What A Lie!

 

 

The Devil is a liar

I have heard believers say

Yet Satan has had much success

In getting us to go his way.

 

I have entitled this poem

“What A Lie”

And soon it will be clear to you

The reason why.

 

Two contrasting positions

And only one can be true:

The Genesis account must be

And not the Big Bang view.

 

Nothing travels like a lie

Especially one that is huge,

It starts with some scientist

Making science its groove.

 

Reason is clearly absent,

Common sense? Not even near!

Irrationality is the clutch

And folly is put in gear.

 

 

And there was nothing…

Then came a huge explosion,

Big Bang had arrived,

Thus, the grand delusion.

 

Started by you know who,

It was the Devil himself

And then follow science books,

Maybe one’s on your shelf.

 

If you must tell a lie,

I recall hearing someone say,

Tell a gigantic one

Then step out of the way.

 

Long after it’s proven wrong

It’ll still make the rounds

Just like the Big Bang theory

Moving by leaps and bounds.

 

Big Bang is the biggest lie

That ever was told

And to tell such a huge lie

One has to be bold.

 

Gaining more ground

Than the tried and proven facts,

Oh, what a lie!

Big Bang is just that! 

 

 

What a lie!

And here in second place

Is another colossal lie

Staring us in the face.

 

That one is not what one is

At the time of one’s birth

Would at a time not long ago

Generate much mirth.

 

Genitalia was the decider,

Whether girl or boy

And that sex and that gender

Would be for life deployed.

 

But along came the lie

And oh, what a lie!

I can be what gender I feel

And thus, the truth, deny.

 

What delusions of grandeur

Doth clog up one’s brain?

What feelings of the heart

Causing the mind to be lame?

 

 

Big Bang, however conceived,

Can never be a reality,

Neither can this colossal lie

We call gender fluidity.

 

Big bang is about confusion,

It is nothing organized,

So too is gender fluidity

And thus, should be despised.

 

It is really evil,

I know this sounds horrible

But it denies the Creator,

Get it straight, people!

 

Male and female

The Almighty created man

And chose to call that first union

By the name Adam.

 

Out of man came woman

But this was only at the first,

Ever since that first woman

This process was reversed.

 

A man cannot give birth,

Certainly, not naturally,

And a sperm generating woman

Would never be.

 

She may carry sperm

But she was not the source,

Quite naturally it required a man

And his ejaculative force.

 

 

These are two colossal lies

That have divided the world,

Both denying God as Creator

And His infallible Word.

 

Stewart Russell © January 28, 2023

 

The Word

 

 

What comes to your mind

When you hear “The Word”?

No doubt you’d say the Holy Bible

And I would concur.

 

Not the word on the street

Or someone’s word

But the oracles of Scripture:

The Holy Word.

 

There has been much debate

On the deity of Christ

But the mere fact that he is the Word

Should adequately suffice.

 

 

In the beginning was the Word

And the Word was with God,

Introduced at Genesis 1 and verse 3,

Even before the fall.

 

And God said,

“Let there be light.”

The first words attributed to God

What an insight!

 

Herein is a chronology

That’s particularly interesting

And it is revealed to mankind

From the very beginning.

 

“In the beginning God”

Established from verse 1,

This is critically important to us

Even as creation dawned.

 

Next, notice the progression:

“And the Spirit of God moved”

And you are so absolutely right!

After verse 1 comes verse 2.

 

Finally, “And God said”

Ushered in at verse number 3,

In the first three verses of the Word

We have the Trinity.

 

“And God said”

An introduction of the Word,

Right there in the beginning

And not to be deferred.

 

 

In the beginning was the Word

And the Word was with God

Introduced at Genesis 1 and verse 3,

Even before the fall.

 

And the Word was God

Co-eternal and co-existence,

But also, the Word was co-essential

Meaning of the same essence.

 

In the beginning was God

And the Word was with Him,

He was the light that lit up the world

When human eyes were dim.

 

 

The people who walked in darkness

Have seen a great light;

The light that lights up every man,

What wonderful insight!

 

This light was in the beginning

And is actually the Word

That opened the eyes of the blind,

I am sure you have heard.

 

The chronology I speak of

Is not of the hierarchal kind

For God, the Spirit and the Word

Were before time.

 

All three are first cause

As is shown in the Word

And to believe anything different

Is to be more than absurd.

 

Isn’t it extremely enlightening

That the Creator of the whole world

Was not only moved by His Spirit

But created by His Word?

 

Three actual personal beings

That are in fact only one

Present before the beginning of time

Or creation’s dawn.

 

 

God, the Spirit and the Word,

These three!

