The DeMarxification book mentions “answers to Christianity’s greatest questions” on page 47. By request, here’s an excerpt from an upcoming publication offering a little food for thought on what those answers could be…

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Comparing divine creation with human creations can provide answers for some of the most challenging questions surrounding Christianity.

Question 1: Why would a benevolent God allow so much pain and suffering in His creation?

Maybe there’s a deeper purpose to God’s creation beyond simply being created. Maybe our purpose here involves a journey of learning—distinguishing right from wrong, understanding the contrast between good and bad. This would require us to witness both good and bad actions, and have both positive and negative experiences.

As one of my favorite pastors relates:

Once again, let’s consider the analogy with human creation to address this idea. Do humans typically develop video games that lack adversaries to defeat, issues to resolve, or obstacles to overcome? The response is rarely, if ever. Why is that? After all, who would be interested in playing a video game devoid of challenges?

If all creations have a purpose, what is the purpose of God’s creation in which we live? I will let you figure this out. But perhaps God permits us to experience negativity so that we can learn what to avoid?

1. What happens in a creation stays in a creation.
Ask yourself: Would God allow His only Son to languish in horrible pain and humiliation on a cross for hours if this was “real” per se?

Say you are playing a video game with your family and you kill half of them. This would be a horrible atrocity if you thought that game was the only reality and that your loved ones would cease to exist.
Since you know it’s a creation—no big deal. Those of you who get killed simply order pizza while the rest of the family finishes the game.

You do not care how you were killed. You do not lament the loss of items in the construct: “weapons” or “tokens,” since those things do not exist on your level.
(So much for: “He who dies with the most toys wins.”)

This being said, you do take with you what you learn—not only hand/eye coordination and how to play the game—but you can learn about the other players.

Maybe you notice that one of your kids takes out the weaker siblings first, while another defends the weaker players. Say you’re playing with two friends, and maybe one decides to shoot you in the back, while another was trying to help you learn the game. These actions would tell you something about the character of each person, but in this case, only on a superficial level, being that players know the game is not real.

The ultimate video game would be one that you do not know you are in.

If every time you went to fall off your bike a giant transparent hand came out of the sky and cushioned your fall, it would be a totally different game. If you could jump off cliffs and out of planes without a parachute and survive, you wouldn’t fear death, and decisions you make would not have remotely as much weight.

God would have to be pretty dumb to go through all the trouble of putting us into a construct that we do not know we’re in, and then make it obvious that we are in a construct by making everything perfect.
And like I said, the Creator’s level is already perfect, so creating “toga world” would be redundant.

This explains why bad things are allowed to happen. Because what happens here is not real on the level where the Creator exists—conceivably where we all exist—outside of this construct.

It also explains the need for an alternate theory, like Darwinism, that challenges us to realize that what other humans tell us is not necessarily true. Furthermore, the presence of a geological and paleontological timeline that contradicts the biblical account is necessary in this construct as an additional challenge for us.

2. Because maybe there’s a purpose to this creation that isn’t simply making a creation.
Maybe we are here to be challenged and to learn.

Once again, let’s use the analogy of a human creation to address this idea. Ask yourself . . .
Do humans create video games without bad guys to eliminate, problems to solve, or challenges to overcome?
Not often, if ever. Why not? Who wants to play a video game in which there’s no challenge?

If all creations have a purpose, what is the purpose of God’s creation in which we live? I will let you figure this out. But perhaps God permits us to experience negativity so that we can learn to discern right from wrong?

Question 2: How can the world have been created 6000 years ago in 6 days when fossils date back billions of years?

When we compare human creations to divine creations, the answer to this is easy.

I have watched lectures and documentaries from Christians attempting to answer this question. Often, they will get into complex calculations that employ Bible verses such as:

Or they will study the geology and find fault with the means by which scientists measure time, etc.

Of course no one actually knows the answer to this; we are all speculating. But, if we again compare divine creation to human creation, the explanation could be terribly simple.

Take a video game like the one created for Indiana Jones. The game takes place in a village in 1920s India. It has a marketplace. It has players and non-player characters. It has sky, firmament, and . . . it has a temple that’s thousands of years old: “the Temple of Doom.”

So atheists ask: “If—as the Bible states—the world was created around 4000 BC, how can it contain fossils that are millions of years old?”

Well, how can a video game created in 1992 contain a temple that’s thousands of years old?
Simple: they just put it there!

