The Cross Has Defeated Unlove. Love Wins The War For The World.

If John would change that to "I want to love" John would end up getting what he wanted because John can control that.

When the Lord Jesus most needed love and loyalty from His friends "all [His] disciples deserted Him and fled." {Matthew 26:56}. And they were Christians too. The great Paul "195 lashes" the Apostle had friends that treated him the same way. At the end of his life, old, in prison, and according to tradition, soon to be beheaded by the evil absurd insane Nero ~ Paul said "At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me." {2 Tim. 4:16} They were Christians too.

Julius Caesar had a very close friend named Marcus Brutus who plotted with others to murder his close dear friend. They stabbed Caesar 23 times. They did it to "save the Republic", they said. In other words, we're the kind of immoral men that will commit evil-cold-blooded-murder in order to do what we claim to believe is the greater good for the majority.

That's what the traitor Benedict Arnold thought too. The "Greater Good" is afoot out there, and legion is the number of people who have Benedict Arnold'd their friends and family for the "Greater Good." The "husband" who, after 30 years of marriage and 3 children, walks in and tells his wife, "Goodbye. I don't love you anymore. I've found somebody else, and all of this will eventually work out for the better, for all of us." The "Greater Good" has struck again. Judas Iscariot, self-seeking, and craving a divorce has traitor-abandoned his wife of 30 years and his 3 children because "we'll all be happier this way." A liar too ~ an "until death do us part" liar.

Remember Absalom? King David's son that turned on his father and wanted him dead, so that he Absalom could become king ~ for the "Greater Good" of course. {This treacherous drama ingloriously unfolds in 2 Samuel chapters 13 ~ 19}.

In a 2016 movie about Lyndon Baines Johnson, the script writers have LBJ, at the end of the movie, say this: "But right now we're going to party like there is no tomorrow {LBJ had just been elected POTUS}, 'cause there is no feeling in the world half as good as winning. But the sun will come up, and the knives will come out, and all these smiling faces will be watching me, waiting for that first moment of weakness and then they will gut me like a deer."

A typical scene from human history: "Can I count on you, my friend, to be there for me when the going gets really hard and tough?" "Yes of course you can", replied his friend. But later, when the personal cost of love and loyalty began to increase the friend tucked tail and ran away.

By the way, you remember that US Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter, who wrote a book about his time spent in Washington, D.C. among his fellow politicians, and titled it Life Among The Cannibals.

The self-seeking traitorous cowards of the world will not win The War For The World.

Judas Iscariot and his kind lose the ongoing battle to control the world. The world's hero's hugely outnumber them.

There are hundreds of millions of hero's out there whose motto is, "I Live My Life To Help Others And I Love Others More Than I Love Me."

On 911 over 340 fire fighters, in fact, did run into those burning towers while others were running out. They went in there, not to save themselves, but to save others.

And America's large army of First Responders are hero's and not self-seeking Judas Iscariots. They risk their lives, many every day, to help others.

These are the kinds of people that have the favor, praise, and protection of God, and therefore their kind will inherit the earth and rule it. Their tribe wins The War For The World . . .

. . .but not so the Judas Iscariot-self-seekers, "for those who are self-seeking . . . there will be wrath and anger." {Roams 2:8}.

Back to the great Apostle Paul: At the end of his life when all his friends had deserted him {except Luke see 2 Tim. 4:11}, Paul says, "But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength." {2 Tim. 4:17} God is like that. Always. Humans not! Oft times humans are fickle, undependable, unpredictable, and disloyal. But we don't write them off as hopeless. Paul says about his friends that deserted him, "May it not be held against them." {2 Tim.4:16} We frail humans need Love, Forgiveness, and Second Chances to do better next time.

Many people today would love to find a soul-mate, "a person ideally suited to them". a close friend, a confidant, somebody they can trust. Natural affinity is what humans crave and an Inner Circle of warm personal loving relationships. Faithfulness and Loyalty. Love. Family. Family Love.

But . . . the truth is, all this is not easy to get. Many people get married 3,4,5,6, times trying to find it ~ until they finally come to realize that we humans are at our best when we love without trying to be loved.

The Apostle Peter denied his Lord three times and all Jesus' friends deserted Him in His greatest hour of need, but He loved them in spite of their unlove. To love others when they do not love you, is to be like the Lord Jesus.

When faced with unlove, the first human impulse is social distancing, rejection, flight. Then comes cynicism, pessimism, and negative thinking about the present unlovely human condition.

