Atheists Are Right
Christians Don't Know Enough About Our Faith
While times are changing, there’s still an epidemic of Christians out there who don’t understand their faith, and by that, I mean the history of it and its connection to reality.
That should bother you.
Because as Christians we have been given the truth that outweighs all else. Christ the King, who bled and died the most horrible of deaths and then rose from the grave to conquer sin and death.
The eternal God became flesh and dwelt among us to save the world through his everlasting sacrifice and grace.
We should have courageous passion for spreading the good news of God in Christ, overflowing with abundant wisdom, but we still tend to separate truth from faith. Do exactly as the atheists want.
Why?
You’re not going to like the answer. But you need it.
You Don’t Want to Be Free
You may think you want freedom, but you don’t understand what freedom is. Independence is what you mistake for freedom.
And it’s not entirely your fault.
You live in a culture that has pushed independence in all ways (“breaking the shackles of oppression”). Online it’s known as the oppressor vs oppressed narrative. In reality, it’s Marxism. Communism lite. Satanic to the core. Literally.
You probably don’t realize this (most people don’t), but Karl Marx was a Satanist. His daughter once caught him worshipping at a secret occult shrine in his office, and in his early poetry he talks about how God is real, he hates him, and he wants to see him usurped from his holy throne.
To write his manifesto, Marx tapped into ancient Gnosticism. The cult of secret knowledge that pits all who are “awake” to hidden reality against flesh and the evil Demiurge. The oppressor God.
Don’t get me wrong. We should definitely fight for the most innocent, and there are cases of real oppression.
But the ideology of Gnostic Marxism creates an us-them dynamic which only tears down and erodes everything it touches.
And you don’t have to take my word for it. The complete and utter failure of communism everywhere it has gone since its inception is proof enough.
10 million+ people dead.
Let me state that again. 10 million+ people dead.
Murdered. Starved to death. Ethnically cleansed. To sate the bloodlust of the revolutionary new state.
All because they wanted power and control. Autonomous. “Independent.” To break the chains allegedly slapped upon them by God, the church, the state, and society.
The socialist brand of freedom turns out to be nothing but replacing old chains with new ones. They look nice and shiny. The way they sparkle…magnificent. But they’re still chains. Bred from power, void of truth.
You don’t want to be that kind of “free.”
You want to be free to choose the good.
Free to Choose the Good
Scripture is clear on every page that humans are slaves to sin. Broken since the fall. And when we aren’t following one god, we will always choose another…whether we know it or not.
G. K. Chesterton once rightly said, “For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
Idols creep into your life without your noticing. Unless you recognize and accept the reality of idols and are on the lookout, keeping watch by night, you are easy to entice and deceive. To fall prey to your faulty passions and be led into sin, as James said in his epistle.
To choose the good…that’s the only alternative. But you can’t do it on your own. No one can.
Sure, humans can do good things occasionally (God wrote morality into the cosmos, after all), but no one lives out pure goodness on their own. Eventually, selfishness kicks in or that one Gollum-like “precious” calls out “Did God really say…?” and you’re sucked into a black abyss of sin and torment from which there is no escape. Worse. You drag others down with you, ruining or near ruining their lives.
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn puts it, “evil strikes through every human heart.” You’re already a slave.
The only way to become actually free is to choose the correct Master.
To Live is Christ, to Die is Gain
Twice, in Romans and Philippians, Paul refers to himself as “slave to Christ,” and that’s the key you’re looking for.
In Philippians, he then goes on to say this:
“Yes, and I will rejoice, 19 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, 20 as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. 24 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. 25 Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith, 26 so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again. 27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 28 and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. 29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, 30 engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have” (Phil 1:18-30).
I highlighted the four main points, but let me list them:
“To live is Christ, and to die is gain”
“Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ”
“Not frightened in anything by your opponents”
“For the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake”
Suffering for the sake of Christ is access to the good and holy, and therefore, true freedom. If you aren’t suffering for him in some way, then the chances are you are in love with the world and not taking Christ seriously.
Paul wrote the words above from a prison cell. Let that sink in.
All he did was go around speaking and writing about the truth of Christ, and the world locked him up in chains. Yet he rejoiced. Because he had freedom no one could touch.
When you go all-in and become allegiant to the King of kings, Jesus replaces all else, magnifying the good and purging the evil. You owe it to yourself to read and learn everything you can about him, the history around him, his church, and prepare yourself for battle.
Because in the case of truth, there is one Savior and many devils, and you’re already in the war.
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"You live in a culture that has pushed independence in all ways (“breaking the shackles of oppression”). Online it’s known as the oppressor vs oppressed narrative. In reality, it’s Marxism. Communism lite. Satanic to the core. Literally"
Absurd. Communism is collectivistic ideology which abhors independence. In fact, realising how much Christianity and Communism have in common, was one of the reasons why I rejected Christianity. And Your text is great illustration of one of those similarities - because both of those ideologies say "We bring freedom! But akchually, freedom is not possibility to do according to your will, no, no, freedom is when you live exactly as we tell you how you should live!".
"You don’t want to be that kind of “free.”
You want to be free to choose the good"
And what I chose as good is different than what Communism and Christianity tells me is.
"G. K. Chesterton once rightly said, “For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
Except he was wrong. I definitely don't worship anything. I worship what I consider worthy of worship.