Why will “science” never define the origin of matter, life?
The Holy Spirit tells you that all we see and interact with relevant to our senses finds its origin in the unseen Spiritual Realm; in fact, the Holy Spirit tells us that Elohim the Father commissioned the Son, Jesus our Messiah (John 3:35), for cause and to take elements from the unseen Spiritual Realm and fashion those elements into matter that can be apprehended by a life form existing within the constraints of Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3; Genesis 1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1); therefore, irrespective of mankind’s efforts to define the origin of matter, life, our complex genome, those efforts are in vain because the origin of what we see and interact with 24/7/365 emanates from the unseen Spiritual Realm, a Realm that is infinitely more complex than the Realm of Time as the Spiritual Realm does not easily interface with a life form constrained by Time and physics; furthermore, it is Jesus that holds all things physical and spiritual together, Jesus our Messiah is the Divine Nucleoli of everything physical and spiritual (Colossians 1:17). Origin of matter is therefore beyond the parameters of the scientific method but is understood by faith in Jesus and the tutorship of the indwelling Holy Spirit (1 John 2:27).
Atheist – Secular Humanist, why not simply employ “naturalism” and prove the absence of a Creator and let’s rid ourselves of “religion” and the much-despised Christianity and the Church?
Commonsense, void a crippling obsession with satiating one’s penis or vulva in aberrant pleasure, tells us that the supernatural Universe which encompasses us, permeates us, 24/7/365 possesses the divine earmarks of “design” and purpose – and – commonsense uninterrupted by the proclivities of self-righteousness, arrogance, hedonism, narcissism e.g., atheism/secular humanism tells us that this unfathomable “design” must be under girded by an omnipotent Designer who is most probably existing outside the constraints of Time and physics; therefore, commonsense tells us that if a Designer exists and the complexity of that design (the human genome for example) most likely emanates from a supernatural design that said Designer would be remiss if He, She, It, They, did not reveal them self, themselves, to those “created” and in conjunction with that revelation provide logical reasoning for having created the supernatural “creation” that engulfs us 24/7/365.
If one is honest and they perform a diligent search for that “Creator” there exists only ONE-SOURCE where a Creator has not only identified “Himself” but He has also thoroughly explained the who, what, where, when, why, concerning His creation; that source, the “Canon of Scripture.” In fact, our Creator has told the atheist, the secular humanist, the unbeliever, that He exists and that their denial of His existence is foolish (Psalms 14:1) because He has clearly revealed Himself through what He has made in nature and placed before our eyes (Romans 1:20), a supernatural creation which cannot be duplicated by created beings constrained by Time and physics; furthermore, our Creator has entered the Realm of Time and walked among us for 33.5-years in the form of a man named Messiah Jesus and He has clearly proclaimed that Elohim is One, our Creator, and that anyone seeking peace and intimacy with Him must enter that relationship through “faith” in the Son, Jesus our Messiah who died for them as Messiah Jesus defeated the works of Satan at Golgotha (John 3; 1 John 3:8b)…our Creator exists.
If the atheist is so sure that our Creator does NOT exist, why not bring forth a valid explanation, causation, reasoning, for what confronts us daily in nature using a naturalistic explanation so that we can rid ourselves of “religion” and the much-despised Christianity and the Church and pursue moral relativism void conscience with uninhibited pleasure?
If our Creator does not exist, why not prove His, Her, Its, absence to a believing-faithful segment of the World so that their desires and efforts to constrain their behavior via conformity to sustainable morality might be proven irrelevant and let’s all pursue moral relativism because “if it feels good, do it;” after all, tomorrow we die and nihilism is our deity and life really means nothing in summation of all things?
How are the Sinai Commandments honored in the New Covenant?
Jesus commanded that we love Elohim above all else and love our neighbor as our self…these are the fulfillment of all the codified commandments from Sinai forward, including Moses’ civil-ceremonial edicts (Matthew 22:36-40). Concerning “commandment keeping,” Jesus was speaking to an audience who was under the law covenant given Israel’s children (Galatians 4:4) but a radically New Covenant was being ushered in through the Gospel.
Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the New Covenant,
Jesus ushered in the New Covenant that was established in His own blood (Matthew 26:26-29; 1 Peter 1:18-19). The New Covenant is focused upon intimate relationship with Elohim through faith in the Son, Jesus our Messiah (John 3), and the “Law” that is relevant, applicable, in the New Covenant is NOT those which have been codified in stone and scratched upon parchment as given Israel’s children for sanctification-eschatological purposes but the relevant “Law” in the New Covenant is the Spiritual Law as written upon the human heart on Day-6 of creation (Romans 6:14; Romans 2:14-15; Romans 7:6). In the New Covenant, the redeemed in Jesus by faith receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant promise (Ephesians 1:13-14; Ezekiel 36:27; John 14:16-17).
Honoring the Father in the New Covenant?
If one desires to honor the Father through obedience in the New Covenant, it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who employs the spiritual catalyst of a renewed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17 – a new creation) mated with the Spiritual Law (written upon the human heart) and the Spirit forms a “new creation” within the redeemed as the Holy Spirit arbitrates moral decisions and moral discernment by making the human conscience divinely sensitive to the Father’s will in EVERY moral decision encountered during daily Christian sanctification and consequently the Spirit fulfills all Law through the redeemed via the production of divine “fruit” against which “there is no Law” (Galatians 5:16-23).
Spiritual Fruit v. Sinai and Moses,
It is the divine fruit produced by the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) through the redeemed in Jesus that fulfills the “Commandments” and actually honors the Father and this divine “fruit” substantiates and validates the redeemed as “disciples” of Jesus (John 15:8). Christians don’t seek obedience to Sinai or Moses in order to attain righteousness with the Father (Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:21) as that right standing with the Father has already manifest via the imputed-gifted righteousness of Jesus over the life of the one who believes Jesus is Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21); therefore, Christians don’t seek codified Laws or the obedience to same for righteousness but Christians walk in imputed-gifted righteousness through faith and their behavior – obedience is the product of the divine work of the indwelling Holy Spirit, not self-righteousness in striving after letters that only condemn and curse (Romans 7:6; Romans 8:2; Galatians 3:10).
Purpose of Law?
Christians are to understand that the “Law” was given for the lawless, those who live in the desires of the flesh having no intention or desire to honor the Father or His divine will (1 Timothy 1:9); therefore, the Christian is not under Law but under grace (Romans 6:14); this, through the indwelling Holy Spirit given the redeemed in Jesus by faith (Romans 7:6; Ephesians 1:13-14).
Impotency of Codified Law?
The codified laws exemplified by Sinai and Moses’ civil/ceremonial edicts were but a mere fragment of the comprehensive Spiritual Law as written upon the human heart; therefore, these codified laws could never adequately address every moral decision encountered on a daily basis nor could they engender intimate covenant with the Elohim as the codified laws are weakened and nullified as an instrument of righteousness (a right standing with Elohim) due the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12), a sin-nature that could never comply perfectly with codification; therefore, Sinai and Moses’ edicts are properly labeled “the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:1-4; James 2:10) as they only define sin, they only condemned and cursed (Galatians 3:10) but provided no form of atonement or hope (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16); this, as the “letter kills but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:4-6); therefore, if you desire to honor the Father through obedience, this divine obedience that actually pleases the Father is ONLY possible through faith in Jesus as Messiah and a daily walk in Christian sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16). Codified Law is subject to obfuscation, justification, rationalization, by the sin-nature; not so with the Spiritual Law that is arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
In closing,
Honoring the “Commandments” is ONLY possible through obedience to the Father’s will (John 6:29) and a daily walk in Christian sanctification meticulously guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the Arbiter of the Spiritual Law and the redeemed human conscience (Galatians 5:16).
Religion, theologically speaking, is not based in faith…Religions like Islam, Judaism, Catholicism, are based in a works doctrine where the individual seeks a relationship with a particular deity via self-righteousness, efforts to conform to a set of rules or laws sufficiently in order to ingratiate themselves with said deity.
Christianity is the only “faith based” system in existence that teaches the truism that Human Kind is not capable of working or striving sufficiently to please Elohim (Genesis 1:1); this, due the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12) but that Elohim, Himself, provides the Path to intimate relationship with Him through selfless love demonstrated by Messiah Jesus on a Roman Cross some 2000-years ago (John 3:16).