Yes indeed! Many people, 21st century, are fickle, vacillating, undependable, and disloyal. But God loves them and wants them to become loyal hero's who live their lives to help others. God is the God of Forgiveness, Hope, Second Chances, and Restoration.

And God has a Plan to defeat unlove with love. The Cross says God loves the world. The Cross and The Resurrection is where the Father defeated Sin, Satan, and Death ~ and now Jesus says, "All authority in Heaven and on Earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations." {Matthew 28:16-20} That's the Plan. It shall be accomplished.

Julius Caesar had a very close friend named Marcus Brutus who plotted with others to murder his close dear friend. They stabbed Caesar 23 times. They did it to “save the Republic”, they said. In other words, we’re the kind of immoral men that will commit evil-cold-blooded-murder in order to do what we claim to believe is the greater good for the majority. …

Half the story, and distorted. They did not become the new rulers of the Republic after they killed the dictator for life; they instead were killed in combat when Marc Antony and Octavius Caesar (later Emperor Augustus, the real destroyer of the Republic after Julius) brought legions against their forces after driving them out of the city of Rome.

And in real life, there was quite a bit of animosity between Marcus Brutus and Julius Caesar, even in spite of the possibility that Brutus was Julius’ illegitimate son and a potential heir.

Far less than just half the story. My brief statement was probably less than 100 words. They write huge 600 page volumes on Rome at the time of Caesar ~ but there was no distortion in my brief statement.

And in addition to all that up there, the point of the piece was not to argue about what is, or is not, the correct historical interpretation of the events surrounding Brutus and Caesar ~~ but ONLY to make the point that Brutus was a close friend of Caesar and that he Brutus was in on the plot to murder his close friend because they claimed to believe that Caesar’s murder was for the the “greater good” of the Roman Republic.

By the way, my piece did not say or imply that Brutus and his gang became the rulers of the Roman Republic.

Best Regards.

JAG

Regarding ALL Moral Systems and ALL Values Systems held by any human being ~ including alleged atheists and agnostics, they ALL are in the category of Alice in Wonderland with regard to their utter inability to demonstrate their claims to truth with Empiricism and the Scientific Method. In other words YOU hold whatever Moral Values YOU hold to ~~ by FAITH — just like I do.

Best regards.

JAG

You may not be an “atheist” but you might know some. Help ne spread the word:

There is no such thing as an atheist.

ALL men KNOW there is a God that created them.
I have strong Biblical reasons for believing this to be true.

Here they are , , ,

Romans 1:19-20
Romans 1:19-20 says “since what may be known about
God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to
them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible
qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have
been clearly seen, being understood from what has
been made, so that people are without excuse.”

Note the particulars in Romans 1:19-20
{1) There is information that can be known about God.
{2} This information is plain to men.
{3} God Himself has made it plain to them.
{4} It has been plain to them since the creation of the world.
{5} God’s eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen
{6} All this in understood from what God created.
{7} Therefore men are without excuse {for not believing in God.}

Romans 1:19-20 is the germ principle of the Teleological Argument
for the existence of God — the argument from the Intelligent Design
of the Human Person, the Earth-Sun-Moon-Stars, and the Universe.

Psalm 19:1-4 , , ,
Psalm 19:1-4 says , , ,
“The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.”

Note the particulars in Psalm 19:1-4
{1} The Heavens declare God’s glory.
{2} The skies above proclaim His works
{3} Day after day they speak of God’s creative work
{4} Night after night they reveal God’s works
{5} They use no literal word but their voice goes out worldwide
{6} Therefore all men KNOW there is a God

Just because some men claim they lack belief in the existence
of God does not mean that they actually DO lack belief in the
existence of God. On Christian lights, God, in Romans, and in
other Bible verses, says there is no such thing as an atheist.
As a Christian I have a clear choice:
{1} I can believe what God says
{2} I can believe what mere men claim to be true.

I choose to believe {1}
{see list of those 5 Bible references below}

Romans 1:18
Romans 1:18 says that humans “suppress the truth.” Atheists
are part of humanity, so Romans 1:18 applies to them also.

Romans 2:15 , , ,
Romans 2:15 says the requirements of the Laws of God are
“written on their hearts.” So all men know there is a God that
created them.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 , , ,
Ecclesiastes 3:11 says , , ,
“He has also set eternity in the human heart”

Five Biblical References , , ,
These Bible verses clearly teach there is no such thing
as an atheist.
Romans 1:18-20
Romans 1:18
Romans 2:15
Psalm 19:1-4
Ecclesiastes 3:11

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