Category Archives: Uncategorized
Atheist Proclaims: Sin is FUN, God is Boring!
Atheist stated: “Many Christian children view saints as role models. Their parents tell them it is better to be a saint than a sinner. Is that true? Let’s be honest, sinning can be great fun! Sex before marriage, drinking, gambling, dancing, spending money lavishly, and so on can make life exciting and worth living. When you are sinning you feel alive, yet Christians would prefer us all to be boring saints. Nonsense! To be a sinner is interesting and good. To be a saint is boring and bad. Saints are not mentally healthy, because they deny who they really are. The best way to find out who you really are is to sin repeatedly, so toss the saint role models aside and start your journey of self discovery today! Thoughts?”
Christian response to Mark…
Sensuality, ingratiating one’s flesh in sin is “fun” for a season but without-a-doubt, a man or woman who seeks sensuality over God’s Plan will reap what they sow; this truism cannot be circumvented. (Ecclesiastes 11:9) (Galatians 6:7-8)
God’s righteousness and His Plan for our lives, His edicts given through the moral law written upon our heart at conception and reiterated within His written Covenant to mankind i.e. the Bible, these laws/edicts are not recommendations but Truth if one is to live a life of peace, joy, meaning, purpose and sustainability. (Psalm 119:11)
God has provided His edicts not to destroy or inhibit our “fun” in life but He has given us His law for our own protection/sustainability because He loves His creation and desires the best for our lives. God’s way is the way of life, peace, joy, contentment. God knows the pitfalls and potholes in life and He knows our temptations and our selfish desires that will ultimately result in sorrow, grief, self-loathing and condemnation if they are pursued with aberrant lust void discipline and discernment. (Psalm 119:9-16) (Hebrews 4:15)
I have lived for 62-yrs thus far and as a young man I compromised with the flesh and yes, it was “fun” for a season but now that I reflect back on those years of selfishness, I see the damage done in my life, the damage done in the lives of others and I live with the scars on my heart in remorse; this is the scenario that our loving Creator desires for us to avoid.
Though I am forgiven of my sin and redeemed by grace thorough faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, in my mind and in my inner-man, shame and sorrow and self-indignation/loathing persists because I know that my compromise with my Lord’s will for my life was not only wrong, but my rebellion caused injury that I cannot personally atone for and some of those precious people I offended are now passed-away into Eternity.
Obedience to God’s Will and His perfect Plan is truly the ONLY way to find lasting peace, contentment, joy, that this World simply cannot provide you and that peace and joy is ONLY available through the indwelling Holy Spirit who is ONLY available to the one who honors God the Father by trusting/believing in the Son, Jesus Christ, as Lord and Mediator for sin leading to Eternal life.
It is written…
“How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
12 Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes!
13 With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
14 In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
15 I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.
16 I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.” Psalm 119:9-16 (ESV)
Rickey D. Holtsclaw
Atheist accuses Christians of Logical Fallacy INRE to Knowing God: A Response
Atheist, Mark D, stated: I was talking to a Christian yesterday, and I asked him how he knew what he believed? He equated belief with knowledge. “To believe is knowledge”, he said. This is, of course, a cognitive error, but it is a difficult one to overcome. When you deny the veracity of your beliefs, you reject yourself, and human beings are not constructed to reject themselves. It takes a great deal of mental effort to examine what you believe and to discard it due to a lack of evidence. Christians don’t search for evidence for their beliefs, but they should, because believing is not knowing. Thoughts? (Atheists v. Christians Debate Central 101)
Christian response…
Christian faith/belief is predicated upon wisdom, discernment, empiricism, knowledge; unfortunately, these attributes are sorely lacking in the cognition of many Atheists by choice. If one desires Truth concerning our Creator they must first believe that He exists and that our God rewards those who diligently seek Him with an honest, contrite and sincere heart (Hebrews 11:6). If one is dishonest and does not desire the Truth, God will remain an enigma and that person will ultimately die in their sin and lose their soul in Hell because they did not desire God’s Truth but desired the lust of the flesh, the pursuit of sensuality in this fallen World. God will not be mocked (Galatians 6:7-8).
