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Why Hell? What does Elohim accomplish with Hell?

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What does Elohim accomplish by burning the unfaithful of humanity in Hell – the Lake of Fire?

Elohim finds absolutely NO pleasure in the first and second death of the unfaithful-wicked of humanity (Ezekiel 33:11). Many ask why a loving Creator would subject His creation to the fires of Hell?

Succinctly explained, Elohim, seeking to honor the necessity of free will, has no other option but allocating the rebellious to the purification and annihilation of fire, why?

You and I are soldiers in the midst of a spiritual war (Ephesians 6), an unfathomable war having been relocated within a temporary battle ground that is constrained by Time and physics i.e., this Earth (Revelation 12:7-12). Elohim removed the destructive war initiated by Satan from the Heavenly Kingdom and commissioned the Son (John 3:35; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1) to take elements from the unseen Spiritual Realm and fashion those elements into matter that can be apprehended by a life-form (flesh) subject to Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3). As Elohim purifies His Kingdom from Satan’s rebellion, that war rages on around us and through us within the constraints of Time and physics.

This spiritual war directly interfaces with Time and has raged on around us and through us for over 6000-years and you and I are commissioned as soldiers to ally with with Elohim as He destroys the works of Satan via Messiah (Genesis 3:15; 1 John 3:8b) via a battle strategy known as the Gospel which was first introduced in Time in Genesis 3:15-21 and that battle strategy was ordained-commissioned “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).

You and I possess the divine attribute of free will and we are commanded to choose whom we will serve, Satan or Elohim (Deuteronomy 30:19; Joshua 24:15). Those who choose to ally with Satan have chosen death in Time and in Eternity as Elohim will not and cannot allow their unrepentant, un-redeemed, iniquity-sin-rebellion-defilement to enter the Kingdom (Revelation 21:27) as to do so would invite a repeat of the rebellion initiated by Satan before Time began and thus create another unacceptable scenario that initiated the creation narrative to begin with.

Elohim, His Holiness, IS NOT GOING TO PERMIT YOUR SIN TO ENTER HIS KINGDOM (Revelation 21:27); therefore, you possess the free will to choose redemption (divine healing) through faith in Jesus and receive a NEW NATURE (2 Corinthians 5:17) that will ultimately be victorious over your Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12) and this new-nature when combined with a resurrected body of glory fashioned after the glorious resurrected body of Messiah (Philippians 3:21), you will be prepared to serve in the New Jerusalem with honor and dignity and sustainability throughout Eternity.

Those who choose to reject the new-birth and redemption via faith in Jesus as Messiah, Elohim has no other plausible allocation for your wasteful life and nihilistic existence other than extinction – nullification of your presence in Time. You will NOT be permitted the opportunity to defile the Kingdom in Eternity.

New Covenant v. Old Covenant – Laws and Application of same…

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What is the New Covenant? What Commandments does it retain and what Commandments does it nullify?

The New Covenant, as established in Messiah’s blood at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28), is a covenant of restoration, forgiveness of sin, redemption, intimacy, renewal, initiated by faith-belief in Messiah Jesus (John 3:16) as the Messiah who died to pay our sin-debt; that is, a New Covenant between Elohim and mankind engendered by trusting-believing that Jesus is the Messiah as promised throughout the Scriptures (Genesis 3:15; 21; Deuteronomy 18:15; Acts 3:22; John 6:29) who has entered the Realm of Time in order to defeat and destroy the works of Satan i.e., death-Hell-the Grave (1 John 3:8b) via a Gospel (an act of selfless love) which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10). The Father has promised to forgive-forget-forever the sins of the one who trusts in the Son, Jesus our Messiah (Hebrews 8:12), and the Father has promised to endow the redeemed in Jesus with the precious indwelling Holy Spirit who is the Guarantor-Seal of New Covenant promise, FOREVER (Ephesians 1:13-14).

Law in the New Covenant v. Law in the Old Covenant,

Commandments, edicts, rules, days, diets, were all a foreshadowing of Messiah in that these pointed to Messiah who would be the only One capable of keeping them, obeying them, honoring them, with absolute perfection and thus make Himself the only One authorized and anointed to pay the penalty for sin; that is, the Spotless-Sinless-Holy-Undefiled “Lamb of Elohim who takes away the sins of the World” (John 1:29-32; 1 Peter 1:18-19) via obedience to Leviticus 17:11.

