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I am going to go in greater depth on the argument of "Why does God allow Evil if He exists" than I addressed in a prior article . While my prior article confronted that issues as brief as I could in general terms... I think a lot of people are suffering from more than most are personally prepared to handle all at once.
I was recently made aware that a birthday anniversary is upcoming…
July 1st is the 100 year anniversary of the Communist Party.
I am not sure how the left plans on celebrating, other than by stacking more dead bodies on the pile of hundreds of millions...of their own people... that have been murdered.
With Mao taking the prize for an estimated 80 million chinese, and Stalin falling a little short of that mark…. But who really knows how much worse it likely is…
Or do we just kinda blank out at “The worst” was reached long before hitler offered his contribution of 6 million or so Jews.
I say all that to underscore the point that every person should agree on, evil does exist.
But… not every person actually agrees on that self evident truth even with the evidence of atrocities such as “ cannibal island ” in Russia, and the “ Rape of Nanjing .”
It’s funny that I find the people who are attempting to “logically” argue against the presence of evil... go through some serious mental gymnastics to claim that religion is the problem.
Not to say that religious beliefs don’t have their problems. Prior to the advent of Marx’s communist manifesto… and the people insane enough to faithfully believe and practice it… the list of crimes against humanity in the name of whatever religious belief has filled volumes of books.
No doubt some of that may even be what inspired marx in the first place to turn from God before he became an active practicing satanist.
Atheist apologist, Sam Harris, has attempted to incoherently argue the presence of many religions disproves God.
I guess he would be right…. If we threw the bible out and the fact that the Bible is True, which I will prove through math below.
Sam Harris is someone that I have seen, among his contemporaries, that has attempted to argue evil doesn't exist… and neither does truth. He also believes an insane idea that morality is created by darwinism and is merely a social construct.
And to support his/their argument when confronted by facts, all they offer is essentially summed up with their defense of “That’s not good enough” repeated in circular reasoning.
Maybe I oversimplified what they attempted to sophistically claim by saying, “That which can be asserted with out evidence, can be dismissed with out evidence.” Or another way of saying, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
However, when you are speaking to a person that has managed to lobotomize themselves through removing moral framework from their critical thinking process… you need to understand that they are speaking in their own language." Since evil does not exist, neither does Good. And in the absence of good, there is no truth. Therefore nothing they say is any good or has any truth to it. And you can believe their BS if you want to be a dummy.
But there is another birthday that follows, a short three days after the communist party has theirs.
And I have to wonder if that is really a cosmic accident since the communist manifesto is so obviously a covenant with death and enslavement. That on the 4th of July, we celebrate with a social contract to the world with Life and Liberty.
But then, the perspective I have on reality is very skeptical to the point of cynicism against coincidence.
It is easy to focus, and get swallowed up by the evil of this world. I see people caught in this trap all the time, who are in desperate need of a reason for Hope. God knows I was close enough to that hell to have been seared by it’s flames before I found mine… or to be more honest, Jesus found me.
It’s kinda funny how Hope seems to be one of those things you can talk yourself out of as easy as you can talk yourself into. However, the truth is that true Hope is something you can escape through lies, but only discover through...enlightenment.
If we recognize the fact this universe is governed by certain, as to say absolute, laws. The premise of God’s existence becomes a matter for simple... academics.
Law’s exist only so long as there is a Law Giver. And there are rewards, and consequences for the relationship you have with those, certain, laws. It wasn’t coincidence that created time, space, and matter for their to be a created universe. After all, which came first, nature to create the laws of physics, or the laws of physics to then create nature? And how can nature exist if it has no laws of nature? Much the same as Good and Evil, which I have seen articulated into an argument pointing to God. After all if the moral law exists for you to recognize the presence of evil… how can there be Good if no Law Giver?
But we live in a world that appears to be full of contradiction. And why is that when the Law of NonContradiction exists to govern the realm of Logic?