The man, woman or child who seeks Truth concerning our Creator finds extant, empirical, evidence through what has been made by God and placed before us in Nature. Even an immature child can stare at a clear night sky and internalize the overwhelming majesty of this supernatural act of creation and determine that design is at play and therefore a Designer is mandated. This is the most fundamental and foundational act of wisdom, discernment and commonsense relevant to knowledge concerning our Creator (Psalm 8:3-6). Acknowledging our Creator through what has been made in Nature is the first-step in developing a relationship with God the Father by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. In fact, the Holy Spirit has clearly articulated that the Atheist, in their façade of unbelief, is “without excuse” when they stand in the Judgment of the Condemned because our Creator has validated His reality, introduced Himself, through His creation (Romans 1:18-32).
When one acknowledges design and therefore the necessity for a Designer, a person seeking Truth and knowledge will pursue this evidence and allow said evidence to direct his/her path with integrity (2 Timothy 2:15). An individual possessing but a modicum of intelligence and discernment will immediately disregard the insanity of Darwin, abiogenesis, descent with modification, as possible explanations for the supernatural Universe and the complexity of the human genome. Darwin and his absurdity are obviously the constructs of deceived and immoral men seeking to justify their sin, sexual immorality and antisocial conduct by rejecting the necessity for a Designer; a Designer possessing authority and dominion over His creation as well as our personal lives (Colossians 2:8).
When a man or woman seeks Spiritual Truth they will find the Vedas, the Egyptian gods, the Quran, the religions of men, to be utterly ridiculous and the honest seeker will find that Christianity is the only coherent worldview with corresponding truth that defines origin-meaning-morality-destiny and directly answers with logical consistency, empirical adequacy, experiential relevance. There is ONE God and ONE Mediator for sin, Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5).
“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
Atheists are Sissified Bullies
Premise: Atheists are sissified bullies.
Having debated the Atheist ad nauseam, never could I have imagined such a pathetic group of individuals fronting machismo and self-endowed intellectualism while in truth, they’re sissified bullies lacking knowledge, morality, wisdom, discernment, patriotism, ethics.
Repeatedly, I’ve watched and endured the atheistic hate toward God, Jesus Christ, righteousness, morality, honor, dignity; atheistic hate that is verbalized with vulgarity and sexual obscenity that flows freely with decrepit verbiage flowing from the cesspool of the demonic; then, when challenged directly with the Truth of the Gospel and Scripture and hard words that offend the sensitivities of atheistic impotence, the Christian is accused of “preaching,” hate and insolence and causation for the Atheist’s rebellion against all things spiritual.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Atheists are petulant, vulgar, cowards, who have no standing in reality and fight against and deny that which they intuitively know exists. Atheists are metastasizing boils on the backside of American culture and its sustainability. Atheists are overwhelmingly the demonic product of Darwin’s deception and the Atheist is not just a liar concerning “unbelief” but they actively war against my Lord Jesus Christ making them His enemy in flesh and blood and Time and therefore my enemy within the Realm of Time.
Now, I am being threatened by Atheist v. Christian Group moderators and administrators because I speak Truth and directly confront the lies and blasphemy of the demonic Atheist yet these “Groups” tout free speech and “no bans;” in actuality, what these atheistic groups seek is a coalescing of like-minded bully-atheists to hate on Christians and blasphemy our Lord Jesus Christ void rebuttal. I have always held bullies and cowards in disdain!
See: Atheists are bullies and they are doing their best to intimidate the rest of us into silence: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todays-atheists-are-bullies-and-they-are-doing-their-best-to-intimidate-the-rest-of-us-into-silence
Rickey D. Holtsclaw
God’s Love – Unconditional?
MEME/PREMISE: “No past sin, mistake, or person, could ever take away God’s unconditional love for us.”
Christian response…
God’s love is NOT unconditional. Unless a man or woman humbles them self and REPENTS of their sin, BELIEVES in their heart and CONFESSES with their mouth that Jesus Christ is God who died to pay their sin-debt and that He was resurrected for their Justification; unless a man or woman believes and confess this with a sincere heart, they will die in their sins and lose their soul in Hell.
