Why are there so many Christian Denominations?
Theological question: “Why are there so many denominations?”
Christian response…
Though this truth will upset many…denominations in the Christian faith are the work of Satan. Satan is a formidable military strategist who relentlessly practices “divide and conquer”…Satan was able to take the pride of men and use same to divide an incredibly strong and unified first-century church and fragment it into warring, bickering, nitpicking, men and women who argue over the color of carpet, baptism, tongues, formality of worship, the Lord’s Supper, music in worship, translations of the Bible…and Satan has been incredibly effective in diminishing the power and strength of the Church to impact the World for Jesus Christ.
Atheist-Skeptic mocks the Supernatural…a response…
Atheist-skeptic imprisoned by Darwin’s naturalism subtly mocks the supernatural: “Has anyone here ever seen a witch, real magic, paranormal, a ghost, demon, angel, jesus, a god, a fairy, levitation, Satan, Illuminati with money making powers, curses or anything out of the ordinary that cannot be explained by logic or tricks. please share your experience.”
Christian response…
This I know…28-yrs ago I took my family on a vacation from Houston, TX to Chicago, IL on the AmTrak train. While there, the relatives we were visiting received some guests that had arrived in Chicago also…the gentleman was a 90+ year-old Messianic Jewish Priest with his entourage. I was 35-yrs of age at the time, about 12-yrs into my police career with the Houston PD and thought that I was doing pretty good in life, had a wife, son, home…fantastic career.
I had an opportunity to sit quietly with this Messianic Jewish Priest and we talked heart-to-heart and I acknowledged that I knew about Yeshua and our conversation grew in depth and in intensity. I was asked questions that I simply could not answer to my own satisfaction and after the Priest left I was a little disturbed…my pride had been challenged by knowledge I did not possess.
The next day, I walked to a bookstore and purchased a copy of the Living Bible, a paraphrased text, and sat on a couch in that small apartment and began to read through the New Testament…I did this out of pride as I was determined to never be caught short again relevant to knowledge concerning the Bible. About half-way through my initial read of the New Testament, I looked-up from the pages of that Bible and asked “Where has this been all my life?” Suddenly, out of nowhere, every answer to every question I had about origin, meaning of life, reasoning for morality/sin, the destiny of man…these were incrementally being answered in the Scriptures.
The more I read the Scriptures, the more intrigued I became and then my life and my understanding began to change, radically, as if I was not the same person inside. My affections, my desires, my motives, my knowledge and understanding of life…these all became vivid and clear and understandable. I began an exegesis of the Bible, I purchased a Hebrew-Greek-Aramaic dictionary as the Internet was not available then…and when I began to study the original languages…in those difficult passages of Scripture, I came to the irrefutable conclusion that Yeshua-Jesus is exactly Who He has said He is; Jesus is God who entered time 2019-yrs ago and suffered and died to pay my sin-debt that I could not pay and Jesus was resurrected for my justification leading to eternal life.
I have walked with the indwelling Holy Spirit now for 28-yrs and it breaks my heart and baffles my understanding that you cannot see the preliminary supernatural evidence for my Lord that engulfs you every minute of every day and every night. You seek for miracles and supernatural proof of God and angels and wizards and witches when you cannot explain how the Moon is placed in its orbit and how the Sun provides light and heat at perfect temperatures and distances from the Earth…you cannot begin to explain the supernatural complex human genome yet you deny God and you deny miracles. Do you have any idea how blind and foolish you are in your rejection of the preliminary evidence provided you? Are you aware that God has made a way for you to be forgiven of sin and experience true life with Him forever? Why would you throw this away and follow men and their lies into Hell?
Why didn’t God kill or destroy Satan?
Theological question posited on FB: “Why didn’t God kill or destroy Satan?”
Christian response…
God the Father, for some unknown reason, truly desires a loving and honest relationship with His created beings and in order for love and relationship to manifest in purity with authenticity, those involved in that relationship must possess the free will to choose to love or hate, honor or dishonor, they must possess the free will to pursue that relationship or reject it; if the participants are programmed or coerced to comply…love and relationship become impotent because love cannot be realized by force or coercion nor can love be realized in fear.
If God the Father had simply destroyed Lucifer and the rebellious angels that followed Lucifer in His coup d’état, the unfathomable number of faithful angels that remained would no longer love God out of free will/volition but out of fear; again, true love and relationship cannot exist or be realized in an atmosphere of fear; therefore, the Scriptures tells us that before the beginning of Time (2 Timothy 1:10), God the Father ordained that the Gospel would be the method by which He would deal with Lucifer and the rebellious angels while maintaining volitional love with His faithful angelic creation.