Whether it’s a story around the Iron Age campfire, a book, a painting, a movie, or a video game, when humans create something, it has a timeline. It has a past, present, and future. A creation begins on the timeline at the relevant point, not necessarily from the beginning.

Human creators can make creations that begin “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” Video games don’t have to start with the Big Bang. We can start our creations wherever the storyline starts and evidence of the past is just that, evidence.

Consider the recently released Dinosaur Fossil Hunter video game. Again, it has firmament, sky, vegetation, vehicles, players . . . and dinosaur fossils that are millions of years old.

Did the creators of the game need to create living dinosaurs and have them live, die, fossilize? Of course not, they just put the evidence in the construct that would be there at the time the construct begins.

Plus, how convenient for God that we don’t have dinosaur “bones,” we just have dinosaur “fossils,” aka: rocks shaped like dinosaur bones.

Challenge

And again, we have the aspect of a “challenge.” If archeology, geology, paleontology and other relevant sciences concurred that the Bible timeline is correct—that everything simply appeared 6000 years ago—it would be a no-brainer to figure out we are in the Christian God’s Creation.

Not having an alternate timeline available for us to study and consider would eliminate the first challenge we face: to realize we are in a Creation.

By the same token, if the Bible had all of God’s knowledge detailed in a timeline that jibed with the pre-human past, present and future; dinosaurs, hunter/gatherers, the rise and fall of Rome, discovery of the Americas, high-tech, AI, etc., it would also be obvious that we are in the Christian God’s Creation.

God does have knowledge of the past, present, and future, but revealing these details would be a spoiler to the challenges of the Creation.

You wouldn’t design a video game that includes easy access to some scroll that instantly reveals all the solutions to the challenges of the game.

Genesis

Genesis begins like a checklist for video game design. First we would create a backdrop: “heavens and the earth,” followed by lighting, water and land, populating it with flora and fauna, the cycle of night and day. This is exactly how I would create the environment for an animation or video game . . .

On the sixth day of this creative process, God introduced the main characters: humanity.

In Genesis Chapter 2, He creates humans again, but these are specific individuals who are described as living beings.

Evidence

What if we look at what was happening in human history 6000 years ago when the Bible says the Creation began? In that time we see the emergence of several innovations: agriculture, domestication of animals, ritual behavior, art and writing, all begin to emerge in archaeological evidence around this time.

Question 3: How can God be everywhere for everyone at all times?

Simple. We as occupants of this creation are stuck in a linear timeline. We cannot pop back to 1859 and flick Charles Darwin in the proverbial forehead. Nor can we see what’s going to happen tomorrow, next week, or next year.

It says in the Bible that God—meaning the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit—is not limited by time.

Just like a player in a video game, we can’t go back and change our past, but the creator, or customizer, of the game certainly can. We can go to any place on the timeline of our creations and work on that time period for as long as we choose. Our time has no relevance to the timeline of the creation.

So our Creator can spend an unlimited amount of time on anything in His timeline too. His creation’s timeline has no relevance to His own time.

Below is an image of a computer screen displaying video editing software. “Players” are lined up vertically and the timeline proceeds horizontally. The creator of the video can access any moment on the timeline. (image)

Question 4: Does the presence of genetic commonalities among life forms on Earth provide evidence for Darwin’s hypothesis?

Absolutely not. Quite the contrary. The fact that living things share genetic code bodes better for intelligent design than it does for random evolution.

As a graphic designer, I am a creator. I create a wide range of items, from a giant billboard for a bank, to tiny buttons for a non-profit and everything in between.

Textbooks, magazines, brochures, and business cards are all very different things. But because I create them in the same computer software, they all have the same base code. I don’t rewrite InDesign (the software I use to create printed materials) or start with zeros and ones every time I make a business card. Truly the only code that is different from one file to the other is what the thing is. Meaning the only difference between a textbook created in InDesign and a magazine created in InDesign is the info contained in each.

Plus, if I create a brochure and need to create another one, I would use the first one as a template.
So I can use templates, but God can’t?

Is there some law I am unaware of that God has to start from scratch each time He creates something?
He wouldn’t be a very “intelligent” designer if he did that.

Conversely, wouldn’t common sense lead us to believe that the “random development” in evolution is indeed more likely to be . . . random? The principle of repetition indicates that occurrences in nature tend to recur, rather than being singular events.

