AN ANSWER TO ATHEISTS AND EVOLUTIONISTS AND OTHER –ISTS

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AN ANSWER TO ATHEISTS AND EVOLUTIONISTS AND OTHER -ISTS

Why God is doing this to us? This question is used by people who do not care
about God, but who want to put the blame on Him just to make other people aware
that God is not a fair being. If there is no God, why are they putting the blame on
Him?

Rational Explanation: Natural disasters, accidents, catastrophes and bad human

actions might happen anywhere anytime. This is part of living in a world not ruled
by God. Remember: Man has rejected God and just care about their points of view,
religions and a vast range of -isms. They want no interference from God.

God does not exist. Some people think that because they can't see God, then it
actually means that there is no God at all. Such a knowledge would demand to
having traveled all over the universe and acquire all the information there is to
conclude this way. Something out of human capacity . Unless God reveals Himself
to us. Did it ever happen?

Rational Explanation: The universe as we know it is made up of myriads of

elements that are concerted in a special way making some people think that there
should be something or someone out there. People see this world, and understand
by instinct that there must be a "designer" other wise how can we explain why
there is plenty of water, oxygen, fruits, vegetables, trees, plants a great variety of
life forms: microbes, insects, water species, mammals, and the king of all this:
MAN. People who believe in evolution, has made this a part of their own intrinsic
religion, but what they do not know is that the Evolution theory can not answer so
simple questions as: If beings are evolving, when their sexual organs are ready to
produce babies? Either their sexual organs are ready to reproduce, or the new
specie is lost for ever.

All religions are deceptive. Same as former expression. People who do not care
about God or living in a God fearing way tend to use this expression to make
listeners start agreeing with them.

Rational Explanation: What they do not know is that God has nothing to do with
our forms of religions. God is not a religious being. He created this world along with
human beings to live in a right way. Not to live in a right way is related to immoral
acts such as fornication, adultery, dishonesty, cheating, selfishness, every sort of
crimes, etc. God is the one who shows us the right way to live. That is the reason
atheism is becoming so popular among people who want to live the way they want
to without answering for to a Superior Being.

All the religions lead to God. This expression is being used today by humanists.
Humanism is a philosophical doctrine which states that man, and not God, is in
charge of his destiny. As they do not practice any form of believe they end up
teaching that it doesn't matter what you believe in, you can believe in a stone, in
grass, an animal, an idol, image, common human being as your savior, as long as
you believe and you keep it to yourself that is okay.

Rational Explanation: If there is God, it should be clear that He has tried to

communicate with us human beings, who happen to be His creatures. God
interrupted in human history long ago and showed Himself to a group of people in
a middle eastern country (scientists accept that human civilization comes from the
mid eastern countries). These people were the ancient Israelites who were a nation
of slaves within a former empire known as Egypt. They wrote down all the
information regarding this God who told them that He was only God and there was
no other who could save. That is the reason human beings have a Human Manual
to conduct themselves while they are in this world. As the Guru of Love put it in his
movie: BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

This God communicated with us human beings, giving information that was not
available in other human made religions. He showed that the Sun, the Moon, and
all the stars in the sky were not gods. Every known religion has something to do
with this celestial bodies from Babylon to the Aztecs Civilizations. That is one
reason astrology is so popular among peoples everywhere.

This God, showed us to love other human beings, and also showed us about the
violation of His Law. He showed us about living according to His high standards,
something almost impossible to attain by fragile human beings. Then something
happened in human history.

God became a man and dwelled among us about two thousand years. He
became a real man who walked among us, ate and drank with us, who learned
about human activities without committing any fault at all. His name meant
SALVATION in the language that He spoke: Hebrew. They called Him Yahushua
or God is Salvation (Jesus in English). And this has nothing to do with millions of
years ago. It happened two thousand years ago, and His followers saw Him when
He died on a Roman cross, the political empire of that time. The greatest thing ever
is that they also saw Him rose from a tomb, something that naturally can not
happen if we stick to the Evolution theory. Thru this dead God spoke to human
beings saying that there was only one way for salvation. Most of the people in
Israel rejected this form of God since their human interests did not allow God to
become a man, and let alone die on a rugged cross to save the whole world.

