Gnosticism, once again, denying Hypostasis

May 15, 2020UncategorizedRickeyD

Theological, Christian heresy: “God is not a Person, or God would be Created!”

Christian response to the heresy of Gnosticism…

The ugly snake of Gnosticism raises its viperous head once again denying the hypostatic union of God and man in Jesus Christ-Yeshua. God is Spirit (John 4:24) and in order to fulfill His will among mankind concerning the defeat of Satan (1 John 3:8b) and the reconciliation between Himself and His creation in Time (2 Corinthians 5:18), God manifest in flesh (Philippians 2:5-8) through the womb of a virgin woman, born under the Law (Galatians 4:4) approximately 2019-yrs ago and walked among us for 33.5-yrs defining God the Father and proclaiming the Good News of the Gospel that provides victory over Satan, death, Hell and the grave for everyone who believes that Jesus Christ is God who died to pay their sin-debt and was resurrected from the dead for their justification (Romans 10:9-10; Luke 4:18; John 3:16).

If you reject the deity of Jesus Christ, you will die in your sin and you will die the “second death” in Hell (John 8:24; Rev. 20:11-15). The tell-tale indicator that one has truly been “born again” by the Spirit of God is their ability to recognize Jesus Christ and His deity and His Truth as it is the Spirit that testifies with our spirit that we are indeed children of God (Matthew 16:17; Romans 8:16). It is one’s ability via the rebirth by grace through faith in Messiah to see and internalize the deity of Jesus Christ-Yeshua that defines and separates the Christian from the religions, sects, cults, of the World.

It is written concerning Jesus Christ as God…

“Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.” 1 John 2:22 (NASB)

“…looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,” Titus 2:13 (NASB)

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.” John 1:1-3 (NASB)

14 “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 (NASB)

“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.” Colossians 1:15-18 (NKJV)

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Liberal-Fascist-Atheist questions Christians rights – COVID-19 v. 2nd-Amendment

May 14, 2020UncategorizedRickeyD

Liberal-Fascist-Atheistic logic: “Can someone explain to me why the same people who don’t need to wear a mask because God will look after them also need an AR-15 because God won’t?

Christian Patriot response…

Because this virus, COVID-19, has been and continues to be hyped via a globalist-socialist agenda for power and control over the masses while the Progressive-Socialist-Democrat seeks to annul our Bill of Rights and infuse their version of “Democratic Socialism” (actually another form of deadly Leninism – Marxism) and the Progressive Democrat is an enemy of the State; a traitor to the American people; a traitor to American men and women who fought and died battling socialism-communism; a traitor to our Constitutional Republic; therefore, when they, Progressive “useful idiots” come to place their socialistic boot on the neck of the Patriot, the Patriot will fight to the death; hence, the necessity for the AR-15, AR-10, AK-47, M1911, Glock and stockpiles of ammunition and supplies. Know your enemy and act accordingly with wisdom and discernment.

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Do we lose our Salvation with every sin or only continual sin?

May 11, 2020UncategorizedRickeyD

Theological question on FB: “Do we lose salvation with every sin or only ‘continual/practicing sins?’”

Christian response…

If you have placed your faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and repented of your sin, received the Holy Spirit as the Seal and Guarantor of relationship with God the Father, you are secure forever in that relationship and Jesus Christ has told you this as well (John 10:28-30).

If one is “continually practicing sin,” there is serious doubt concerning the authenticity of their faith and relationship with God the Father (Matthew 7:15-20). No one that is truly born-again by the indwelling Holy Spirit will seek to live in willful sin…this simply cannot happen; therefore, you cannot lose what you’ve never possessed.

When we sin by commission or omission as believers-the redeemed, we immediately ask forgiveness (1 John 1:9) NOT to reestablish our salvation but to reestablish intimacy with our Lord. The most precious gift of the Salvation experience is peace and intimacy with our God (Romans 5:1). Sin disrupts this intimacy; therefore, the faithful confess their sin and apologize in order to maintain intimacy, closeness, with the God we love.

It’s the same with our family, our friends, those we love but might insult or hurt with our selfish behavior…we ask forgiveness in order that the bond of love can be enjoyed…not to reestablish that bond but only to enjoy it fully (Romans 5:1). Unlike the unpredictability of human relationships in the realm of Time, God the Father promises to keep His children secure when they have sincerely entered into a relationship with Him by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and having received the indwelling Holy Spirit of Promise, forever (John 14:16).

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Atheist mocks Christian faith based on Jesus’ appearance

May 10, 2020UncategorizedRickeyD

Atheists, addicted to the flesh, question the faith of Christians based on what Jesus may have looked like. “In 2001, a new attempt was made to discover what the true race and face of Jesus might have been, and the result is the pic below. If this pic were placed in churches, Christians would run for the exists. They would not worship Jesus, which should tell you that the images of Jesus in churches are pure fiction. They are what Christians want Jesus to look like–not what he actually looked like. Thoughts?”

Response to the atheist…

Mark, Jesus Christ-Yeshua is Jewish from the Patriarchy of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, through the Tribe of Judah as per His humanity and Jesus Christ-Yeshua is God, Creator, Messiah, Judge, of all Creation in His deity.

