Atheist claims Christianity is essentially a metaphor: “A Christian friend said that I needed to get closer to God. That is a visual metaphor, because, in reality, nobody can get closer to God.”

Christian response,

You are a naturalist…you are locked into and obsessed with naturalism…you have boxed yourself into the temporary, the discernible senses, that which is suffering decay via entropy and genomic degradation and you cannot see the Spiritual…a World that is more tangible, real, permanent, infinitely more intricate and superior than this temporary World constrained by Time and physics…but that’s your life in atheism and evolution and it will be your death as will Hell in your unbelief lest you repent and believe in Jesus Christ as your God and Mediator for your sin (John 3:16-18; John 8:24).

It is written concerning the atheist,

“13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.…” 1 Corinthians 2:13-15 (Berean Study Bible)

Misplaced Jewish and Israeli pride thinking that God’s election defers their culpability and their need for Messiah: “If god isn’t a respecter of persons it’s because he already made his decision about ‘persons’ before they were born.”

Discussion,

In the Covenant of Law, Israel was God’s focus as He would bring forth His Messiah through them i.e. Judah (Genesis 12:3; Leviticus 19:2; 20:7; 20:26; 21:8; 1 Peter 1:16)…but they were stubborn, stiff-necked, rebellious yet God endured them with much patience (Isaiah 65:2; Romans 10:21). There is NOTHING about Israel that makes these people any different than the Gentile other than God set them apart for eschatological and Messianic purposes, but they broke God’s Covenants, whored after other gods and murdered His Messiah and YES, God will be faithful and save a remnant of Jacob’s children in the last Days upon this Earth immediately subsequent to Messiah’s 2nd-Advent and through the Millennial Reign but an overwhelming number of Jacob’s children will die the second death in Hell and you will be among them lest you repent of your sin and truly believe in your heart that Yeshua is your God who died to pay your sin-debt (John 8:24).

YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL and Judaism cannot save you and the Law cannot save you (Romans 3:20)…ONLY Yeshua saves (John 3:16; John 14:6)! The Father is NOT a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11-16) and God does not differentiate between Jew-Gentile-Slave-Free-Male-Female when one trusts in Yeshua-Jesus as God and Mediator for sin (Galatians 3:28). Your heritage and Judaism will NOT shelter you from God’s wrath if you deny the Son, Yeshua-Jesus, as your Lord (John 14:6).

A reminder to those who seek obedience to the Sinai Commandments and the 613-Levitical Laws in pursuit of righteousness (a right standing) with God the Father…

You’re a sinner (Romans 3:23; Isaiah 54:6) condemned to death in Hell (John 3:18); the Law has condemned you (Romans 3:20) as you have broken the Law and to violate one-jot or one-tittle of the Law is to violate the whole Law (James 2:10; Romans 10:5; Galatians 3:12; Leviticus 18:5); therefore, the Law mandates perfection in word, thought, deed, in order to impart righteousness but we’re unable to keep the law in perfection (Romans 8:3-4); therefore, the Law only defines sin void atonement (Romans 3:20) and you are condemned to die in Hell in your sin unless you repent of your sin (Luke 13:3) and believe in your heart, confess with your mouth, that Jesus-Yeshua is YOUR God who died to mediate your sin before the Father (John 8:24; Romans 10:9-10; John 14-6; John 3:16-18).

Unless Jesus is your Lord and Mediator for sin (1 Timothy 2:5; John 8:24), you will die in sin and NOT enter the Kingdom of God subsequent to the death of your body in Time because the Father is NOT going to permit your unrepentant sin to enter His Kingdom (Revelation 21:27); therefore, you will deal with your sin now in the current Age of Grace through faith in Jesus as your Lord – or – you will attempt to deal with your sin by works of obedience to the Law resulting in judgment and wrath in Eternity and be adjudicated guilty and lose both body and soul in Hell (Romans 9:30-33). YOU CANNOT atone for your own sin (Ephesians 2:8-9) as God Himself has paid the price for your sin as He is the only One capable of paying your sin-debt (Hebrews 10; John 3:16-18; Genesis 3:15; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

Without the shedding of blood there is NO atonement for sin (Hebrews 9:22; Leviticus 17:11). The Law provides you ZERO-atonement, ZERO-remission of sin; therefore, if you trust in the Law for righteousness, you will die in your sin (Galatians 2:16; John 14:6; John 8:24; Galatians 2:21) and you will die the “second death” in Hell.