God spoke to human beings once more. Millions have accepted this historical
fact which has nothing to do with fiction or mythology. About 30 years of this
historical event, His followers wrote some documents that we call the Gospels.
They wrote about this and when they were persecuted by their nationals and the
foreign empire of Rome they did not deny what their eyes saw and their hands
touched. They preferred to die instead, sealing with their blood this truth. They
were witnesses. Not from a pagan society who believed in many gods as was still
the custom at that time, but from a nation that was taken out of Egypt by the
Almighty God of Israel.

Those who did not believe in Him from His nation, created a new form of religion:
Talmudic Judaism to confront those Messianic Jews who were by the milliards.
The rest of humanity created their own form of religion: Christianity, and as the
years passed by both of these forms of religions split into different smaller
variations. They included ritualism, ceremonies, and their own interpretations about
what God wanted. They concluded that their own religions were more than enough
for salvation, rejecting the One who can really save: God Himself.

Until this day, millions of people keep believing instead in their own gods. They
still worship the Sun, the Moon and the stars. They still carry their own idols, no
matter if they bear Christian names or come from mystical religions from eastern
countries. They still follow their own writings, though these writings show no way to
salvation for a fallen race. They still want nothing to do with this God, who
intervened, not once, but many times in human history.

In the long run, there is only one person who has to make a decision: YOU.
Because religions deny that salvation can be attained and atheists believe that
human beings are like "special" animals (that is the main reason atheist
communists did not care about killing millions of people in their countries since they
thought that Survival of the Fittest was a "natural" law), a lot of misinformation
comes to us by this world mass media. They programmed us to believe that there
is no hope and that God has nothing to do with us human beings. You learn about
this since you are a little child by watching Discovery Channel or National
Geographic, where they tell you about the "facts" of Evolution. Once when you go
to school, the science teachers tell you that human beings were amoebas millions
of years ago and that Evolution is the real thing. Besides, all this, the governments
ban prayers and Bibles from classrooms.

Today's world is the synthesis of all these teachings. Humanism has taken roots in
our educational system. If a student says the word "God" is looked down by his
teachers and classmates. What most people have not realized is that they have
been programmed into believing that Evolution is a fact and that human beings can
do whatever they feel like doing and there is no God to answer to. VIVA LA
LIBERTÉ!

But this freedom has brought in a social chaos. Children are not any more
controllable. People are not anymore responsible for their acts, hedonism, pleasure
seeking in every form is what people care about now. Of course, it had to be so!
They have been programmed to believe that we are a product of mere chance. We
are in this world for some amount of time and then when we die we just vanish into
nothingness. Why should we be "nice" and not enjoy the freedom of doing
whatever we want to? That is the reason why there has been an increase in
homosexuality and lesbianism (it is not natural to have sex with another person
who has the same sexual organs). Incest and pedophile is now a trite in our
"perfect" human society and even sexual perversion with animals or pets is
prevalent... not even your pets can feel safe near some "people".
If one's daughter get pregnant just because "she is entitled to her own pleasure",
she also has the "right" to abort, without any further consideration towards the
baby. Barriers of morality are falling down everywhere. It is natural that this should
be so. God is the only one who shows us how to live properly. With God out of the
picture, human beings tend to commit the most terrible things (or sins).

Is right to put the blame on God for what is happening today? Have we not
realized that everything we sow is what we will reap in the end? Who is to be
blamed? It is this sort of "freedom" that is killing us off by and by. Nature shows us
that if we break one little natural law we can be heading for trouble. World warming
is one of those natural laws. We tend to consume and waste so much. We tend to
live in a selfish way. We just care about "ME". We have nice jobs with nice salaries
and we think of ourselves as the "kings" of the universe. We tend to say "Is my life"
and "I do with my life whatever I want!" without taking into consideration that there
are other human beings who are suffering in this world because we do not care
about others. Is this the kind of world we want? Millions of children starve to death
in countries around the world, and even in your hometown someone along with his
or her children is going to sleep with no food tonight.

As human beings we try to attenuate all these faults by setting up our own
solutions: social clubs. The Kiwanis, the Lions, the Rotary, etc. We try to quiet the
little voice in our conscience. We try to put aside those qualms by taking part in
one of these rich boy organizations. And once we do it, we go about living
according to our own set of standards. Let us put it simply, hypocrisy is part of this
trend!

We get money thru evil ways. There are people who go consult with witches,
mediums and Satanists to get "powers" to live the "good" life or "la vida loca". As
they mess with these spiritual evil forces they sow more condemnation. They do
not think for a while that these spiritual forces will take them to hell with them. But,
of course! There is no hell!

If there is no hell, why the sacrifice of Yeshua on that cross. Salvation from what?
From our sins? Or the final result of our sins? Hell or Heavens only can be a reality
if we believe that God shows us to be good human beings and that there is an Evil
Realm directed by someone who also knows something that we human beings are
ignoring: Man's survival after physical death.

If there is God and that God intervened in human affairs some two thousand
years ago bringing about salvation to those who believed in Him, that means, that
that sacrifice is saving us from something. What is that something? The Human
Manual: the Bible, calls it: HELL. Because salvation has a price to be paid only
God Himself could do something for this fallen world. Salvation is needed
ultimately if human beings are not mere animals or a product of Evolution.
 Natural Law: people, no matter their origin, tend to believe in spiritual things, no
matter if it is called paganism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism,
Brahmanism, Scientism, etc.

Does this happen because human beings have a natural tendency to believe and
worship what is beyond their knowledge? Or is it because there is a part in their
human bodies that requests this? Since ancient times, people have believed in
spiritual things. It seems that there is something in our hearts or egos that tell us
that there must be someone who cares for us. This is primitive instinct and has to
do with survival. But survival of what?

The Human Manual calls it "Soul". It explains that soul has to do with our personal
will, our mind, our emotions and feelings and our intimate knowledge or
conscience. This soul, has nothing to do with our arteries, muscles, bones, nerves
or the physical brain. This "soul" seems to be the real person inside the physical
body. If this is so, then it means that this part might survive the physical death. If
someone realizes that his physical body is dead and that he or she is still
conscientious of what she is thinking or doing, that would mean a great discovery
to that person!

If this is so and if this happens in this way, this would mean that this "soul" would
be in a new state. A state unknown by materialistic scientists who deny the
existence outside of the matter.

This would mean also something: that there should be a "Creator" of all this. This
would also mean that God is real. But it would be devastating to also know that this
God has requested a standard of life that has been hard to attain. Unless this God
has intervened into physical human affairs, what we call "History". If this is so, then
it would mean two things: Salvation or Commendation.

Just to put it in a way: if human beings have been created. Have violated the laws
of God. Have fallen short of His expectations or life standards when not paying
attention to His instructions. And there is a survival of that part called soul, that is
MYSELF. then it means that I am doomed for ever because I have lived in a selfish
way my physical life in this world created by Him.

But if God Himself became a man and showed His love by taking MY place dying
for ME. Then that means that SALVATION has been granted when I BELIEVE in
Him as MY Lord and Savior and start living according to His instructions.

And let me put it this way. The Bible speaks about a hell of fire that has been
created for evil spirits. The same evil spirits that people go to listen to when they go
to a medium. These spirits that are being worshipped as "angels" in some New Era
sects are deceiving human beings constantly with all those man made religions
(inspired by them), all that humanism, hedonism and all the -isms that this world
has produced with a "little help from their friends".
 Fact is: THEY WANT YOUR SOULS! They are constantly working thru what we
call the Educational System, the Mass Media, the Arts: let it be Music, Crafts,
Paintings, Literature, Films, etc.

This hell of fire is a future reservoir for them. But, as long as human beings deny
that there is God and that there is no survival after physical death, then, they will
also share this same place with these evil spirits. God has spoken and everyone
has been warned!

