spirit, took that which is spiritual, not perceivable by our senses constrained by Time, and from the Spiritual World, He created all that we see by making same visible and interactive with our senses via His authority over Time and Eternity.

All that we perceive in this Universe is a by-product of that which exists in the Spiritual World. This is why mankind, cognitively constrained by Time via our senses, will never define origin of matter or origin of life, both of which have emanated from the Spiritual World. Note the interesting way the Holy Spirit articulates that truism here and consider the inverse:

“By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.” Hebrews 11:3 (NASB)

Therefore, what we perceive with our senses in Time finds its origin in the Spiritual World and was created by that which is in the Spiritual World and made visible and interactive with our senses constrained by Time.

Most theologians insist our Creation emanates ex nihilo (out of nothing) but I sincerely disagree; I believe the Holy Spirit has told us that our Creation is simply the Spiritual made visible by the same God who is Spirit that became flesh and dwelt among us in Time for 33.5-yrs. – Jesus Christ-Yeshua.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

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God’s Omniscience v. Man’s Free Will

God’s Omniscience v. Free Will

Atheists insists that free will and our Creator’s omniscience are antithetical. The Atheist is incorrect.

The Atheist strives/struggles with free will and the Omniscience of our Creator believing that foreknowledge negates one’s ability to choose. This is incorrect. I know my children and my wife with intimacy and I know the decisions they will make in almost every scenario in life. My knowledge of their decision before they actually make that decision does not negate or interfere with their free will to choose that particular decision.

Our Omniscient Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, knows our every thought before we think them but He does not deter us from choosing right v. wrong, good v. evil, life v. death, but allows free will to reign supreme so that love and relationship with Him and our fellowman can manifest in purity and authenticity. Our God does employ the Holy Spirit residing within His faithful on Earth to urge them, point them, direct them in the ways of righteousness but even in the lives of a believer, they remain agents of free will and this is of necessity in order that love and relationship with our Creator can manifest in purity and authenticity; otherwise, man becomes robotic and love-relationship become impotent.

Our God simply works through and maneuvers around our choices to accomplish His perfect will for Time and Eternity. I have no doubt that our Creator has employed His omniscience to place certain men and women in strategic positions of authority or decision-making in order that these men would maneuver history toward God’s ultimate goal for Time and Eternity e.g. Noah, Abraham, Moses, the Pharaoh, King David, King Saul, the Prophets, the Apostles, Judas Iscariot, Hitler…and it’s not that our Creator negated the free will of these historical figures but that He placed them in a strategic position where their volitional propensities would be realized.

Again, free will is absolutely essential for love and relationship to manifest in purity and authenticity. The supreme ethic given mankind by our Creator is the ethic of “LOVE” and in order for love to manifest in purity, one must possess the free will to choose hate, disobedience, disloyalty.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

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Also see:

In the Beginning God – Why?: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2017/09/27/in-the-beginning-god-why/

The Atheist – “Show me evidence for your God!”

Atheist demands…“Show me the proof for your God!”

Response to the Atheist…

First of all, it is incompatible with commonsense, logic and reason for anyone possessing sight-hearing-touch-taste-smell, to exist within this supernatural environment and observe the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, human life i.e. the complex, unfathomable, human genome and subsequently turn-away and deny the necessity of design and the necessity of a Designer. To do so is blatant rebellion, ignorance and/or insanity and yes, this Universe, the human genome are SUPER-NATURAL and no one, nothing can explain them but the Designer of same!

Though a human being possessing at least a modicum of commonsense, cognitive acuity-awareness, may not know the name of the Designer that initiated the Realm of Time and formed this supernatural Universe, they intuitively know that a Designer exists and said Designer possesses power, dominion, authority, over all of Creation, including dominion and authority over the lives of every human being and every living thing that walks or crawls upon the Earth. The biological sciences, pre-biological science studying the genesis of the complex genome, physics, astrophysics, chemistry, historical science i.e. evolution, these constructs constrained by Time and law cannot explain the supernatural environment that engulfs our senses 24-7-52-365. The more science conducts research, the more profound are the questions void answers.

Though men like Dawkins, Ra, Harris, Gervais, Hitchens and a plethora of “worldly intelligent” men like them possess some intelligence in a specific field of study, these men are truly liars, idiots and borderline insane concerning Truth and evidence of design and the evidence mandating a Designer relevant to our supernatural World. These men are “the fools” of Eternity and anyone that pays them allegiance makes them self as much a fool as they. They are the tools and servants and useful idiots of Evil. To deny what is before one’s eyes is insanity. No one, nothing, has explained origin, meaning, morality, destiny, like the God of the Holy Bible.

The atheist in his vulgarity and rebellion will scoff and make every attempt to disparage the Scriptures of the Canon Bible but the Word of God is timeless and eternal and will be used to judge that atheist in his/her facade of unbelief when they stand in the Judgment in Eternity. There is no God and Creator like Jesus Christ-Yeshua and when you deny His Truth, you deny life and hope and Eternity in your facade of rebellion, unbelief, in the ridiculous hoax that is labeled as “Atheism” – a rebellious fool’s attempt to justify their immorality by denying that which they know exists.