The astute and discerning Hebrew understood his/her inability to honor Elohim through perfect obedience due the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12; Ecclesiastes 7:20) and they intuitively understood the necessity for a Messiah to go before them and present them blameless before the Father; hence, they understood the need for faith and trusted in Elohim as the one true “God” (Hebrews 11).

Sinai as a bulwark against paganism,

Commandment keeping – rule keeping – Sinai – Moses’ 603 edicts – these were given specifically to the children of Israel for eschatological purposes concerning the coming Messiah via Judah as the Father was concerned relevant to Israel’s compromise with paganism; therefore, the Father codified certain relevant moral and civil laws and etched the most relevant/crucial edicts into stone tablets and presented them to Moses to be distributed/taught among the Tribes; this, in Elohim’s efforts to stymie/thwart Israel’s compromise with Baal and Molech and the pagan tribes/demonic traditions that surrounded them and thereby Elohim sought to stymie a repeat of the atrocious failures exhibited by the Adamic and Noahic generations where all of humanity was judged unto death by water save eight as these generations defiled themselves with the demonic and thwarted their ordination as progenitors of the Messiah.

In the New Covenant,

In the New Covenant, the Law of Elohim is written upon the human heart (Romans 2:14-15), not etched in stone tablets, and these Laws are arbitrated by the redeemed conscience of those who have trusted in Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17; Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 36:26, Jeremiah 31:33, Hebrews 8:10). No longer does mankind seek righteousness through law-keeping (Galatians 2:16) but in the New Covenant, the indwelling Holy Spirit works via daily Christian sanctification through the redeemed conscience of mankind (Galatians 5:16; John 14:16) and produces divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:22-23) through the redeemed in Jesus and this divine fruit fulfills all Law (Galatians 5:23), even those laws that are not codified for the children of Israel – the moral-ethical-holy Law as written upon the human heart is complete, comprehensive and not fragmented or stymied by codification in letters but wholly addresses the comprehensive will of the Father for humanity; it is this divine fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:16-23) that actually honors the Father, eternally, and proves one to be a legitimate, valid, redeemed, born-again (John 3:5) servant of Jesus our Messiah and thus the Father is honored, eternally, by those who honor Jesus as their Messiah (John 15:8).

It is written,

Life in the Spirit

8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8 (ESV)

Animal Blood Sacrifices in the Bible, Why?

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Why did Elohim institute animal “blood sacrifices” under the Levitical Law given Israel’s children?

Animal blood sacrifices could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:4) but their purpose was two-fold:

1) The blood of animals, first exemplified in Genesis 3:21 following Adam’s compromise with evil and later enacted through Levitical Law as per Leviticus 17:11, foreshadowed the only acceptable atoning sacrifice for the sins of humanity; that is, the sinless blood of Jesus our Messiah shed at Golgotha which initiated the New Covenant and provided forgiveness of sin by New Covenant promise actuated by faith (Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Hebrews 8:12; John 3:16).

2) From the beginning, “faith” has been the KEY to Elohim’s heart (Hebrews 11); that is, believing that Elohim is true and will do exactly as He has promised in His spoken and written words. It was NOT the blood sacrifice offered by the children of Israel that made one righteous or “right” with Elohim (Hebrews 10:4) but it was the “faith” of the one offering the sacrifice that engendered covenant righteousness (a right standing) with the Father.

With that said, those in the Old Testament who were made right with Elohim through faith were not permitted to enter Elohim’s presence in the Kingdom as the acceptable atonement via Messiah had not yet manifest as “nothing impure will ever enter therein” (Revelation 21:27); therefore, Old Testament saints were detained in Sheol-Paradise awaiting Messiah’s atonement and were subsequently escorted into the Kingdom by Messiah while His body of flesh lie in state for three-days (Luke 16; Psalm 16:10; Luke 23:43) .

In conclusion,

Torah and its laws, sacrifices, covenants, were simply a divine roadmap leading to our need for Messiah Jesus by faith; therefore, Torah was NEVER the destination as Jesus is the only Way, the only Truth, the only Path to LIFE available to humanity as Jesus is the fulfillment of all that Torah foreshadowed (John 14:6; Galatians 3:24). If one perishes in Torah, they perish in Hell in their sin; Jesus as one’s Messiah by faith is the divine Answer and the only acceptable Solution to mankind’s sin problem (Ephesians 4:7-10; Acts 4:12).

