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HRWire:  February 26, 2025

Listen up!  Science does not own the highway to Heaven.

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If you are looking for a good reason to believe in Jesus Christ, you have come to the right place.  In front of you is a fruitful vector that illuminates all the evidence and wisdom you seek.  The only requirement of you is to muster enough interest to read through the full article.  III DON is my testimonial centerpiece that I personally place upon a pedestal of earlier articulations in the series.  To be honest, authoring this particular piece has really encouraged something inside of me.  As expected, readers will gain valuable context and defensible points of view, but much more than that, really.  Let’s take an intellectual stroll down yonder to the impressive gatehouse of faith.  Anchoring us to the straightest path that I know of, this trail is marked up with written scripture to validate biblical alignment.

As I see it, any communal rollout of agape love is going to necessitate objective authority, and I don’t think that sits very well with folks who want to protect double standard advantages. My position is that if a person insists on passing up all the available evidence because they can’t find something incontestible, the person has already rejected unity with Christ.  The Word might not prove that God exists, but it really is quite attractive.  Our free choice over such unity remains a birthright, but God’s identity and posture are plainly established in the good book.  He ensures that we have been given the durable gift of eternity, regardless of choices made.

Know this, that science does not own the highway to Heaven.  There are absolutely no science-restricting roadblocks to keep you away from this beautiful destination.  There are people, however, who try to erect roadblock imagery with spin to falsely claim a scientific basis.  Why?  Because they want to discourage your passage.  The big lie is that they point to science and specifically a lack of undeniable evidence.  Anyone with a rational mind understands that science has no empowering capabilities to identify supernatural authority.  It is irrational, in fact, to nurture any notions that science should, or ever could, outright prove God’s existence.  Science is primarily in the business of reverse engineering and, as such, will ever-devise alternatives as a stopgap to creation.

I find it laughable, also, when I hear atheists who condemn faith profess their faith that science will one day disprove supernatural creation.  With this frame of mind, science is merely a crutch.  So, when you hear a scientist say that they do not believe in God purely because science does not support it, rest assured that this person is either dishonest or not clear-minded.  A more truthful response would be for them to admit that undeniable force is needed to invoke their unwilling submission.

As an atheist-turned-Christian, I’ve learned that atheistic bias tends to track the swim lane of the Red Herring.  If you are serious in your pursuit to personally validate not only the truth of God’s existence but also His identity, it’s imperative that you recognize and effectively manage your biases.  Interpretations under an atheistic microscope are not in focus.  Be honest with yourself.  Proof as an isolated artifact will not cause you to love the Lord.  To dial in love, our sights need to pursue a certain value chain, being the sole trajectory that delivers us to God’s truth.

So, the way I see it, modern science, logic, and history are exactly what differentiates my Christian faith from mere fantasy.  These areas of study provide durable credibility to creation theory.  Read II DON, which details all of my favorites.  Atheists, as one might imagine, disagree with me wholeheartedly but also know that they disagree with the majority.  In my opinion, Human Reason balances itself upon a metaphorical fulcrum of subjective bias.  We can witness demonstrations of this every single day on political fronts where information is commonly distorted and adopted for the sake of targeted agendas.  Let’s be clear, I am not bashing bias here but simply providing an explanation. Rather, I view bias as a personal freedom.  After all, I myself lean into Christian bias.

Einstein’s famous equation containerizes the cosmos for me.  Scientific exploration is walled in, and our working scientists ever-sift through this sandbox of nature’s minutiae to self-educate and make secular life more bearable in the process.  They find curious cases such as mind-boggling networks of dependency, consistency that transcends object isolation, confusing paradoxes, and hard laws that question container origin.  As previously mentioned, supernatural realities are outside the scope of scientific study.  This has led us to varying thoughts.  Some scientists have decided that the safest bet is to remain grounded to the scope of scientific study.  Other scientists recognize and promote intelligent design.  Some have committed themselves to faithful doctrine, while others are convinced that human perception is a simulation created by aliens.  Yep, that’s a real thing.  Everyday observers possess these same liberties because bias is a personal freedom and not a rule of science.

