Atheist, Mark D, stated: “Can belief give rise to God’s existence? Yes, because God is a concept and concepts are thought based. When someone says that they believe in God, what they really mean is that they believe in the concept that they have formed in their mind. The existence of God outside of the mind is not something that can be determined by human intellect. The God that Christians, Jews, and Muslims worship is invented. It is a product of human thought that has no basis in fact and no confirming empirical evidence. What they worship is not God, but themselves. What say you?”

Once again, Mark is a voice for Satan. The Christian has not invented God but the Christian has observed the supernatural evidence provided us by the Moon, Stars, Sun, the complex human genome and logically, reasonably, empirically, inferred/deduced by said evidence that design is in play; therefore, a Designer is mandated (Romans 1:18-32).

An honest person will pursue the evidence in Nature provided them and search for the Name, the identity, of the One who designed our supernatural Universe and brought life into existence. Science and historical science, evolution, have NOT a clue concerning origin of matter and life. The Vedas is laughable; the Quran is plagiarized from the Jewish Torah by the false prophet Muhammad; the Egyptian Gods and Greek mythology, well, these are simply a very bad story; therefore, when one finally opens the Holy Bible, they find the Signature of our Creator in Chapter-one-page-one and that same Creator is confirmed over-and-over-again throughout the Covenant of Law and the Covenant of Grace.

When one seeks-out the Truth and possesses a contrite, humble, honest, heart, they will discover that Christianity is the only coherent worldview with corresponding truth that defines origin-meaning-morality-destiny and directly answers with logical consistency, empirical adequacy, experiential relevance. When one truly trusts in Jesus Christ as Lord, the mysteries of the Universe, Life, Time, Eternity, are answered. There is ONE God and ONE Mediator for sin, Jesus Christ.

“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

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Christian? What defines a true Christian? Unfortunately, most Atheists don’t know. Let’s discuss that…

“for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,” 1 Corinthians 14:33 (NASB)

“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 (NASB)

Introduction

Having debated the Atheist ad nauseam, I am often confronted by Atheists who lack knowledge relevant to true, Biblical, Christianity. The Atheist oftentimes incorrectly identifies a groundswell of religions, cults, sects, falsely flying under the banner of Christianity as actually being Christian; the Atheist does not understand that these pagan cults and religions reject the core tenets of the Christian faith and Scripture and are therefore, at best, a Christian-cult.

In addition, the Atheist is quick to accuse Christianity of atrocities over the Centuries subsequent to Messiah’s Ascension, but when challenged, these atrocities were not Christian oriented at all, they were deeds performed in the name of Roman Catholicism or by men and women who “claimed” to be Christian but their actions were a direct contradiction to their profession. Jesus has told us that we would know them by their works; that a man or woman can be identified by the way they act (Matthew 7:15-20). So then, what is a true Christian?

Subsequent to the death, burial, resurrection, of Jesus Christ-Yeshua, self-serving, greedy for money and power, men and women throughout the Centuries following that cataclysmic event have sought to re-define the Person and Deity of Messiah-Jesus and His purposes relevant to Time and Eternity.

These self-indulgent men and women polluted and convoluted the Truth of Jesus Christ, the simplicity of His message, the Gospel (Good News); The Gospel, a written Covenant of Grace between God the Father established by the work, obedience and sacrifice of the Son, Jesus Christ-Yeshua at the Crucifixion and said Covenant having been Sealed and Guaranteed as binding by God the Holy Spirit and articulated-chronicled within the written word of God as inspired by the Holy Spirit (John 3:16: Ephesians 1:13-14).

Who is a “true” Christian according to the written word of God?

The Authority of God’s Word

1) A true-authentic Christian is a man, woman, child, who sincerely believes that the Holy Bible, the Scriptures, the written Word of God, is the Holy Spirit inspired mind of God penned on parchment by specific holy men of old who were chosen to chronicle and safeguard those words by inspiration of the Holy Spirit; the Christian believes that the Original Scriptures are the absolute perfect Truth, inerrant, irrefutable, words of God to mankind given as a gift, a love letter, to human KIND from our Creator so that every man, woman, child, can personally know God the Father, God the Son – Jesus Christ, God the Holy Spirit and God’s perfect will for Time, Eternity and our individual lives.

The Christian believes that the same God who created Time, the Universe, the complex human genome, is perfectly capable of articulating, chronicling, protecting and transmitting His written word down through Time so that His creation can know Him, love Him, commune with Him, forever.

The Confession

2) A true, authentic, Christian is one who has agreed with God the Father that they’re a sinner (Romans 3:23) and has agreed to repent, turn-away from their sin and sincerely believe in their heart, confess with their mouth that Jesus Christ is the Eternal God who died to pay their sin-debt, a debt that they could not pay, and that Jesus Christ was resurrected for their justification leading to eternal life in the Kingdom of God subsequent to death of their body constrained by the Realm of Time (Romans 10:9-10; John 8:24; Philippians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 5:8).

The Guarantor of Relationship

3) It is the true and authentic Christian that has received the indwelling Holy Spirit of Promise as the Seal and Guarantor of the Covenant of Grace with God the Father as established by grace through faith in Jesus Christ-Yeshua as Lord for the mediation of sin (Ephesians 1:13-14; Acts 19:2; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 4:30).