God loves His creation and desires that everyone come to a knowledge of the Truth and be saved but God is also perfect Righteousness, perfect Holiness, perfect Justice (1 Timothy 2:3-4). God the Father will NOT permit unrepentant sin to enter His Kingdom; therefore, if mankind does not come to God according to His Plan i.e. by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Mediator for sin with repentance, they will suffer God’s wrath and His perfect Justice through death in sin and the “second death” in Hell.
Rickey D. Holtsclaw
David wrote, “You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil; with you the wicked cannot dwell. The arrogant cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who do wrong. You destroy those who tell lies; bloodthirsty and deceitful men the LORD abhors” (Psalm 5:4-6).
David wrote, “The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence his soul hates” (Psalm 11:5). Hosea wrote, “Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house (Hosea 9:15. See also Jeremiah 12:8).
Jesus warned, “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death” (Revelation 21:8).
God said, “I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech” (Proverbs 8:13); “I hate robbery and iniquity” (Isaiah 61:8). “Do not plot evil against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the LORD (Zechariah 8:17). “I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel, “and I hate a man’s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment,” says the LORD Almighty (Malachi 2:16. See also Deuteronomy 12:31, 16:21-22.
Atheist mocks prayers of Twin Towers victim. Christian response…
Atheist, Jack D, once again mocks God as he trivializes the prayers of Melissa Doy on 9/11/01 from the Twin Towers: “Prayers and Melissa’s pleas to God did no good. She died when the building collapsed. She was only 32. Isn’t this clear proof that prayers don’t work, and that there is no loving God that we call on for help?”
Reply to Atheist D,
I urge all men, women, children, to not follow in the footsteps of those who serve Satan in the demonically-based name of Atheism. These servants of Allah-Satan exist in a world void hope, knowledge and understanding. The Atheist actively wars against our Creator and hope and peace through the Holy Spirit. The Atheist is an enemy of the Living God, Jesus Christ-Yeshua.
Prayers do work and accomplish their purposes for those who are children of God by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. Melissa found peace in our God; if Melissa trusted in Jesus Christ as Lord and lived her life in honor of Him, she is now safely, securely, in overwhelming peace, contentment and joy in the Kingdom of God with our Creator forever.
In this body constrained by Time, with the exception of an elect few at the rapture of the Church, we all die in this body and we all suffer death in this decaying flesh; a “few” (the faithful in Jesus Christ) will trade this body of death for eternal life with God and “many” (the Atheist/the unfaithful) will trade this body of decaying flesh for death in sin and death in Hell. (Matthew 7:13-14)
Our Creator is presently honoring free will and permitting evil to exist upon this Earth to demonstrate to the faithful angelic beings that sin and Satan are indeed both unconscionable horrors that must be dealt with completely and for Eternity. God is presently righting the wrong that was initially manifest in the Kingdom by a rebellious and covetous angelic cherub we know as Lucifer-Satan-Allah.
The end of Satan’s/Allah’s deception and reign of terror will ultimately occur at the conclusion of Messiah-Yeshua’s Millennial Reign. God’s Plan is moving along with rapidity and He is currently summing-up all things in preparation for that Day of war between Allah v. Yeshua in Jerusalem, Israel; a nuclear conflict that will ultimately involve the entire Earth. Our God will right these wrongs of Allah-Satan with rapidity and assurance as He is the conquering Lion from the Tribe of Judah. MARANATHA LORD!
Rickey D. Holtsclaw
Also see: Atheist Mocks Prayer; a Christian Response: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2019/09/11/atheist-mocks-prayer-a-christian-response/
Atheist Mocks Prayer; A Christian Response
Atheist, Mindy, asked: “If God is all knowing, he knows what you want, he knows if he’s going to give it to you or not, he’s just a sadist that wants to hear you beg. If God doesn’t know what you want already, then God isn’t all knowing. So theists, which is it?” (Religion Debate and Discussion – FB Group)
Christian response to Mindy…
First, you err in thinking that prayer has been given to the faithful in order to receive something…this is Satan’s deception and a construct of man’s lust. Prayer is a spiritual gift to those who love God and desire fellowship with Him. When we humble our self before our Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, and commune with Him in adoration, love, worship, thankfulness…we receive from Him, peace-joy-contentment and a lifting of the World’s bitterness, burdens, hate, stress and worries.
