I have seen the light. Thanks to the many tireless commenters on social media, I have seen the error of my ways and I have begun to realize that the atheists are right. Morality doesn’t depend on God! We can figure out for ourselves what right and wrong are! We can create our own moral law using our reason and logic and science! And that is exactly what I am going to do.
First, I have been told over and over that human morality is based on empathy– the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Once I began to understand this, the rest fell into place fairly quickly. I hate radishes. I think they taste awful. Whenever I eat them I experience great displeasure, and so I see that I need to protect others from this horrible experience. This is why I am banishing radishes. From now on, no one will be allowed to grow, sell, or buy radishes.
I also hate cats. I would not like to own a cat. I’m allergic, so beyond mere annoyance at their smug, holier than thou attitudes, I experience physical suffering in the presence of a cat. Thus, NO ONE should own cats, and they too are prohibited. Continue reading →
One of the comments I see from atheists on social media all the time has to do with their views on morality. Christians who have studied some philosophy will tell them that, if God did not exist, then objective morals would not either.Since we all know there are real good and evil, then at some level we all acknowledge that God must exist.
Atheists will return with some annoyance, saying that they can determine right and wrong on their own without any god. Often they appeal to empathy. We don’t want to be killed, so we should not kill others. We don’t want to be robbed, so we should not rob others. In short, atheists reject Jesus and then appeal to the golden rule taught by Jesus.
Is that Irony?
I realized that the problem in this conversation has to do with the use of and misunderstanding of the word “morals.” We Christians tend to add the word “objective” to clarify the fact that they are real, outside of us and would continue to be true if no one on earth believed or obeyed them, just as laws of physics would be. If every person on earth rejected “though shall not steal” it would still be wrong to steal just as if everyone on earth rejected the law of gravity, they’d still fall if they jumped off of their roof in a cape and brightly colored underpants.Continue reading →
The library has parking spaces which are marked as being reserved for fuel efficient vehicles. The physical facts are that I drive an old, gas guzzling Buick, but I self identify as a person who drives a Tesla- a very classy electric car- and therefore I can park in the spots reserved for lower emitting and fuel-efficient vehicles. The librarian got mad at me and told me I couldn’t park my car there. I told her she was being a close minded bigot. I reminded her that the make and model of the car can be fluid. My car is outwardly a gas guzzler, but inside it FEELS like an electric car.
She didn’t accept my explanation. She told me I couldn’t park there anymore. I was so upset that I ran into the women’s bathroom and cried. It just shows how all librarians are hateful and close minded.
I’ve had a few atheist on social media get angry at me for not taking their comments or questions more seriously. I have failed to reply in the manner they feel their comments deserve. But the reason many of them don’t get the reply they think they deserve is simple; many atheists’ comments and questions are couched in profanity and childish name calling. This is like someone offering you a sandwich but they won’t stop farting.
When atheists ask a Christian “What would it take to convince you that God doesn’t exist?”, this is exactly the same as if we were to turn around and say “What would it take to convince you that the number five* doesn’t exist? What evidence or arguments would convince you that there is no number between four and six? What argument or evidence could persuade you that we have culturally inserted a fiction between the quantities of four and six just as we invented Santa Claus or flying unicorns?”
Nothing? Nothing can convince you that there IS no number we call five? I knew it. You can’t be persuaded by reason or facts. You’re just a blind-faith fruit loop.
It is the same because we are asking what would it take to convince you that a necessary being doesn’t exist. There is no possible world where in the number five doesn’t exist. In no universe could you add four to one and get six. The number five HAS to exist. Similarly, God doesn’t just merely ALSO exist. God MUST exist. If God did not exist, nothing else would either. Accepting a universe without God is like accepting an ocean without water or Hamlet without Shakespeare. It is accepting that you could be persuaded by a clever argument that no argument is valid. It is giving a speech about your faith that words do not exist.
Not to get technical here, but it is “kookiedooks“.
Not only is the question absurd but it has nothing to do with the actual existence of God. This is a question about the psychology of the person being asked. If it could be shown that convincing a Christian that God did not exist was impossible, or if it could be shown to be fairly easy, neither would say anything about the existence of God, but rather, would say something about the psychology of the person being asked. So, while an interesting question, the answer can never be used to defend atheism or attack theism. Food for thought.
#JesusLovesYou
Read our series on Proving God exits here: PROOF OF GOD
*to be clear, I am not referring to the word “five” or the symbol, “5”. I mean the quantity you get when you add one to four.Unless you went to a Chicago Public School, in which case I’m referring to the quantity you SHOULD have gotten when you added 1 to 4.
The purpose of this series is to explain why I have been writing articles and making videos for almost ten years. I am trying to help people get free of the lies that stand between them and the Gospel. More specifically, I have spent this series explaining what the Gospel is, which should make it obvious why it is worth the effort to tear down the lies which keep people from the truth. The Gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ.
The bad news is, we are all sinners and we have earned death, but the good news, the Gospel, is the free gift of salvation through Jesus.
Romans 10: 9-13 says
“…if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Let that last verse sink in a little. EVERYONE who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus will be saved. John 3:16 says it this way:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
WHOEVER believes in him- whoever puts their trust in Jesus- will have eternal life.
