The Jesus Deniers Know Not What They Do

Radix News ^ | October 3, 2014 | David Limbaugh

[Abakumov]

Two articles I read this week vindicate my decision to write my new book, “Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel.” It’s not just Christianity’s values that are under attack but its core claims.

I was well aware when undertaking this project that some Christians would be put off by the very idea of Christian apologetics. According to them, we don’t need to defend the faith. Respectfully, that’s not what the Bible says....

I think obedience requires us, then, to attempt to answer the challenges asserted against the faith, when appropriate, including the two lodged in the articles I read this week. I’ll deal with one of those in this column, a piece in the Daily Mail by writer Michael Paulkovich, who argues that “Jesus never existed.” He says there is no extrabiblical evidence that Jesus was a historical figure.

[eizverson22]

I believe that Jesus is there. Always believed.

[Dr. Thorne]

Right. Even from a secular point of view, the most influential man in history never existed. What a massive load of hatred and self-congratulation. Atheists spend a lot of time convincing themselves of their own idiotic faith because of their deep-seated, well-founded terror about God. If God exists, they will spend eternity in hell.

[PLD]

If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods”—which you have not known—”and let us serve them,” you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5)

This passage begins with the assumption that the prophet does foretell the future accurately or perform some other, humanly impossible work. Nevertheless, if that prophet’s central message is to follow after a different god or to take a spiritual path that the true God has not said to take, that person is a false prophet. God states unequivocally that misrepresenting Him incurs the death penalty, and Revelation 19:20 says that this is exactly what happens to the False Prophet: He is thrown into the Lake of Fire.

http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/PW/k/1177/False-Prophet.htm