This article was originally my reply to a "scoffer" that posted on a message board back in 1996. Maybe this will increase your boldness and faith, and help you face others, like this guy, who think they know something.
Sorry everyone! I know my reply is off topic, but I feel my reply is necessary. I pray you benefit from what you read.
Jackie the Tokeman (Anonymous) wrote:
> ...I intend the utter and total annihilation of all Christian cultural
> contamination via all out mimetic warfare across the net.
Jesus said, "I will build my church, and the gates of hell WILL NOT overcome it" (Matthew 16:18).
Jesus said, "I have given you [those who love him and live for him] authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to OVERCOME ALL the power of the enemy; **NOTHING** WILL HARM YOU" (Luke 10:19).
"...**NO WEAPON** FORGED AGAINST YOU WILL PREVAIL, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you" (Isaiah 54:17).
Do you think you can do any more harm to Christians today than those who persecuted us in the past? People have always tried to destroy Christianity before but they never succeed. In fact, persecutions only increase out our faith, as well as our numbers.
"God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled..." (2 Thessalonians 1:6-7).
> He doesn't know S*** because he has been
> dead and rotted away for nearly 2,000 years.
Jesus said, "You are in error because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God" (Matthew 22:28).
Actually He does know "S***", in fact, He invented. :) The truth is, He knows everything.
As for His death, can you prove it? I bet you cannot come up with one piece of evidence. Your statements are not based on fact.
> I demonstrate the impotence of religion by SAYING WHAT I PLEASE!
You mean, "importance," because religion is what gives you the ability you say what you please. I dare you to try to say what you please in some other non-Christianized nation.
> Welcome to alt.christo-nazi.quaking-in.fear.at-my-glory
Jesus said, "I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of THOSE WHO KILL the body and after that CAN DO NO MORE. But I will show you whom you should fear: fear Him who, after the killing of the body, HAS POWER to throw YOU into hell. Yes, I tell you fear Him" (Luke 12:5).
Fear is Satan's tactic, and we do not need to fear, much less you.
> The glory I possess and which makes you S*** YOUR PANTS is the ability
> to transcend your stupid slave system. I'm not the one who is a F***ING
> SLAVE, you are! I am FREE! I have SMASHED all religion and BROKEN
> the CHAINS of the mimetic plague.
Your glory is in your shame and your glory is your shame. Your glory is nothing compared to the glory of God. Actually every person is a slave. We, believers, are "slaves to righteousness" (Romans 6:18), but you are a slave to sin and depravity.
> Your brain is permanently damaged. I don't write to save you, or with any
> hope of curing you, I write for the undecided who need to see that
> limitless blasphemy HAS NO PENALTY! That your pointless, nonexistent
> God cannot do s***!
Denying the truth doesn't make the truth any less true. You will pay the penalty -- eventually.
"I, the Lord, declare what is right. ...By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me **EVERY** KNEE WILL BOW; by me **EVERY** TONGUE WILL SWEAR. They will say of me, 'In the Lord alone are righteousness and strength.'" "**ALL** WHO RAGE AGAINST HIM WILL COME TO HIM AND BE PUT TO SHAME" (Isaiah 45:19, 23-24)
And Jesus has been "exalted to the highest place" and been given the "name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus EVERY knee should bow, in heaven and on the earth and under the earth, and EVERY tongue confess that **Jesus Christ IS Lord**, to the glory of the Father" (Philippians 2:10-11).
> How can making fun of the equivalent of the STAY PUFF
> MARSHMALLOW MAN destroy me?
Do you think that because nothing has happened to you YET that nothing ever will? "He WILL punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with EVERLASTING destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of His presence ON THE DAY HE COMES to be glorified in his HOLY people and to be marveled among those who believe" (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9). The Lord God is very patient with you because He loves you and wants to show you a better way. "He is patient with you, NOT WANTING anyone to perish, but EVERYONE to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).
Another Christian responds:
>> Why are you bothered about Christ if this is all He is?...
>> In the love of Christ, who will love you not matter what
>> you do, even the worst of blasphemies...
AMEN!!!
> If Jesus loves me, why does he want to send me
> to hell for f***ing chicks without marriage?
You must have a very small penis in order to "F***" chicks. :) God condemned sex with animals, whether you are married or not. :) But seriously, think about it this way. If you love your children, then you do not let them do whatever they want, especially things you know would harm them or others. And you certainly do not allow someone else to harm them. As far as your concern about Jesus sending you to hell. Why would you want to go to heaven anyway? I mean, it will only be filled with the very ones you hate and want to destroy. The truth is, God only gives you what you want. In your case, you want separation from God and His Way, and all that represents Him, so you get to have your own way.
Again, your words do not harm us but they only increase our concern for you. The truth is, most of us were once like you (God-haters) but we discovered we cannot deny the facts. Jesus is alive and well, and He loves you beyond measure. He does not desire you to go to Hell, but that you know Him and love Him.
I realize I am probably wasting my time talking to you...
"For the message of the cross is foolishness to THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING, but to us who are being saved it is THE POWER of God" (1 Corinthians 1:18) "They PERISH because they refused to love THE TRUTH and so be saved" (1 Thessalonians 2:10)
"...in the last days scoffers will come scoffing and following their own evil desires" (2 Peter 3:3).
"Look, you scoffers, wonder and PERISH, for I am going to do something in your days that you would never believe, EVEN IF SOMEONE TOLD YOU" (Acts 13:14).
All scriptures NIV unless otherwise noted -- emphasis mine.