God’s will for your life? What pleases the Father, eternally?

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God’s will for your life? What pleases the Father, eternally?

If one desires to honor the will of Elohim our Father, they must first “believe in the One He has sent” into the World to provide humanity atonement for sin (John 6:29); then, receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14); then, “walk by the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16) thereby allowing the Spirit’s anointing to work through them producing divine “fruit” that actually honors the Father (John 15:8) and this “fruit” fulfills all law (Galatians 5:16-23); so then, if one is truly concerned about Commandments and Royal Law and obedience, the only Way to please the Father is to trust in Messiah Jesus, receive the Holy Spirit, walk daily in Christian sanctification thereby honoring the Father in word, thought, deed.

The New Covenant v. the Law Covenant,

The New Covenant is NOT about chasing obedience to letters, laws, days, diets, but about walking in the Spirit and producing fruit that endures the BEMA Judgment all of which is predicated upon first trusting-believing in Jesus as one’s Messiah who died for them (Galatians 2:16; Galatians 5:16-23; John 3; 15:8; 1 Corinthians 3:10-15).

Why does the Atheist hate God in Jesus?

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Why does the Atheist hate God in Jesus?

It is true that the religion of Atheism does NOT exist in reality but same is simply obfuscation for a virulent hatred toward and for our Creator who possesses divine dominion/sovereignty over our lives and our Eternity. Every human being having attained an age of reason possessing sufficient cognitive acuity to discern the supernatural World around them intuitively knows a supernatural, omnipotent, Creator exists and they are therefore “without excuse” when they deny this reality and ultimately perish in their sin and eventually stand in adjudication before Jesus our Messiah and Judge (Romans 1:20; John 8:24; Revelation 20:11-15).

What I find to be a most interesting inquiry is the foundation or causation for the Atheists’ hatred for our God, Creator, Elohim, Jesus?

Now, in this particular demonically laden debate forum labeled “DebateIsland,” we know that @Factfinder has tragically lost a loving spouse and it is most likely, by hearsay, that Factfinder was once an avid Christian who sought the Scriptures seeking an abundant life in Jesus but Factfinder, exercising his free will gift, when confronted with this tragedy chose to blame God and tragically/consequently Factfinder chose the the path of Judas Iscariot and has subsequently turned his back on God-Jesus, the Scriptures, the Truth, and opted to fight against God via an alliance with Satan which has turned Factfinder into a bitter, hateful, vulgar, arrogant, “atheist,” who seeks to proselytize for the Enemy of the human soul as opposed to holding fast to the faith in Jesus he once pursued.

Also, we know that one of the most prolific and hateful Atheists in this demonic forum, @Joeseph, was once a devout Catholic who came to the realization that his “religion” was actually a “religious cult” of self-righteousness and works and Joeseph subsequently threw “the baby out with the bath-water” and internalized a virulent hatred for Jesus and Christianity. Joeseph, apparently unable or disinterested in differentiating his Catholic cult from true Christianity, is so consumed with HATE for God that he is unable to discern divine Truth from the lies of his adopted father, Satan (John 8:44). 

So then, we understand where the hate for God finds its origin in @Factfinder and @Joeseph but my interests are far from satiated by these two-demonically laden fools (Isaiah 14:1); therefore, I ask you, the remaining Atheists who pollute this forum with your silliness and lack of wisdom and discernment and commonsense…what life-experience(s) has made you an Atheist and under girded your hatred for God and your disdain for those who love and serve Jesus through the indwelling Holy Spirit? Is your false “Atheism,” your chosen tactic of obfuscation, due an aberrant sexual addiction? Are you addicted physiologically to narcotics – alcohol? What is the “sin” or the aberrant obsession that under girds your hated for God to the extent that you are openly willing to denounce Jesus and die in Hell in an abject absence of logic, wisdom, commonsense; this, though you know better intuitively? 

Rick Holtsclaw

Why does the atheist insist the Biblical Text is immoral and aberrant?

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Why does the spiritually dead atheist (2 Corinthians 4:4) insist the Bible is immoral and aberrant in their childish efforts to obfuscate their sin and their destiny in Hell due their rejection of Jesus?