The Exclusivity of Jesus Christ as Lord

4) A true and authentic Christian believes and understands that there is absolutely NOTHING they can do to earn or deserve the Gift of Salvation that provides a pardon from death in sin and the second death in Hell. The true Christian knows that there is no work, no philanthropic endeavor, no personal sacrifice, that can earn God the Father’s forgiveness of sin (Ephesians 2:8-9).

A true Christian knows, believes and understands that Jesus Christ, through His suffering and death at the Crucifixion, performed the work of Salvation on our behalf i.e. Christ died to provide mankind a pardon from sin and death in Hell (2 Corinthians 5:21).

The true and authentic Christian believes and understands that ONLY by grace (unmerited favor – that which cannot be earned by human effort) through faith (trusting-believing with a sincere heart) that Jesus Christ – Yeshua is God who died to pay our sin-debt; only by believing and so confessing can a man or woman find forgiveness of sin leading to Eternal life with God the Father in the Kingdom of God (Romans 10:9-10).

Caveat: Does water Baptism save?

The Christian understands that the act or work of water Baptism does NOT save anyone but that water Baptism is obedience to the command of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:18-20) and that water Baptism is a demonstration to the World that the Christian has placed their faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

The Christian understands that water Baptism represents the death-burial-resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and represents our pledge before man and God to walk in a new life, the new birth, received by our confession of Jesus as Lord before the act of Baptism (John 3:3; Ephesians 2:8-9; John 3:16; John 3:36; John 3:18; John 14:6).

Obedience – Validation of Salvation

5) The true and authentic Christian understands and believes that though they cannot work them self into God’s favor relevant to salvation/the forgiveness of sin, the Christian understands that “subsequent” to having entered into a relationship with God the Father by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, alone, the Christian understands that works – obedience – servitude to God is essential because it is the works-obedience of the Christian SUBSEQUENT to salvation that provides validation of the authenticity of the Christian’s relationship with God and the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit (James 2:26; Ephesians 1:13).

Justification and Sanctification

True and authentic faith/salvation i.e. “Justification” will be demonstrated by the process of “Sanctification” as the Christian walks daily, matures daily, by the tutelage, intercession, wisdom, discernment, of the indwelling Holy Spirit (1 John 2:27). Sanctification, the incremental maturation process of the Christian, is achieved by diligent, fervent, study of the written word of God via the tutelage of the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 2:15; 1 John 2:27).

Disdain for Wilful Sin

The true and authentic Christian no longer desires to live in willful sin against God neither in word, thought or deed, but the authentic Christian seeks to live a life of obedience to God’s will and always, continually, seeks to please and honor God the Father through obedience to His written word, the Scriptures and His Living Word, Jesus Christ. (James 2:14-26; Galatians 5:16-23; John 1).

The Struggle between Two-Natures

6) The true and faithful Christian understands that even though they have been “born again” by the Holy Spirit as a result of their belief-faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, the Christian is aware that in the new-nature imparted by the indwelling Holy Spirit they will struggle with the old sinful-nature that remains behind due to the body of death that constrains-houses the spirit of man in the Realm of Time (Romans 7:14-25); therefore, the true and authentic Christian strives for excellence and perfection in their daily walk with God (Galatians 5:16).

Security of the Believer

There is also an understanding that sin is ever-present and in the struggle between the new-man v. the old-sin-nature the Christian knows that unintentional sin does not threaten the security of their eternal relationship with God (John 10:27-29). When the Christian does sin by omission or commission, they are to seek forgiveness for that sin – NOT to reestablish their salvation which is secure in the Holy Spirit forever (John 10:27-30) – but the Christian seeks forgiveness in order to reestablish and reaffirm intimacy with God the Father as the Christian knows that sin fractures intimacy through our conscience and it is intimacy-joy-peace-contentment with our God that is paramount and cherished above all else in the life of the faithful Christian (1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:1-2; Romans 5:1).

Summation

So then, we see that a Christian is one who has repented of sin, believed in and confessed Jesus Christ as Lord, exclusively, for the forgiveness of sin; we see that salvation manifests not by works, not by deeds, not by Baptism, not by men, not by Church membership, not by family affiliations, not by indulgences, not by birth, but ONLY by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord – exclusively.

What is False Christianity?

Anything, anyone, who denies the sole-sufficiency of Jesus Christ-Yeshua as God for the forgiveness of sin, that person is NOT a Christian. Any “religion” or “sect” or “cult” or “denomination” that denies the SOLE-sufficiency of Jesus Christ as Lord for the forgiveness of sin is NOT Christian.

There is a plethora of counterfeit “Christian” religions in the World and there are “many” counterfeit Christians in the World (Matthew 7:22-24) and anyone who adds anything to or detracts from the purity, simplicity, of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that demands the sole-sufficiency of Jesus as Lord for the forgiveness of sin leading to eternal life, that person or institution denying the Deity of Christ (John 8:24) or adding works, behavior, deeds, money-indulgences, the Mass, Baptism, the pagan Doctrine of Tongues, to earn or confirm one’s salvation, that person or institution is NOT of God and they are NOT Christian but they are heretical and damned lest they repent of their false doctrines of denying the exclusivity of Messiah-Jesus as Lord (Matthew 24:36; 7:15-20; 2 Timothy 4:3-4; Acts 20:28-30; 1 John 4:1-6; 2 Peter 1:12-21; 2 Peter 2; Ephesians 2:8-9).