Not bounded by but transcending time

And one with eternity.

 

In the beginning was the Word

And the Word was with God

Introduced at Genesis 1 and verse 3,

Even before the fall.

 

Even as God and the Spirit are,

So also, is the Word,

Co-eternal, co-existence, co-essential,

Aren’t you glad you’ve heard?

 

 

This same word who dwelt among us

Now fills the believer’s heart,

Of course, I am referring to the believer

That had that born-again start.

 

“You must be born again,”

The Word said to Nicodemus

And it is not any different today;

It is still a must.

 

Faith comes by hearing

And hearing by the Word

And if you have not yet accepted this

Then your vision is blurred.

 

Take corrective steps

And let the Word apply the cure,

Then you would surely make your calling

And election sure.

 

Stewart Russell © June 10, 2024

 

Out of Sync

 

 

Out of sync

And out of step

Is the reason why

There is much regret.

 

A pretense to know

When we know it not

Is terribly misleading

And utter rot.

 

Out of sync

With the Creator,

Out of step

With the Saviour.

 

Inebriated

By the world’s offerings,

Intoxicated

And suffering.

 

Why do we languish

And why are we sick?

‘Tis the devil’s lollipop

We currently lick.

 

Out of sync

Due to a false reality,

Out of step

The new normalcy.

 

 

Out of sync

And out of step,

Overboard we’ve dived

Into the murky depths.

 

Depths of lunacy

And degradation,

Depths of disunity

And segregation.

 

Where is God

In all of this?

Exactly where we left Him

When Him we dissed.

 

Hence out of sync

And out of step,

Our acute drunkenness

Breeds disrespect.

 

Pretending to be sharp

We’re as dull as a stone

Not even realizing

We’re rotten to the bone.

 

Out of step

And out of sync

We animatedly argue

We’re animal linked.

 

Our behaviour shows

We’ve stooped even lower

Having become

Wicked explorers.

 

Plumbing the depths

Of unexplored vice,

We are no longer men

And not even mice.

 

Primordial soup,

You’d remember the brew,

Well now it’s modern man’s

Vegetable stew.

 

We’re out of sync

And drunken with it,

Out of step is our purpose

And our daily habit.

 

I speak as one

Of the human race

That have fallen into a state

Of abject disgrace.

 

Stewart Russell © March 25, 2024

 

The Atheist’s Problem

 

 

The atheist has a problem

And a huge one at that,

They argue rather flimsily

That God is not a fact.

 

A self-defeating argument

If ever there was one

Is like trying to disprove God

By wishing He were gone.

 

When times are harsh

And atheists are dissatisfied

They take a swing at the very God

That they try to deny.

 

 

If only they were right

That there was no God,

There would be no limit to vice

No accountability, no law.

 

If they have a conscience

Clearly it no longer works

For having grown tired of warning,

It has switched off alert.

 

And what of moral values

And of their origin?

Did they not at some time past

Have a concept of sin?

 

 

The atheist has a problem

And a huge one at that,

They argue rather flimsily

That God is not a fact.

 

Which God do they mean

That does not exist?

Can they point him out to me

And what it is I missed?

 

The order of the cosmos

The fine-tuned balance of life,

The structure of a single cell-

All at the throw of a dice?

 

Not even a possibility

When one examines DNA

And regarding man’s creativity

Atheism must fail.

 

 

And what of the emptiness

That only God can fill?

That void in the new atheist

Must be a bitter pill.

 

What will the atheist do

When it’s his turn to die?

Will he finally turn to his Creator

Or will he continue to deny?

 

Stewart Russell © March 8, 2024

 

Cyberspace and God

 

 

I was looking for cyberspace

But I could not find it,

I looked and looked and looked again

Until I was forced to quit.

 

Have you had this challenge?

Looking for cyberspace?

Were you like me, forced to quit,

Having not found a trace?

 

I know beyond the slightest doubt

That cyberspace is real,

I save all my documents there

And it has never failed.

 

To me that is adequate proof

That cyberspace exists,

If you have successfully found it,

Show me what I've missed.

 

 

 

Consider the level of confidence

We repose in cyberspace

That we consign critical information

To this indescribable place.

 

In yonder post office

It takes many to sort the mail,

Not so in imaginary cyberspace

It’s more like a fairy tale.

 

Yet it is more than imagination

Given its predominant use,

It handles billions of documents

And also suffers abuse.

 

It is a very useful facility

But is also abused by many,

Such is the reality with some minds

That are bent on depravity.

 

I’ve never heard anybody say

That cyberspace is not real,

Even though like the Almighty God,

Its presence is veiled.

