The Armour of Light
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
(Romans 13:11-14) KJV
The armour of light is a peace that comes with the assurance that the Bible is true, even if we don’t understand it, such that SciPop (the atheist human origins narrative) isn’t a threat.
Hell is Real
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
(Deuteronomy 32:22) KJV
Hell is expanding folks. The Earth is melting from the inside out. It’s Hypothesis 5. The human population may increacingly be ravaged by famine, plague and war. The stars are going to fall to Earth. A lot of people are going to wake up on the other side of death and be horrified to find out that hell is a real place. What are you, Christian, doing about it?
How do you order your life so that you can have the armour of light? If we stay faithful to our stated goal of using deduction, what can we learn about the armor of light from the Biblical context and other similar passages?
Works of Darkness
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
(Ephesians 5:11) KJV
We have to know what a work of darkness is before we can cast it off, or reprove it, so what’s a work of darkness? SciPop.
- IF SciPop is a work of darkness that we have to cast off,
- AND the act of doing this precedes,
- or is simultaneous with,
- putting on the armor of light,
- AND the act of doing this precedes,
- THEN what is the armor of light?
Armor is equipment used to conduct war. Obviously we’re in a war. The armor of light is what we need to defeat the works of darkness. If SciPop is a work of darkness, then the armor of light is the knowledge that SciPop is darkness. By understanding SciPop we can see that the Bible is truth, and that is our armor of light.
Walk in the Light
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
(1 John 1:5-7) KJV
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
(2 Corinthians 6:14) KJV
Who are you spending you time with? What are you reading? What are you watching? Start with that. Pay attention. Be awake.
Read through the Bible in a year
| Reading plan | February 27 | |
| Linear | Joshua 7-10 | |
| Chronological | Numbers 8-10 |
Salvation
- Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- confess your sin.
