Isaiah Roman

A Case For Support of Apologetics

“Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear” (I Peter 3:15).

APOLOGETICS: The force of adversity towards mankind is Satan. The enemy of God has, through destruction of language and by corruption of words, reduced the Word to confusion. This is not by chance, but by design. It’s impact has been successfully neutralized rendering it’s actual meaning to be of no effect.
Apology in modern usage is “a regretful acknowledgment of an offense or failure. In the original language this word’s meaning is “a speech in one’s own defense.” Used in the Christian vernacular it is a speech in defense belief in one God through His Son Jesus Christ, which is referenced in the scripture “to give an answer to every man that asks [or challenges] a reason for the hope” of life eternal in the presence of God.

It may be reduced to a simple question; what do I believe and why? It is not an attempt to apologize for one’s belief but a defense of one’s “raison d’ etre.”
Christianity, to a Christian, is not a religious belief that is either like or equal to all others. Christianity is God reaching down to lift mankind up to live eternally with Him on a higher plain. All other religions try to prepare the individual to meet certain requirements that may enable them to take their rightful place within some form of paradise. Man, on by his own efforts, earns the right to ascend to be with the gods (e.g. Greek and Roman mythology). In contrast, the Holy Bible is not a set of rules that God demands; it is a “way” of life, a rational and realistic state of being, based on the acceptance of a personal, living Creator who desires to have fellowship with His creation.

Life does not end when the spirit leaves the body, neither does it pause. Man, when he is born, is destined to eventually spend eternity in another condition, under different circumstances.

The Bible teaches that the soul of man is the invisible “God likeness” God breathed into mankind at creation. (Genesis 1: 26) “God said, Let us make (create) man in our image, after our likeness.” Until Adam transgressed, the law of God his spirit was governed by the Holy Spirit of God. When Adam sinned God removed His Spirit. Yet, He had already decreed a means by which mankind could over come the circumstances of this spiritual death and fall from grace. This means is a mediator, or Messiah, who would mediate his love and satisfy his justice to redeem mankind, reconcile mankind with Himself.

The Christian is reborn spiritually at conversion. Rebirth is receiving the justification and regeneration provided by the Messiah, it is freedom from slavery to sin. Through rebirth the “old nature” of the natural man is subjected by the infusion (The introduction of a new element or quality into another) of the Holy Spirit of God into the soul of man. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (II Corinthians 5:17). That person is a “new creature” born again of the Spirit and is a entirely new creation.

Mankind strives through legislation, knowledge and science to cure all human ills and remove the one enemy that mankind has never been able to defeat; death. This is a dream of a means to bypass the need for a supreme being or God. If the individual can “do it my way” he is not indebted to anyone, for anything, or any reason. This false sense of freedom drives men to ignore, or even fight against what they perceive as a suppressive, oppressive God.

God can rightfully say “Yet house of Israel [humankind] you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal” (Ezekiel 18:29)? God cannot lie; but, the natural man can not help but lie rather than face the consequences of a bad choice.

Jesus the Christ paid the price for our justification and provides for our regeneration so that when a person stands before God’s tribunal (final judgment) he does not have to rely on his own righteousness, but has an advocate (lawyer) who has already paid the price [his fine]. Through the Christ, the sinner is declared justified by God, who then allows the sinner to go into eternal life in His presence.

The great problem with human nature is guilt. Many do not know what they have done or even when it was done. Yet, there is always a gnawing feeling on the periphery of consciousness that there is something wrong. The Scripture of the Holy Bible is the only place where a satisfactory explanation is found. With the aid of the indwelling Holy Spirit which comes by recognizing the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, the Christian is able to persevere and live fulfilled. Having received forgiveness from sin, the Christian knows how to give, love and live. He does not apologize in the modern sense, because he no longer needs to explain guilt. Rather, he understands that he only needs to know how to speak and defend himself in Christ in order “to give a reason for [his] hope.”

Every one who reads this is hereby challenged, “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed (children) may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19). Choose God and live; reject Him and die.