Understand that proof in and of itself is not the springboard of trust in Jesus, but I want to add, nor effectively could it be.  You’ve heard the question, “What is truth?”  So also then, what is proof?  Proof cannot stand absent of truth.  I invite you to read my free novella, in the genre of philosophical fiction, that I have tucked away inside the Heavenly Realms library.  You’ll learn that proof is just an overzealous illusion of the mind.  What we have available to us instead is evidence, but as you know, evidence is always contestable.  It doesn’t synchronize well across humanity without impediment.  Cutting to the chase,  the proper trigger of Christian faith begins with personal affinity toward the governance of Jesus, at first, receptive, then welcoming, and eventually revering.

Put bluntly, an authentic faith mandates your will.  Yes, I am a Christian by free choice.  My faith is heavily weighted and uprighted by a reverence to Christ.  It is by design that no child of God shall ever be strongarmed by unshakable proof.  For the sake of God’s good architecture, this can not be a justified option.  We can conclude from all this that knowing of Christ’s existence is simply not enough.  Consider this; Satan knows Him, yet he is damned just the same.  The garden of Eden story clarifies that Heaven is not all-inclusive.  Antagonists shall be denied entry.

“And out of the ground, the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.  The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”  (Genesis 2:9 NKJV)

“Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil.  And now, lest he put out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.” –therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.  So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword, which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.”  (Genesis 3:22-24 NKJV)

And now here we are.  Ahead of you stands the polarizing gatehouse I spoke of.  Now, look about and see all the transient protesters parading their grievances.  This is in response to the Holy Spirit’s righteous expectations because they know full well that attainability is impossible without authoritative submission.  At this gatehouse stands two distinct passages, which are described in the next couple of bible verses.  Beyond the wide gate, already experienced by most, is an ever-frustrating realm with near unfettered injustice.  The other is well-secured, welcoming only those who will hope in worship-worthy justice that it is centered in agape love.

“Enter through the narrow gate.  For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”  (Matthew 7:13-14 NIV)

“Listen!  A farmer went out to sow his seed.  As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.  Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil.  It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.  But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.  Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants so that they did not bear grain.  Still, other seeds fell on good soil.  It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”  (Mark 4:1-8 NIV)

In conclusion, authentic Christian faith can not be leapfrogged by so-called “proof.”  I may not be the best writer, so I pray that you were able to grasp my labored messaging.  Hey, since we are at the gatehouse anyway, why not come as my guest, and tour some of my footings built inside the gated community.

The Performing Artist

Take a moment to view our creator as a phenomenal artist rather than as a scientific prodigy.  A true architect pushes down His logical creation to direct concrete development.  His living Word, like we human architects define, institute truth that yields desirous outcomes, fully embraced with integrity and consistency.  This, I believe, is the trigger of the Big Bang.  He has cleverly incorporated sensible design principles in His work, too, as any architect does.  Reusability, for example, is leveraged just as we humans do within our software programming code.  Atheists went ape wild on DNA code reuse, framing ridiculous theories of evolution to propose where we came from.  This effort fails as a viable alternate to creation, though, due to the principle of causality.  It also became evident that evolutionary progression has hard boundaries such as animal kinds.  So, as it happens, varied definitions of evolutionary theory are offered as menu options for us to pick and choose from now.  Our bible does bring clarity and should leave the architectural mind with no doubts.

“In the beginning, the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  From the very beginning, the Word was with God.  Through him, God made all thing; not one thing in all creation was made without him.  The Word was the source of life, and this life brought life to people.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.”  (John 1:1-5 GNT)

This Lord God that we are focused on is uniquely identifiable.  Science intersects with general creation, but the personhood of God is revealed by holy scripture.  Why look for God’s authority in the grain of sand.  Expand your focus.  Everything in the sandbox exposes a finely tuned cosmos of isolated objects that all unite in mathematical consistency.  This screams creation.  All this with a grand purpose in mind, hallelujah.  Absent of God, purpose is competitively subjective and without cooperation.

Other religions can certainly love because we are made in God’s image, but their brand ultimately proposes conflicting parallels, such as promoting martyrdom with gifts of beautiful women or other counterproductive means to support their tangent imperfect ends.

Have you ever met the person who declares their spiritualism but refuse to name a specific God.  Unknown gods are not capableable of godly oversight.  They can’t facilitate social unity nor institute consistent accountability.  Its obvious that these deities have no superpowers. The Lord’s platform, so you know, is rightfully elevated over all of humanity.

Philosophers these days are starting to recognize that the delta between our perception of reality and actual reality is unknowable.  Human sensation can be thought of as a decentralized layer of abstraction.  This sounds about right to me.

The world that houses us is hosted in parental spiritual realms.  Considering the collective complexities involved in “What Is,” it logically goes that happenstance and coincidence are less reasonable than a beginning that is caused by supernatural force.  Again, I refer you to II DON for specifics on this.

The Audience

By all means, be thankful for God’s creative work, but if approachability does not reach critical mass, what good is He to us?  You’ll be happy to know that the flagship of His creation is people collectively.  Anything less would negate worship-worthiness from at least one person.  Unusual cases are accounted for, I believe.  God created reasonable people empowered and accountable, with the subjective freedom to want and enjoy.  It’s a wonderful gift.  Each person uniquely conceived in God’s image well before birth and given entitlement to eternity.  The standard invitation for communion exists nowhere else but in the Holy Bible.

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”  (Genesis 1:27 KJV)

“May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through.  May your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”  (I Thessalonians 5:23 NIV)

God’s welcoming is extensive.  I am reminded of a former Muslim who came to my church one day to share his own Christian testimony with the congregation.  He had memorized the Quran at a young age as so many fellow Muslims do, but later in his practice, he took it upon himself to read the Holy Bible for reasons I can’t remember.  By surprise, he came across a couple of transforming verses that blew his mind.  He found that this Lord God, Jesus Christ, instructs us to even love our enemies.  Islam teaches no such thing, he explained.  The Lord’s outreach became the cornerstone of his conversion.  Several passages speak to this.  Here is one of them.

“But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be son’s of the Most High.  For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.”  (Luke 6:35 NKJV)

Symphonic Justice

I can’t imagine any judicial system worthy of worship other than one governed by agape love.  Upon this foundation, any contention becomes indefensible.  Unfortunately, each one of us is conflicted with secular thoughts and experiences.  Alas, I doubt anybody can reach perfection while in bodily form, but nonetheless, this does not justify any contempt for good.  We’ll never become God’s equal, but for the sake of agape love, I think it is best to endure.  Scripture pushes an accelerated course.

“But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.””  (I Peter 1:15 NIV)

Holiness is an act of pure willpower.  Holiness over perfection.  Through holiness, we unify with the Redeamer.

“… God is love.”  (I John 4:8 NIV)

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophesy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.”  (I Corinthians 13:1-3 NIV)

Considering all the injustices and victimizing experiences we encounter, how can one not submit to this king?  So many of us are frustrated, in a general sense, with people.  This reminds me of a past TV show that I caught years ago when a person was captured by the police.  The subject’s response was something like this, “You’re not breaking me, you’re making me.”  This, to me, sounds like a victim’s mantra.  Let’s be change agents instead, driven by unity with Christ.

“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”  (Matthew 10:37 NIV)

The rubber must ultimately meet the road.  I get it.  Accepting righteous accountability may not seem so comforting initially.  Scripture is there to mentor us in developing boundless competencies in the new mission for excellence.  Performance traits prompted include faithful endurance, patience, zeal, thankfulness, kindness, peacefulness, gentleness, respectfulness, forgiveness, humility, compassion, hospitality, tolerance, obedience, honoring parents, husbands, wives, and bosses, and do not be excessively proud for others.