The reality of a Spiritual Realm is something that people should understand. God
has made His part. He came for us and died for us to give us everlasting life by
accepting His Son: Yahushua, the Messiah who is mentioned in the ancient
records of the nation of Israel. The Messiah, who came first as a Suffering Servant
to die for all humankind, as the New Adam, but who will come back as the King of
Kings and Lord of Lords to rule from Israel to the rest of the world.

That is the main reason why, I am not an atheist. I think Evolution or Dialectical
Materialism, i.e. Atheism along with all the human made -isms, can not explain why
human beings are not animals or why we all are here. Animals do not survive their
physical death. The use of a mind, a conscience, a will and an interior strength and
that natural "instinct" that tells us that there must be SOMEONE out there, is what
makes the difference. We keep historical records of every civilization. We keep
records of every historical event so important to us. The Bible is a collection of
historical records worthwhile to read. Written by 40 different authors who did not
agree with one another, since they lived in different regions and different times,
during 1,500 years they wrote what we call today: THE BIBLE, a collection of
Books. Books that reveal God's ultimate will to all of us as human beings.
Historians and erudite from different disciplines have proved once and again that
these scriptures are historical. While some books made by men such as the Book
of Mormon (has not archeological registry), the Vedas (no historical events), The
Koran (lots of historical misconceptions), the Popol Vuh (a “sacred” book by the
Mayans, which has no historical records), try to make people believe of “other”
ways of salvation, the Bible is the only book totally based on historical events
proved by archeology up today.

That is why there is organization in everything we see and not chaos. Until this
day the earth is rotating around the sun and the sun is still warming this planet
located on the right distance. The change of seasons is another example. Dogs still
beget puppy dogs and likewise do other animals.

Man is creating chaos when not accepting that there is God controlling this
universe. This chaos has killed millions of innocent people around the world.
Communism was a product of man’s wisdom. Philosophers said that there was no
God, and it was taught to children at schools and universities. Children started
behaving as if there was no tomorrow. They only put into practice what they have
been taught. That there is NO GOD. And if there is no God, then they "realize" that
their parents are "animals" as well. That having pleasure while one can is the only
thing that REALLY matters in this world...anyway, they think "When I die that will
be the end of me". Reasoning is what I beg of you. But you can’t be repeating
what others tell you. That is why I do not believe in God thru a corporate religion. I
believe in God because of His historical intervention in human affairs. That is why I
am not a religious sectarian who thinks that salvation comes by joining their clean
cut organizations. That is why I search by myself before drawing a conclusion. I do
not want to understand God or His Manual by using someone else’s brain. That is
why you can see millions of people believing in different kinds of religions. A
Jehova’s Witness comes to your home and since you have never taken the time to
read God’s Manual, you just believe in this person taking verses out of context and
telling you what they heard or read from their founder: Charles Taze Russell (a
man who was afraid of hell and decided to create his own form of religion without
taking into consideration the original writings of the Scriptures).

That is why I am not a Mormon because they believed in Joseph Smith’s writings,
not taking into consideration that the real prophets were Jews and not gentiles.
Besides the Book of Mormon has no archeological record that might show that a
Temple like that of Solomon’s was built in this continent. And that today’s Indians
have, not even genetically, anything to do with the lost tribes of Israel. But there
are people who believe in this things without searching the other side of the coin.

And I could write more about other forms of religions. All of them denying instant
salvation to human beings. All of them playing the role of middleman between the
human race and God. All of them ascribing salvation by joining their ranks or
stating that man can be saved thru good works. Man can not work his own
salvation, salvation comes from God Himself. He already did His part!

If by rationalism you do not want to believe in Him, then there is nothing else to
say. I will end up this discourse just by repeating what Christian author Rick
Warren said to the President of the Association of Atheists of America: "If there is
no God, we Christians have nothing to lose...but, if there is God...you have AN
ETERNITY to lose".

God bless!

Roger Cerdas Miranda

Menorah Ministry
Panama City, Panama

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