Posts tagged agnostic

Remember this: Jesus stood on the strength of the Scriptures. JESUS believed the books of Moses. JESUS trusted that God, as the God of truth, created the world in JUST THE WAY HE SAYS HE CREATED IT. And we will roll with Jesus, and believe what he gives authority. You take any scientist in the world; any historian; any skeptic; any agnostic…

…and put them next to Jesus Christ, and I will believe Jesus EVERY SINGLE TIME. Of course I will! He is my God.

-Aj Neugebauer LCMS pastor

It seems that too often our world wants to say: “God made the world in six days; yeah right! That’s too fast!” But that’s ABSURD! The real idea that should strike us is “He took SIX WHOLE LONG DAYS TO MAKE THE WORLD; WOW! Why did he do it that way? Why did he purposefully take so long?”

And I believe that he took so long, and slowed himself down for OUR sakes. You see, again, he wants us to know him. And what he is doing here, as sharing with us as recorded by Moses, is IN CREATION he is introducing himself TO creation. It is not only God creating, but also God MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN.

He IS a God who makes himself known: a specific, real, ONE TRUE GOD. And what is his ultimate form of revelation? It is JESUS CHRIST. You see, Jesus dashes this “lack of knowing” to shreds. It is ALSO, in fact, the reason that the agnostic culture we live in has to turn Jesus into something OTHER than what he claims to be! Because agnosticism is about a God that is HIDDEN; a God that is far off; a God who doesn’t make himself known or come into contact with his creation.

But then HERE COMES GOD IN THE FLESH; God who walks among us; God who is concrete and present and not distant at all! It IS Jesus Christ; the God of the definitive statement: the God who says “you are mine, or you are NOT mine, and there is no middle ground.”

-Aj Neugebauer LCMS pastor