2) Prayer is fellowship with our God where we give love, praise, worship and adoration to God and in-turn God reciprocates with love, wisdom, peace, joy, discernment, contentment, through the indwelling Holy Spirit. The Atheist does not understand prayer because prayer is NOT for the Atheist nor does our God hear the prayers of the Atheist unless said prayers are seeking forgiveness of sin and salvation through faith in Jesus Christ (John 9:31).
3) Concerning petitioning God for “things.” It is wise to always preface a request of God with “If it be your will;” thereby, acknowledging our dependence on and trust in God’s love. All things that we seek in life as a petition of God should be sought in accordance with God’s will; God is pleased to give good things to His children, to those who love and trust in Him as our Heavenly Father, but we must not ask in our lust or greed but ask trusting in Him as a loving Father who has our best interest at heart; An Omniscient Creator who knows our needs before we kneel to pray.
Finally, when one intimately knows and enjoys a loving relationship with the Creator of the Universe through the Holy Spirit, all other gifts/petitions pale by comparison.
As an aside concerning prayer. Earlier today, during my jog, I lost one my dogs in the forest of the Ozarks in NW Arkansas. My wife (VERY UPSET) and I searched for hours without success. A couple of hours ago, I grabbed some water and went back out again into the woods hoping for success before darkness set-in and the coyotes, bear and wild dogs had their way with my little guy who was dragging a leash and lost. As desperation began to set-in, I simply asked my Lord that if it be His will, please allow me to find this little dog. Within 5-minutes my little boy came-up behind me, dehydrated, dirty, infested with burrs…but OK. I could only stop and praise my Lord for His faithfulness and kindness. Happen-chance you say? I don’t think so! I love and serve an awesome God!!!
Rickey D. Holtsclaw
Atheist admires Satan. A Christian Response
Atheist, Mark D, posted: “The more I read the bible, the more Satan comes off as the one that actually cares about people.” Christians should take note! Let’s be honest, it was Satan who showed Adam and Eve their ignorance and gave them access to the Tree of Knowledge. Knowledge has improved our lives and made our world a much better place. Satan wanted the best for man by giving him the ability to learn. If Adam and Even had followed God’s advice, we would all still be living in caves today, heating our food on an open fire, and throwing spears at wild buffalo. What say you?
Christian response…
How deceived and spiritually lacking in knowledge is the Atheist as they endeavor to serve their spiritual father, Satan, without knowledge and admonish others to follow them in their ideology of death. Atheist Mark D does, at least, express his loyalties to Satan unlike the vast majority of cowardly and naive Atheists who obfuscate and deny any belief in the Spiritual realm when they intuitively know our Creator exists.
Satan is the eternal enemy of mankind’s soul and he is the causation for all suffering, disease, death, yet D, in his spiritual deception, wants you to believe that Satan is a messenger of Truth and enlightenment.
In our midst, there is an unfathomable cosmic struggle manifesting between Yeshua-Jesus and Satan. This cosmic-spiritual struggle can be observed in real-Time via the conflict manifesting between the armies of Allah-Satan/Islam – verses – the Nation of Israel/the Jewish people/Christianity. Mankind has but two-options concerning his loyalties and his destiny in Time and in Eternity:
1) Believe in your heart, confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ-Yeshua is God who died to pay your sin-debt and that Jesus was resurrected for your justification leading to Eternal life and by so believing and confessing you will find a new life in Jesus Christ, you will receive the indwelling Holy Spirit and find forgiveness of sin preparing you for life in God’s Eternal Kingdom subsequent to death of this Earthly body…
– or –
2) Reject Jesus Christ-Yeshua as Lord and Mediator for sin and serve Satan and his Kingdom of Darkness by default and ultimately die in your sins and die the “second death” in Hell in futility.
This life constrained by Time is nothing more than preparation for Eternity. God the Father has granted you free will and He stands ready to forgive your sin and give you a new life in Jesus’ Name if you will approach Him with a humble heart seeking Truth and Life; otherwise, you will die in hopelessness and futility.
