Bible Questions Answered: Agnosticism-Atheism-Humanism

Bible Questions Answered:
If the people are not Christian, what are they?
Olona/ Port Elizabeth South Africa

Bible Answers:
The short answer, of course is, lost.

Acts 4:12 KJV
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Acts 4:12 NLT
There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”


Lost humanity may be categorized into at least three categorizes.

Agnostics: (New World Dictionary)
The human mind cannot know whether there is a God or ultimate cause, or anything beyond material phenomena.

This is the skeptic, the doubter, he may seek after truth, but is not sure he can never know absolute truth.

What a shame!

Jeremiah 9:24 KJV
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

Hosea 6:3 NLT
Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know Him.
He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.

John 7:16,17 KJV
[16] Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent Me.
[17] If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of Myself.

John 7:17 NLT
Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether My teaching is from God or is merely My own.

John 8:31,32 KJV
[31] Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, If ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed;
[32] And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.

John 17:3 KJV
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Colossians 2:1-3 NLT (The Apostle Paul)
1 I want you to know how much I have agonized for you and for the church at Laodicea, and for many other believers who have never met me personally.
2 I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ Himself.
3 In Him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

I Thessalonians 1:5 NLT
For when we brought you the Good News, it was not only with words but also with power, for the Holy Spirit gave you full assurance that what we said was true. And you know of our concern for you from the way we lived when we were with you.

II Timothy 1:12 KJV (Apostle Paul)
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.

Hebrews 10:22,23 KJV
[22] Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
[23] Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised;)

I John 2:3 KJV
And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.


Atheists: (New World Dictionary)
A person who believes there is no God.
This person rejects and denies any and all existence of God.

Psalm 14:1 KJV
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God..."

Proverbs 30:7-9 KJV
[7] Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
[8] Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
[9] Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

I Corinthians 1:18;27-29
[18]For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
[27] But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
[28] And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
[29] That no flesh should glory in His presence.

I John 2:22,23 KJV
[22] Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
[23] Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father:.."


The Humanist: (New World Dictionary)
A modern nontheistic, rationalist movement that holds that man is capable of self-fulfillment, ethical conduct, etc. without recourse to supernaturalism.

Man is his own god, man has the answers!

Proverbs 16:25 KJV
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Jeremiah 17:5,9 KJV
[5] Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
[9] The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Proverbs 12:15 KJV
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

Proverbs 15:9 KJV
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but He loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

Matthew 7:13 KJV
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Romans 1:22 KJV
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Man kind, certainly does not have the answers, and one reason why they do not, is because, no two of them agree as touching anything!
What is up to one, is down to another, and with no standard, other than the human mind, and opinion, no one is right, no one is wrong.

In Boulder, Colorado, we have what is called The National Bureau of Standards.
Here every form of measurement is known and calibrated.
Here exact artifacts of what a foot of measurement equals, is kept.
What and exact inch is etc. etc. all kinds of measurements.
The NSB, is where all the standards are kept, all other measuring devises must comply to these standards, or they are “not,” accurate!

What kind of world would we have if no two measurements were the same?

Man kinds thinking left to themselves and all their conflicting views, are sure of nothing!

Here is the end of Man's ingenuity and inventiveness.

Revelation 6:12-17 KJV
[12] And I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
[13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
[14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
[15] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
[16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
[17] For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

Heavens Standard:

Proverbs 29:18 KJV
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Isaiah 8:20 KJV
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Matthew 4:4 (Jesus)
But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

John 12:48 KJV (Jesus)
He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Galatians 1:8 KJV
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Humanism, states that mankind is “getting better and better every day in every way.”

Humanism at work:

James 4:1,2 KJV
[1] From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
[2] Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Revolutionary War
The Civil War
war of 1812
spainsh war
mexican war
world war I
world War II
korean War
cold war
vietnam War
persian Gulf War
afghanistan War
Operation Iraqi Freedom
operration enduring freedom
war on terrorism
Afghan war

America's past, oh the ingenuity and inventiveness of mankind!
And what of your country?

John 3:16-21 KJV
[16] For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
[17] For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.
[18] He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
[19] And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
[20] For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
[21] But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

John 6:37 KJV
All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.

II Chronicles 7:14 KJV
If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

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