Mark, I know that those who are addicted to the flesh i.e. the naturalist-atheist-moral relativist place much emphasis on appearance as opposed to substance and sustainability but the Scriptures tell us that Messiah-Jesus was not necessarily attractive that any of us would be drawn to Him physically…but Jesus is God, Mark, and He humbled Himself and made Himself nothing by Worldly standards, taking on the form of a man and a servant He humbly walked to a Roman Crucifixion and suffered and died for you because He loves you and desires that you live with Him eternally (Philippians 2:8).

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Question on FB: “Where did Anne Frank’s soul go after death?

May 10, 2020UncategorizedRickeyD

Question posited on FB: “Anne Frank died a young girl in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. She died Jewish. So what happened to her when she died, Heaven or…??

Christian response…

If Anne had faith in God and believed that He is true, God acted upon that faith just as He did for Enoch, Abraham, Rehab, Elijah, David and many others beginning with the Genesis. From the beginning of Time, righteousness (a right standing) with God the Father has been attainable by grace through faith, alone.

Messiah Yeshua was necessary for the atonement of sin because God the Father is not going to permit destructive, unrepentant sin to enter His Kingdom subsequent to the death of the body in Time (Revelation 21:27); therefore, those who died in faith before the Advent of Messiah, their disembodied spirit was detained in the region Messiah describes as Sheol-Hades/Paradise or Abraham’s Bosom (Luke 16). The Holy Spirit teaches that while Messiah’s body laid in the tomb subsequent to the Crucifixion, His Spirit entered Hades-Sheol and exclaimed freedom to the captives there and they were taken into the presence of the Father in the Kingdom (1 Peter 3; Matthew 27:50; Acts 2:31; Colossians 2:15; Ephesians 4:8-10).

Today, everyone who dies having placed their faith in Messiah-Yeshua as Lord, their sin is atoned-for by that faith and at the moment they exhale their last breath, they are escorted instantaneously into the presence of our Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8).

Predestination: Does God pick Winners & Losers?

May 8, 2020UncategorizedRickeyD

Predestination? God does not pick winners and losers!

1) I ask you…what purpose does predestination serve?

2) How does the doctrine of predestination glorify God?

If God predestined men and women to Heaven or Hell, where would love be? How can one love without the ability to choose? How can love from-and-with God manifest in purity and authenticity if we’re unable to choose that love? How can a robotic love be fulfilling and whole…did God create robots or did He provide both His angelic and human creation with free will so that love and relationship with Him can manifest in purity and authenticity? Is not relegating one to Hell, even before they’ve breathed the breath of life, to suffer and die in futility not construed as evil?

The truth is, God the Father has given both His angelic and human creation free will to choose relationship with Him or reject that relationship and serve Satan by default. Our omnipotent God and His immutable will and His immutable Plan are not stymied by our free will. God, in His omnipotence, is perfectly capable of working through and around our personal choices to accomplish His immutable will for Time and Eternity. Has God destined certain individuals down through history to perform certain tasks…yes….MANY…but they too had the free will to reject those gifts and talents but, there again, this does not and did not stymie God’s immutable will…He simply moves-on and chooses another. God predestines all men to be saved and come to a knowledge of the Truth via the Gospel that was ordained “before the beginning of Time” (2 Timothy 1:10). But not all men will respond in the affirmative to that invitation and Jesus Christ has said that “many” will reject it and only a “few” will find life in His Name (Matthew 7:13-14). The promise of salvation is to “whoever” will believe in Him…John 3:16

Jewish stubbornness and the veil

May 3, 2020UncategorizedRickeyD

Jewish stubbornness and the veil: “Christianity supposes to know the Messiah of Israel better than the Jews do. Israel rejects the God-man of Christianity because their Messiah is not “God the Son”.”

Christian response…

Israel rejects Yeshua because they misinterpreted the Scriptures about Him and believed that Yeshua would become an Earthly King and restore the vibrancy and strength of Israel as a Nation not understanding the Scriptures that affirm Messiah’s first-Advent as a suffering Lamb for the sins of mankind and Messiah’s responsibility to defeat the works of the Devil at the Crucifixion (John 1:29; 1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15).

It’s not until Messiah’s Second-Advent that He will restore the Nation of Israel and rule and reign over the Nations of the Earth for 1000-years with His headquarters in Jerusalem, Israel.

Because the Jews, the children of Jacob, have been a stubborn and stiff-necked people (Exodus 32:9; Deuteronomy 9:13) only a remnant of the children of Israel will be saved; this is prophesied because the children of Israel rejected Messiah Yeshua and demanded that His blood be on them and their children (Matthew 27:25); as a result, an overwhelming number of Israel’s offspring will die in sin and die in Hell (John 8:24; John 14:6).

Christians…why not simply trust in the Lord as opposed to men?

