Category: Evangelism

The fruits borne by those who fear Covid instead of God

December 27, 2020 /

Those who call upon forced #Covid19 vaccination have no understanding or respect of the fundamental rights bestowed by the Creator God upon each of us, aside from being scientifically inept and misinformed. They, for all intents and purpose, align with nazism and communism.

Western constitutions, many borne out of the abuse of Nazism, which were rooted in pseudo-science just like this pandemic response, usually account for a single reason to suspend fundamental rights: WAR.

It’s not a chance, then, the pandemic response has been framed with the language of war. Yet, this is not a war, even though they want to persuade you otherwise. And no constitution accounts for suspension of rights due to a health crisis.

Those who call upon such extreme technocratic measures have a deeper problem. The media-led psycho-terrorism has exposed them to their deepest fear, which they had buried within them: DEATH.

Most of these terrorised people don’t have the certainty of life eternal in Christ, so they have developed a religious attitude towards the technocrats and their lies, trying to find hope where there is none: in man. They fear death and want a way out of it.

But only Christ defeated death. Even if #Covid were truly serious as they claim (and it’s not). Even if the vaccine were effective and safe (and it’s not). Death wouldn’t disappear. How many of the vaccinated will go on and die the next day/week/month for unrelated causes?

The terror instilled by the fear mongers into people has leveraged a uniqueness of modern man: death is a taboo. Something you don’t think about it. Modern, western man, is used to feel secure in their comforts and material riches. They anaesthetise themselves.

Monder man, faced with the reality of death, a bit like Neo was faced with reality after being disconnected from Matrix, have panicked. Their psyche cracked. And now they have given into fear, Satan’s preferred tool. And they have allowed fear to possess them.

When that happens, when Satan has his way with a person to such an extent, this person becomes fully a slave. Truth and rationality become an enemy. And so do all the people who embrace truth and rationality in their purest form: the Christian that renews their mind (Ro 12:2).

Originally tweeted by Vincenzo Russo ✝️ 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 (@enzoru) on December 27, 2020.

The logical absurdity of a missing standard of absolute morality

May 21, 2020 / / 0 Comments

So, I was reading this, and towards the end of the page there is a section about “defamatory language” that should not be used when referring to or talking about a person who is a professing gay. Right at the bottom, one reads:

Associating gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people with pedophilia, child abuse, sexual abuse, bestiality, bigamy, polygamy, adultery and/or incest.

My goal here is simply to show the logical absurdity of a worldview that rejects the idea of an absolute moral standard whilst, in the same breath, making absolute moral judgments.

How so?

Well, the paragraph presupposes that the following things are objectively immoral: pedophilia, child abuse, sexual abuse, bestiality, bigamy, polygamy, adultery and/or incest. They say it’s offensive to associate LGBT people with any of these. Why is it offensive? Well, because those things are “bad”.

Ok, agreed, they are. But here’s the problem: who says they are bad? You? Society at large? Science? Science cannot say anything about morality, because you can’t derive “ought” from “is”. The other options confine you in the realm of relativism.

Therefore, LGBT people have no objective basis to claim that any of those things are inherently immoral (though I have no doubt they feel compelled to, since they too live in God’s world), and therefore no objective basis to be offended by being associated with those things.

There’s only one worldview that provides objective moral values, and that’s the biblical one.

And in the biblical worldview, sex is only moral if occurs within heterosexual wedlock.

But here’s the good news:

God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3:16

In “the world” and “whoever” are included all people. LGBT, too. Contrary to the claims of many, the reason why we preach the good news is out of love, not out of hatred. And the reason why we point out worldview-defining sin like in the case of LGBT is because when a particular sin becomes what you identify with at your core, then you have a massive stumbling block for believing the gospel. You would like that eternal life, perhaps, but at your conditions, not God’s.

But here’s the thing. God is perfectly good, and we are all flawed and inherently tending towards evil. So what God wants for us is better of what you want for ourselves.

The world has redefined love as always being in agreement with somebody about their preferences and what makes them happy. But that’s foolish. People are constantly drawing happiness and satisfaction from things that are harmful to them: drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, promiscuous sex, easy-yet-illegal money, etc.

Love is having the courage of telling them that they are harming themselves; and that there’s a better option.

Choose better. Choose Jesus.

these [things] have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

John 20:31

That’s fallacious, bro

October 30, 2019 / / 0 Comments

United Church of Christ. A denomination with a liberal bent. Which means they don’t reason from the Word of God. They reason autonomously.

I am willing to concede that there was a good intention behind the message, but it remains nonetheless fallacious, and it gives the wrong message to the unbelieving world out there.

The good intention was probably to try and rebuke Christians that fall into hateful behaviour. Whilst “hateful Christian” should be an oxymoron, the Bible testifies that Christians can be hindered from growing spiritually (1 Corinthians 3:1-3) after they have been born again (John 3:3), and remain carnal. Thus, however disgraceful it may be, it can even happen that a born again Christian falls in the trap of their own carnality and might display hateful behaviour. That’s shameful, and a disgrace as to testimony of the name of Christ. But a possibility.