Not, whoever is good more than bad and puts their trust in him. Not whoever is kinder and more generous than average. Not Whoever is more religious than their neighbor.
Not whoever believes and then does enough good for the rest of their lives or gives enough to the poor…
Just whoever. That’s you and me.
Being a Christian is described in a lot of ways in the bible. Jesus says you are born again and have eternal life. When you are born the first time, you are going to lose that life someday. When you are born of the spirit of God through Jesus, you are born into eternal life.
The New Testament says we are adopted into the family of God. Ephesians 1:5 says
“He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.”
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
A Christian is a child of God.
You may be asking, if the Bible says salvation is free- we can’t earn it and we can’t pay it back, then why do we need to do good? Why not just keep on sinning since it’s all getting paid for? The Bible sees this question coming and says this:
Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
–Romans 6:1-2
This is where the metaphor of marriage comes in handy.
The church is called the bride of Christ, and being a Christian is likened to being married.
When a husband does the dishes, it doesn’t earn his marriage. Or if he refuses to do the dishes, he isn’t less married than he was the day before. A man does the dishes for his wife because he loves her and wants to show his love by being helpful. Just as a man does good things for his wife to show his love because he is married to her, we do what is right to show our love for Jesus because he has saved us. We don’t do what is right to be saved, we do what is right because we have been saved.
We’ve been saved FROM sin, so why would we go back to it? That would be like being cured from a disease, and then going back to the pollution which made us sick in the first place. But even more so, we are saved from sin but also saved TO righteousness. We are saved from selfishness to love God and others. We are saved from greed to generosity.
In summary, the reason why I take the time to dismantle evolution, atheism and other lies is because they stand between people and Jesus, and Jesus is the only path to salvation. Without the gospel, people live and die in their sins. When they know and accept the gospel, they are given new life, cleaned of all of their sins, and adopted into the family of God.
Defining our terms comes down to two VERY simple and clear “yes” or “no” questions. This flowchart should clear it all up. You’re welcome.
Amazingly, the way I use the word “atheism” has caused more angry backlash than anything else I have posted, including the three times I have proven that Atheists don’t exist.
This handy flowchart should clear up the matter for all but the dumbest of my detractors. Next time someone tries to take you to task about defining atheism to mean “atheism” show this to them and hope for the best.
In parts 1 and 2 we looked at the bad news. We are all sinners.
“..for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God..” -Romans 3:23
And we saw that sin is not some small debt we can pay off, but is death.
“For the wages of sin is death…” –Romans 6:23
But we saw that the good news, the Gospel, the main message of the bible and the central foundation of Christianity is this:
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” –Romans 6:23
At this point you may be wondering, if Jesus has paid for all of our sins, then why isn’t everyone going to heaven, no matter what they believe? First off, because being saved is not merely a matter of believing what is true. This is a very common misconception which the Bible addresses:
“You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!” –James 2:19
Satan doesn’t lack belief in the existence of God. Satan rebelled against God and wants to rule himself. Christians, likewise, are not people who have simply come to some intellectual assent. The Bible describes salvation in many metaphors, from the paying of debt to the being released from slavery, but the one which I think sums it up best is that of a wedding.
Jesus offers us the free gift of salvation as a groom offering the gift of marriage to a potential bride. He has paid for the wedding and bought/built them a palace to live in, happily ever after.
We are the bride. We have made many poor choices which results in our being sold into slavery to the enemies of the king. We are slaves to sin, and we cannot free ourselves. We are as lost as if we were dead. But the son of the king comes to us and announces that he has paid for our freedom, and we can be his bride and come live in his palace if we accept his hand in marriage.
At this point, she knows his word is true. She believes that he is the son of the king, and that he is offering happily ever after. But she still has a choice. She can choose to go with him or she can choose to stay in her chains. Her freedom is paid for, her palace built and waiting, but she will not be dragged off as property. The prince waits for her to come willingly.
John 3:16 says: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”
When the Bible talks about believing in Jesus, it does not mean accepting intellectually that he exists, or even merely accepting his words as true. It means putting our trust in him, as a bride puts her trust in a man when she agrees to marry him and gives her whole life to him for as long as they both shall live.
Being saved is like getting married- you accept the offer, and you profess it to the world, and from that moment on, you are not who you were. The two become one.
Romans 10:9-10 says, “If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.”
Say yes to the dress. Jesus has paid your debt and freed you from your chains. Put your trust in him, accept his love, and proclaim to the world that you have made your choice.
In the last installment, we saw how sin is death, and how there is no KIND OF dead, just as there is no KIND OF pregnant. Big sin, little sin, total dead.
People who haven’t read the Bible like to say God is all fire and brimstone in the Old testament, but its mainly because they haven’t read all of it. Its there that we read this:
“Do you think that I like to see wicked people die?” says the Sovereign LORD. “Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.”
“For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares the Lord GOD. “Therefore, repent and live.” –Ezekiel 18:23 and 32
If we turn away from our sin and turn to God (an act the Bible calls Repentance) He will forgive us. But how can he forgive us and still be just? The debt of our sin needs to be paid, it cannot merely be ignored, so God pays that debt for us.