A few examples of Cults and Religions that fly under the banner of Christianity but are NOT Christian

1) Roman Catholicism: Catholicism is a “works” salvation, a pagan religion that rejects the simplicity, exclusivity, of Jesus Christ as Lord, Savior, Redeemer. Catholicism has never been Christian. Catholicism was founded by Constantine in 312-313AD via the Edict of Milan by merging Babylonian Paganism/Roman Paganism with elements of Christian and non-Christian (Apocrypha) doctrine in order to make the pagan religion palatable to the masses.

The Mass; The Sacraments; Transubstantiation; Purgatory; The Rosary; Statues in Worship; The Perpetual Virginity of Mary as the Goddess of Heaven; The Idolatry of Mary Worship; calling Catholic Leadership as “Father;” confessing sin to a Priest; The Magisterium; Indulgences; these are NOT Scriptural and undermine the purity and simplicity of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord; thereby, leading the innocent millions/billions in the way of deception and hopelessness. Tragically, the Catholic parishioner never knows for certain if they are saved or condemned due to false Catholic Church doctrine and Church tradition of men.

“These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” 1 John 5:13 (NASB)

2) The Church of the Latter-Day Saints – Mormons: Mormonism is a works salvation – Christian cult. Mormonism teaches doctrines that are in direct contradiction to the essentials of the Christian faith. Mormonism denies the true nature of God, the true nature of Christ, and the true nature of salvation.

Mormonism teaches that the forgiveness of sin is obtained by obedience to the laws (works salvation) and ordinances of the Mormon church. Mormons will claim they are Christians because they say they follow the Jesus of the Bible, in reality, they are following a false Christ. Jesus is not the brother of the devil as Mormonism teaches. Jesus is the second Person of the Trinity. Jesus did not atone for our sins in the garden of Gethsemane as Mormonism teaches; Jesus died to pay our sin-debt at the Crucifixion (1 Peter 2:24; John 3:16).

Mormon’s, in their book “Doctrines of Salvation,” vol. 1, page 188, claim that there is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith as a prophet of God. Joseph Smith is the founder of Mormonism. Jesus Christ said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” John 14:6 (NASB) See: (https://carm.org/mormonism/is-mormonism-cult)

3) The Jehovah’s Witnesses: A works salvation-cult that denies the exclusivity and deity of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the doctrine of the Trinity and claim that Jesus was not divine and that the Holy Spirit is an “active force” and not a Person of the Trinity. Jehovah’s Witness’ organization distorts the essential doctrines of Christianity by denying the deity of Jesus Christ, His physical resurrection, and salvation by grace through faith, alone.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses, to support their false doctrines, has altered the Canon Bible to make it agree with its changing and non-Christian teachings. The Jehovah’s Witnesses consider themselves to be Christians because they believe they are serving the true and living God yet they deny the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the person-hood of the Holy Spirit, Jesus’ physical resurrection, and salvation by grace through faith, alone. See: (https://carm.org/is-the-jehovahs-witness-religion-christian)

Jesus said that unless you believe He is God, you will die in your sins…

“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” John 8:24 (NASB)

4) Pentecostalism – Charismatic non-denominationalism: Though these charismatic Churches do follow Christian doctrine rather closely, far too many make the heretical error of teaching the cultic practice of ecstatic utterances or speaking in an unknown tongue. A pagan practice that finds its pagan roots in Delphi, a town in ancient Greece across the bay from Corinth. The pagan activities-traditions-practices in the pagan temple located in Delphi obviously negatively affected the Christian Church at Corinth.

Intoxicated oracles-utterances offered by a pagan priestess in the Temple of Delphi carried-over into the Christian Church at Corinth creating much confusion and division. Charismatic denominations today teach this pagan practice of speaking in an unknown tongue thereby morphing themselves into a pagan cult; these charismatic Churches err doctrinally when they require their parishioners, even children, to speak in an unknown tongue, unintelligible gibberish, to authenticate their salvation and prove the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Such pagan oriented practices place tremendous burdens on sincere seeking men and women and children, burdens that God the Father NEVER intended for them to bear and when these parishioners are honest with themselves and admit they don’t actually speak in an unknown tongue, confusion, doubt, worry, fret, consume them because they never know for sure if they’re saved or condemned to Hell. This is heresy!

Conclusion

Jesus said:

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (NASB)

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” John 14:6 (NASB)

The Apostle Paul, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit said,

“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9 (NASB)

The simplicity of the Gospel must not be defiled by men. It is God the Father who has given the Son, Jesus Christ, to die for the sins of mankind and only by trusting in Jesus as Lord can mankind find forgiveness of sin and life in Eternity in God’s Kingdom. Nothing more, nothing less than Jesus, alone, will find righteousness (a right standing) with God the Father through the forgiveness of sin!