You know… one of the things I see that angers me the most in this world is when I see it’s appointed “gatekeepers” drunk or sleeping on the job.
Prior to celebrating Fathers Day this last weekend, I saw three items in the news:
The Baptist Convention is going woke
And Catholics are talking about denying slow joe biden communion.
The IRS is denying tax exemption for organizations based on the fact that The Bible has too many Republican values.
I have to wonder how many people calling themselves “christian” would condemn me for behaviors they unbiblical would consider “unchristian.” But these guys are happy with our military leaders that follow marx, and enlisting people who can't even operate their own gender correctly to be trusted with weapon systems that our sleepy joe doesn't mind targeting our citizens with.
Because I have no doubt the sleepy baptists… should be in open revolt and screaming from pulpit to pew and cast out any and all “woke” drunk leadership.
Catholics shouldn't even have an argument on denying communion to EVERY democrat.
And the IRS? Let’s talk academics there.
But the problem with evil being present in this world, is over the argument of who is really in control of it?
I grew up being taught a lie… that satan is the god of this world. And until a few years ago I thought that was in the bible.
But from the beginning, God gave man dominion of this world. And no where is it ever written God gave dominion to satan. But it isn’t hard to find...christian leaders…. Who teach it, and many such as myself that took it for granted because it appears that way.
And the Harris’s and Hitchens’s love to dance on the contradictions of all that follow that belief. Are they practicing their free will to come to such conclusions, or are they just dancing to their own matter over mind?
Because we teach, preach, and believe in a God that loves us unconditionally. And Jesus is the body of evidence for that fact. But can you show me where it says God loves...everyone...unconditionally?
There are things we obviously don’t like to talk about… mainly because they can lead to traps as I mentioned above when all you do is focus on evil and see no good.
Such as, what happens to the lawless? You know the most loving thing you can tell such a person might be, "Jesus don't even love you." And you wonder why your life is going to hell...
There are three terms that often become conflated, but should be distinguished from each other. On one hand you have Liberty, and in the other, Lawless… but to the blind both can look like Freedom?
There is a reason I avoid bible translations that removed the word, Liberty, and substituted Freedom.
It certainly isn’t because those bibles are corrupted. I haven’t encountered any bible that doesn’t give the same message found universally in John 3:16, anymore than is also found in 2 Timothy 3:16
But it is preached that the bible contradicts itself. That there is a "god of the old testament which isn't the god of the new." But apparently the god of their new testament doesn't remove sin because "no one is perfect" as a baptist preacher tried to argue with me in so many words before telling me I was an image of unrighteousness. You know... that must have been another set of scriptures I am missing in my bible... that you have to be perfect in order to be without sin? The bibles I read say that Jesus taught it is so easy to be without sin even a child can do it. However He also taught all sin is unrighteousness and unrighteousness will never enter the Kingdom of God.
Is freedom a contradiction of Liberty? I don’t think so, but it does take some enlightenment to understand Liberty is a product of the Law . And not everyone has that understanding.
Then again, we come back to the harris/hitchens view of a contradicting world, and a contradicting Word. Which I really can’t see unless I surrender my perspective to adopt theirs.
And why the hell would I dumb myself down to their simian minded level?
To blindly believe science gives all the answers, when the reality is it is man giving answers through science and science itself gives nothing.
To blindly believe that God must be evil… when evil is given through man against the wishes of God because of those who turned against Him.
Christians are too quick to credit satan… and again we see people dancing in the contradiction of that belief.
Am I saying Satan does not exist? No… but satan is obviously not omnipotent, nor is he omnipotent….. And certainly he is not omnescient. But I see people calling themselves christian that sure act like they think he is when in fact he is one of the dumbest most powerless creatures that ever existed. And he exists only for the sake of leading the dumbest and most powerless away from God.
A person that can hurt me and trick me, can make me stronger and wiser if I am willing to learn and adapt and overcome.
Should a person be allowed to live after they do so? Well that is an argument for a judge isn’t it?