 

 

Yet, some say there is no God

And to believe in Him is folly

But they’d rather believe in cyberspace

Which is God’s creativity.

 

Some will boldly declare

“I won’t trust what I cannot see,”

But their morning and evening word

Simply do not agree.

 

They willingly trust cyberspace

But yet they refuse to believe in God-

Both for the same very reason…

Sounds to me like fraud.

 

 

Dropbox, iCloud and Google:

All three were created by man

But the Creator of all that there is

Was handled by cruel hands.

 

Nailed to a cross at Calvary,

Hewn from a tree God created,

The only Son of God there suspended

That man’s sins could be expiated.

 

Yet, we reject the Creator

As well as His only Son He sent

While putting faith in cyberspace

And refusing to repent.

 

Away with that silly excuse

For not believing in God,

If for the same reason you trust cyberspace

Then you must be a fraud.

 

A fraud you would have to be

And a fraud you must be called

If you can believe in cyberspace

But can’t believe in God.

 

Stewart Russell © September 7, 2023

 

Not Geniuses but Genesis

 

 

Many have written

On how the world began,

In science and in philosophy

They’ve come with a plan.

 

They have been regarded

As geniuses and greats

And many walked in the past

While some, here of late.

 

One in particular

On whom many still depend

Was said to have reneged

As his life neared its end.

 

He, among many others

Has been titled genius

And the brilliance they manifested

Still baffles us.

 

Their many achievements

And the many lettered titles

Are regarded as evidence

That is considered vital.

 

 

They knew their subject:

That’s evolution, of course,

As recorded in the print media

And in our schools enforced.

 

Beginning with no beginner

Other than Big Bang

Whom I’ve met many times;

I can still hear his clang!

 

Two opposing forces

Or at sometimes, side by side,

Or going in the same direction

Still somehow collide.

 

 

Big Bang may be the result

But it is never the cause,

At this point I say to the geniuses

It is time that you pause.

 

Which report will you take:

Big Bang or the Word?

Regarding the geniuses and Genesis:

Which one is absurd?

 

A beginning with a Beginner

Or a beginning with a Big Bang?

Upon which of the above

Does your worldview hang?

As for me I conclude

It’s not the geniuses but Genesis

Unless of course, in evolution,

There’s something I’ve missed.

 

An empty vessel makes most noise

The winner here is Big Bang

But on the word of the Creator

Time, space and heaven hang.

 

 

Not geniuses but Genesis:

At this point I rest my case

And here I definitively stand

By my God-given faith.

 

Stewart Russell © May 27, 2021

 

Hope or Hoax?

 

 

How confusing it is

To hear a God-believing cleric

Publicly denounce the Bible

And be a vociferous critic!

 

Proclaimed as delusional:

That is, the Word of God,

On the airwaves and television

This was spread abroad.

 

If Christianity is a hoax

Then what does he believe?

What does he really teach

Or coax people to receive?

 

If the first 11 chapters

Of the Holy Bible are mythical

Then please tell me my dear cleric

What in there is believable?

 

If creation falls down,

On what can we rely?

Surely the whole Bible becomes

A colossal lie!

 

 

No Adam and Eve,

No Noah or Abraham,

No Moses and no Exodus

And no redemptive plan.

 

No Christ and no Gospel

No dying or resurrection,

No ascension or coming again

And definitely no salvation!

 

No creation and no Creator

It is all a huge scam!

All this preaching about eternity

And a salvation plan.

 

 

Hope or Hoax?

The latter it must be

When even leading church clerics

Preach such heresy.

 

No wonder the world

Appears “going to the dogs”
For the church the world sees

Denies its very God.

 

This is an indictment

On leaders like the noted cleric

That propagate so-called sermons

That are without merit.

 

 

If the Bible’s first 11 chapters

Are to be considered as mythical,

There’s no hope beyond death

For all of earth’s people.

 

Then nothing is absolute

And a man’s truth is only his own

And this augurs well

Once he stays in his zone.

 

However, such is impossible

For social beings,

They must of necessity interact

As their survival deems.

 

So that all who believe the lie

As propagated by this cleric

Are on their way to hell

For heaven they will forfeit.

 

Anyone who comes to God

Must believe that He exists

And without faith in God’s Word

Eternal life he will miss.

 

For if creation is a tale

Then the whole Bible is a myth

And Christ must be denounced

As being the Father’s Gift.

 

There is no Word of God

And there is no Holy Spirit

And ultimately no eternal hope

As implied by this cleric.

  

What is he really doing then

As he stands in the pulpit

When much of what he preaches

He doesn’t even believe it.

 

Stewart Russell © February 24, 2022