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Atheist mocks Christian morality by suggesting Nietzsche has a better way. Let’s discuss that.

Atheist, Mark D. stated: “Friedrich Nietzsche argued that there were two fundamental types of morality: “master morality” and “slave morality”. Master morality values pride and power, while slave morality values things like kindness, empathy, and sympathy. Master morality weighs actions on good or bad consequences, unlike slave morality, which weighs actions on a scale of good or evil intentions. Shouldn’t Christians be concerned that they have adopted a slave morality, given the fact that a morality based on consequences has proven throughout history to be more beneficial than one based on intentions?”

Response to the Atheist…

Mark, you will NOT find truth or life by groveling at the feet of Satan and his representatives in time exemplified by demonic-men like Nietzsche, Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Dillahunty. Mark, you’ll only find death and Hell in servitude to these fleshly demons.

Mark, the atheist, seeks his wisdom from an atheistic demon named Nietzsche, a self-proclaimed anti-christ. Mark suggests there is a “master morality” and a “slave morality” and then equates Christian morality to a “slave morality” where behavior is evaluated on a scale of good or evil intentions. Mark, I ask you, who defines what is good or evil? Men or God?

Source of morality for the Christian…

Sadly, Mark and an overwhelming number of Atheists have absolutely no idea what defines a true Christian. I will elaborate on this subject in another Post if time permits. Christians have ONE-form of morality i.e. the objective moral law which has been written upon the heart of human KIND by our Creator at conception (Romans 2:15). It is the Christian, by the power, wisdom, discernment and influence of the indwelling Holy Spirit that seeks to do good; to love and honor their fellowman; to love God – Family – Country and to honor God through obedience to His written word and His Living Word, Jesus Christ. Christians seek good because they are “born again” by a Good-God and have internalized His Nature via the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, Christians don’t evaluate behavior/morality based on one’s intentions but by what our Creator has said and obedience to His Law infused within our inner-man at conception. Christians seek moral good because their new nature via the Spirit desires good and the Christian seeks to honor and please our God who is the definition of “Good.”

Source of morality for the Atheist…

The atheist, on the other hand, espouses an alternate form of morality i.e. Moral Relativism, a rejection of God’s morality by aligning with a demonically-based ideology that promulgates the demonic-secularist paradigm of “if it feels good, do it”; Mark, this form of “morality” is not based on consequences; Mark, moral relativism espouses NO consequences for behavior, the moral relativist insists that there are no ramifications for sin; every man and woman is free to do what is right in their own eyes (Judges 17:6); therefore, murder/mutilate your baby in the womb if the child is inconvenient; enjoy and engross yourself in vile sexual immorality void shame, embarrassment, blushing i.e. homosexuality-lesbianism-bestiality-pedophilia-transsexualism; laugh and mock at the idea of a Biblical family unit promoting a stable, moral, law abiding, society espousing sustainable mores, norms, values, under girded by a belief that all men and women, from the womb to the tomb, are of value because they are created in the image of God; Atheism espouses “just do as you please” because in Atheism and its demonic tenet Nihilism, there is no God, there is no justice, there is no meaning in life; nihilism is king and one’s genitalia is to be worshiped and pleased at all cost.

Conclusion

Atheism is an untenable ideology of the demonic involving spiritual death culminating in death in sin and death of the body and soul in Hell in futility. Atheism is likened to a metastasizing sociological cancer that destroys the mind, body, soul, of a society and the individual in both Time and Eternity.

NOTE: In the attached MEME describing the Atheist, “Gentiles” in this context represents the unfaithful, the unbeliever, the Atheist.

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Atheist mocks God’s authority and dominion over His creation within the Realm of Time. Let’s discuss that.

Atheist, Mark D., asked: “Why should Christians praise God when 30,000 children die from preventable diseases and malnutrition every day?”

Response to the Atheist…

Mark, as I have commented to your previous defenses of your father, Satan; understand, our Creator, Jesus Christ (John 1), provided our first Earthly father, Adam, with a Covenant of sustenance/provision that was predicated upon one requirement, obedience i.e. do not compromise with evil (Genesis 2:8-17).

Why does mankind suffer death?

Unfortunately, Adam opted to ingratiate his flesh at the behest of his wife as opposed to honoring our Creator through obedience; therefore, upon Adam’s rejection of God’s Covenant, God, Who cannot lie (Numbers 23:19) honored the warning of judgment for disobedience as given to Adam i.e. spiritual death and physiological death ultimately resulting in a curse upon the human genome (progressive genomic malformations), a curse upon Lucifer and all of Nature (Genesis 3:14-19; Romans 8:19-23; Romans 6:23; 1 Corinthians 15:22).

The Curse upon Adam also created a fracturing/chasm between God and mankind due to man’s spiritual death from The Fall resulting in a sinful-nature that manifests in a propensity to dishonor God through rebellion, narcissism, pride, arrogance, aberrant sensuality i.e. SIN. For these reasons, God gave man over to pursue the lust of his flesh and live life in accordance with unfettered free will and in conjunction with man’s disobedience, our Creator annulled His Covenant of Provision and Sustenance entered into with Adam before Adam’s rejection of same through disobedience; therefore, disease – suffering – pain – sorrow – aberrant lust – jealousy – pride – hate – murder, spiritual and physiological death, entered into the World through the corruption of the human genome and the spiritual death of mankind.

