The Christian faith is the only faith that is based on an actual historical event.
That means it is the only faith based in reality (Judaism excluded).
There really was a man named Jesus that lived two thousand years ago who claimed to be God in human flesh. And then He backed it up.
Anyone who denies that Jesus existed immediately identifies himself as a blatant liar who should never be taken seriously in rational debate.
There is more than sufficient evidence that Jesus existed.
The only mystery is why he was so hated.
If someone else were to proclaim that he was God in human flesh and that he was going to come on the clouds to judge the earth, most would say “that’s great!” then slowly move away and avoid him in the future. They would warn other people to stay away from him because they would assume he was not playing with a full deck.
But no one would have the desire to kill him.
The answer to why Jesus was so hated was that everyone understood that He was not a nut. The Pharisees understood it, those Romans who encountered him understood it, and the people who followed him understood it.
He was only a danger to the political power players of the day.
Jesus had a great deal of credibility. He understood Scripture better than anyone else. He had the ability to explain things that left the experts in the law dumbfounded.
He understood the law and the prophets and was able to point out that what we call the Old Testament was about Him. Jesus fulfilled upwards of 300 prophecies, which is impossible to do unless one is the Son of God.
Psalm 22, which was written during the time of David, is more than sufficient evidence to prove that Jesus was who he said he was. It describes Christ’s physical and psychological tortures of being rejected by his people and the pain of being hung on a cross. Punishment by crucifixion was not a thing until the Romans came along hundreds of years after David.
This Psalm even goes so far as to foretell the account of the Roman soldiers casting lots for his clothing.
The Prophet Isaiah (Chapter 53), who lived hundreds of years before Jesus, could not have been clearer about who the Christ was and what he was going to do. The Son of God was going to be God in his perfection, to serve as a sacrifice for our sins, and human so we could kill him.
The Prophet Daniel even pinpointed the exact time when he would arrive to proclaim his kingdom (Matthew 21:1-11) but be “cut off (Daniel 9:25-26).
There was no excuse for the Pharisees and the teachers of the law to be unaware of when Christ was born or when he was to come on the scene. They claimed to worship God, but their hearts were far from him.
And there is no excuse for anyone living to this day to be unaware that Christ has died for our sins. Those who do so, including those who rejected him at his first advent, are in complete rebellion against God.
Rejecting Christ is inexcusable.
Then there are the miracles that Jesus performed. No one ever denied that Jesus performed miracles; even his enemies could not deny it. When Jesus drove out demons, the Pharisees, who should have known better, accused him of doing it by the power of Beelzebub (Matthew 12:22-29).
No one denied that Jesus performed miracles because there were too many witnesses who knew that he did.
The fact that Jesus was the Son of God who came to die for our sins was beyond dispute then, and it is now.
When Christians tell unbelievers that Christ died for our sins, there are only two possible responses:
- What then should we do?
- I don’t care.
Those who say “I don’t care” remain under the wrath of God. Their hearts grow more darkened as the Holy Spirit slowly withdraws from calling to them, and they suppress the truth of God by their wickedness (Romans 1:18).
In other words, they start lying and deceiving.
They lie about the things that God created by, for instance, claiming everything evolved over millions of years without an intelligent designer. Since we cannot see God in our sinful flesh, they claim he does not exist and therefore did not create anything.
They then teach this nonsense to the next generation in hopes of wiping out any knowledge of God.
They continue to this day and dispute God’s word by making outrageous claims such as insisting someone can change their sex by fiat.
I used to think that deception was subtle and nuanced. Satan is extremely intelligent and crafty, and in my youth, I thought I would have to outsmart him through diligent study if I were going to overcome his wiles.
The fact is, for those of us who have the Holy Spirit, Satan’s deceptions in this church age are extremely lame (he will get better at deception after the rapture). In order to fall for his nonsense, one has to say “I don’t care” to the Gospel. If this is your response, God will begin to turn you over to complete stupidity.
You will be ‘moroned’ by God.
The Gospel not only saves us from our sins but also serves as a light to shine upon the world. Nothing can stand up to it. Not atheism, not Islam, not Judaism, not Hinduism, not Roman Catholicism, not any false religion or false ideology.
The world hates the fact that we are saved by Grace through Faith in Jesus.
The Gospel was given to us by God, and it is divine wisdom.
The five words of the Gospel, that Christ died for our sins, reveal the essence of every false doctrine. There really is no excuse for believing in foolishness unless you abandon these words.
The Gospel destroys every doctrine it is compared to.
If we look at how this world functions under Satan, we see that he easily deceives the witless but wealthy and powerful, evil Globalists. Once deceived, these people use their wealth and power to create an army of deluded morons to help them deceive the world. The evil Globalists have fallen for the temptation that they will receive the whole world if they just bow down and worship the devil.
The Globalists have ignored the warning of Jesus that man cannot serve two masters (Matthew 6:24). They will love one and hate the other.
The evil Globalists are God haters, and they have fattened themselves for the day of slaughter.
Since this is the case, it should be no surprise that their minions are comprised of the Marxists and Muslims. These people don’t like God either.
And they really hate his Gospel.
They believe that if they can destroy the Gospel, they can then pervert the next generation until the Gospel is removed from the earth. The world would then be at their mercy rather than God’s.
They have had incredible success in Great Britain.
These people are relentless because their lives are meaningless without their wickedness and deception.
Their behavior is inexcusable because they willingly suppress the truth in their wickedness.
Recently, Tucker Carlson, who is viewed as a dhimmi by his Muslim benefactors, chastised patriotic Americans for making fun of the Islamic religion. This is a religion that tells its adherents that they will get seventy-two virgins if they die while trying to murder people who reject their religion.
Defending a silly, murderous religion against the Truth of Christ is inexcusable.
The Muslims are mindless pagans who have traded a God who sent His only Son to die for our sins for a false god who has a virgin factory. This god is so powerless that he cannot wipe out the nation of Israel, even though his adherents outnumber them 50-1, after numerous attempts at trying.
Tucker and others who were once considered conservative have called Islam a “great religion.”
This proclamation is inexcusable.
No decent human being can take this religion seriously unless its adherents stick a gun in your face.
Or pay you off.
No one should take Tucker Carlson or his fellow Islamist supporters seriously either. It won’t be long before he and his other anti-Israel buddies start decrying Jewish rape gangs and rape dogs.
Those who are anti-Israel in the media should be viewed as paid shills for the Muslim Brotherhood.
This, too, is inexcusable.
The frightening thing is the problems in the West will soon be much worse than what Israel is experiencing at the hands of the Muslims. In fact, it is highly likely that God will visit the same terrors upon Western anti-Israel Gentiles that the Muslims have visited on the Jews for the last fourteen hundred years.
This is happening now in Europe.
As the faith of the West wanes, the Marxists and the Muslims will soon have the power to censor the Gospel in an effort to put an end to its proclamation. They will do this through media control, persecution, imprisonment and murder of Christians and conservatives.
If a Democrat wins in 2028, a censorship regime will quickly be set up worldwide. We will soon find out that the people who were calling us ‘Nazis’ and ‘Fascists’ were merely engaging in projection.
The only ‘gospel’ that will be proclaimed will be by people like James Talarico.
However, they will not be successful at removing the real Gospel from the world.
God will take care of that himself.