So, if billions of years ago, the Earth’s climate was favorable for the emergence of life, would we not speculate that life may have been emerging and/or developing in a variety of habitats around the globe? (This could also assist in explaining what Darwin’s magical amoeba ate.)

In the scenario described above, we would anticipate that each life form would commence its existence with a distinct genetic code, influenced by the specific circumstances, timing, and location of its emergence from various starting points, (these magical lifeless rocks, gases, or liquids that life allegedly magically springs from).

Of course I realize that Darwinists can speculate that either: A. Life only spawned out of nothing in a single time and place, or B. That one species of ooze eventually won out over all the other species of ooze, and that all life sprung from that particular apparently cannibalistic ooze.

Unfortunately for Darwinists, software and templates can also explain shared genetic code in this construct.
But of course, no one knows. The point is: commonality in the base genetic code says intelligent design as much, if not more, than it says random evolution.

Question 5: Why must I choose a religion? Why can’t I simply be a good person?

Because, by default, you are choosing a religion.

It may or may not be called a “religion;” it may be a combination of various beliefs you have observed, but all of us are following beliefs that have been presented to us in this construct.

We do not have our own beliefs or religions. Since we are born with no experiential knowledge, all information we receive is from other humans. Whether it be the recorders of the Bible, or the producers of mainstream media, each of us is choosing—every day—which information to accept and which to reject.

Of course, God being the Creator, can control or change all aspects of the construct, but the purpose of the construct is to challenge and teach His children, so He gives us a high level of free will.

So, you are indeed free to choose your own path. And once you realize that you are in a construct, the choices become more meaningful. The idea is for each of us to take a look at all of the information available and choose the best path available to us.

Based on the landscape of information provided to us in this construct, I am convinced that Jesus is hands-down the obvious choice.

Question 6: Why Christianity? Why not other religions?

Once you look at the information presented in this Creation—meaning the information you receive from other humans, living and dead—ask the following questions:

Which path . . .

. . . is demonstrably good?

. . . is best for a happy, healthy life?

. . . is all about helping others?

. . . forgives your sins?

. . . takes the burdens of life from your shoulders?

. . . offers unconditional love?

. . . professes humility?

. . . offers eternal life?

If every individual was nurtured from infancy to emulate the compassion and forgiveness exemplified by Jesus of Nazareth, who walked the Earth 2000 years ago, would the suffering in our world, attributable to human actions, have existed?

Religion of “Woke”

Despite the fact that the Christian Bible is clearly and essentially good in its message, brainwashing has many otherwise intelligent people sincerely believing that the Bible is “bad.”

There are people today who profess virtuosity in supporting destructive ideas and behaviors, while hating Christianity, a factually beneficial belief system.

I am referring, of course to “wokeness.” Which is essentially neo-Marxism: the new world religion.

Sadly, many individuals today are devotees of this powerful religion because it is preached by establishment media and other corrupt institutions.

If CNN, FOX, or MSNBC say something—no matter how insane, wrong, or illogical—many people will believe it, to the exclusion of all other information:

Other Religions

What about other religions, like Islam?
Mohammad ordered a village of men to be beheaded and kept hundreds of sex slaves. Jesus healed multitudes, and professed forgiveness. Hmmm . . .
Not a difficult choice for most of us.

Buddha? The writings of Buddha can be sound, but Buddhism doesn’t profess to be a religion, or to believe in a creator. Many Buddhists believe in evolution.

Buddhism tells you to meditate and go into yourself.

What happens if you decide to meditate and go into yourself in a video game? A non-player character comes along and chops your head off. Up to you, but, what a waste to have the opportunities of this construct in front of you, and you just sit it out.

I have heard testimony from those who found Christ after being raised as Buddhist.

Of course the Creator has allowed the formation of all of these options to challenge us in finding the right path. But once we understand this, the choice is clear, even for those who require facts.

Facts support Christianity

Once again, I hold the utmost reverence for those who have embraced Christ through faith. But even for those who weren’t instilled with faith, God has made the choice clear with the following facts:

1. It is a fact that the Bible has great advice. The Bible was not created to help God, it was created to help you. Its wisdom directs you toward a more fulfilling, joyful, and harmonious life for yourself, your loved ones, and your community.

I could go on and on with verses here. This is what the Bible is about. Good advice.