Concerning the “law keepers” rejection of an eternal spirit…

Human kind is created in the spiritual image of our eternal God (Genesis 1:26-28) and one of the communicable attributes provided mankind by our Creator is an eternal spirit that does not die with the body (John 11:25; Luke 16); in fact, we are simply spiritual beings encapsulated within decaying flesh, human flesh permitting us to interact within the Realm of Time constrained by matter and physics; once free of this body of death, we transition “home” into the Spiritual Realm and we will see God as He is (1 John 3:2; 1 Corinthians 13:12); those who have trusted in Jesus as Lord will enter the Kingdom of God (2 Corinthians 5:8; John 18:36) and serve Him forever and those who have rejected Jesus as Lord will enter Hades-Sheol/torments (Luke 16) awaiting the Judgment of the Condemned (Revelation 20:11-15) manifesting subsequent to Messiah’s Millennial Reign (Revelation 20) and subsequently lose both body and soul in the Lake of Fire/Hell/Gehenna to be remembered no more (Matthew 10:28; Mark 8:36).

Theological inquiry shared on FB: “Why did God put His Commandments in our ’s if we are no longer under Law?”

Christian response,

The moral law has been “in our heart” from the The Beginning and is relevant to the creation of the Angels as well, long before the Sinai Commandments and the 613-Levitical Laws were given to the Hebrew Tribes (Romans 2:15) and this was necessary for two-reasons:

1) The moral law infused within us by our Creator is a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism-hedonism that would culminate in extinction of the human species.

2) The moral law written upon our heart with the conscience acting as a constraining element has manifest so that Judgment in Eternity can proceed with due process and equity, everyone standing in the Judgment of the Condemned will be “without excuse” (Revelation 20:11-15; Romans 1:18-32).

The Law written upon our heart is the Law of the Spirit for those who trust in Jesus Christ as God and Mediator for sin in the New Covenant of Grace that has superseded the Old Covenant of Law (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Matthew 26:28). No longer are we bound to the letter of death in the Law that only defined sin void atonement (Romans 3:20) but the Christian walks by the Spirit in sanctification and it is the Spirit of God that reveals and teaches the will of God and guides the faithful in the ways of righteousness by grace through faith in Messiah Jesus as our God and Mediator for sin (Galatians 5:16).

Murmurings from a godless, deceived, communist, atheist:“When drugs went into the schools, God went out. Now if we could get some drugs in the church god will leave there and go back where it came from.”

Christian response,

Jesus was not extricated from our schools due to drugs but due to systematic brainwashing by Progressive idiots initiated by John Dewey in the early 1900’s. Over the 20th-Century, Progressive dimwits permeating our society and a number of Presidential administrations, our House, our Senate, our SCOTUS, Hollywood, Media, America’s school administrations along with assistance from the GRU subsequent to WWII, these traitors and enemies of the people incrementally infused secularism-humanism into our public schools and the most successful strategy of the Progressive traitors was the extrication of Jesus from the classroom via demonic SCOTUS decisions like Engel v. Vitale (1962) and petitions from godless filth like atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

In 1963, the Progressive dimwits were successful in infusing Darwin’s idiocy into the classrooms throughout America and there has never been a more efficient progenitor of atheism and abortion and sodomy and eugenics and racism and communism than evolutionary theory that directly attacks the reality of God; the Genesis creation narrative; the Biblical family unit; the meaning and purpose for life on Earth constrained by Time and physics as per the Holy Spirit, the Author of the Canon of Scripture.

The Progressives combined Darwin’s insanity as a biological “science” with Marx, Lenin, revisionist history, in the “humanities” and now we have a Millennial and Gen-Z generation that are as useless as the tits on a boar hog…a hoard of effeminate, perverse, sissified, communists that are the most deceived, ignorant, brainwashed, generations to have ever trespassed upon this great Land. These generations and those to follow will completely dismantle America’s Constitutional Republic and the people will suffer horrifically. America, a once Godly Nation of patriotic citizens who loved God, Family, Country, has now become an atheistic bastion of infanticide and sodomy; God is not mocked and the people will reap what they have sown through Roe v. Wade (1973) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) and the Democrat Communist Party of America.

Darwin and the Death of a Nation: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2019/09/02/darwin-and-the-death-of-a-nation/

Concerning Jewish works salvation deception: “So what’s the point of keeping any of God’s commandments?” Question asked in response to the Scriptural truth that obedience to the Law does not manifest in righteousness (a right standing), justification, atonement, before God the Father (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16).