In parallel with these skills we are also to prune ourselves of anything contrary to righteousness like sexual immorality, impurity, shameful lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry, anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language, and lies. Refrain from thievery, murder, adultery, deceit, lewdness, envy, arrogance, folly, defraud,  strife, depravity, gossip, insolence, boastfulness, senselessness, faithlessness, heartlessness, ruthlessness, contempt, being unrepentant, being judgemental, coveting, obstinate, conceit, revenge, drunkenness, debauchery, decention, jealousy and the like are all called out specifically.

I can’t end this section without giving my two cents on repentance.   Stepping through the gate does not require repentance.  “Come as you are, the Word assures us.”  The Holy Spirit is most inspiring at the bottom of the barrel, I say.  It’s an open invitation, trust me.  But it becomes quite evident, as we gain wisdom over time, that repentance is the active ingredient that nurishes spiritual fruit in our communities.  When I converted, 90% of my superficial and routine transgressions were irraticated instantly.  But I’m not bragging.  Fixing stupid takes time, and heaped on top of that, I still have to work through the most stubborn sins that I  have allowed to develop spiritual holds on me.  I can all but guarantee that my work of repentance will not be complete before I die here on earth.  It dawns on me that my eternal life doesn’t begin at the point of death.  It started when I was born again.

No Christian is perfect, but nonetheless, it is ironic to me that a good many of them are so judgemental, and they deeply struggle with forgiveness.  Especially when your challenges are not things that challenge them.  Some might even overreact.  I myself got kicked out of the very first church I joined.  Don’t be a victim.  Use it to increase wisdom and, where appropriate, let it motivate change.  Christians who just go through the motions, painting by numbers do not see the harm caused in this area.  The apostle Paul acknowledges our difficulties with shared enlightenment.  I encourage you to read it a couple of times.

“Does that which is good, then, become death to me?  By no means!  Nevertheless,  in order that sin be recognized as sin, it uses what is good to bring about my death so that through the commandment, sin might become utterly sinful.  We know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual and sold as a slave to sin.  I do not understand what I do, for what I want to do I do not do but what I hate I do.  And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.  As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.  For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.  For I have the desire to do what is good, but I can not carry it out.  For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do–this I keep on doing.  Now, if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.  So I find this law at work:  Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.  For in my inner being I delight in God’s law, but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.  What a wretched man I am!  Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?  Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!  So then, I myself, in my mind, am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature, as slave to the law of sin.”  (Romans 7:13-25 NIV)

Kindred Spirits

In closing, I am going to make a quick note on some areas that provide Christians with belonging.  Just as governmental citizenship and paying taxes go hand in hand, likewise, ignoring well-monitored practices for heaven’s sake makes a person somewhat of an outlier and that isn’t very comforting, so I’ll be stepping up my game here.

Routine Prayer

Prayer is an intimate connection and not a form of control over God.  If one doesn’t pray regularly, it confirms a person’s lack of intimacy with God.  If not praying, one’s view of God is apparently inadequate for such a relationship.

Reading the Holy Bible

We may experience difficulties with interpretation, but lacking biblical knowledge causes us to set up make-believe gods, and then we become very similar to that spiritual person who touts the unknown God.  Read, and let agape love drive interpretation for greater accuracy.

Tithing and Charity

Ever hear the phrase, “Guns don’t kill people, people do.”  Similarly, money doesn’t help people, people do.  Money can be leveraged as a godly tool.  The Christian family devotes hard-earned money to combat social disease and rescue people from poor situations.  Are you freely participating in this vital contribution, untainted by self-serving expectations?  Or, are you sidelining yourself from such family engagements?  It’s time for fellowship.

Church Participation

The self-assessing question is, do you even belong here?  It’s time to mingle with your spiritual family.

Back at the gatehouse

Well, I hope you enjoyed my company.  At the very least, you now have the essence of my Christian faith.  If you like my tenacity and wish to provide monetary encouragement, you can show your appreciation with a small tip.  No worries on that, though.  As of completing this third article and writing my free book, I have yet to receive even a single dollar.  Money is not my motivation.  Most importantly, simply follow me and share my musings with others. 

In confident faith,

Sha-Sha-Gway