2. The notion that literature of such profound depth and significance was crafted millennia ago is nothing short of awe-inspiring. The ability of these writings to transcend the boundaries of time and culture borders on supernatural.

One unusual element of the Bible is that its meaning and significance may be indecipherable to those who do not hold a belief in its teachings. Another aspect of the Bible lies in the depth and breadth of each verse. In a single verse, one can unearth multiple layers of meaning that resonate across different eras, speak to various individuals, and apply to diverse situations.

3. The Christian Bible holds the distinction of being the world’s most widely read book, and Jesus stands as the most renowned figure in human history. Would God the Creator have, let’s say . . . the 3rd most-popular book? or the 7th most well-known prophet? I somehow doubt it.

4. Everywhere you look, you will see intelligent design. Evolution has yet to be witnessed by anyone.

5. It is a fact that we are creators; the Bible says God is a Creator and we are made in his image:

6. It seems to be a fact that levels of creation cannot be transcended physically. We cannot physically put ourselves into a video game; we have to occupy a character that exists within a game. A game character cannot exist in our space; the Bible seems to indicate it’s the same on God’s level.

Jesus came into this construct in human form, by occupying a character. If you occupy a human in this construct you will be born, live, and die. Even if you’re vaporized like in War of the Worlds, or if the construct simply ends, the body you occupy in this construct still ceases to exist at some point.

Jesus, the Son submitted himself to this fact—death—by walking among us, so that we could be saved.

God—the Father—seems to effect the construct from above through environmental means: floods, fire, brimstone, etc. Rather than occupy a human character himself, he communicated through a “burning bush.”

7. It’s a strange fact that there aren’t many other options.

Given humanity’s deep love for their offspring and the enduring desire across generations to secure a better future, one might expect a multitude of “virtuous” belief systems or constructive “philosophies” aimed at guiding individuals toward leading virtuous lives. However, it often falls upon Christianity to carry the mantle of traditional, morally beneficial values.

This is evident in today’s contemporary culture, where Christians often find themselves unjustly criticized for promoting sound ideals. For instance, the belief that it is wrong to kill innocent humans in the womb is certainly not exclusive to Christianity, yet institutions like the mainstream news act as if this is “Christians oppressing women.”

The above is cleverly written to demonize Christianity, while throwing in some “patriarchy” for good measure.

This is a popular and deceptive narrative.

In the Bible, women demand a man’s head on a platter and get it. Another woman gets a king to arm a region of Jews against his own army. Other women are judges and respected elders in their communities, yet others are respected wives and mothers. Many women followed Christ and spread the good news of His coming.

Other Bible verses indicate clearly that women were not “trodden upon flowers”:

The Bible also promotes the fair and respectful treatment of women.

Of course it’s a lie that Christians are anti-women because they are against killing humans in the womb. Half of those humans are women. Do “feminists” care about “their bodies, their choice?”

You don’t have to be a Christian to agree that killing humans is wrong and that responsibility before sex is a good thing:

Waiting until marriage before engaging in intimate relations was for thousands of years the common practice. Doing so in general leads to a happier, healthier, easier life. However, if you were to propose the notion of beginning again to instill this idea in children from an early age, feminists’ heads would start spinning around. The previous norm, the best practice, is now unimaginable to many.

But the facts remain: when individuals have a history and an emotional connection with their partner before having intimate relations, they create a foundation of mutual respect that can deepen over time. This allows a loving couple to learn and explore in a safe and supportive environment, free from the pressures and anxieties that can come with casual intimate relations.

Delayed gratification also intensifies the thrill and excitement when finally engaging in intimacy with a trusted life partner. Older couples who have had only one life partner report more intimate satisfaction throughout their lives than those who were polyamorous.

“Hook-up” culture is the big lie, it leaves most individuals empty, unfulfilled, and even regretful. There is a risk of feeling used and developing attachment or expectations where none exist, leading to disappointment and heartache.

For married couples, getting pregnant is a moment of great joy and excitement as they embark on a new chapter in their lives with their spouse. But it’s a different story when a woman becomes pregnant through casual sex. It can be a nightmare, and bring with it a host of challenges and difficulties.

But if you watched CNN or MSNBC after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, you would see female talking heads in “tears” (give me a break!) because the ability to have meaningless sex with whoever and simply kill the resulting humans in the womb will no longer be guaranteed in every US state.