Death of children?

Mark, this is why thousands-and-thousands of men, women and children die in their body daily and why thousands of babies are murdered in the womb of their mommy daily via abortion; this is why certain men and women choose to engage in homosexuality-lesbianism; this is why the naive and unfaithful compromise with Darwin and this why you have a propensity to war against God in your atheism – because you are spiritually dead (Ephesians 2:1; 2:13) and you follow the spirit of disobedience that has consumed your life and blinded your mind i.e. Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4). For this reason, God allows mankind to continue in his disobedience and God has told us that “many” will die in their sin and die the “second death” in Hell because they have “chosen” a life of rebellion to God’s Truth in Jesus Christ as Lord (Matthew 7:13-14; Romans 1:18-32).

What is God’s Plan for mankind in Time?

Therefore, God the Father is currently active within the Realm of Time NOT to heal and redeem this lost, sick, decaying, dying World that is passing-away with every second of the clock and will be consumed as by fire (2 Peter 3:10; Hebrews 13:14), but God is defeating the works of Satan in Time and concurrently searching to-and-fro for a faithful and obedient people who desire to know Him, love Him, honor Him as the King of Kings and Lord of Lord’s and serve Him faithfully in His Kingdom forever subsequent to death of the body in Time (2 Chronicles 16:9; Revelation 1:6; 5:10; John 14:3).

A summation…

Mark, mankind has chosen to reject God’s provision and protection; therefore, mankind is reaping what mankind has sown (Galatians 6:7-8). So then, Mark, don’t blame God for what mankind has brought upon himself through disobedience and don’t blame God for His faithfulness to His written word, His promises, seeing that our God is Holy, Just, Righteous, Truthful and He will do just as He has promised (1 Thessalonians 5:24).

Conclusion – What about those children?

In closing, Mark, I want you to remember that God has deemed that where there is no Law there is no culpability (Romans 4:13; 5:15) therefore, every child who passes from life in the body via death to life in the spirit having NOT attained an age of reason/accountability, these children are forever secure in my Lord (Matthew 18:3; 2 Samuel 12:23) and at the moment of their last exhalation in Time they are instantaneously translated into the presence of our Creator in their disembodied spirit, fully conscious, fully aware, free of pain-suffering (Revelation 21:4), awaiting the glorious resurrection of a new body fashioned like that of my Lord Jesus Christ (perfection) subsequent to His resurrection (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 3:21; Matthew 19:14).

So then, Mark, as opposed to questioning Christians and their loyalty to Jesus Christ, why not study the Scriptures and perhaps find Truth and Life in Jesus Christ as Lord as opposed to dying in your sin and dying in Hell without knowledge; at least make an informed decision about your Eternal destiny before the Age of Grace ends for you at death (2 Timothy 2:15; John 3:16)?

It is written…

“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.” Titus 2:11-14 (NASB)

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Don’t follow the Atheist to Hell…

Atheist, Kayne S, stated: “If god were real, it would be very easy to prove that. We’ve been waiting for millennia for evidence, and there’s been absolutely nothing so far.”

Response to the Atheist…

Our Creator’s reality is extant, empirical, floods our senses daily and it is the arrogant, the stupid, the sexually immoral, the infanticide advocate, the willfully ignorant, the naive, the deceived, the demonically blinded, the schizophrenic, that deny what is before their eyes and that which engulfs their senses; therefore, they will be “without excuse” when they stand in the Judgment of the Condemned in Eternity before Jesus Christ-Yeshua (Romans 1:18-32).

The atheist is a liar, a scoundrel, a most pathetic creature of deception, as they grope in the spiritual darkness and deception of their own creation while dying daily in sin and seeking the “second death” in Hell (Revelation 20:11-15).

Many millions of men, women, children, have found new LIFE in Jesus Christ-Yeshua as God and Messiah and He is faithful to reveal Himself to anyone who truly desires to know Him and seeks Him with their whole heart (Jeremiah 29:12-14; 2 Peter 3:9).

Therefore, I plead with you to turn away from the demonically-deceived servants of Satan i.e. the Atheist, the Secularist, the Nihilist, the Moral Relativist, the Evolutionist-Naturalist; run away from the demonic-death espoused by these servants of the Evil One and turn to Jesus Christ and find Eternal life in His Name, alone! (Acts 4:12)

I plead with everyone seeking Truth relevant to our Creator to perform an exegesis of the “Gospel of John” and make an informed decision concerning your Eternal destiny. Don’t die in your sin; don’t die in futility and spiritual ignorance as the Atheist and don’t allow the Age of Grace to fade away at death of the body and leave you in hopelessness for Eternity! (John 3:16; John 8:24)

“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

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Another Atheist attempts to deceive via obfuscation by insisting that God has simply not provided sufficient evidence for Himself; therefore, the facade of Atheism.

The Holy Spirit tells us that the Atheist, in their denial of God’s reality, lies to them self, to God, to the World and that the Atheist makes them self a “fool” with each denial of God’s validity and that said Atheist will be “without excuse” when they stand in the Judgment of the Condemned in Eternity.