Christian response,

It is our obedience SUBSEQUENT to our confession of Jesus as Lord and receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Seal and Guarantor of relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14) that affirms, authenticates, validates, our faith. If one “claims” Christ as Lord yet their actions, words, deeds, are compromise with this sinful and dying World, they are not truly redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ as the one who loves God and is led by the Holy Spirit in sanctification will demonstrate a “rebirth” (John 3) and live as a “new creation” — the old things have passed away and all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Obedience signifies a changed heart and life that is dedicated to God and His will through the guidance of the Holy Spirit (John 14:16; Luke 6:46-49). It is this obedience SUBSEQUENT to our salvation that reflects the presence of the Spirit within us and that obedience is viewed by the Father as pleasing and as works of righteousness that will be evaluated for authenticity at the Bema Judgment. Before our confession of Messiah as God and Mediator for sin, our works of obedience to a Law are as a filthy, bloody, menstrual rag in the nostrils of the Father (Isaiah 64:6). The ONLY way mankind can escape God’s wrath for sin and simultaneously be pleasing to the Father is to enter into a personal relationship with Him by grace through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ – Yeshua, as our God and Mediator for sin (John 3:16; John 14:6).

The veil concerning Israel’s unbelief/a Christian response: “Unity of G-D does not consist of a body or spirit nor that He is subject to a physical quality. Isaiah 40: 18-25 states that G-D can be compared with NOTHING. Only if G-D had a body or spirit would He be comparable to other bodies. All physical terms in the Jewish Bible that are used for G-D are metaphorical. The Torah speaks in the language of man.”

Christian response,

God, who is Spirit (John 4:24), left the Eternal Realm and manifest within the Realm of Time through the seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15; Matthew 1:23) to “destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) and reconcile mankind back to God through the imputation of God’s righteousness (in the perfection of Jesus Christ) over the life of the one who believes in Jesus Christ as God and Mediator for sin (2 Corinthians 5:21). If you deny the hypostatic union of God and man in Christ (Philippians 2:8), you do not possess God’s Spirit (1 John 2:22) and you are therefore unredeemed, you are dying in your sin (John 8:24) and you are headed to death in Hell as the Father is not going to permit your unrepentant sin to enter His Kingdom subsequent to the death of your body in Time (Revelation 21:27; John 14:6).

Statement INRE to evolution posted on FB:“Believing in evolution is like trusting the polls predictions are not the truth.”

One Christian’s perspective,

Darwin’s evolution idiocy is a demonically-founded religion seeking to nullify God’s reality, the Genesis creation narrative and proselytize atheists-naturalists-nihilists-socialists-communists and Darwin’s infusion into America’s public schools in the early 1960’s is the primary reason America’s Millennial and Gen-Z generations are destructive, clueless and godless atheists, abortionists, sodomites, communists, addicts, confused effeminate men and masculine feminist women, seeking to destroy America’s Constitutional Republic; a fulfilled Progressive agenda initiated by John Dewey in 1900 and the greatest lie ever told by the science community.

Historians, if they’re honest and uncensored, will point to Darwin, Marx, Lenin, revisionist history in America’s public schools, as the foundation for Satanic Roe v. Wade (1973), demonic Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) and America’s internal moral rot that consumed this Nation’s viability, strength, posterity, like a metastasizing malignancy. God is not mocked, a Nation and its people will reap what they sow. May God have mercy on those who trust in Him?

Theological inquiry on FB: “If Jesus was the Son of God then why did He get sent to Hell for three long days?” Reference Scriptures: Ephesians 4:7-10; 1 Peter 3:19

Christian response,

The Scriptures do not say Jesus descended into Hell and why would He, there is no one capable of redemption in Hell at this time as Hell does not become relevant for human kind until subsequent the Judgement of the Condemned (Revelation 20:11-15)?

The Scriptures teach that Jesus, subsequent to the death of His Earthly body at Golgotha, while His Earthly body laid in the tomb, descended into the region known as Sheol in the Hebrew Scriptures and Hades in the Greek Scriptures and often mistranslated as “Hell” by the KJV translators (Luke 16). The Scriptures teach that though the Old Testament saints were saved by “faith” in God (Hebrews 11), their sins has not been atoned for because Messiah had not yet made atonement for sin and even in the Covenant of Law, the Holy Spirit tells us that the blood of animals could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:4); therefore, the Old Testament saints who were saved by faith were relegated to the region of Sheol-Paradise (fully conscious/fully aware) and awaited Messiah’s atonement there as the Holy Spirit has told us that “nothing impure” is permitted to enter the Kingdom of God (Revelation 21:27).