There are also demonically-rooted “religions” such as Atheism, Darwinism-Evolution and Secular Humanism which also display great “faith” in that they tout a rejection of any deity yet believe that all things present within the Realm of Time, all things present in nature, manifest from nothing which exploded…this is the greatest “faith” of all.
Sinai – Moses – Messiah Jesus – Obedience – Eternal Life: What is the Truth?
First of all,
Sinai was given specifically to Jacob’s children and those Gentiles who sought the protection of Israel’s theocracy; this, a law covenant initiated by Elohim through Moses as Elohim desperately sought to thwart a repeat of the demonic failures of the Adamic/Noahic generations who compromised with paganism to the point of necessitating human extinction save eight.
Elohim’s purpose concerning Sinai,
Elohim’s motive through Sinai and Moses was to thwart Israel’s compromise with the pagan gods of Baal and Molech and their compromise with the pagan tribes that inundated the areas Israel would traverse en route to the Promised Land, a Holy Land given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by Elohim via an unconditional covenant.
Sinai’s codified laws are but a mere fragment of the comprehensive Spiritual Law written upon the human heart, a Spiritual Law which transcends Time and judges the angels and judged to death the Adamic/Noahic/Sodom-Gomorrah generations.
Sinai, in no way, is sufficient for righteousness with Elohim nor does Sinai adequately address every moral decision confronted daily in this fallen World. Sinai is integral with a bygone covenant that provided a path to Messiah but was NEVER intended to be the destination (Hebrews 8:7; 2 Corinthians 3)
Sinai was given specifically to a sanctified group of people set-apart for Elohim’s eschatological imperatives; namely, the introduction of Messiah through Judah in order that Messiah would “destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) through a battle strategy known as “the Gospel” which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
Sinai was an eschatological imperative of a bygone covenant that has faded away (2 Corinthians 3). Though the law covenant will find partial life in the Millennial Kingdom, its presence will be focused upon glorifying Elohim, not humanity. Sinai is beautiful in its characterization of our Creator’s holiness and His integrity but Sinai was given the Hebrew Tribes for a specific Time and specific eschatological purpose.
Sinai and the Gentile,
The Gentile was NEVER given Sinai or Moses or Torah or Days or Diets lest same sought inclusion in Israel’s law covenant and theocracy.
Sinai and the Christian,
Christians are therefore NOT obligated to Sinai-Moses-Torah-Days-Diets (Romans 6:14) but Christians serve a New Covenant of Grace predicated upon Faith, a radically New Covenant established in the sinless blood of Jesus at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28); a New Covenant where the comprehensive and infinitely superior Law of Conscience/the Spiritual Law (Hebrews 10; Romans 2:14-15; Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36) is written upon the human heart, that Spiritual Law is arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit via an enlivened and sensitive conscience of the New Creation in Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:17) as the Holy Spirit produces divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:16-23) through the redeemed in Jesus, fruit that fulfills all law and actually honors the Father (John 15:8).
In closing,
Therefore, I choose to serve Elohim through Messiah’s Covenant established in His perfect and sinless blood and not a law covenant demanding righteousness from an Adamic sin-nature that could never adequately comply; a law covenant that pointed the Way to life but could never provide absolution from sin (Romans 8:1-4).
Honoring the Holy Spirit’s leadership through obedience that allows HIM to produce divine fruit through you (Galatians 5:16-23) is how one honors the Father in the New Covenant and validates their status as Messiah’s “disciple” (John 15:8). The New Covenant is NOT about self-righteous efforts to keeping letters but walking by the indwelling Holy Spirit in faith (Galatians 5:16).
Servitude to our Creator, Elohim (Genesis 1:1) or Servitude to that which is created (John 8:44; Romans 1:25-26), your free will choice…
Concerning the atheist/secular humanist/religionist,
All life, including yours, falls under the divine sovereignty of our Creator, Elohim (Genesis 1:1) and He is free to do with life, including yours, as He pleases; this, for His eschatological purposes going forward as the war between your father, Satan (John 8:44), and Elohim progresses along a planned eschatological timeline to a foreordained conclusion where victory belongs to Messiah Jesus and those who endure with Him through faith (Revelation 5:5).