These iniquities highlighted in the Biblical Text are abundant due the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12) and the Scriptures highlight them thereby pointing us to our need for salvation (Galatians 3:24), redemption (John 3:16), by faith in Jesus (1 Peter 1:18-19)…if the atheist possessed even a modicum of wisdom and discernment and self-awareness, they would see the motives of our Creator in highlighting these sins that pollute our soul, our fallen World, and the atheist would seek redemption through Jesus as their Messiah (John 3) and receive the imputation/gifting of Jesus’ righteousness over their life (2 Corinthians 5:21) and consequently enter into New Covenant relationship with the Father (Matthew 26:28), be forgiven by New Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12) and walk daily in glorious sanctification through obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit gifted to all who trust in Jesus as Messiah/Lord/Savior (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16-23); unfortunately, the spiritually dead atheist “chooses” to live in spiritual ignorance and arrogance and self-righteousness all of which are fitting for the fires of Hell in rebellion to the Holy Spirit’s divine Truth (Revelation 20:11-15; John 17:17).

The Scriptures hide nothing yet atheists mock and ridicule the Holy Spirit’s work, why?

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The Scriptures hide nothing concerning the fallen nature of mankind and our Creator’s response to same yet the atheist mocks and ridicules the Holy Spirit’s work for our edification, why?

Simply stated,

If you desire a life of goodness, wholeness, peace and sustainability…trust in Jesus and believe the Gospel. If you desire a life of mediocrity and wastefulness, pursue the demonic tenets of atheism.

The Scriptures hide NOTHING from you concerning the fallen nature of the human genome (Romans 5:12) nor does God hide from you the demonic attributes of the spiritual war that has been translated into the Realm of Time (Genesis 3:15) as He deals with same via the Gospel of Jesus Christ ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10); in fact, the primary reason Jesus entered the Realm of Time was to “destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b).

You can accuse, cry, moan, wail, lie and die in Hell over obfuscating the reality of the Scriptures in a vain attempt to justify your sin and rejection of Jesus as Messiah; but the truth is, the Scriptures provide you the only Path to a life in Jesus that is wholesome, full of joy and meaning and an internal/eternal assurance that engenders peace and a quiet soul (Romans 5:1). The path of the atheist is hard and fraught with sorrow and hopelessness and wastefulness and ultimately, death in Hell.

I choose Jesus and desire a life that honors the indwelling Holy Spirit and thereby please my Heavenly Father via the Spirit’s divine work through me (John 15:8; Galatians 5:16-23). You’re free to choose a life of nihilism and wastefulness in atheism and secular humanism…good luck with that!

Why must a father train his children in the ways of our Lord Jesus?

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Why must a father methodically train his children to know and love Jesus, the Bible and live obediently to the indwelling Holy Spirit?

Not surprisingly, the demonically laden atheists in this forum have expressed vitriol and disdain over the subject of training children in the tenets of Christianity. For those who live a life based in reality, logic, reason, and pursue morality based in the Holy Bible and rely upon the Holy Spirit for their anointing to live daily honoring our Creator, Jesus Christ, these men who have assumed the most honorable role of husband, father, daddy, grandpa, know the necessity of training a child in the ways of sustainable morality while seeking to restrain and negate the Adamic sin-nature that infects the human genome at conception (Romans 5:12). Our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, hold the “father” or “daddy” of the family unit specifically responsible for teaching, training, equipping, protection, provisions, of the family divinely entrusted to him.

Children are to be taught the temporary and eternal benefits of morality in sexuality; the eternal importance of telling the truth; the honor of standing for God’s righteousness; the honor of defending the defenseless; the necessity of providing for the poor; the honorable character of interceding for the abused and neglected; all of which, are the resultant of knowing and loving Jesus as their Messiah, daily walking in obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Spirit produces divine fruit through them, fruit that brings honor and glory to our Heavenly Father (Galatians 5:15-23; John 15:8).

A father’s greatest fear, other than the untimely death of his children our beloved spouse, is that said father would fail in the divine mandate to love and honor and train his children to know and obey Jesus our Messiah by example and that his children would live an honorable and wholesome life as a servant of the Father, Son and Spirit. A father’s greatest fear should be that his child mature to become the victim of demonic evolution, the greatest progenitor of atheism known to mankind; a father’s greatest fear should be that his child become a useless, nihilistic, defiled, atheist-secular humanist void sanity, logic, reason, wisdom, a son or daughter bound for death in Hell in nihilism; essentially, a wasted, failed, impotent, life.