The Holy Spirit tells us that God the Father commissioned the Son, Jesus Christ (John 3:35), to take elements from the unseen Spiritual World (Hebrews 11:3) and fashion those elements into matter that can be apprehended by life constrained by Time and physics. Our Creator, Jesus Christ, proceeded, with rapidity, to create Time, the Universe, Earth, the human genome (Colossians 1:15-18; John 1; Genesis 1) and God the Father then placed Lucifer on the Earth and within Eden (the Garden of God) (Ezekiel 28:11-17). This was done in order to remove from the Kingdom the destructive sin introduced by Lucifer into the Kingdom through rebellion and deal with that sin apart from the Kingdom and within the constraints of Time.
Lucifer was successful in tempting Eve to compromise with evil and Eve was successful in tempting her husband, Adam, to compromise with evil and this began the war between Lucifer v. Yeshua as articulated by the Spirit in Genesis 3:14-15; in fact, the Holy Spirit tells us that the primary reason the Son of God, Jesus Christ, entered Time was to defeat the works of the Devil (1 John 3:8b). Lucifer was essentially defeated by Yeshua at the Crucifixion some 4000-years subsequent to Genesis 3:14-15 but that struggle continues and can be seen today between the spiritual and physical armies of Allah-Satan/Islam v. Yeshua-the Christian-the Jew/Israel.
The spiritual warfare that surrounds us, the death and carnage caused by Satan and SIN is demonstrating to the faithful angels in the Kingdom why God the Father extricated the sin of Lucifer from the Kingdom and why sin cannot be tolerated and why SIN can NEVER enter the Kingdom of God (Revelation 21:27). The Holy Spirit explains that at the end of the Millennial Reign of Messiah-Yeshua, the faithful angels in Heaven will fully concur with God the Father that Satan and the fallen angels (demons) do deserve punishment in Hell forever (Revelation 20:10).
God the Father through the Son, Jesus Christ, will have demonstrated His incredible love for His created beings, both angelic and human, by having given Himself as a sacrifice for sin; it is through selfless love and sacrifice for those He loves that God will maintain volitional love with His faithful angels that He has cherished from Eternity past; mankind, that has trusted in what Jesus Christ has done on the Cross of suffering, will also enjoy the love and fellowship of God forever in the Kingdom.
Atheist logic: “Buy a Bible and don’t read it, you’ll become a Catholic. Buy a Bible and only read what suits you and you’ll be an evangelical. Buy a Bible, read it fully, analyze it, reason it, and you will be an atheist.” A response…
Atheistic logic: “Buy a Bible and don’t read it, you’ll become a Catholic. Buy a Bible and only read what suits you and you’ll be an evangelical. Buy a Bible, read it fully, analyze it, reason it, and you will be an atheist.”
Response to the atheist…
When one reads the Scriptures seeking atheism…they will remain an atheist. If one reads the Scriptures with a heart that seeks God, they will find God. It’s not words on the pages of Scripture that changes lives, it’s the heart of the one consuming those words and the Holy Spirit that comes alongside the humble, desperately seeking and guides them into the deeper truths hidden within the richness of Scripture where life and truth and hope and knowledge and wisdom and peace are found (Jeremiah 29:11-13). It is here where Heaven and Earth meet and lives are redeemed unto God through Jesus Christ as Lord by the power and tutelage of the Holy Spirit (1 John 2:27).
The atheist remains an atheist subsequent to reading the Bible because they are Satan’s fool and they are rooted in demonic naturalism and they are blinded by their rebellion (2 Corinthians 4:4); unfortunately, this is why the Atheist is headed to death in sin (John 8:24) and the “second death” in Hell (Revelation 20:11-15)…they have chosen to reject what they intuitively know to be Truth because they love their sexual perversion, their abortions, their narcissism, this lost and dying World, more than God’s Truth and God’s promises (Romans 1:18-32).
“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
Evangelizing the lost youth in America – What do I need to know?
Evangelism question on FB: “My wife and I actively shared the gospel at a very liberal college campus close to us, until this whole covid thing. Always using some worldview argument, as a means to get to the gospel. If you actively evangelize, street preach, witness/ engage in apologetics, what are your favorite worldview topics to use, to get them to gospel truth?”
