A man approached Jesus and "fell on his knees before him. 'Good teacher,' he asked, 'what must I do to inherit eternal life?'" Jesus answered, "Why do you call me good? No one is good—except God alone" Mark 10:17-18.
"Why call me good?" Jesus answered. The essential question the man needed to ponder. Did he understand Jesus as good as GOD is GOOD? For that's specifically Jesus as God in the Flesh. (The best and likely way to explain the Master's reply.) It's the single question American culture needs to ponder, given its diversity-crazed appetite for more and more, and infinitely MORE and MORE of multiplied religions. Consider the display of 33 paintings in the San Diego Balboa Park's Spanish Village Art Center March, 2021. The artist, because she wanted "more female energy in the world," used her art to express it: from the Celtic goddess Andraste to Buddhist Apsara. Interesting: she sought "more female energy" in non-existent pagan deities. The art reflected merely her need to feel female power, not Scripture's declaration of God Almighty being so far beyond masculine and into such MALENESS that everything else is female by comparison. Jehovah the only God, revealed in the eternal Godhead of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three in ONE: Scripture's grand, unchanging declaration! GOD, the sole source of ALL TRUTH. Not two or more gods or goddesses speculating truth as they see it, for that creates the certainty of division in society. The artist's conception is nothing new. It's as old as Satan's successful endeavor to deceive Eve in the Garden, his equally successful effort to turn ancient Gentiles from the TRUE GOD of Romans 1:18-20, into mindless, baseless idolatry, 1:21-23, with all the sexual perversions that accompany heathen religions, including homosexuality and its associated immoralities Romans 1:24-32. Satan's success ended when he endeavored to turn Christ's test from God into a temptation—and failed Matthew 4:1-11. This writer describes that seminal conflict in Volume 1, pages 258-271 of Their Own Best Defense. No one...that means NO ONE...has any excuse to believe in atheism, skepticism, pantheism or polytheism. Only monotheism—belief in ONE GOD—makes sense because Jesus withstood—resisted, refused—all Satan's lies in the 40-day ordeal chronicled in Matthew 1:1-11. Note: he allowed himself to be tested but never for an instant saw any of the tests during the 40 days as a temptation, including their summary in Matthew and Luke. He gave Satan all the advantage in the contest to prove him a spiritual Mini Flyweight slinging cotton balls against Christ's spiritual armor-plated personality. A lesson America has forgotten. End Part III
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