What makes GOD so offensive to the a-theist who avows opposition to the LORD?
In a WORD: CHRIST +
Atheology – Scientific study of Everythingology
The Religion of A-theism likely has as many branches as Protestantism, which also continues to splinter into several inclusive branches teaching humans Everythingism.
The Letter of Paul to the Churches at Rome
God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.
So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Romans 1:22-23 ESV
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Has much changed in twenty-two centuries?
Atheology studies and applies Everythingology to dismantle the exclusive truths of theology.
“This is what the LORD says, He who is the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of armies:
‘I am the first and I am the last,
And there is no God besides Me.
‘Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and declare it;
And, let him confront Me…
Isaiah 44:6-7a NASB20
And So they shall question the LORD
But FIRST, the a-theist must question Scripture to tear down Trinity and bring down Christ.
The Biblical Premise:
Our God is One, yet is three distinct persons.
“The heart of Christian faith in God,” writes J. I. Packer, “is the revealed mystery of the Trinity. Trinitas is a Latin word meaning threeness. Christianity rests on the doctrine of trinitas, the threeness, the tripersonality, of God.
Ronald Kohl, The Triune God [ix] – quoting “Knowing God” p.65 , J. I. Packer
Trinity and the place of Jesus Christ in worship of the Lord God become the crux of the problem for the a-theist; and also, let the believer beware, ‘christian‘ claimants cloaked in false teaching.
Philosopher Pastors of the School of Everythingology would have us believe that Theology (the study of God) is too complicated for the church. However IF you would READ and believe your BIBLE as written from any reliable translation, then you would see that an informed faith and the study of God are really quite straightforward.
True theology from the teachings of GOD-WITH-US gives disciples of Jesus, the Son of God GOOD NEWS of God’s saving grace proclaimed directly through the Gospels.
For example:
Gospel of John:
- 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- .. grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
So the Jews gathered around him and said to him,
“How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Gospel of John 10:22- ESV v.24
I and the Father are one.”
Gospel of the Apostle John 10:30
Since the days God walked on the earth in the Person of the Son Jesus, CHRIST has been a stumbling stone to the false teachers of everythingology – a-theists willing to teach everything, that is, except Christology.
PLAIN THEOLOGY FOR PLAIN PEOPLE
by Charles Octavius Boothe Beloved fellow believer and fellow theologian, In the following section I outline & quote this study of God extensively. You may find this brief book for the layman [plain people] of the Church as a rich resource on the link above. - Roger@talkofJESUS.com
Evangelicals often presume that the task of theology is merely to comprehend God. God, not context, has ultimate authority, and yet wisdom demands understanding the context in which Christians live and God works.
Walter R Strickland II – Introduction to PLAIN THEOLOGY FOR PLAIN PEOPLE, p. xi
- Being and Character of God
- “The knowledge of God and of the divine government is sometimes called the science of theology. – p. 4
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge. (Psalm 19:1-2) [Boothe points to numerous Scriptures in this & every section.] RH
- The honest QUESTIONS of Theology include these same topics to which you may not have all the answers. Boothe supports each of these headings by Scripture:
- WHERE GOD APPEARS TO US
- WHAT MAY BE KNOWN OF HIM
- THE UNITY OF GOD
- THE TRINITY
I could preach Boothe’s sermon on TRINITY from his first chapter on GOD (pp. 21-23) and incite the intolerance of every A-THEIST who hides the leaven of everythingology in his/her preaching and the bread of the church’s communion.
Roger@talkofJESUS.com
For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God; by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. Second Letter of the Apostle Peter to the Church 3:5-7 ASV
Think now of YOUR answers about GOD & Christ.