The Atheist is sadly and pathetically laughable in their insistence for “evidence” and the atheist is truly “the fool” of Time and Eternity. The angles must look upon the lowly atheist and shake their head with amazement at the abject willful ignorance and foolishness of these rebellious, deceived, stubborn, creatures. For years I have staunchly disagreed with Calvin’s doctrine of predestination but the modern-day, radicalized, petulant, atheist does provide a foundation for Calvin’s theological positioning.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

“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

Also see:

Debating the Atheist – A Lesson in Hopelessness: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2019/08/24/debating-the-atheist-a-lesson-in-hopelessness/

In the Beginning God – Why?: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2017/09/27/in-the-beginning-god-why/

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Atheist insults FAITH – a Christian Response

Atheist premise: How is faith a virtue? Isn’t it just an excuse for intellectual laziness? Bill Guthrie (atheist)

Christian response…

Christian faith is that substance that moves mankind from a wandering in hopelessness to an acute desire for knowledge. It is faith that permits man to observe the supernatural Universe around him and it is faith that inspires an inquisitiveness to know how this design manifest and who that designer could possibly be?

It is the man or woman who steps-out in faith and pursues our Designer with their whole heart that ultimately find that Designer and they are subsequently introduced to the secrets of the Kingdom of God through the Holy Spirit.

Though faith has been defined as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1) – I prefer simply to refer to faith as “trust-belief” motivating action that concludes in verification for the one possessing a heart willing to internalize Truth.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

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Mystery of Insanity – The Progressive-Socialist-Democrat: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2019/08/24/mystery-of-insanity-the-progressive-socialist-democrat/

Progressive Socialism – Party of Deception and Death: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2018/01/26/progressivism-satans-party-of-death/

Why Atheism is Killing America: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2019/02/21/why-atheism-is-killing-america/

In the Beginning God – Why?: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2017/09/27/in-the-beginning-god-why/

Debating the Atheist – A Lesson in Hopelessness

As a Christian and a law enforcement officer for 31-years and having debated and policed the secularist, atheist, moral relativist, evolutionist, nihilist, ad nauseam, I’ve come to some irrefutable conclusions…

1) An overwhelming number of these individuals are members of the LGBTQ community and are completely obsessed with their sexual genitalia and aberrant passions to the exclusion of reason, logic, natural law, health, patriotism, family, friends, Truth and most importantly, Jesus Christ-Yeshua as Lord.

2) An overwhelming number of these individuals entered into an aberrant lifestyle through persuasive instruction in evolutionary theory in their childhood. There is no doubt that Darwinian Evolution, forced into the mind of our youth, is a precursor to atheism, homosexuality-lesbianism, secularism, socialism, moral relativism, nihilism, addiction, hopelessness, suicide. Having studied this sociological phenomenon and policed it for 31-years, I believe the infusion of Darwin’s nonsense into the classrooms in the 1960’s was a Progressive-Socialist strategy to morph America from a Christian-oriented society into a secular-atheistic society thereby readying the hearts and minds of America’s youth for socialism-globalism. It is America’s Millennial Generation that has succumbed to the full force of the Progressive-Socialist strategy.

3) An overwhelming number of these individuals hate Christianity for its positioning on homosexuality-lesbianism and they fervently hate Christianity as a conservative, patriotic, pro-life advocacy group. Through incremental-meticulous  brainwashing via the fake news media, Hollywood, social media, Christianity has been demonized and is now perceived by Progressives as the greatest threat to America’s progressive ideology of enlightenment i.e. a demonic and completely dysfunctional form of government and sociological ideology.

4) An overwhelming number of these individuals are pro-choice, pro-abortion, having no conscience concerning the mutilation of babies in the womb up to the ninth-month and beyond nor is there any concern for the mutilated child’s right to due process as per the 5th and 14th-Amendments to the United States Constitution. Some Millennial’s cite homosexuality-lesbianism and abortion as reasonable remedies to perceived over-population concerns.

5) An overwhelming number of these individuals are pro-socialism-Marxism as a result of having experienced progressive-socialist teachers-professors in high school and in the university. The Millennial Generation is deceived into thinking that “Democratic Socialism” is “Socialism with a conscience” completely void the knowledge that socialism has led to 100-million deaths in the previous 100-years.

6) An overwhelming number of these individuals, beginning with the Millennial Generation backwards, will be the primary causation for America’s impending demise in Progressive-Socialism, immorality, confusion, hopelessness as a result of America’s shedding of innocent blood via abortion and rampant sexual perversion that have elicited the wrath of God on the American people and the United States as a Constitutional Republic sustained by the rule of law.

I do believe America’s impending demise has eschatological underpinnings and ironically it is the modern-day, radicalized Atheist that will be the catalyst in furthering our Creator’s Plan for the coming Day of the Lord. Our God truly does work in mysterious ways.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

The Atheist is “without excuse” in the Judgment for they intuitively know that our Creator exists…

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Also see:

Mystery of Insanity – The Progressive-Socialist-Democrat: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2019/08/24/mystery-of-insanity-the-progressive-socialist-democrat/

Progressive Socialism – Party of Deception and Death: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2018/01/26/progressivism-satans-party-of-death/

Why Atheism is Killing America: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2019/02/21/why-atheism-is-killing-america/

In the Beginning God – Why?: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2017/09/27/in-the-beginning-god-why/