Does God create evil? Why does evil exist?

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Does God create evil (Isaiah 45:7)?

Contrary to the King James Bible translator’s and other spurious translations based on the KJV, our Creator does not create evil as suggested in Isaiah 45:7 where the Hebrew “ra” is mistranslated but corrected by the translator’s of the New King James Bible. Evil is not something that is created but is simply a default to God’s holiness and righteousness; evil is manifest due sin or a rejection of our God’s will for our individual lives. God created everything “very good” and it is the spiritual father of the atheist/secular humanist who defiles the goodness of God via rebellion and debauchery which is celebrated by the children of Satan; namely, atheists-secular humanists.

Why does evil exist?

God does not command slavery – rape – infanticide…but the spiritual father of the atheist, Satan, does (John 8:44)…God allows the evil of Satan (John 8:44) to prevail in Time as Satan’s evil must be displayed to the faithful angelic creation and the redeemed in Jesus for eschatological purposes; namely, the Father is displaying to His faithful angelic creation why Satan was extricated from the Kingdom and why obedience to God’s authority is always superior to rebellion and defilement; this, for longevity of a sustainable existence with peace and joy and goodness and holiness that pleases the soul and makes existence meaningful and wholesome. 

The previous 6000-years of horror that have transpired within the Realm of Time at the hands and will of Satan working through Time and physics and displayed by the atheist-secular humanist, the acts of unconscionable horror will act as an eternal bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom where free will exists by necessity. Our entire creation in Time hinges upon a war initiated by the rebellious father of the atheist, Satan, and Elohim’s methodical restoration of holiness to His Kingdom via selfless love demonstrated at Golgotha by Jesus and the demonstration of why evil must be shunned and obedience to God’s authority obeyed in order that life in Time and in Eternity be enjoyed with intimacy and love and peace that endures throughout the ages and everlasting Eternity.

Every atheist in this forum and around this fallen World are shining examples of why obedience to the authority of our Creator is essential…atheists are examples of why sin, defilement, perversion, infanticide, aberrant sexual debauchery, destroys mind, body, soul, and why these things are unsustainable in life constrained by Time and unsustainable in the Kingdom as the atheist and their perverse ilk are destructive and deadly to mind, body, soul. Atheists are the destroyers of goodness, holiness, peace, meaningfulness, HOPE. Atheists are the vile in thought, word, deed. Atheists are the disgusting in a society that brings sorrow and shame upon any people and any Nation. Atheists are the progenitors of the evil they suggest God creates and in the Day of Judgment, the righteous of God in Jesus will glory in the destruction and shame of the atheist along with the father of atheism, Satan (Revelation 20:10-15; 1 Corinthians 15:24; Philippians 3:19; Revelation 11:18). MARANATHA LORD! Jesus is victorious (Revelation 5:5).

Why was Judaism given Israel’s Children?

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Why was Judaism given Israel’s Children?

Judaism was given Israel for eschatological purposes, the Law, sanctification from paganism, the blood sacrifices, as Israel’s children were to be the progenitors of Messiah through Judah and take custody of the New Covenant’s Gospel and Great Commission in fulfillment of Elohim’s promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3b; unfortunately, Israel rejected the Gospel, murdered their Messiah upon a tree via Pilate/Rome, Israel’s children demanded that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children…so it was and it is…the New Covenant was taken from Israel and given to the Gentiles until such time the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom of God (Romans 11:25).

Judaism was a roadmap to the New Covenant as prophesied by Jeremiah in chapter 31 and Ezekiel in chapter 36 and Israel was foreordained to be the custodians of the New Covenant but Israel’s covenants with Elohim were overwhelmingly predicated upon National obedience (Deuteronomy 28) and Israel failed. I’ve not changed Judaism and its eschatological purposes in my defense of the New Covenant…Elohim provided Israel with Sinai’s Commandments and the 603 Mosaic Laws to thwart a repeat of the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations and their compromise with paganism but Judaism was NEVER intended to be the path to righteousness with Elohim and passage to the Kingdom of Elohim, the New Covenant was foreordained to be the Right of Passage via Messiah via faith and the New Covenant’s Gospel was ordained as the battle strategy to defeat Satan “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10). Judaism was simply a covenant precursor, a foundation, for the realization and strategic implementation of the New Covenant established in Messiah Jesus’ blood at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28).