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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

Jesus - he that cometh to god must believe tht he is and a rewarder of those who seek him

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/

Darwin, Evolution and America’s Fall from Grace

Darwin, Evolution and America’s Fall from Grace…

If America survives another two-generations as a Constitutional Republic, historians will look back at the 1960’s and the infusion of Darwin’s nonsense into our public schools as the catalyst for America’s “progressive” fall into rampant immorality, abortion, addiction, suicide, confusion, LGBTQ deception.

I believe evolution in our public schools was a carefully crafted strategy by progressive-socialists to remove Christianity from American society and prepare the hearts of our posterity for the infusion of socialism via rampant atheism i.e. moral relativism that pursues aberrant lust relevant to the fallen-nature of man.

The religion of evolution is the primary progenitor of the modern-day atheist, nihilist, secularist, humanist, socialist, moral relativist and our Millennial Generation is the first to manifest these horrific ideologies into American society…we’re already experiencing the unconscionable results.

Satan is rejoicing at the destruction of America’s youth; therefore, stand-by…things are only going to get worse.

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:12 (KJV)

“See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.” Colossians 2:8 (NASB)

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God Bless,

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

See also:

Evolution,  A Religion from Hell: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2018/09/12/evolution-a-religion-from-hell/

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

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

School-Mass Shootings? Remedy? OK…listen…

gun control - meme of 10 commandments prayer reading bible study pledge of alliegence

As a little boy, I also remember my Mom forcing me to wear stiff-starched collared shirts with a bow-tie, putting me into our Ford Falcon and driving me to “West 14th Baptist Church” in Houston, Texas on Sunday morning. I was not provided the option, I was taken to Church and I sat there on that wooden pew and listened to a preacher tell everyone about the love of Jesus Christ as I daydreamed about riding wheelies on my bicycle. Somehow, that preacher’s words worked their way into my ears and settled into my heart.

I also remember my teachers escorting my undisciplined talking-self into the hallway and having me bend over and touch my toes and they used a very stout board on my buttocks. One-spank and I grimaced, two-spanks and my eyes watered…three-spanks was unthinkable. The blistering “POP” of those spankings reverberated down the long hallways of “Sinclair Elementary School” in Houston and I doubt any student in adjacent classrooms was unaware that someone was being disciplined for misbehavior.

1) If America is to survive, we must put Jesus Christ and His written word back into the classrooms across America and into the heart of our posterity. Islam is demonic, Allah is Satan…remove Islam from America from sea to shining sea! Islam, Sharia, are NOT compatible with America’s Constitutional Republic!

2) We must extricate the demonic lies of Darwin’s evolution from the classrooms and our children’s textbooks, museums. Evolution is a most profound progenitor of atheism-nihilism-moral relativism and hopelessness.

If authority figures in a child’s life tells him or her that they are the descendants of apes who descended from the goo to the zoo to you, why are we so perplexed when these same children act like apes in our society?

“All of your sons will be taught of the Lord; and the well-being of your sons will be great.“ Isaiah 54:13 (NASB)

“Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.“ Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)

“See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.“ Colossians 2:8 (NASB)

3) We must remove Progressive-Socialist teachers, professors, legislators, from public and private service and replace them with God-honoring, God-fearing, Bible-believing men and women.

How many American boys have fought and died to combat socialism-Marxism while these socialistic demonic representatives of death are serving in our Federal, State, Local, Government and revising America’s history in the classrooms across the United States? WHY?

4) If America was to return to Jesus Christ today, it would require approximately two-three generations of Godly influence and instruction before America would have any hope of change…I fear for America’s demise and I fear for the future of my beautiful Grandson! The Millennial Generation and generations following them will be the death of America’s Constitutional Republic…and Baby-Boomers, we’ve no one to blame but ourselves! America is under God’s wrath for our rampant infanticide and sexual perversion; perhaps and if America will immediately return to our Lord and beg for his mercy, I pray that He will abundantly pardon.

“and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.“ 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NASB)

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”  John Adams

Subsequent to 31-yrs in law enforcement, I explain what has happened to America…here: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/…/progressivism-satans-party-o…/

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

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

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Who is Allah? Creator or Created?