Jesus told the thief on the cross next to Him at the Crucifixion that he, the thief, having confessed faith in Jesus as Lord, would be with Jesus in “paradise” that very day (Luke 23:43). The Holy Spirit teaches that Jesus, while His body laid in the tomb, descended to Sheol/Hades-Paradise (Abraham’s Bosom – See Luke 16; Ephesians 4:7-10; 1 Peter 3:19 ) and preached liberty and freedom i.e. the Gospel to the captives there and then personally escorted the Old Testament saints into the Kingdom of God as their sin had been atoned for by Messiah’s sinless blood (Matthew 26:28). Today, everyone who dies having believed in Jesus as Lord, their spirit, free from the body of death and sin, is immediately translated into the presence of God in the Kingdom (2 Corinthians 5:8) and Sheol/Hades-Paradise/Abraham’s Bosom is now empty and the only region of the dead remaining and being filled daily is Sheol-Hades-Torments (Luke 16) which is the repository of all dead (fully conscious/full aware) who have died from the Genesis forward having rejected faith in God in the Hebrew Scriptures and having rejected Jesus as Lord in the Covenant of Grace…it is here, Hades-Torments, the unrighteous dead, in their disembodied spirit, await the Judgment of the Condemned (Revelation 20:11-15).

King David also speaks of this…

The Christian and the Law – a Christian’s clarification-explanation-response concerning Rabbinical-Jewish attacks and insults directed at the Christian who espouses salvation by grace through faith in Messiah Jesus apart from the works of the Law…

A discussion,

I argue that the Covenant of Law concerning ceremonial-dietary-civil regulations is not relevant in the Covenant of Grace (Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:20; Colossians 2:16; Romans 14) and that mankind cannot find righteousness (a right standing) with God the Father by attempting to keep a Law that only condemns through its defining of sin yet offers no atonement for same (Romans 3:20). I wholly concur that the moral aspects of the Sinai Commandments and the 613-Levitical Laws are immutable (Matthew 24:35) and they have been reiterated/articulated by Messiah within the Covenant of Grace (Law of the Spirit) established in Messiah’s blood (Matthew 26:28), but mankind does not attain righteousness by attempted obedience to the works of the Law but by grace (unmerited favor not earned by human effort) through faith-believing in Jesus Christ as God and Mediator for sin, alone (John 14:6; John 3:16-18).

The works of the moral Law, those articulated within the Sinai Commandments/Levitical Law and written upon our heart as the Law of Conscience/Natural moral law by our Creator (Romans 2:15) and our obedience to same do certainly become relevant concerning righteousness SUBSEQUENT to the establishment of our relationship with God the Father by grace through faith in Jesus and having received the indwelling Holy Spirit as our Seal and Guarantor of relationship (Ephesians 2:8-9). It is our obedience to the moral law, established in both the Covenant of Law and the Covenant of Grace and infused within our heart and mind by the Spirit, that verify and validate the authenticity of our confession in, faith in, Jesus Christ as our God and Mediator for our sin. Our pursuit of obedience to the moral Law of God SUBSEQUENT to our confession (our justification) is indicative of the process of “sanctification” that is a work of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 John 2:27; John 16:13; John 14:16) who prepares the faithful for a life of servitude in the Kingdom of God manifesting subsequent to the death of the body in Time (Galatians 5:16-26).

The Covenant of Law articulated within the Hebrew Scriptures was given as a bulwark to constrain Israel’s transgressions for a specific dispensation (Galatians 3:19) and pointed Israel to their need for an Intercessor (John 1:29, 36) and guided Israel in the ways of holiness as God is Holy (Leviticus 19:2; 20:7; 20:26; 21:8; 1 Peter 1:16) as did the blood sacrifices (Hebrews 10) that pointed Israel’s children to Messiah’s atonement, but there was no, is no, lasting regenerative atonement in the Law; hence, the necessity for Messiah and His blood sacrifice at Golgotha (John 3:16; Hebrews 10; John 14:6).

Seeking obedience to a Law in order to attain righteousness (a right standing) with God the Father is eternal futility (Romans 9:30-33) as no one can work sufficiently or obey sufficiently to garner God’s favor as we’re all under the condemnation of sin (Romans 3:23; James 2:10); what the Law could not do as it simply defines sin and articulate our unworthiness as violators of that Law (Romans 3:20), God the Father did for us by sending His dear Son to fulfill the Law in perfection for you and me (Matthew 5:17) and then impart-impute the perfection of Jesus Christ in-and-over our life when we agree to approach God His Way (2 Corinthians 5:21); that is, by believing in our heart – confessing with our mouth that Jesus Christ is our God who died to pay our sin-debt, a debt we could not pay through human effort or obedience to a Law (John 3:16-18; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:20).