Elohim is NOT bound by due process, man’s perceived “rights” nor is Elohim encumbered by any obligations to you or the angels; again, Elohim is divinely sovereign and the only hope humanity has for survival in this life and in the life to come is in the divine attribute of LOVE that defines our Creator’s Divinity (1 John 4:8).
You possess the free will option to humble yourself and come to terms with your helpless and lowly position in this life constrained by Time and physics and consequently seek the wisdom and discernment and intercession of our Creator by faith in Jesus and find life and victory therein or you can continue in your servitude to Satan and you will perish like the billions, including babies, that succumbed to the perils of a spiritual war, a war of infinitely greater magnitude than your atheistically impotent 3-pound brain can comprehend; again, the choice is yours, seek Elohim in Jesus as your Messiah by faith and LIVE eternally with understanding and purpose (John 3) or kick against goads in self-righteous atheistic spiritual ignorance and arrogance and perish in Hell with the “many” (Matthew 7:13-14)…the free will choice is YOURS!
Concerning the facade of the atheist/secular humanist/religionist who is aghast at the death of millions of babies in the Biblical record that Elohim took-back unto Himself due His sovereign authority; these children, as are the mentally handicapped/cognitively impaired, are eternally secure in Elohim as He chooses to not hold accountable those absent the ability to fully cognitively comprehend His will and His authority over their individual lives (Romans 5:13; 4:15; Matthew 19:14) with that said, if you possess the cognitive acuity to read and understand what has been written in this brief statement, you are wholly liable and accountable to our Holy and Righteous Creator and His sovereign will and authority over YOUR life and it is wholly irrelevant what you think about it or your opinions concerning the matter (Romans 1:18-32).
Why is the Sabbath edict (Genesis 2 and Exodus 16) irrelevant in the New Covenant?
Because both the Genesis Sabbath and the Sabbath edict given Israel beginning in Exodus 16 foreshadowed the “rest” that Messiah would bring to humanity (Matthew 11:28) as He, alone, bridged the sin-chasm existing between humanity and the Father (1 Peter 1:18-19)…Jesus bridged that chasm through His faithfulness at Golgotha and the blood atonement He provided thereby making the imputation of His righteousness over our life possible by “faith” (2 Corinthians 5:21) thereby instituting the New Covenant promise of absolution from sin (Hebrews 8:12), eternally, for the one who believes Jesus is Messiah (John 3:16).
The Sabbath has been fulfilled in Jesus as all Law has been fulfilled in Jesus (Matthew 5:17) and we no longer walk by the letter in condemnation (Romans 8:1-4) but Christians walk by the Spirit in freedom (Romans 6:14; Galatians 5:16; Romans 7:6). We are no longer enslaved to Sinai, Moses, days, diets, fabrics, festivals, (Colossians 2:16; Romans 14; Hebrews 4) but we have peace with the Father through faith in the Son (Romans 5:1) as we walk in daily sanctification through the Holy Spirit who produces divine “fruit” through us that fulfills all Law and honors the Father, eternally (Galatians 5:16-23; John 15:8).
In closing,
You are free to honor the Sabbath or any day of your choosing in accordance with the Holy Spirit’s anointing in YOUR life but do NOT believe that your obedience to a day or a diet somehow enhances your salvation or your intimacy with our Creator, a salvation and divine intimacy that are the resultant of faith, not works (Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9).
Concerning the Anti-Trinity Religionist’ who professes to be a Christian but unfortunately exists in deadly deception…know this…
First of all, Jesus has clearly articulated that Elohim (Genesis 1:1) is One-Deity expressed in Three-distinct Persons identified as Father, Son, Spirit (Matthew 28:19; John 14:6; John 10:28-30) and these Three are coequal concerning all Deific attributes.
Father – Administrator
Son – Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge
Holy Spirit – Logistics
Second of all, The Holy Spirit has clearly told you that Jesus is our Creator – Elohim (Genesis 1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1).
Third, Jesus has clearly told you that unless you believe He is “I AM” (Exodus 3:14) “you will die in your sin” (John 8:24). The Holy Spirit teaches us that the one who is truly redeemed by faith in Jesus, the one who is truly “born again” by faith in Jesus as their Messiah (John 3) will know and testify that Jesus is Elohim (Genesis 1:1) (God). The one who is truly redeemed by faith will KNOW that Jesus is our Creator and will openly, publicly, testify to same without reservation.