On a Bible debate forum, I am observing Post after Post defending Allah and suggesting Allah is the same god of the Holy Bible…please allow me to differentiate between Allah and Jesus Christ-Yeshua. Forgive me for the lengthy post…

Our Creator, the God of the Holy Bible, has identified Himself in Scripture by Name as “I AM” (Exodus 3:14) and we know Him as Jesus Christ-Yeshua who is Elohim in Genesis 1 and the Living Word of God in the Gospel of John, Chapter 1.

Allah is NOT creator but Allah is created. Allah is Lucifer who was God’s chief cherub angel in the Kingdom of Heaven, but Lucifer coveted God’s authority and dominion while one-third of the entire angelic community followed Lucifer in his rebellion to usurp God’s authority.

As a result of Lucifer’s (Allah) attempted Coup and because the destructive presence of sin is NOT permitted in God’s Kingdom, our Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, spoke into existence the realm of Time, the Universe, Earth, mankind, at which time our Creator removed Lucifer and the rebellious angles from the Kingdom and placed them within the constraints of Time. It is here that we see the advent of Allah in the Garden of Eden who eventually manifests himself publicly via a religion initiated through Abraham, Hagar, Ishmael i.e. Islam. In close proximity in Time, we see the origin of Judaism/Christianity manifesting from the seed of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob AKA Israel.

It is important to note that Ishmael (the genealogical genesis of Islam), the son of Abraham through Hagar, is NOT the son of promise but only Isaac born to Abraham and his wife, Sarah, did our Creator bring forth Messiah-Yeshua who died to provide mankind a pardon from death in sin and Hell. (Genesis 17:20-21)

Why did our Creator choose to not simply destroy Lucifer and the angles for their coup d’état?

Lucifer-Allah is the adversary of our Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, and God is dealing with Allah-Lucifer within the constraints of Time apart from the Kingdom of God where no sin is permitted. Our God is defined as LOVE and He desires relationship with both His angelic and human creation. In order for love and relationship to manifest in purity and authenticity, one must be free to choose to love or hate; otherwise love is robotic and impotent. Understand that our Creator did not destroy Lucifer (Allah) subsequent to his rebellion in the Kingdom because had our Creator arbitrarily destroyed Lucifer and the angels that followed Lucifer in the rebellion, the remaining two-thirds of the faithful angelic creation would no longer love our Creator out of free will/volition but out of fear. True love and relationship cannot manifest in fear; therefore, our Creator spoke into existence the realm of Time, this Universe and the Earth and placed Lucifer-Allah within the constraints of Time apart from the Heavenly Realm. The spiritual struggle between our Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua, and Allah-Satan is currently being played-out before our eyes constrained by the realm of Time. This cosmic struggle initiated by Lucifer-Allah can be seen in the Realm of Time as the struggle that exists today between Islam v. Israel and Allah’s hatred for the Jewish people and Islam’s hatred for the State of Israel.

The faithful Angles in God’s Kingdom are watching the events unfold as Allah-Satan steals, kills, destroys, with impunity on this Earth and the faithful Angels will, in the summation of all things following the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ, these faithful Angles will agree with God that Allah-Lucifer/Satan must be destroyed. Satan-Allah will be confined and tormented in the Lake of Fire forever and the faithful Angles of God will agree that this punishment is just and righteous.

All who have been deceived by Allah serve Satan unaware and they are seeking death in sin and death in Hell for their servitude of our Creator’s most prolific adversary, Allah, who is the demonic god of Islam!

Everyone who has believed in Jesus Christ-Yeshua as Lord and entered into a relationship with God the Father by grace through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, will spend Eternity with God in His Kingdom as servants. These faithful will be permitted to enter God’s Kingdom subsequent to death of the body because they have been redeemed and forgiven of all sin as a result of their faith in and love for Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

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jesus - satan isaiah 14 12-14 lucifer cast down from heaven more complete scripture

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For more information on this subject, see: In the Beginning God – Why? https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2017/09/27/in-the-beginning-god-why/