It’s remarkable how individuals whom feminists might brand as male “pigs” and feminists themselves appear to agree that human life in the womb isn’t worthy of care or humanity over the “almighty or&^$!m.”

8. The fact that evil exists with such prevalence is in itself bizarre. The global and banking elite cannot be stupid people. They must know that thriving populations would create the best conditions for everyone—including the elite—and for the Earth itself. Rising tide raises all boats.

But the level of evil of the elite—and their desire to exploit populations—is further proof that something is wrong.

God’s making it obvious that we are in a holy war.

If you are on the side that:

• celebrates abortion
• glamorizes destructive behavior
• promotes promiscuity and LGBTQ narratives to children (while denying the prevalence of child sex trafficking)
• and—the pièce de résistance—supports the absurd nonsense that gender is “fluid”

then I’ll let you in on a secret: (You’re on the wrong side.)

Question 7: Why does God forgive terrible things?

From our birth, God permits us to experience a barrage of misleading information, like the narrative mentioned above. He understands that we must navigate our way through this obstacle course, and He is fully aware that it won’t be a walk in the park. This, indeed, is the challenge before us. And this is why He forgives us.

I’ve heard testimony from abortion doctors responsible for the death of thousands of innocent lives.

God forgives them because they literally were lied to by many, many people and told that killing these humans was not only okay, but “good.” They were told that this was “saving women’s lives” and an important “right” that women deserve over their own bodies.

Evil will almost always paint itself as good.

You don’t convince people to commit genocide by saying: “Hey, let’s be evil.” You convince them by demonizing innocent individuals and good ideas. Other than psychopaths, sociopaths, and teenagers, very few individuals consciously aspire to engage in malevolent behavior.

But most of the time, those who tend to follow the crowd are enticed with simple catch phrases:

“My body, my choice.” Ha! This is demonstrably fact-free.

No, ladies. It’s not only “your body,” there’s another body—a unique individual with their own genetic code within your body—that will never exist again.

What about these innocent individuals’ “choice”? They are not the ones who had meaningless sex and thoughtlessly created a human who did nothing wrong, but now will be killed, and denied the right to live a life.

With such a significant emphasis on abortion, we have lost sight of the basic issue. Our priority should be preventing unwanted pregnancies in the first place, as this would subsequently eliminate the need for abortion.

I have had debates on Roe vs. Wade where I’ve been told that we are “not good Christians” by wanting the killing of humans in the womb to be illegal. They say since the Bible professes forgiveness, and they accuse us of being hypocrites.

Demanding that abortion be legal is not asking for forgiveness. It’s asking for us to say it’s “okay.”

Big difference.

I’ve had these debates with women and often men too. Some have even condoned the murder of infants up to birth, if you can imagine.

The only reason I can guess that otherwise good people would argue this insanely horrible idea is that they must have been involved in an abortion, and really, really want it to be “okay.”

Sorry. It wasn’t okay.

But you can be forgiven, and you can forgive yourself.

The first step to forgiveness, though, is to understand what you did was wrong, not to pretend it’s okay. Then forgiveness—on all levels—can happen.

Remember, we are all lied to from birth by people like Oprah Winfrey and her website: ShoutYourAbortion.org where women can order tee-shirts proudly proclaiming how many innocent humans they killed. (Yes, we are truly through the looking glass here.)

I would venture that the least feminine action a woman can take is to kill her own children (maternal filicide). Yet, women are out marching in the streets for the right to kill their own children in the womb. I have yet to find feminist organizations online that don’t list “reproductive rights” as their #1 “cause.”

So they call themselves “feminists” when the majority of ideas they promote are anti-women.

Not only that, our perverted society glamorizes meaningless intimate relations and promotes selfishness throughout our culture.

Thus, God allows us to be born into these lies, so that we are challenged to figure our way out:

So take responsibility, and admit you were wrong. (It’s amazing how many people have a hard time doing this.)

Then, vow not to kill any more humans! (Call me crazy.) And finally—for heaven’s sake—stop defending and celebrating abortion.

When you continue to deny that abortion is wrong, you are perpetuating lies and encouraging irresponsible behavior of others. This denial—rather than making what you did “okay”—only makes you responsible for even more innocent deaths.

Admit you were wrong. Don’t do it again. Help others avoid the same behaviors, and voilà, you are not only forgiven, but God will celebrate your return:

The farther someone strays from the path, the more his return is celebrated: