Jewish legalist insults Christianity: “Christians live under a false Covenant.”
Christian response,
The New Covenant is the ONLY Covenant that provides life through atonement for sin (Matthew 26:28). The Covenant of Law only defined God’s mandates via ordinances yet was absent atonement (Romans 3:23); therefore, the Law only condemns the hearer who is a sinner (Romans 3:23) and unable to acquire atonement through works of the Law as the Law mandates perfection (Galatians 2:16; James 2:10).
If you reject the atonement for sin ONLY provided by faith in Jesus – Yeshua as your God and Mediator for sin (John 14:6; John 3:16-18), you will die in your sins and you will not enter the Kingdom of God (John 8:24) nor will you be named among the Jewish remnant in that Day (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27) but you will be exiled into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth…hopelessness.
Judaizer mocks Messiah’s suffering, death and resurrection: “Jesus died for your sin except He didn’t actually stay dead. So, what did He sacrifice, His weekend? Jesus gave up His weekend for your sins.”
Christian response,
Jesus’ shed blood makes atonement for your sin (Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 10; Matthew 26:28); Jesus died to defeat death and the grave for you and me through the resurrection as the First-fruits of those who will die in Jesus as Lord (Romans 6:9; 1 Corinthians 15:20-28) and find life in the resurrection patterned after His own death and resurrection (Philippians 3:21). The redeemed in Jesus Christ will live with Him forever in resurrected bodies in the New Jerusalem upon a New Earth within a New Heaven (Revelation 21-22); paradise lost will be paradise restored and this New Kingdom will be Physical not entirely Spiritual.
Atheist suggests atheism is absent faith: “A Christian poster claims it takes MORE faith to believe that universe popped into existence out of nothing than to believe God created it. Why is this poster wrong?”
A Christian poster’s response,
I am not incorrect. Commonsense, logic, reason, an unbiased summation, demands that our Universe has been created by intelligence far superior than ours and that intelligent creator is obviously not constrained by Time and physics; therefore, it requires infinitely more “faith” to believe that a “Big Bang” of unknown origin consisting of matter and energy of an unknown origin “popped” or exploded into existence our Universe and then a speck of that Universe was accidentally formed that somehow sustains the fragility of life constructed with a genome, the complexity of same being beyond human understanding; NASA and Harvard’s best are without explanation.
The atheist possesses tremendous faith, more than any Christian in the history of the faith-based New Covenant. The Big Bang, molecules to man evolution – abiogenesis; descent with modification; macroevolution – a fish becoming humanity through positive genomic mutation/speciation/adaptation…I simply lack the faith necessary to believe these things, especially seeing that our Creator has taken the due diligence to provide me a personal letter explaining, carefully articulating, my origin and purpose, my destiny, while carefully preserve that letter through history when mankind has gone to great length to destroy that letter; then, this same Creator entered the Realm of Time in flesh and demonstrated His power and dominion and authority among men.
I see no other plausible explanation for the supernatural Universe that consumes me through my senses other than a Supernatural God as its Creator. I choose to trust in this God who has introduced Himself as Jesus Christ and I completely reject the explanations provided by men with an agenda of narcissism, moral relativism, hedonism. As the antithesis of Atheism, I find a life of faith in Jesus Christ to be incredibly wholesome, joyful, peaceful, meaningful, replete with assurance and contentment; therefore, I cannot deny what I see with my eyes and know with my heart and have experienced through personal application of God’s Truth.
Atheists mocks the Holy Scriptures: “The Bible has been edited, re-written, and there is more than one version. How can this be the word of a perfect, changeless God?”
Christian response,
The Bible, the autographs, has not been edited or rewritten…”translations” of the Bible have been edited and rewritten for accuracy and style and ease of reading. The original languages are at your fingertips if one desires their truth. Where the atheist fails in their hatred for God and faith and truth via biases is the reality that the same God who created the Heavens and the Earth and our complex genome with rapidity for cause is MORE than capable of ensuring that His human creation receive the EXACT words He desires so that we can know Him personally; love Him intimately; live with Him eternally. My, the faith of the atheist is incredible.
Question on FB: “DID JESUS CHRIST START A RELIGION? If so, scripture please?”
Christian response,
Jesus Christ abhorred “religion” as religion mandates mankind strive and work and labor for God’s approval, but Jesus nullified the error of all religions as He did the work for mankind concerning righteousness with the Father through atonement for sin at the Crucifixion subsequent to keeping God’s Laws in perfection, something mankind could never do; in fact, Elohim demonstrated this reality and truism as early as Genesis 3:21 but every religion denies God’s Gospel (Good News) demonstrating that righteousness and forgiveness of sin are manifest ONLY by grace (unmerited favor unattainable by man’s works) through faith (trusting-believing) in Jesus Christ as God and Mediator for sin; a reality that was ordained “before the beginning of Time” (2 Timothy 1:9-10).
Atheist asked (mockingly): “It is impossible to have an intellectual conversation with a person of faith. What say you?”
Christian response,
Are you suggesting that faith nullifies intellectualism? Faith is acting upon the evidence of things not seen; in other words, the incredible Universe, our unfathomable genome and its complexity scream “design” and therefore a Designer. Logically, with wisdom and discernment, I am convinced that God has revealed Himself in Nature, in His written word, through His Living Word i.e. Jesus Christ; therefore, by faith I cannot deny what screams at my senses to be Truth; that is, all that we see and apprehend with our senses was created with purpose for cause by One who is infinitely Intelligent and beyond the constraints of Time and physics…I call Him God, Jesus Christ, Lord, Messiah, Holy Father, Holy Spirit as He has introduced Himself to me in these ways. It is possible that, intellectually speaking, you, as an atheist, are not equipped spiritually to understand or engage the person of faith?
Atheist asked: “How can Christians worship their God, who permits unbearable and endless suffering?”
Christian response,
God allows man’s free will to play-out in Time as He uses our propensity for evil as an example to the faithful angelic creation looking-on that obedience to God’s edicts, His perfect will, is of necessity if life and freedom and peace and communion are to exist with sustainability. Our entire existence in Time, which is temporary-finite, is demonstrative of the plague of evil that was initiated in the Kingdom before the creation of matter and Time and that evil was extricated from the Kingdom mandating the creation of this Earth as a repository as that evil is being dealt with partially constrained by Time and physics.
All that you are witnessing, having manifest for 6020-years thus far, is the resultant of disobedience that was initiated in the Spiritual Realm by the Evil One and is currently being played-out in the Physical Realm of Time as our creation has manifest for cause with rapidity. The horror of pestilence, murder, disease, sin, will ultimately act as a bulwark against another rebellion in the Kingdom, the New Jerusalem, as both the faithful angelic creation and the faithful of mankind in Christ Jesus, both possessing the necessity of free will, will know via experiential relevance that obedience to God’s will is infinitely superior to rebellion via narcissism culminating in unconscionable suffering and the “second death.”
Sunday is not the Sabbath (Seventh Day) but Sunday is the Lord’s Day i.e. the First-Day when Elohim separated light and darkness; when the Spirit raised Messiah from the dead; when the Holy Spirit initiated the Christian Church at Pentecost; when the Apostles worshiped, read Scripture, collected charity and administered the Lord’s Supper…all on Sunday, the First-Day of the Week.
Catholicism, roughly founded/initiated in 312-313AD via the Edict of Milan by Emperor Constantine, had absolutely NOTHING to do with Sunday, the Lord’s Day, worship in the Christian Church; Sunday worship began with the First-Century Church.
The Sabbath, as an edict for corporate observance, was given SPECIFICALLY and ONLY to the Hebrew Tribes at Sinai (and converts to Judaism) and NEVER was the Sabbath given to a Gentile or the Christian Church (Acts 15). The Sabbath Day was a foreshadowing of Messiah who would provide His faithful a rest from an arduous and condemning Law that only defined sin void atonement (Romans 3:20). For the one who trusts in Jesus as Lord, they’re not under Law but under Grace (Romans 6:14) and Jesus is the fulfillment of the Sabbath’s intent and the Christian rests in Him by grace through faith (Hebrews 4; Colossians 2:16).
Every Law Keeper, SDA cult member, Theological Legalist, has absolutely NO RIGHT to insist or even suggest that a Christian observe a Sabbath Day (Romans 14). Jesus IS our Sabbath (Hebrews 4) and you have NO Right as per Scripture to condemn or accuse the one who worships Jesus on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Please, politely and respectfully, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS and keep your legalism and your cults to yourself!
The Canon of Scripture, with Nature as experiential evidence, clearly introduces our Creator by Name and meticulously explains the who, what, where, when, why, how, concerning our presence within Time as having been created with rapidity for cause. Why are the Scriptures and Jesus Christ as Creator so flippantly denied when no one else, no other source available to mankind has any plausible explanation for the presence of matter and Time, the Universe, our genome, LIFE? Why does the atheist so angrily with hostility, vulgarity, disregard the possibility for our Creator?
Personally, I find no other explanation for Time, matter, the incredibly complex human genome…why do you so easily and flippantly deny the possibility for our Creator seeing that science has NO CLUE concerning the most elementary of physics…the presence of matter? Please explain why you reject God with such fervency without cause and without evidence to the contrary and without logic and reason?
As noted in a FB forum: “Hell preachers set themselves up for a huge fail when they try and claim immortality is promised to the wicked.”
Christian response,
Hell, the Lake of Fire, Gehenna, was never created for mankind but for Satan and the fallen angels only (Matthew 25:41). God ordained the Gospel of Jesus Christ “before the beginning of Time” (2 Timothy 1:9-10) to provide mankind eternal life by grace through faith in Jesus Christ while simultaneously destroying “the works of the Devil” (death, Hell, the grave) through Messiah’s obedience at the Crucifixion (1 John 3:8b). Mankind will enter Hell by choice and NOT by God’s will as God’s will proclaims His desire that all men and women be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth concerning Jesus Christ as Messiah (1 Timothy 2:4).
Hell will be eternal torment for Satan and his angels as these are spirit beings and they do not die nor do they cease to exist (Luke 20:36). Unlike the angels, it is possible for mankind to lose both body and soul in Hell (Matthew 10:28); therefore, the “many” (Matthew 7:13-14) who reject Jesus Christ as Lord, God and Mediator for their sin will die in sin at the last exhalation in their physical body (John 8:24) and they will die the “second death” in Hell (Revelation 20:11-15); the “second death” is not only compassionate but the second death is necessary as our God will NOT permit unrepentant sin or anything impure to enter His Kingdom (Revelation 21:27); after all, it is Satan’s destructive rebellion/sin that initiated the creation of this Earth as a repository for Satan and the fallen angels as they are dealt with by our God while simultaneously removing their destructive sin from the Holy Kingdom (Luke 10:18); therefore, it is eternally unwise for anyone to believe that God will simply wink and excuse our sin lest that sin has been atoned for by the innocent blood of Messiah Jesus through faith in Him as our Mediator for sin (John 3:16; John 14:6; 2 Corinthians 5:17).
Those men and women who die in their unrepentant sin, at the moment of their last exhalation, they will be relegated in their disembodied state to the region Messiah refers to as Hades/Sheol-Torments (Luke 16). These unredeemed, disembodied, dead, fully conscious-aware, will remain in Hades-Torments until the conclusion of Messiah’s Millennial Reign at which time the “Judgement of the Condemned” AKA “The Great White Throne Judgment” will manifest (Revelation 20). The unredeemed dead waiting in Hades-Torments will receive a resurrected body of corruption (John 5:28-29; Daniel 12:2; Mark 9:43-48) and stand before Jesus Christ to be judged according to their works, their sin, their wickedness; their rebellion and their name will NOT be found written in the Lamb’s Book of Life and these will be adjudicated “guilty” before the Lord and they will lose both body and soul in Hell in the “second death;” the “second death” being a death of eternal finality and a cessation of all existence and remembrance (Revelation 20:14).