Response…
Having policed this sick society for 31-yrs and debated atheists for years…the Spirit has placed upon my heart the truism that the primary causation for today’s modern atheist is a successful progressive socialist strategy implemented in 1963 by infusing Darwinian evolutionary theory masquerading as a biological “science” into the American classrooms while strategically teaching historical revisionism and Leninism-Marxism in the humanities…these two-deceptions combined as a catalyst to effectively morph two-three generations of American youth into atheistic-nihilistic-naturalistic-socialistic progressives who are thoroughly brainwashed and unfortunately, most will never come to a knowledge of the Truth. This all manifest subsequent to removing Jesus Christ from the classroom via case law such as Engel v. Vitale (1962).
If you desire to reach the Millennial and Gen-Z generations, the Gen-X as well…you’ll have to be sufficiently armed with knowledge concerning the debunked “Big Bang,” abiogenesis, descent with modification-molecules to man evolution, speciation-variation- adaptation, micro v. – macro evolution v. species v. KIND and you need a healthy knowledge of true American history, our Founders, our Christian heritage, our Rights, the history of Progressive Socialism beginning with John Dewey in 1900…these are minimum if you desire to debate the Gospel message and have any hope of reaching a “few” of America’s lost, addicted, perverted, deceived, confused and dying youth.
Where was God during the Holocaust?
Theological question on FB: “Where do you think God was in the Holocaust?”
Christian response…
God allows for mankind to make decisions like those that resulted from a conspiracy between Hitler and Satan-Allah to eradicate the Jews from the face of the Earth during the Holocaust but God, in His omnipotence, always works through and around our free will to accomplish His perfect will in both Time and Eternity. The Holocaust was interpreted by Satan-Allah/Islam as a victory but God turned Satan’s “victory” into defeat by inspiring the children of Jacob via the “Never Again” movement to reestablish the Nation of Israel (1948) thereby fulfilling Ezekiel’s regathering prophecy (Ezekiel 34:13).
For two-thousand years, eschatologists could not fathom the fulfillment of Scriptures concerning Israel seeing that the Nation ceased to exist and Jerusalem had been utterly destroyed in 70AD by Titus and the 10th-Roman Legion; therefore, “replacement theology” arose and religious zealots attempted to replace Israel with the Church…but God’s Plan would not be thwarted…Israel is now a Nation (1948) and Jerusalem was recaptured by the Jews (1967 Six-Day-War) and Jerusalem is now the Capital of Israel (2017).
In the near future, a coalition comprised of Islam/Allah-Iran – Russia – China will come against Jerusalem, Israel and a nuclear war will be initiated and the United States will have fallen-prey to Progressive Socialism and thus too crippled monetarily and militarily to ally with Israel. Israel will appear to have been orphaned but Messiah-Yeshua will intervene on Israel’s behalf, defeat the armies of Allah-Satan, and all of Israel will see and worship their Messiah they rejected for 2000-years followed by the Millennial Reign of Messiah-Yeshua; so yes, God was in the Holocaust, just passively, as He works all things to the good for those who love and trust in Him as Lord (Romans 8:28). God is victorious…Satan simply does not believe it, yet.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 (NKJV)
Theological Question on FB: What is the Goal of Atheism?
Theological question concerning atheists posited on FB: “The theists believe and hope for eternal life from their almighty god. Somehow, we can say that is their goal or focus irrespective of the rightness or wrongness. Now my question is what is the goal of the atheists? What do they hope for or what is their aim or objective?”
Response…
The goal of the atheist is unrestrained sensual pleasure, the pursuit of nirvana through an ideology of Naturalism e.g. atheism espouses a naturalistic idea that all we experience with our five-senses is the ultimate reality, nothing lies beyond this brief, futile, existence in Time; the atheist denies the reality of the Spiritual Realm; therefore, the atheist naturally internalizes an ideology of naturalistic moral relativism espousing “if it feels good, do it”…there is no judgment, no objective morality, no eternity, no God, no ramifications for behavior; mankind is free to pursue unencumbered sensuality, please your flesh, do as you please, “eat-drink & be merry for tomorrow we die.” This atheistic lasciviousness inevitably results in the psychological, physiological, spiritual, phenomenon known as “diminishing returns” where the atheist must delve progressively deeper into the filth of immorality, debauchery, self-loathing, in order to achieve a modicum of satisfaction for an insatiable immoral appetite via the base-nature i.e. the sin-nature.