CHAPTERS
- The Being and Character of God. [A-theology will NOT consider a premise of Almighty God. – RH]
- Man [yet an a-theology reasoned in the mirror of humankind’s Darwinist mind may not have evolved to truth. – RH]
- The Way of Salvation – John 3:16 ‘This is the language of the Son of God, and is a wonderfully compact statement of the way of salvation from the mighty and gracious Saviour himself. – Charles Boothe
- The Son: His Coming and His Work
- Gifts Flowing from the Grace of God
- How Christians Should Live and Labor [*Everythingologists MUST help christians reconstruct this away from Biblical Truth. – RH]
- The Bible [THE BIBLE CANNOT be god’s word if there is NO GOD. – Teaching of the a-theologist. – RH]
- The Christian Church [As soon as an everythingologist can convince a christian to accept ALL religions, the church can then be reconstructed into a morally inclusive body which evolves with humankind.
- “IN THE BEGINNING there was a wordless primate. – Darwinist evolution of the Church of Humankind. – RH]
- The Last Things [Humans will be the demise of the world we destroy. – Ecology of Humanistic Religiosity RH]
A Brief Commentary on Plain Theology
Again, please note that the Contents listed above are those of Charles Octavius Boothe; however the commentaries are all mine and intended to provoke your comments to ANY section of this post on Theology - the STUDY OF GOD. -
I cannot cover most of the implications of bad theology, false teaching and deceptive doctrine in this brief glance at theology; however as an introduction to WHY I have selected some of these terms to describe various philosophies, we will glance at dangers of a few known philosophies leavening the evangelism of the 21st century church.
The Dangers of Atheology
- IF god is dead in the evolved minds of humankind,
- THEN PhD’s of Everythingology can create culture to worship whatever we want and invent iconic heroes idolizing who we want to become.
- IF JESUS is NOT God,
- THEN Jesus was just an ordinary man and Christology just another philosophy.
- IF the HOLY SPIRIT has never shown God’s power,
- THEN god remains impotent to act in a cosmos or specifically in humankind.
But IF the BIBLE is Truly God’s Word,
Only Scripture Becomes a Valid Premise
Returning now to "PLAIN THEOLOGY FOR PLAIN PEOPLE," Chapter 4, The Son: His Coming and His Work, consider the simple yet powerful theology of the word of Jesus Christ as given to the ages in Scripture.
(7) THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
It is interesting to notice what stress is laid in the New Testament on the resurrection of Christ. The sacred writers were deeply impressed with the importance of testifying to those to whom they preacher the gospel, that, after his death on the cross and his burial in the new tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus rose from the dead, and to present to them clear proofs of the wonderful fact.
Charles Octavius Boothe, PLAIN THEOLOGY FOR PLAIN PEOPLE, p.51
Boothe continues his Christology, supported by Scripture, noting:
‘It was true that Jesus again and again had foretold his rising from the dead..’
Boothe then guides us to the Scripture which immediately came to mind for me.
1 Corinthians 15:
The Fact of Christ’s Resurrection
For I handed down to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom remain until now..
First Letter of the Apostle Paul to the Church at Corinth 15:3-6a NASB20
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Question of the Apostle Paul to Christians at Corinth – 1 Cor 15:12 ESV
What a great QUESTION to some believers doubting Christ due to false philosophy questioning their faith. But the learned theological teacher Paul has an even better reasoning to question their questioning:
- But if there is no resurrection of the dead,
- then not even Christ has been raised.
- And if Christ has not been raised,
- then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
Then the negative argument and presumed logic of the A-theologists of Corinth:
We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
1 Corinthians 15:15 ESV
And repeating himself for the sake of argument, Paul agrees.
- For if the dead are not raised,
- not even Christ has been raised.
- And if Christ has not been raised,
- your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
- Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
The Apostle Paul then reasonably etches a line in the stone of Scripture the Christian must know is the true Doctrine of Christ.
If in Christ we have hope in this life only,
we are of all people most to be pitied.
1 Corinthians 15:19 ESV
THAT is WHAT the A-theologist and Everythingologists would like to convince Christian to think.
HOWEVER; The Apostle Paul provides our better answer in the truth of this Scripture:
But the fact is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming, then comes the end..
I Corinthians 15:20, 22-24a NASB20
Christology is all-inclusive of a fearful Truth for A-theologists: death and then the Judgment!
NEXT Saturday Post, God-willing: The Divisive Philosophies of Evangelical Christians
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