May 2, 2020UncategorizedRickeyD

In response to those well-meaning Christians who are bickering and worrying about non-essential doctrines of men relevant to the Scriptures and the completeness of the Canon of Scripture, please listen…

The very same God that took elements from the unseen Spiritual Realm and fashioned those elements into matter that can be apprehended by Time and physics then fashioned said matter into our Universe and complex human genome (Hebrews 11:3; Colossians 1:15-18; John 1; Gen. 1), this same Creator is perfectly capable of providing you with the EXACT words He desires you have so that you can know Him personally, love Him intimately, live with Him eternally; therefore, why not trust in the 66-Books He has provided you in the Canon of Scripture and stop worrying about the decisions of men (Psalm 118:8)?

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Evolution – Satan’s tool in School…

April 30, 2020UncategorizedRickeyD

Atheistic logic: “Does our mind and 5 senses interact with reality? Can’t say, because we don’t know what reality is. What say you?”

Christian response…

1) Naturalism, the demonically-based tenet of Darwinian Evolution, teaches that the Natural World is the only reality that can be known to/by human kind. Naturalism teaches that if it cannot be apprehended by our five-senses, it does not exist.

The Holy Spirit, throughout the Scriptures, proclaims a World that is more “real,” tangible, interactive, permanent-everlasting, than the Realm of Time; Time having been constrained by the laws of physics.

Reality for the Naturalist-Atheist-Darwinist is that which is perceptible by the senses; reality to those who know Yeshua-Jesus as Lord and Savior and having received the indwelling Holy Spirit as their Tutor and Counselor, we are assured of another “superior Realm of the Spiritual World” that is “home” for our spirit and a Realm that is everlasting and will never fade away.

Atheist response: “demonically-based tenet??? Come on Rick Holtsclaw lol.”

Christian response…

2) There is no greater instrument in the history of mankind used by Satan as a progenitor of atheism-unbelief than Darwinian evolution. Satan has effectively destroyed the mind of two-three generations of American youth subsequent to Darwin’s idiocy having been infused into the classroom in 1963. You are a vivid example of this truism, this horrific reality as you fight and clamor for death in Hell in spiritual blindness (2 Corinthians 4:4).

America has lost the Millennial and Gen-Z generations to demonic Naturalism i.e. Darwin’s idiocy and an overwhelming number of these brainwashed nihilistic-atheistic socialists, as well as the subsequent generations that succumb to the same fate, will never come to a knowledge of the truth; tragically, they are destined to die in sin and die the “second death” in Hell and they will be the instrument by which America’s Constitutional Republic is destroyed via socialist-communistic tyranny. This has eschatological purposes as well concerning the United States’ inability to intercede on Israel’s behalf in the soon to come Apocalypse, the Day of our Lord.

It is written…

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.” 37 Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” 38 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?”* John 18:36-38 (NASB)

Are Women considered Inferior in the Bible?

April 25, 2020Religion - Christianity, UncategorizedRickeyD

Theological question: “Are women considered inferior in the Bible because Eve ate the fruit of the Tree before Adam did? Is that why women aren’t allowed to speak a word in church or to teach a man anything? Is a woman supposed to cover her head/hair out of shame for the sins of Eve?”

Christian response…

Actually, it is Adam who incurred the greater culpability, wrath and curse for disobedience, not Eve. It is through Adam that death entered Time, the World; this is why Jesus entered Time through the womb of a virgin woman “to destroy the works of the Devil” (death-Hell-the grave) via the Gospel ordained “before Time began” (Romans 5:12; Genesis 3:15; Matthew 1:18-23; 1 John 3:8b; 2 Timothy 1:8-10); Jesus circumvented the sin-nature passed through Adam’s genome via the virgin birth (Luke 1:35).

Adam incurred greater culpability than Eve because Adam received the command from Elohim to not compromise with evil DIRECTLY from Elohim while Eve received the edict by hearsay from her husband, Adam. If you’ll remember, when Eve relented to Lucifer and compromised, nothing happened in Eden as it was not until Adam disobeyed Elohim and rejected Elohim’s Covenant of Sustenance that Elohim’s wrath was forthcoming and the Adamic curse placed upon mankind (Romans 5:12).

The exalted woman in Scripture,

The woman is highly exalted in Scripture and the authority of the husband over the wife comes with incredible responsibilities for the husband. The husband is to give himself for his wife as Messiah gave Himself for the Church and died for her; the wife is simply commanded to obey/support her husband out of respect for his responsibilities concerning the family unit (Ephesians 5:22-33).

The family and the Trinity,

There is a delineation of authority in the family with the husband as the head, the wife second and the children third. The husband will be held accountable to Elohim for his care and provision for the family entrusted to him. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit also model this delineation of authority in the Godhead; though they are all ONE-Elohim and coequal concerning all divine attributes, they agree to this delineation of authority for order and righteousness; therefore, the Trinity acts as a model for the Biblical family unit.

The wife is not lesser than the husband as she is an integral, essential, part of the family unit and the husband is responsible for honoring her and protecting her as the weaker vessel. The Biblical family unit is therefore the bedrock for societal survival and Elohim’s eschatological plan concerning the defeat of Satan and restoration of holiness and peace to His Kingdom.