Romans 5:8“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
God stepped into human history as Jesus and lived a sinless life so that he could be the perfect sacrifice whose death paid the penalty for our sins. God now gives us the offer of salvation- grace- the free gift through Jesus death and resurrection.
The blood of Jesus brings spiritual zombies back to life. If this seems like a sacrilegious metaphor, then take it from Jesus. John 6 says, “
53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.”
I don’t make this stuff up you know, and when you don’t believe me it hurts my feelings.
Jesus is making a metaphor which we act out in communion. We eat the bread which is his body, and drink the wine (or grape juice) which is his blood which were given on the cross to pay for our sins. We can eat other flesh and blood all day long and it will make us nothing more than vampires and zombies, but when we accept the body and blood of Jesus Christ, he brings us back to life, and we have his life in us.
Ephesians 2: 4-5, 8-9 puts it this way:
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ..8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Did you catch that last part? We can’t earn it. We can’t pay for it. We can’t pay it back. We are forgiven merely by accepting. Zombies can drink the blood that brings them back to life, or they can turn and run away and remain dead. Those are the only options available to us.
If I may make a prettier metaphor- we are Snow White. Evil found us, and it looked so good and harmless that we took a bite, but one bite was all that was needed to kill us. We lay in our coffin until the son of the king comes to bring us back to life with his love. The Story of Snow White is the gospel.
So is Sleeping Beauty. The prince slays the evil dragon and wakes us from the sleep of death, offering his hand in marriage.
In both cases, the princesses have contributed the same thing- they’ve helped get themselves into the mess they were in, and they can do nothing to get themselves out. The prince slays the dragon and brings her back from death while she is in the sleep of death.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Next time we’ll take a closer look at the process of waking from death, just to make sure it’s clear. Until then, just remember, #JesusLovesYou
Many of my less enthusiastic readers (and probably most suburban churches) may wonder why someone like me bothers to write articles and make videos attacking the Deep Time/Evolutionary religion. The answer is the Gospel. The Gospel is the good news which defines Christianity. People use Evolution to separate people from the gospel, so I attack Evolution to bring people to Jesus. Think about it this way- why do fire fighters kick down a perfectly good door? To get people out of a burning building. I’m just kicking down some doors, and for very much the same reasons.
In part 1 of this series I explained the bad news- we are sinners. A lifetime of good deeds doesn’t cover a single murder under the laws of man, and likewise a lifetime of good deeds doesn’t cover the many sins we commit over a lifetime against almighty God.
The Bible offers another metaphor which makes more sense of this. Instead of showing us our sins as our crimes or our debts, it refers to the unforgiven sinner as being spiritually dead- dead in our sins or trespasses.
Ephesians 2: 4-5, 8-9 puts it this way:
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ..8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Many people optimistically think that on a scale of 1-10, they rate a 7 for goodness, and they think most other people probably do too. Isn’t MOSTLY good- good enough for heaven? Imagine a zombie who is still fairly fresh. Isn’t a MOSTLY undecomposed walking dead pretty much the same as a living person? This zombie isn’t NEARLY as decomposed as THAT one. Doesn’t that mean this one ought to be accepted as just another living person? I don’t watch zombie shows or movies, but even I know enough to know better. Dead is dead, even if it still has more pink than stink.
Imagine you went to your doctor asking for help and he said, “On a scale of 1 to 10, you’re around 7 healthy. That’s good enough. You only have one or two terminal diseases, but think about all of the terminal diseases you DON’T have.”Would you be content with that? Do you wish to be MOSTLY healthy, or COMPLETELY healthy? When the Bible says “Be holy just as God is holy” (Matt 5:48 and 1Peter 1:15), it means we ought to reject ANY sickness of spirit and heart just as we would reject any sickness of body or mind. Sin is a disease which leads to eternal death.
If you are picking a university, would you want one where the teachers told the truth 80% of the time and taught you 20% lies? Or would you insist that you have teachers who taught you NO lies at all?
Would you want a spouse who was faithful to you MOST of the time, or ALL of the time?
Do you want a taco which has only a LITTLE rat poop in it, or absolutely NO rat poop in it?
This is how God views sin- it is death, it is infidelity, it is lies. It is not acceptable in ANY amount. Sin is death.
Romans 6:23 puts it this way:
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The bad news is that you have sinned- we ALL have. God is good, and so he must judge sin, and he must punish sin as sin deserves. Sin earns you death, and heaven is locked to zombies. God leaves them in their graves forever. That is the bad news. But there is good news.
Next time we’ll dive into the good news. For a sneak preview, check out John 3:16, and remember, #JesusLovesYou
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A Bit of Orange 
Fart, Sandwich, Fart
I’ve had a few atheist on social media get angry at me for not taking their comments or questions more seriously. I have failed to reply in the manner they feel their comments deserve. But the reason many of them don’t get the reply they think they deserve is simple; many atheists’ comments and questions are couched in profanity and childish name calling. This is like someone offering you a sandwich but they won’t stop farting.
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