The atheist is the fool of Time and Eternity and they are to be avoided as they have made an affirmative decision to die in Hell and they serve Satan by default even if unaware. The Christian has a Scriptural obligation to tell the atheist about the Gospel and explain what Jesus Christ has done for them at the Crucifixion and walk away. Atheists are intrinsically evil via their alliance with Satan and they will rot the soul of the seeking and faithful if a lengthy dialog is pursued.
“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” Matthew 7:6 (NASB)
Atheism is a lie from Hell, it does not exist in reality except to provide an excuse, tempering for a seared conscience addicted to sexual perversion, unrestrained narcissism; solace for those who murder and advocate for the murder of babies in the womb; justification for the socialist-communist. Atheists are inherently deceptive and tools, puppets, of their spiritual father Satan as they seek an eternity in Hell similar to that of Satan himself.
What are the Goals of Atheism?
Theological question posited on FB: “The theists believe and hope for eternal life from their almighty god. Somehow, we can say that is their goal or focus irrespective of the rightness or wrongness. Now my question is what is the goal of the atheists? What do they hope for or what is their aim or objective?”
Response…
The goal of the atheist is naturalism e.g. that all we experience with our five-senses is the ultimate reality, nothing lies beyond this brief existence in Time, the atheist denies the reality of the Spiritual Realm; therefore, the atheist assume an ideology of naturalistic moral relativism where “if it feels good, do it”…there is no judgment, no objective morality, no eternity, no God…just pursue sensuality, please your flesh, do as you please, “eat-drink-be merry for tomorrow we die.” The atheist is the fool of Time and Eternity and they are to be avoided as they have made an affirmative decision to die in Hell and they serve Satan by default even if unaware.
Tell the atheist about the Gospel and explain to them what Jesus has done for them and walk away. Atheists are intrinsically evil and they will rot the soul. Atheism is a lie from Hell, it does not exist in reality except to provide an excuse for sexual perversion, unrestrained narcissism; solace for those who murder babies in the womb. Atheists are demonically deceptive and tools, puppets, of Satan as they seek an eternity in Hell similar to that of Satan himself. Limit your exposure to this evil.
Abortion Lies Continue while America Dies in Innocent Blood
Abortion advocate logic: “If you want to abolish abortion, I hope you’re also ready to get on board with increased spending on social programs that it will take to care for kids born of unfit mothers.” “A fetus is not a child.”
Response to those who advocate murdering babies in the womb…
Does anyone in the Progressive-Socialist-Democrat Party understand the demonic position they are espousing by voting for, advocating for, supporting, the mutilation of a baby in the womb? Do you understand that God’s wrath is upon the United States for our murder of innocence? The Progressive Democrat chants the lie that a fetus is not a baby, not a person, but science has dispelled this myth and confirmed that life does, indeed, begin at the moment of conception; for this reason, Roe v. Wade (1973) is unconstitutional and violates the aborted child’s 5th and 14th Amendment due process protections.
When you advocate for the suctioning-out; burning to death with saline; mutilation-dismemberment with surgical instruments; vacuuming the brains from a child’s skull in the womb, you have committed an act of murder and there is no legitimate defense to the culpability integral to this most unconscionable crime against God, our Creator. God the Father is judging the American people for our murder of His children and America is dying as a result.
As one who loves Jesus Christ, what am I pleading for concerning America and abortion?
I am simply pleading for the extrication of the Federal Government OUT of the “business” of infanticide. Please stop pervasive culpability for the shedding of innocent blood? Stop the wrath of God upon the American people for our Government’s participation in the mutilation of 61-million babies subsequent to Roe/73. Stop America’s complicity in the death of children. If a State opts to murder babies in the womb, at least I have the option to leave that State and live my life apart from that wicked governmental entity. I have begged for years for this to STOP. My warning to President Trump, my Plea to the American people in 2017, see letter to President Trump: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2017/09/08/president-trump-a-warning-a-prophecy-a-plea/
Science confirms that human life begins at fertilization
https://www.liveaction.org/news/science-confirms-that-human-life-begins-at-fertilization/
Life begins at Fertilization
http://thefederalist.com/…/science-life-begins-makes…/
Pediatricians agree: Life begins at conception:
https://www.acpeds.org/…/life…/when-human-life-begins
Princeton agrees, life begins at conception:
https://www.princeton.edu/~pr…/articles/embryoquotes2.html
US Government Now Says: Life begins at conception
https://tonic.vice.com/…/government-hhs-now-says-life…
Life Begins a Fertilization, video
https://twitter.com/LiveAction/status/1068861776329093121
Fetal Homicide Laws
http://www.ncsl.org/…/fetal-homicide-state-laws.aspx
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