In the attached article, I provide the Atheist with extant, empirical, irrefutable, evidence for our Creator’s reality; with that said, let’s discuss what the Holy Spirit has to say about the Atheist and their self-deception…for the record.

Atheist, Mark D stated: “The famous atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell was once asked what he would say to God if he found himself standing before Him after his death. Russell replied, “I probably would ask, ‘Sir, why did you not give me better evidence?’

A great question that clearly shows that if there is a God, he impairs belief by not providing the necessary evidence. If an all-knowing God wanted to inspire belief, He would provide the evidence, but since there is no evidence, all people have is their blind faith. Belief with evidence rests on solid ground, but blind faith rests on quicksand, gobbling up a person’s intellect as it struggles to break free from its suffocating embrace. Thoughts?”

Response to the Atheist,

The Holy Spirit describes the Atheist that mocks God and plays blissfully ignorant relevant to the “evidence” for God’s validity in the following manner… (emphasis mine)

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools,” Romans 1:18-22 (NASB)

EVERY TIME the Atheist cries and moans and obfuscates about the lack of evidence for our Creator, they truly do make a “fool” out of themselves before God and mankind. Because of the Atheist’s self-endowed ignorance and foolishness concerning their denial of the evidence and validity for our Creator, the Holy Spirit tells us…

“Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” Romans 1:24-25 (NASB)

So then, in response to the Atheist’s pride, arrogance, deceit, obfuscation, concerning God’s validity, the Atheist is given over to pursue Naturalism (the creature/created) i.e. Evolutionary Theory along with immoral, unnatural, sexual relations. Obviously, this is why the Homosexual-Lesbian Community is inundated with the Atheistic ideology and why Darwinism and Atheism are blood-brothers and children of Satan, unaware (John 8:44; 2 Corinthians 4:4).

The Holy Spirit then continues in this same vein of thought and defines the immoral behavior of the Atheist…

“For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.” Romans 1:26-27 (NASB)

So then, we see that the Atheist is following a pattern of debauchery and shame commensurate with willful disregard of God’s validity even though extant, empirical, evidence for God has been placed before their eyes via Nature. The Holy Spirit continues in His description, the delineation, of the corrupted heart and soul of the Atheist as they move along the ever-descending path of corruption, immorality, self-degradation in Homosexuality and Lesbianism…

“And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.” Romans 1:28-32 (NASB)

Now, as the rebellion, arrogance, insolence, of Atheistic denial of God’s reality comes to fruition, we see the Atheist being given-over to a “depraved mind” that wars against God, self, society. Undoubtedly, this is the reason why Atheism,

1) Overwhelming inundates the vile, unconscionable, slaughter of babes in the womb via “abortion” i.e. murder/infanticide.

2) This is why Atheism overwhelmingly inundates the Homosexual-Lesbian-Transsexual Community and is ever-present in gender-confusion that is responsible for incredible rates of suicide among America’s youth.

3) This is why Atheism overwhelming inundates the Progressive-Socialist-Democrat Party in America; a vile, wicked, demonically-based ideology that is leading America down a path of secularistic Leninism-Marxism that will culminate in the destruction of America’s economic system and America’s Constitutional Republic leaving only suffering, hopelessness, death, for America’s posterity as they are ruled by narcissistic, power hungry, perverse, wicked, Globalists-Socialists-Marxists.

Once again, the Holy Spirit is correct when He says…

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” Galatians 6:7-8 (NASB)

Conclusion

Mark, along with your fellow Atheist’s, know this: the evidence for our Creator’s reality is extant, irrefutable, empirical and you, and every other Atheist in this World, will be “without excuse” if you die in the foolishness of Atheism, die in your sin having rejected the saving grace of Jesus Christ as Lord.

I provide evidence for my Lord and His power, dominion, relevance, in both Time and Eternity in the attached article if you’re interested; if not, it is your option to die in sin and die in Hell in spiritual ignorance and rebellion in your alliance with Satan, unaware!

https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2019/10/25/evidence-for-our-creator/

Rickey D. Holtsclaw

Atheist mocks God’s provision and the Christian Church; denies Church’ impact on the World. Let’s look at some facts…

Atheist, Mark D, in his fervent and faithful servitude to Satan, stated the following: “I asked a Christian poster this question: Name one social problem that the church has solved? He couldn’t name one, and neither can I. Billions of dollars flood into churches the world over for charitable purposes, yet not one social problem has ever been solved. A pastor is referred to as a man of God, and a church is called the House of the Lord, yet God does lift a finger to eliminate, hunger, poverty, homelessness, and so many other social ills that cause immense suffering. The Bible says that God so loved the world that He sacrificed His only son, Jesus, but God only knows why He hasn’t solved any social problems in the world that He claimed to care so much about. What say you?”

Response to the Atheist…

Part 1 – God’s provisional responsibility?

First of all, Mark, In the Beginning, our Creator entered into a Covenant of absolute provision and sustenance with our first father, Adam, and God provided every conceivable form of provision, pleasure, contentment, satisfaction, for both Adam and his wife, Eve. The only condition our Creator placed upon Adam for continued provision of sustenance was obedience to the edict to NOT compromise with evil. Unfortunately, having been seduced and deceived by the Atheists’ spiritual father, Satan, Eve opted to compromise with evil and seduced her husband, Adam, to do likewise; therefore, Adam fell under the Curse of banishment from Divine provision, separation from God, spiritual death and physiological death as the resultant of sin/disobedience.

It’s very “noble” of you Mark to pretend you have a sincere concern for your fellowman as you radically support an ideology of death i.e. Atheism-Naturalism-Moral Relativism promoting the Atheistic tenets of infanticide; death of the body and soul via participation in vile sexual perversion; advocacy for the horrors, suffering, death, of Leninism/Marxism.

Mark, where you fail in your Atheism, once again, is in your lack of knowledge concerning the Scriptures provided you by the Holy Spirit. It is the lack of spiritual knowledge that is directly attributable to the impotency of Atheism’s impact for good within our society and throughout the World as well as Atheism’s ultimate death of the body, mind and soul in Hell.

Mark, if you’re truly concerned about your fellowman, understand that God no longer assumes responsibility for provision and sustenance subsequent to Adam’s rejection of same through disobedience; therefore, IT IS YOU, MARK, THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN DOMINION AND RESPONSIBILITY to care and provide for your fellowman. Mankind demanded the right to live apart from God’s authority and provision; therefore, mankind is reaping what we have sown; therefore, it is incumbent upon the godless and rebellious Atheist to assume at least some responsibility for the World’s woes and GO…make an impact for good!

Mark, it is naive, it is obfuscation, it is hypocritical, of you, and every other godless Atheist who blames my Lord for the woes and suffering of this lost, dying, fallen-World consumed in sin and disobedience. IT IS YOU, MARK, that has the responsibility of feeding, clothing, housing, providing for those you claim are suffering from “hunger, poverty, homelessness, and so many other social ills that cause immense suffering.”

God the Father has told you, Mark…YOU have DOMINION; THEREFORE GO!!!

“God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.” Genesis 1:28-31 (NASB)

Mark, while the hypocritical and demonically-inspired Atheist sits on their duff, it is the Christian Church that is among the top-ten charities that are active throughout the World as they endeavor to feed, clothe, educate, immunize, the World’s needy you pretend to care about.

See: The top 10 charities changing the world in 2016 – CNBC.com: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/29/the-top-10-charities-changing-the-world-in-2016.html

Top-Ten Christian Charities in the World: https://www.theologydegrees.org/best-christian-charities/

Mark, how many godless Atheist organizations are in the Top-10 Charities of the World?

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Part 2 – Impact of Christianity for Good

Mark, in response to your baseless allegation that the Christian Church has not had any substantive impact for good in our World…note the following:

Social problems impacted by and solved by Christianity?

See: (http://www.faithfacts.org/christ-and-the-culture/the-impact-of-christianity)

1) Slavery in America; Slavery in Europe: The anti-slavery movements led by Wilberforce in England and abolitionists in America were dominated by Christians. These believers reasoned that since we are all created equal in the eyes of God, no one has the right to rule another without consent. This is the moral basis not only of anti-slavery but also of democracy.

See: https://townhall.com/columnists/dineshdsouza/2008/01/14/how-christians-ended-slavery-n962085

2) Christianity and its impact on the “Value of Human Life” The concept of universal human rights and equality comes exclusively from the biblical idea that all people are created in the image of God.

3) Christianity and its impact on the lives of women: Christianity was the first religion to not force widows to marry. They were supported financially and honored within the community so that they were not under great pressure to remarry if they didn’t want to. Pagan widows lost all control of their husband’s estate when they remarried, but the church allowed widows to maintain their husband’s estate. Finally, Christians did not believe in cohabitation. If a Christian man wanted to live with a woman he had to marry her, and this gave women far greater security.”

4) Christianity and its impact on the lives of children: In the ancient world, for example in classical Rome or Greece, infanticide was not only legal, it was applauded. Killing a Roman was murder, but it was commonly held in Rome that killing one’s own children could be an act of beauty. Through a higher view of life, it was the early Christian church that ultimately brought an end to infanticide. The modern pro-life movement is largely Christian.”

5) End of the Gladiator horrors: A 5th century monk, Telemachus, is credited as being the pivotal force ending the gladiator spectacles.

6) Abolition of Cannibalism: Missionary followers of Jesus are credited with stopping cannibalism in many primitive societies.

7) Christianity’s impact on the sociological concept of Compassion and Mercy: Kennedy and Newcombe in their book detail the rise of charity in the name of Jesus over the centuries. This is in stark contrast to history before Jesus. Historians record that prior to Jesus, the ancient world left little trace of any organized charitable effort.

8) Christianity’s impact on Marriage and Family: Before the Christian era, pederasty and homosexuality were not considered wrong: “Christianity exalted heterosexual monogamous love, which would provide the basis for a lasting and exclusive relationship between husband and wife, oriented toward the rearing of children. We take the family so much for granted—it remains such a powerful ideal in our society, even when actual family life falls short— that we forget the central premises on which it is based. Those premises were introduced by Christianity into a society to which they were completely foreign.”