The wrong message to the unbelieving word is to preach of a God that accepts people based on their own merits, and not on Christ’s merit. The Apostles tell us clearly that no one can be accepted by their own works, but only by grace through faith in Christ.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. (Romans 3:23-28)

An atheist can be as kind as they want all their lives, if they keep refusing the necessity of trusting Jesus for being saved, they shall not have eternal life. God will have no choice but to judge them, finding them still to be guilty outside of Christ. For all have sinned. Even the kind atheist. In fact, especially the atheist. What is atheism if not the ultimate act of pride, raising oneself above the God they know exist, and yet deny? (Romans 1:19-21)

The fallacy. God “prefers”. Nope, God does not have preference.

For there is no partiality with God (Romans 2:11)

and

For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all (Romans 11:32)

Justification before God is by grace through faith, lest one should boast.

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)

If you still think you can “be good enough” for God, drop it. It can’t happen. We have all broken God’s law. And a just judge will condemn the law breaker. But the same Judge was willing to bail us out, paying the price Himself on the Cross, and rising back to life to prove the payment was in full.

Would you accept that payment of your behalf?

Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name. (John 20:30-31)

I won’t change, ever, for anybody

July 26, 2019 / / 0 Comments

That’s a common phrase these days. People say it on the wave of the self-entitlement culture. “I am what I am, I fully embrace it, and you have no right to tell me I am wrong. I won’t change, ever, for anybody. Those who love me must accept for what I am”.

Definitely common. And definitely personal, as well. In the sense that someone I once called friend actually said this to me.

But that’s not what I want to talk about. I want to focus on the phrase “I won’t change, ever, for anybody”.

I sure hope that even a non-Christian sees how that’s the very opposite of love. To say that you’re unwilling to change even the slightest thing about yourself out of love for somebody is the antithesis of love.

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Penn Jillette: I don’t respect people who don’t proselytise

July 26, 2019 / / 0 Comments

The outspoken atheist Penn Jillette once said:

I don’t respect people that don’t proselytize. I don’t respect that at all. If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell, and people could be going to hell — or not getting eternal life, or whatever — and you think that, “Well, it’s not really worth tellin’ ’em this, because it would make it socially awkward”, and atheists who think that people shouldn’t proselytize, “Just leave me alone. Keep your religion to yourself”… How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that? I mean, if I believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you and you didn’t believe it —that truck was bearing down on you — there’s a certain point where I tackle you, and this is more important than that.

That is logical, right? Unfortunately, logic has very little place in society these days. The spiritual battle has reached a whole other level, and God’s enemy has made sure that every single last tool that could be used to get closer to the truth of God was removed from education. Logic and sound reason have just no place in school and society these days. Everything has become a function of self, an emotional entitlement at being whatever one wants to be, even if that means you will forfeit the most precious gift of all: eternal life purchased for you by God in the flesh dying on a roman cross for crimes not His, but ours.

The cynical and the truth

June 28, 2019 / / 0 Comments

The cynical often says “nothing is really ever free”. But the Bible speaks of the greatest free gift of all: eternal life. 

This is offered by God to all humanity,

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

The apostolic writings tell us this gift of grace is received simply through faith. Jesus says:

“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.” (John 5:24)

Though humans had plunged themselves in bondage, slaves to sin, God has been merciful and graceful.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

If you’re not a born-again Christian, I invite you to read the Gospel of John. John himself wrote: “But these [things] are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” (John 20:31). The Gospel of John has all you need for you to believe and receive God’s free gift of eternal life.

I want to add, though, that the cynical is partially right.

No, I am not taking back what I wrote above. I simply agree with Roger Hancock when he said “Nothing is ever free, though to you it be. Somewhere, somehow, someone paid”.

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What’s worth and what’s not

November 10, 2017 / / 0 Comments

In this day and age people are obsessed with worthless things:

  • satisfaction is sought in the material things
  • people are overly concerned with their bodies, and
  • overly concerned with the planet

But the Bible tells us that:

  • focussing on material things is foolish (Luke 12:13–21)
  • our present bodies are perishable no matter what (1 Corinthians 15:42)
  • the planet as we know it is headed for a great fire (2 Peter 3:7,10)

Bad news. And although we are responsible for the bad news, God doesn’t leave us without the Good News:

  • there’s a way to focus on things that are above (Matthew 6:19–21)
  • there’s a way to get a brand new indestructible body (1 Corinthians 15:42)
  • there’s a way to inherit a new earth also (Revelation 21:1)

The greatest problem of every man and woman is not their lack of wealth, their decaying bodies, their illnesses, or the planet being polluted. Those are only the symptoms of the real problem: sin. And the greatest consequence of sin is death (Romans 6:23).

Mankind’s sin caused all that. But Jesus has redeemed all of it, and appointed a time when the new will overcome the old forever. Meanwhile, he extends this offer to you, too:

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Your greatest problem is that you’ll die. And the reason you’ll die is that, like anyone else, you’re guilty before God. But God was willing to let His Son pay your fine, so that you, through faith in His work on your behalf, might go free and have eternal life. Repent (i.e. change your mind) and trust in Jesus.

Shalom.