Atheism,
Agnosticism, and Evolutionism, are all expressions of Jesus’ words, “And
this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the
darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.”
Atheists
demand the removal of “religion” from everything public because anything about Jesus
reminds them that they are sinners in need of a Savior, and that means that the
Creator expects them to turn from evil. However, they don’t want their sins
brought into the light because that would mean facing the guilt, shame, and
fear of what is inside them, and so they try to stay in the dark by keeping
everyone in the dark about who we are, where we came from, why we are here, and
where we are going when we die.
Agnostics
are the same, but their darkness is that of ignorance, claiming that it is
impossible to know if there is a divine being who is responsible for space,
time, matter, and energy. And, even if there was a Creator, how would anyone
know who he is or how to be sure we have picked the right one? This parade of
ignorance also keeps people in the dark so that sin and its guilt, shame, and
fear, is not brought into the light, and people are never led to know the love,
the grace, and the forgiveness of God.
Evolutionists
aim to keep people in the dark about their sin by claiming that the existence
of our universe, and the reality of life as human beings, could have happened
by the miracles of random processes that required no divine involvement
whatsoever. By denying the creative genius evident in creation and in all
living things, and by demanding the miraculous impossibility of the human body
coming together by chance and unguided processes, they convince people that
there is no Creator to whom we will all give account. And that would also mean
that there is no God who has the right to judge us for the evils of our sin,
and our rebellious idolatry of ourselves as his judge.
Atheism,
Agnosticism, and Evolutionism are all the faith-positions of people who do not
want to face their sin. Their unwillingness to confess their sin holds them in
bondage to their mad defiance of truth because they love their rebellion. They
fear (more than anything) facing what is wrong with humanity because, without
knowing the Creator, they do not know that he has provided for sin’s
condemnation. They can’t let themselves see that God has provided a Savior who frees
us from the guilt, shame, and fear of sin, a Savior who has so dealt with sin
for those who will trust in him that all our sins can be forgiven, and we can inherit
the full rights of adoption to be the children of God both now and forever.
Yes, I know
that atheists, agnostics, and evolutionists mock the idea that faith in God is
real. They lie and say that their beliefs are based on science while trusting
in Jesus Christ is based on fairy tales of faith. However, the fact is that all
of them have faith as strong as mine, but their faith is in themselves. They
believe that the random firing of neurons in their brains is accurately
telling them whole systems of information that are not only cohesive within themselves
but are also the true and only story of the whole universe with universal
application to every human being.
And this is
while their godless and evolutionary beliefs claim that our brains are not
guided by any intelligence at all, but by the magic of random and chance
processes that leave them totally unsure if what they think about atheism,
agnosticism, or evolutionism is actually a brand-new thought that literally
came out of nowhere, or a long-held faith position that accurately reflects
truth. In their faith about mindless evolution, they cannot say with any
certainty what the random firing of their brains has come up with, and how it
compares to what anyone else thinks or believes about anything.
My purpose
in exposing the darkness of sin in every way it is expressed is to share the “good
news of great joy” that God himself, our one and only Creator, had in mind
from before creation to provide a means of salvation for us because he knew how
ignorant we would become in our love of sin. And so, he established his
salvation in a time in history when prophecies about the death and resurrection
of Jesus Christ had already detailed what would happen hundreds of years earlier,
when death by crucifixion had already been established by the Romans as a means
of capital punishment, and when the whole world was in the darkness of sin with no
remedy anywhere in sight. He then sent his one and only Son into the world, God
becoming flesh in order to live among us as a man, and when Jesus Christ laid
down his life for his people, the curse of sin and death was broken, the justice
of God was satisfied in the death of his Son for sinners, and now everyone who
believes in Jesus Christ is made alive into the realities of eternal life.
As it is
written, “the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for
those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”
The light of God has come into the world, and the very people who are
living in the darkness of sin can have their eyes opened to the light of life
in Jesus Christ our Lord.
This is
what is true of all who trust and obey our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, “But
you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own
possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of
darkness into his marvelous light.”
And so,
while so many preach the religion of darkness, calling people to trust the random
and chance and unpredictable firing of their brains (and the psychological
triggers of their self-protection) instead of the revealed word of God our
Creator, I share with everyone the excellencies of my God and Savior who proclaims
“good news to the poor… liberty to the captives… recovering of sight to the blind,”
setting “at liberty those who are oppressed,” and “the
year of the Lord’s favor” today for all who will attach to him and receive this
new life in repentance and faith.
The amazing
thing is, when we come to Jesus, and we have our eyes opened, and we confess
our sins to God because we see how he has provided for our salvation in Jesus Christ,
we discover that not only do we have a Creator, but it is the Creator himself
who has made himself known to us, rescuing us from the deadness of our sin, and
we can’t believe that people can believe that he doesn’t exist.
I conclude
with this glorious expression of praise to God our Creator:
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again
to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an
inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for
you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready
to be revealed in the last time.”
And that is
what will be true for anyone who will “confess with your mouth that Jesus is
Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be
saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one
confesses and is saved.”
© 2023
Monte Vigh ~ Box 517, Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8
Email: in2freedom@gmail.com
Unless otherwise noted, Scriptures are from the
English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text
Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of
Good News Publishers.)
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