9) Christianity’s impact on Education: From the beginning of Judaism, from which Christianity is derived, there was an emphasis on the written word. But the phenomenon of education for the masses has its roots in the Protestant Reformation. In order to promote Bible literacy, Christians have been leaders in education. This trend was accelerated with the advent of the printing press at about the same time as the Protestant Reformation. Many of the world’s languages were first set to writing by Christian missionaries in order for people to read the Bible.

10) Christianity’s impact on Government of the People:

–America’s first constitution was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. The Puritan framers of this document required that each aspect of it be grounded in Scripture. Other constitutions to follow contained many similarities to this one.

–At least 50 of the 55 signers of the U.S. Constitution were orthodox Christians.

–There is no doubt that the concept of our Constitutional checks and balances system is a direct result of the biblical doctrine of the sinfulness of mankind. All of our founders understood the importance of this doctrine to the social order.

–America’s foundational idea of The Rule of Law rather than the authority of man traces back to the Old Testament, beginning with the Ten Commandments.

–The idea that all men are created equal as enshrined in the Declaration of Independence is a biblical doctrine.

–The notion of the sovereign authority of God (as mentioned in the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, all 50 state constitutions, our currency, etc.)–rather than the sovereignty of the state–is certainly biblical.

–The existence of moral absolutes (a biblical concept) is an important idea in our Declaration of Independence–specifically, self-evident truths and unalienable rights from the Creator.

–Many other aspects of our laws come directly from the Bible–for example the judicial, legislative and executive branches trace to Isaiah 33:22. Fair trials with witnesses have numerous Old and New Testament support.

–Regarding civil liberty, founding father John Adams (and others) emphasized 2 Corinthians 3:17 as the basis for American civil liberty. The slogan on the Liberty Bell is “Proclaim Liberty throughout the land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof” is from Leviticus 15:10. Kennedy and Newcombe argue that Jesus himself was the greatest civil libertarian of all time.

11) Christianity and its impact on science: Kennedy and Newcombe also argue that science has its roots in Christianity. They point out that other world religions may express a worldview of fatalism (everything is fatalistically determined) or of illusion (that the physical world is an illusion). Science could not have arisen from these worldviews.

Christianity on the other hand, is based on the notion that there exists a rational God who is the source of rational truth. This, they argue, gave rise to the possibility of scientific laws.

Evidence for this view is that nearly all the founders of modern science were Christians. These include men such as Keppler, Boyle, Pascal, Pasteur, Newton, etc.

12) Christianity and its impact on the Free Market/Free Enterprise and a Work Ethic:

–Private property rights can be traced to the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:15, 17 (Thou shalt not steal,?Thou shalt not covet.”)–as well as to other passages from the Old and New Testaments. Interestingly, there are over 700 references to money in the Bible!

–Many historians credit theologian John Calvin from 200 years earlier as the person who is most responsible for putting together the principles that were always in the Bible into a system adapted by the American founders. For example, the biblical doctrines of self-reliance and self-denial are the foundation of the famous “Protestant work ethic.” These doctrines are at the heart of our economic (and political) way of life.

–A distinction can be made between biblical capitalism and evolutionary capitalism. The emphasis on biblical capitalism is on the importance of servant-hood–a key teaching of Jesus. Evolutionary capitalism, on the other hand, relies solely on the survival of the fittest.

–Communism is specifically an atheistic system that relies on the non-biblical notion that all men are good (thus will work for the common good). But socialism-communism have been an abject economic failure.

Also see: The Bible and Government: http://www.faithfacts.org/christ-and-the-culture/the-bible-and-government

13) Christianity and its impact on Art, Music, Literature:

–The influence of Jesus on art, music, and literature is enormous. For example, the Christian faith has influenced literature in such Christian writers such as Dante, Chaucer, Donne, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Dickens, Milton, etc.

–Had Jesus never been born, music would likely sound very different from what we’re used to. There may never have developed the cantata, the concerto, or the symphony. Handel, Vivaldi, and Bach were Christians who worked to honor God with their work. Bach, for example, signed all his works with Soli Deo Gloria (“Solely to the glory of God”).

–Art has likewise been magnificently impacted by Jesus. While much modern art seems to debase the human spirit, classical Christian art tries to bring out the best of mankind–pointing us to a higher plane. This is certainly a tribute to Jesus.

Conclusion

When Christian restraints have been removed from a society, the atrocities are magnified many times over. For example, the regimes of Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot were essentially atheistic bloodbaths. These twentieth century despots alone account for well over 100-million murders. The evidence is strong that when the restraining influence of Christianity has been removed from a country or culture, unmitigated disaster will naturally follow. As admitted by existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, “[Without God] all activities are equivalent.”

An overarching theme given to the world by Christianity is the equality of human beings, and the preciousness and worth of every human life. The spirit of Christmas embodies many wonderful qualities—love, sharing, tolerance, hope, and peace. May the Christmas spirit be a positive influence in your life throughout the year.

See: http://www.faithfacts.org/christ-and-the-culture/the-impact-of-christianity

Rickey D. Holtsclaw