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?
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).
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).
Those trapped in religion – Torah – Moses – Judaism – Messianic Judaism – Hebrew Roots fanaticism – Legalism, are aghast at the idea of pure grace (unmerited favor) through faith, alone, as the KEY to Elohim’s heart and eternal life via the forgiveness of sin…let me explain and please, hear me out?
A brief history,
The Gospel of Grace, the New Covenant of Peace, as introduced through Messiah was ordained as a divine battle strategy by Elohim “to destroy the works of the Devil” via Messiah’s blood atonement provided at Golgotha outside the gates of the Old City some 2000-years ago and this Gospel was foreordained as the Father’s divine will “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
The Adamic-Noahic generations were ordained as progenitors of the Messiah; unfortunately, these generations defiled themselves with unconscionable compromise, perversion, with the demonic – paganism and nullified their divine ordination and so great was their corruption of the human genome that Elohim destroyed all but eight via water (Genesis 6:5).
Elohim’s 2nd-Attempt,
Elohim began anew with Noah and Noah’s family and through Noah’s son, Shem, Elohim brought forth the Patriarchy of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel) and through Jacob’s son, Judah, Elohim introduced His Messiah to the World. Please understand that Torah; specifically, details concerning Sinai, Moses, Law, Ordinances, blood sacrifices, Sabbaths, these things were simply a temporary roadmap leading to the Messiah and the Gospel, Torah was NEVER intended to be the destination (Galatians 3:24).
Why Sinai?
Sinai and Moses and Ordinances and Sabbaths were given specifically to Israel’s children in a Covenant of Law for sanctification (a setting apart from paganism) and eschatological purposes. Never were these aspects of Torah to be considered relevant for the Gentile lest said Gentile was seeking refuge in the protective confines of Israel’s theocracy.
Also, understand the reasoning for Elohim’s “giving of the Sinai Law” to Israel as Elohim’s motive relevant to Sinai was a response to His dreadful concerns over a repeat of the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations and their compromise with the demonic i.e., paganism that thwarted their ordination as progenitors of Messiah; therefore, Sinai’s motives were to detail Israel’s proper protocol with Elohim (1-4) and Israel’s proper protocol sociologically between the Tribes (5-10); these edicts were to be obeyed meticulously as Israel’s children were commanded to be holy as Elohim is Holy (Leviticus 21:8; Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 1:16); in fact, Israel’s covenant relationship with Elohim was completely based upon National obedience (Deuteronomy 28). This strict obedience through adherence to codified laws was intended to thwart Israel’s compromise with the pagan tribes surrounding them, defiled, sexually perverse, murderous, infanticide, that relentlessly sought Israel’s compromise with the pagan gods of Baal and Molech.
Sinai (codification) v. Spiritual Law,
Sinai and Moses’ related ordinances were but a MERE FRACTION of the comprehensive Spiritual Law that is written upon the human heart, the human genome by Elohim (Romans 2:14-15); in fact, the Spiritual Law has been relevant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the Angels. Sinai and Moses’ edicts, laws, ordinances, were NOT sufficient to engender righteousness with Elohim (Romans 3:20) but were simply a fragmented codification of the divine, infinitely superior, Spiritual Law that governed the conduct of and condemned the Adamic and Noahic generations of defilement.
Law in the New Covenant,
Also note that the Spiritual Law written upon the human heart by our Creator (Romans 2:14-15) is the very same Law that is applicable in the New Covenant promises (Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36; Hebrews 10) as the Spiritual Law written upon the human heart was foreordained to be arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ezekiel 36:27; Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:6) who mates the redeemed conscience of the faithful in Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17) with the enlivened Spiritual Law as written upon the heart; this catalyst as employed by the indwelling Spirit forms the New Man in Messiah and consequently produces divine “fruit” through the redeemed in Jesus, fruit that fulfills ALL LAW and glorifies the Father (Galatians 5:16-23; John 15:8).
Christians are therefore NOT under Torah-Sinai-Moses (Romans 6:14) but Christians are under the “Law of the Spirit of Life” (Romans 8:2; Romans 7:6); in fact, a Christian who knows their position and responsibility toward the Father in the New Covenant does not go about their day consciously thinking about obedience to Torah, Sinai, Moses, Days, Diets, Clothing-Fabrics, Sabbaths, but they are intently tuned to the Spirit’s leadership in every aspect of their daily life and with the Spirit as one’s Teacher and Arbitrator, THERE IS PEACE with the Father via a good conscience (Romans 5:1).
The New Covenant is Unique,
The New Covenant is NEW, it is NOT a reiteration of the Old Covenant’s Law System (New wine in new wine skins); the New Covenant is NOT about keeping Sinai or Moses or Days or Ordinances or Diets but the New Covenant ordained “before Time began” via the Gospel (2 Timothy 1:8-10) is about divine PEACE with the Father through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, who provided humanity blood atonement that is acceptable by the Father which results in the New Covenant promise of absolution, forgiveness, for our sin by divine grace through faith in Jesus (Hebrews 8:12).
Enslavement to Law, Judaism, Hebrew Roots, Religion,
You are free to enslave yourself to religious works and days and diets and ordinances and Torah and Judaism and Messianic Judaism and Hebrew Roots fanaticism as long as you understand that your only Path to life and forgiveness of sin and Covenant relationship with Elohim is by faith in Jesus our Messiah trusting fully in Him as completely sufficient to redeem you and present you acceptable to the Father via the gifting, the imputation, of HIS righteousness over your life earned for us via Messiah’s blood atonement at Golgotha (John 14:6; 2 Corinthians 5:21).
Jesus and Commandments,
Jesus said, “If you love me you will keep my Commandments” (John 14:15-31) and Jesus’ Commandments are that we love Elohim above all else and that we love our neighbor as our self (Matthew 22:36-40) and this is why the Holy Spirit places “love” at the very top of His list of divine “fruit” that is manifest through the daily life of the redeemed in Jesus (Galatians 5:22-23); therefore, if one truly desires to honor Jesus’ commands, they must first be “born again” by faith in Jesus as Messiah (John 3) and subsequently “walk by the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16) allowing the Spirit to produce fruit through them that fulfills ALL LAW.
The “law of sin and death” i.e., Torah-Sinai (Romans 8:2) could NEVER accomplish what the Spirit accomplishes in the life of the redeemed in Jesus as the “law of sin and death” was weakened by the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12) and there was no indwelling Holy Spirit within the individual during the Law Covenant to arbitrate that sin-nature ingrained in the human genome.
In closing,
Therefore, if you desire intimate relationship with the Father, you must first “believe” in the Son, Jesus, your Messiah who died for you (John 3); then, receive the promised indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) and walk by the Spirit in daily Christian sanctification as He prepares you for service in the New Jerusalem (Galatians 5:16). There is no other Way (John 14:6)!
Concerning the Creation Narrative – our Creator, Jesus the Messiah & Belief v. Unbelief (The Key to Knowledge)
What we “believers” in Jesus know that you unbelievers do not is that all we see and interact with within the Realm of Time is rooted in the Spiritual Realm…you “unbelievers” falsely believe that what you interact with relevant to your atrophying senses is all that exists but this is a naive fallacy and this is why spiritual ignorance dominates a life of atheism, secular humanism i.e., nihilism (1 Corinthians 2:14).
Time, physics, matter, your complex genome are products of the Spiritual Realm and they were “created” by Jesus for cause and those who desire to KNOW and UNDERSTAND in this life must seek answers from the more relevant, infinitely superior, Realm of the Spiritual and until such time you and yours acknowledge this reality and pursue it with a sincere heart by faith willing to believe, you will remain in nihilism and perish in Hell in unbelief as Jesus our Messiah is your only Hope for life and knowledge and understanding as Jesus’ Kingdom is not of this World or this faltering, decaying, Realm of Time but of the Realm of the Spiritual, eternal, infinitely superior; herein lies the fallacy and failures of atheism and secular humanism; that is, “unbelief” that culminates in spiritual ignorance and nihilism and ultimately death in Hell.
If you desire “knowledge” concerning the who, what, where, when, why, relevant to our presence in the Realm of Time, “you must be born again” (John 3) by faith in Jesus who is the “Door” to this knowledge (John 10:9-16) and receive the indwelling Holy Spirit who IS our divine Teacher (Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 John 2:27).
Why did Elohim create humanity knowing the propensity for compromise with sin via free will?
Because the creation narrative is infinitely more profound than most understand as the creation narrative concerns a response to an unfathomable coup/rebellion that manifest in the Kingdom of Elohim before Time was created and our temporary Earth, Time, the human genome created in response to that spiritual war between Elohim and Satan and this temporary Realm of Time is nothing more than a temporary repository or battle ground as Elohim removed the destruction of war from His Kingdom and placed that war here to deal with it apart from the Kingdom where nothing impure is permitted to exist (Rev 21:27).
Humanity is but a temporary player in this spiritual war between good v. evil through which the Gospel of Grace has been used to defeat Satan at Golgotha via the selfless love of Elohim in Messiah Jesus; in fact, the primary reason Messiah Jesus entered Time was “to destroy the works of the devil.” You and I possess the free will to choose an alliance with Elohim or Satan…our eternal destiny is contingent upon whom we ally with. I choose victory in Jesus (Revelation 5:5).
Atheists-Secular Humanists mock the account of a “talking serpent” in Eden immediately subsequent the Creation Narrative, what is the Truth?
If you studied and sought Elohim with a pure heart, you would understand the deeper Truths of Scripture and how the Holy Spirit weaves these beautiful threads together throughout His words via precept upon precept and line upon line. It is the one who searches and seeks and desires spiritual knowledge with a heart willing to believe that receives the deeper Truths of Scripture often likened to the peeling away of an onion skin…the more steadfast the search, the more spiritual truth the Holy Spirit reveals.
First of all…there was no “talking snake” in Eden but the Holy Spirit used the attributes of a serpent as analogous to the attributes of Satan. If one studies and listens to the Spirit, they will find that the Holy Spirit discreetly describes what Eve observed and communed with in Eden and why she was so enamored by what she observed.
You, in your atheism, are physics bound – you do not possess the cognitive and spiritual acuity, due your atheism, to understand that the World constrained by the Realm of Time is a minuscule, almost irrelevant and temporary, fragment of reality and that there exists a Spiritual Realm surrounding us, permeating us, that is infinitely superior and more detailed and complex than this temporary creation that is decaying daily; in fact, 99% of all that is manifesting before our eyes is rooted in the unseen Spiritual World…Jesus plainly tells you that He is NOT from this Realm of Time…His Kingdom is in the Spiritual World (John 18:36). We too are spirits constrained by a decaying body of flesh and our true selves will not be free until we rid our self of this body of sin subject to physics and death.
If you desire to know what Eve observed in Eden, I’ll share the Holy Spirit’s account as He interrupts the prophet Ezekiel’s warning to the King of Tyre to insert a tidbit of knowledge to those who seek it…the MEME below articulates these relevant verses.
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