In the attached article, I explain the struggle between Yeshua and Satan and why our God has placed you within the constraints of Time. You would do well to read through this information and make an informed decision concerning your life in Time and your life in Eternity.
See: In the Beginning God – Why: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2017/09/27/in-the-beginning-god-why/
Rickey D. Holtsclaw
Concerning Satan, Jesus said…
Dawkins questions the Bible?
Richard Dawkins? Atheistic MEME mocking God and suggesting that Richard Dawkins asked the following questions…
1. Do dogs go to heaven? Only pets, not wild animals?
2. If only humans go to heaven, how far back? Homo Erectus? Australopithecus?
3. Only people after Jesus go to Heaven, not Abraham, Moses or Elijah?
4. Which “you” will be in Heaven? Senile you with dementia or mid-life crisis you?
Christian response (short answers)…
1) Animals are beasts of the field and are not created in the image of the Living God with an eternal spirit; therefore, they return to the dust of the ground upon death. It is certainly possible that our Lord will permit our favorite pets to be present with the faithful/redeemed in Eternity in the Kingdom of God because He has promised to give those who love Him the desires of their heart. All things are possible to the one who loves and trusts in Jesus Christ as Lord. (Psalm 37:4)
2) Mankind, from the Genesis forward, has always found righteousness (a right standing) with God the Father by grace through “faith.” Nothing has changed from The Genesis to the New Covenant of Grace; “faith” has always been the active force that found favor with our Holy and Just God. Old Testament saints were saved by grace through faith just like New Testament saints; both are saved by faith in God, Elohim/Jesus Christ-Yeshua.
The difference being, Jesus Christ-Messiah was necessary for the atonement of sin; that is, the Old Testament saints, upon death of the body, were interned in the region of “Sheol-Paradise AKA Abraham’s bosom” awaiting the sacrifice of Yeshua-Jesus that was to come as prophesied. (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3-9; James 2:23; Genesis 5:24)
3) The Old Testament saints, though saved by grace through faith, their sin had not been atoned for and ONLY Messiah-Yeshua can make atonement i.e. pay the price for sin via His shed blood. Subsequent to Messiah death, it is recorded in Scripture that Messiah descended to Sheol-Paradise and preached freedom to the captive saints at which time He led them into the presence of God the Father in the Eternal Kingdom; these saints are there now awaiting the resurrection of the righteous where they will receive a resurrected body fashioned after the resurrected body of Jesus Christ. (Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:29-31; Luke 16:19-31; Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 12:2-4; Ephesians 4:8-10; Romans 10:7)
Subsequent to Messiah’s death, burial and resurrection. Everyone who trusts in Jesus Christ as Lord today and dies in this body will be instantaneously escorted into the presence of God the Father in a disembodied, spiritual state awaiting the resurrection of the righteous; they will be fully conscious – cognitively aware and more acutely interactive with their environment in the Spiritual World than we are now constrained by Time. (2 Corinthians 5:8)
4) There will be no senility, disease, impairments, disabilities, sorrow, pain, suffering, death, in the presence of our God in His Kingdom. Paradise lost will be Paradise restored in the Name of Jesus Christ our God for everyone who has trusted in Him as Lord.
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” Revelation 21:1-4 (NASB)
Rickey D. Holtsclaw
Human Suffering and a “Loving God?”
Atheist, Mark D asked: “Does human suffering discredit the existence of an all-loving God?”
Christian response…
Though our Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, is the embodiment of LOVE, He is also perfect righteousness and perfect justice and He does not lie. God created all things “very good” in The Beginning as well as establishing a Covenant of provision-sustenance with mankind predicated upon obedience to the edict prohibiting compromise with evil.
Mankind, in his narcissism, opted to reject God’s Covenant of provision and sustenance through disobedience and rebellion; therefore, the human genome and the whole of Nature fell under the curse of sin.
Human suffering is the resultant of man’s choices not God’s love; therefore, human suffering does not suggest that our Creator is unloving but the fallen-nature of man and the resulting suffering and death from sin are testimony to God’s faithfulness and justice and honesty and integrity and Holiness.
Rickey D. Holtsclaw
