LISTEN to one of the best arguments of Christians to refute the nonsense of supposedly “scientific” skepticism about the RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST after 3 days in a guarded grave.
“So if they were interested in affirming the fact of his death, all they had to do was take the body and put it in the middle of Jerusalem and say,
“Look, don’t let anybody live with any nonsense. Jesus is dead.”
BUT the body of JESUS was not in the tomb!
Pastor Begg makes a notable case about the RESURRECTION which makes so much more sense than EVERY objection by those who REFUSE to believe in Jesus Christ for their own selfish excuses.
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.
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.
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:
But FIRST, the a-theist must question Scripture to tear down Trinityand 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.
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 BootheBeloved 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 Theologyinclude 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 commentsto 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.
DOCTRINE – What do you believe? Can you affirm it to others?
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.
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.
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
Does the person asking you about “Church“ really want to know what God said?
AND
I warned that not only is it unlikely any man or woman will ask you about your church, but that their least likely question to you will be about THE LORD GOD.
IF & WHEN, however, you happen to identify someone telling you about their science and religion of atheism
AND they want to prove to you WHY GOD is not,
Recognize that the enemy of Truth cannot prove anything from every false premise.
Take any observation of mankind:
James Webb Space Telescope Science The James Webb Space Telescope will be a giant leap forward in our quest to understand the Universe and our origins. JWST will examine every phase of cosmic history: from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets to the evolution of our own solar system. The science goals for the Webb can be grouped into four themes:
The End of the Dark Ages: First Light and Reionization – JWST will be a powerful time machine with infrared vision that will peer back over 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe.
Even the atheist must confess that they do not have the answer to WHY?
i.e. WHY the Big Bang?
(It is a theorywith speculative premise, right?)
(explain please in your COMMENT to this post about ‘everythingology‘)
SO WHY does the ATHEIST persist in asking the CHRISTIAN, “Why?”
THEY would bring believers down to the despair of THEIR own depths.
Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
death shall be their shepherd,
and the upright shall rule over them in the morning.
Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.
But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol,
for he will receive me. Selah
Psalm 49:14-15 ESV
Science-onomy & Science-ology
At best, it’s speculative entertainment of an evolved brain of an ape, calculating how train B left the primordial station at the beginning of the line without a builder of its hypersonic engine, to arrive at their earth just in time for them to teach it as ‘proven science.’
WHY so much ‘SCIENCE’ built on FALSE PREMISE?
Is their premise a veiled dismissal of God
(Most likely.)
and does their ‘SCIENCE‘ disprove God’s Word?
(The goal of their questions)
Certainly NOT!
There is NO CONCLUSION for the a-theist,
because they understand that their END will be ashes and dust..
But then, the JUDGEMENT!
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
Because the A-theist stands against the Lord God, THEY must continually QUESTION GOD: i.e. “Did God really say..?”
THEN (like Satan) an A-theist must reconstruct TRUTH
into a PROOF of Another-truth, built on a FALSE PREMISE.
Some claim their Alternative-truth as proven ‘science.’
Others claim their Alternative-truth as speculative ‘history.’
Still others claim their Alternative-truths as SCIENCE-ONOMY (with any number of familiar names).
What can we know with certainty?
WHEN SCIENCE side-steps LOGIC by tiptoeing around TRUTH, it becomes religion – the A-theist’s doctrine of the distrust of Almighty God, built on inconclusive false premises leading to NO conclusion.
Whatcan we know about sociology or psychology with absolute certainty?
What can we know about ecology or cosmology with absolute certainty?
Was a scientist nearby to record the age of the universe?
Could our mathematical (algebraical) calculations of the numerous variable unknowns of scientific presuppositions of geology and archeology be wrong (inconclusive)?
How did the archeologist measure rock formed before carbon?
Did some astronomer set out his telescope and tape to measure the light of Creation?
Were ‘light-years’ recorded with white light, curved light, ultraviolet light, x-ray, blacklight or with a nuclear flash?
Could Almighty God cause light to travel a varying speeds through some parts of space?
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
“Who is this who darkens the divine plan
By words without knowledge?
“Now tighten the belt on your waist like a man [for battle], And I shall ask you, and you inform Me!
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding,
“Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the measuring line over it?
Origin & history From Ancient Greek νόμος (“law, custom”). Suffix -nomy a system of rules, laws, or knowledge about a body of a particular field; distribution, arrangement, management Derived words & phrases astronomy Deuteronomy
History & Evolution of the SCIENCE of Everythingology
Compare to: Ancient Aliens (source: History Channel)
Proponents of hell’s Devils [PhD’s] esteemed by the Universities of Everythinologypreach from their pulpits of MULTIPLE TRUTHS with theoretical atheistic clubs of pointed QUESTIONS seeking to validate their rejection of God. These Doctors of Blurred Science matriculated through curricular gauntlets of eminent scholars of philosophy, who grade ALL their best teaching assistants on the curve and fail any logical conspiracy purists who support a single Truth.
The indisputable EDUCATION of this great Blurred Science continues to evolve toward the perfection of self B.S. demands for our future generations. For example: the evolution of astrology evolves into astronomy — which in turn seeks to gain credibility under the cloak of astrophysics. ALL Science offers numerous examples of this progress away the ignorance of our primordial forebears who fought sabre-tooth and nail for our freedoms and survival.
ALL PhD’s of U of E speculate WHY by teaching darwinology, as professor progeny of history’s fittest primates, hoping by their unspoken premise to strike a mortal blow to the head of logical truth. Their multiple truths must include EVERY human of any theoretical variant — inclusive of all, that is, EXCEPT a man or a woman insistent on One Way, one Truth and One eternal life lived for One God.
Everything-ologists are ReligiousHUMANS
You will learn SCIENTIFIC teaching [in-doctrine-ation] by HUMANS, cloaked in coats of many truths taught from every scientific discipline; in order that you may apply their theories to humankind, mother earth’s environment and the cosmos for your inner-evolvement of self and the future evolution of SCIENCE into the oneness of HUMANITY.
Student Manual – Universities of Everythinology
These humans hold high reverence for philosophy, rather than tolerate a philosophical reverence of Truth.
By now, you no doubt see through the academic robes of these Everythingologists exposing their humorous backsides by so many QUESTIONS asking WHY about GOD and Christ's Church. Perhaps if they had studied Orwellian theory [i.e. Animal Farm, 1984], they would name their church: "MINISTRY OF TRUTH." Perhaps in a not-so-humorous world of 2022 of 'the common era,' we have evolved into U.N. agencies of Everything-isms determined to bring the Church to Megiddo in a battle for Truth.
REMEMBER: WHO IS ASKING?
(And WHAT are they subtly teaching?)
One ‘ology’ always absent in false teaching is “Christology,” the developed doctrine of Christ.
Christology
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Already by the middle of the first century, the deity of Jesus was part of the faith of the universal church. It cannot and must not be compromised today.
John Stott – CHRIST the Cornerstone, p.304
We will hear much more uncompromised Truth from John Stott, Boothe, Murray, Carson, Lloyd-Jones, Bunyan and other Christian theologians as we continue this SERIES addressing the issues of a 21st Century RECALL of the CHURCH.Grace and peace, in our Lord Christ Jesus.
RH