That kinda leads into one of the reasons I have zero respect for Libertarians, anymore than I have for people allowing their churches to be guided by marxist propaganda in the guise of “wokeism,” catholic or protestant.
“If it neither pricks me nor picks my pocket” leaves a whole lot of argument for what can destroy your soul if you are stupid enough to allow it to fester and foment. As we are witnessing across our country today and have been for the last year plus. But I see people upset over the idea of schools teaching the bible... not so much about jack becoming jill.
It was just a few months ago that the governor of Arkansas tried to defend allowing “parents” to mutilate their children into transgender as a form of “small government conservatism.”
Pretty sad what we do to ourselves when we are tricked into the belief that God did not create us in His Image.
Easy to see that consequence in someone like demented joe and the psychopaths that are devoted to him.
And we see that in the laws they are crafting to discriminate against “white and male privilege.”
Is it necessarily being white and or male that the loony left hates? Or those pesky privileges which are endowments and gifts from our Creator that are protected by the Constitution?
If you can’t see the marx and darwin behind the nietzsche in their collective ideology, you may be lacking in enlightenment to distinguish their arguments. And that is fine as long as you aren't being tricked into the difference between Liberty and Lawlessness against God and man to throw your freedom away for slavery and death.
We are living in a world now that appears to be dominated by sophisticated marxist beliefs. The “Great Reset” is being attempted and we feel it’s effects against wallets in grocery stores and gas stations as inflation rises and commodities try to collapse. We see it in the schools where teachers preach what rioters practice.
Freedom of the Press? Ask Andy Ngo if that exists and is protected. Free Speech? Well, these are “privileges” for a “white patriarchal” society.
In order for communism to advance, certain...privileges must be gone. Enlightenment being chief among them. And along with those privileges… everyone who believes in them so they can have their utopia in a cannibal island.
I can sum those privileges up in two terms. Liberty and Logic. Neither of which can exist without Truth and morality.
You can follow Truth and Morality and find God and receive enlightenment, and gain Hope. Or caste it all away.
You can easily judge this for yourself by how you treat the bible.
It is that important. The following 82 verses combined in math order teach what was written in Psalms 8 and you can put all this together by reading psalms 83, 42, and 125
Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1Corinthians 1:10 For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake, Philippians 1:29 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. Colossians 2:8 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. James 1:27 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Revelation 1:6
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation? Hebrews 1:14 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. Hebrews 4:3 In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats, Isaiah 2:20 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; Colossians 1:10 “He who sacrifices to any god, except to the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Exodus 22:20
The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord ; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God. Isaiah 40:3 He shall say, ‘Surely in the Lord I have righteousness and strength. To Him men shall come, And all shall be ashamed Who are incensed against Him. Isaiah 45:24
“They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation. Deuteronomy 32:5 Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay; For shall the thing made say of him who made it, “He did not make me”? Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? Isaiah 29:16
For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, And was clad with zeal as a cloak. Isaiah 59:17 “Rain down, you heavens, from above, And let the skies pour down righteousness; Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation, And let righteousness spring up together. I, the Lord , have created it. Isaiah 45:8 I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. Leviticus 26:19
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people. Genesis 49:10
Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have forsaken the Lord your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” Says the Lord God of hosts. Jeremiah 2:19 “And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. Joel 2:28
“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! Galatians 2:17 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? Hebrews 3:16
For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. Hebrews 2:5 And the Lord said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart. Jeremiah 14:14 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 2Timothy 3:13 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” Acts 4:20 “Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed.” Isaiah 6:10 And Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.” Exodus 20:20 Therefore look! The Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the Lord has declared disaster against you.” 1Kings 22:23 In controversy they shall stand as judges, and judge it according to My judgments. They shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed meetings, and they shall hallow My Sabbaths. Ezekiel 44:24 Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ Matthew 25:45