Sincere warning,
Though it is not absolutely essential that one seeking redemption from sin and death in Hell through repentance and faith in Jesus as Messiah also confess that Jesus is Deity, it is a divine truism that the one who HAS BEEN redeemed by faith in Jesus as Messiah has, by New Covenant promise, also received the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14) and the redeemed in Jesus, by the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit, will know and confess that Jesus is our Creator, Elohim.
Therefore, if one professes to know Jesus as Messiah; if one truly believes they are redeemed by faith but they don’t see the necessity for Messiah’s Deity or they openly deny Messiah’s Deity, they are an apostate; they are self-deceived; they are Satan’s representative in the Realm of Time; they do NOT possess the indwelling Holy Spirit nor are they a child of the Father entitled to New Covenant promise of forgiveness through redemption via Messiah’s blood atonement (Hebrews 8:12).
In closing,
The signs that one is truly born again by faith is a changed life seeking righteousness and holiness (2 Corinthians 5:17), the production of divine fruit motivated by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16-23) and the knowledge and testimony that Jesus is Elohim, our Creator – divine Deity (John 8:24; John 14:8-11; John 10:30).
Torah Law is the “law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2) as it mandates perfection (James 2:10) to attain righteousness through it while humanity is under the condemnation of sin and death via the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 3:23; 5:12); therefore, anyone seeking righteousness through Torah is cursed (Galatians 3:10).
Righteousness (a right standing with Elohim) only manifests via the imputation – gifting of Messiah’s righteousness over our life by faith in Jesus as Messiah who died for us (John 14:6; 2 Corinthians 5:21).
Matthew 5:17-18 (KJV), Jesus said: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
How can you say that Torah Law-Sinai-Moses are not the focal point of New Covenant Law?
Discussion,
Jesus said that Torah Law, the codified law (jot-tittle) would not pass until all be fulfilled…Jesus fulfilled Torah perfectly via His sinless perfection (Matthew 5:17)…Torah has passed (Hebrews 8:7; 2 Corinthians 3), codified laws are subjective i.e., Sinai-Moses, rules, regulations, diets, days, could never engender righteousness with the Father…so what Law is relevant in the New Covenant and how is that New Covenant Law made applicable to the individual?
New Covenant “Law”
What is relevant in the New Covenant is the Spiritual Law written upon the human heart by our Creator (Romans 2:14-15) which is arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit in the New Covenant as the Spirit produces divine fruit (Galatians 5:22-23) through the redeemed in Jesus, fruit that glorifies the Father (John 15:8) and fulfills all law.
You can chase after Sinai, Moses, Torah, Days, Diets, Fabrics, Traditions, Religion, till your dying exhalation but if you’ve not established New Covenant relationship with the Father by faith in the Son, Jesus, as your Messiah, you will die in Hell in the “second death” (Matthew 7:21-23; Galatians 2:16; Revelation 20:11-15).
Life in Time is NOT about subservience to rules and laws and ordinances but about personal, intimate, relationship with our Creator, Elohim, through faith in Jesus as Messiah (John 3) and our obedience then naturally manifests through adherence to the indwelling Spirit’s leadership gifted us by grace as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16-23); this, as the Spirit produces divine fruit through the redeemed that honors the Father (John 15:8); in fact, unless you have established New Covenant relationship with the Father first through faith in the Son, your works are interpreted by the Father as a “filthy rag” or a “bloody menstrual cloth” in the literal Hebrew (Isaiah 64:6).
In closing,
Chasing and clamoring for the Father’s approval by pursuing obedience to Sinai, Moses, Days, Diets, Traditions, Religious rules and edicts, is insulting to the Father as you have made the affirmative decision to earn your own righteousness and reject the ONLY righteousness that will pardon your sin and provide you life in Eternity, the perfect righteousness of Jesus earned for you through His perfect, sinless, life and His perfect, sinless, blood shed for you at Golgotha.
Your obedience to the Father’s will (John 6:29) will provide the foundation from which your faith will produce fruit via the indwelling Holy Spirit; divine fruit that glorifies the Father (John 15:8; Galatians 5:22-23). Faith and Covenant FIRST – obedience naturally follows from a pure heart via the Holy Spirit’s anointing (1 John 2:27).
18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
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