This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. 1John 5:6 But they also have erred through wine, And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, They are swallowed up by wine, They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment. Isaiah 28:7
“ As I live,” says the Lord God , “surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock”— Ezekiel 34:8
I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name. Deuteronomy 18:19
Who say to the seers, “Do not see,” And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits. Isaiah 30:10 O my soul, my soul! I am pained in my very heart! My heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, Because you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war. Jeremiah 4:19 Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord ! For what good is the day of the Lord to you? It will be darkness, and not light. Amos 5:18 Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. Amos 3:7 Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. John 7:6
Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— Galatians 3:5 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. 1Corinthians 11:4 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 8:20 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just as the Lord commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. Exodus 7:10 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. Ezekiel 18:20 So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it. Numbers 35:33 having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. 2Peter 2:14 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 1Corinthians 15:25 To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things? 2Corinthians 2:16
“I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, And batter the brow of Moab, And destroy all the sons of tumult. Numbers 24:17 And Moses said: “By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will. Numbers 16:28 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. John 10:9 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Revelation 20:10 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 1Corinthians 6:9 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 2Corinthians 4:8
“They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “On the day that I make them My jewels. And I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves him.” Malachi 3:17
who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it. Matthew 13:46 Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 2Thessalonians 3:15 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.” Matthew 15:14 Woe to you who put far off the day of doom, Who cause the seat of violence to come near; Amos 6:3 for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. Matthew 10:20 and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? Acts 13:10
You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord your God is giving you. Deuteronomy 16:20 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 13:3 Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth. Acts 22:14 But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him. Acts 10:35 “And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ Ezekiel 16:6
“Speak to Aaron, saying: ‘No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God. Leviticus 21:17
saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!” Acts 5:28 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, Hebrews 10:19 Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? Acts 15:10 He will not quarrel nor cry out, Nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets. Matthew 12:19 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them ” (which are offered according to the law), Hebrews 10:8 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. Matthew 5:17 “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. John 15:26 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sullen that you eat no food?” 1Kings 21:5 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. John 17:14 “ Lord , they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? Romans 11:3
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense. Romans 14:20 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe. 1Timothy 4:10
Philippians 1:29 Jeremiah 2:19 Jeremiah 4:19 1Corinthians 6:9 John 10:9 Hebrews 10:19 Matthew 12:19 Deuteronomy 18:19 Leviticus 26:19
Colossians 2:8 Joel 2:28 Amos 5:18 2Corinthians 4:8 Acts 5:28 Hebrews 10:8 Numbers 16:28 Ezekiel 34:8 Isaiah 45:8 James 1:27 Galatians 2:17 Amos 3:7 Malachi 3:17 Matthew 5:17 Leviticus 21:17 Numbers 24:17 Isaiah 28:7 Isaiah 59:17
Revelation 1:6 2Corinthians 2:16 Hebrews 3:16 1John 5:6 John 7:6 Matthew 13:46 John 15:26 Ezekiel 16:6 Isaiah 29:16 Jeremiah 1:5 Hebrews 2:5 Galatians 3:5 2Thessalonians 3:15 Acts 10:35 1Corinthians 15:25 1Kings 21:5 Matthew 25:45 Deuteronomy 32:5
Hebrews 1:14 2Peter 2:14 Jeremiah 14:14 1Corinthians 11:4 Matthew 15:14 John 17:14 Acts 22:14 Ezekiel 44:24 Isaiah 45:24
2Timothy 3:13 Hebrews 4:3 Philippians 4:13 Amos 6:3 Romans 11:3 Deuteronomy 13:3 1Kings 22:23 Numbers 35:33 Isaiah 40:3
Isaiah 2:20 Acts 4:20 Deuteronomy 8:20 Matthew 10:20 Romans 14:20 Deuteronomy 16:20 Ezekiel 18:20 Exodus 20:20 Exodus 22:20 1Corinthians 1:10 Colossians 1:10 Isaiah 6:10 Exodus 7:10 Acts 13:10 1Timothy 4:10 Acts 15:10 Revelation 20:10 Isaiah 30:10 Genesis 49:10
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