Andrew Tate: Christianity is weak?

 I sometimes agree with this very opinionated social media sensation on various issues but on this, he's got a lot of problems in his underlying point.

First, he was identified as an "atheist" then a Christian, and now, a Muslim.

If I break down his comments on God and Christianity, I have to say that it sounds like he's coming from an atheistic understanding of religion being a force that if true, survives sort of like "the survival of the fittest".  

He makes a good point that unless you truly have something (a true faith) you're willing to fight for, then you don't have that belief at all.  

Sure, that makes sense but it's a pragmatic view of faith and a simplistic view of Christianity.

For one, his Christian theology is off:

Throughout the Bible - Old Testament and New Testament, what we see is that the Word of God separates people (EVERY ONE) into saved and not saved (Sheep and Goats, Elect and dogs, His Children, Children of Satan, etc.). EVEN AMONG THOSE who are part of the fold.

We see God always having "a remnant" in the OT and in the NT.

There are mixed multitudes in the OT and Pharisees in the NT. 

There are those who come from out of the churches in the NT by which heresies and divisions will bring strife to the true Church of God.

In fact, this is what we see continuing on from the first century - even until today.

Christianity despite what many understand isn't about HUGE NUMBERS but about a remnant, and a true people of God.  

The Bible speaks about the great "apostacy" in the last days;  It speaks about many there will be on the "wide road"; many will say in the last day, "Lord, Lord" but The Lord will reject them because of their "lawlessness" and a lack of faithfulness to His Word, etc.

So, it's not like Christianity is accepting or tolerating the immorality of the culture, those who tolerate immorality just aren't Christian.   And this is what Tate gets completely wrong.

His problem is that he's mis-identifying TRUE CHRISTIANITY.

True Christians will be few (by Biblical standards) and THOSE will be the ones who will fight because they always have!

They will be the ones persecuted by many identifying themselves as Christian and who give-in to the Beast System of the last days, immorality, and deception of the world, etc.

History shows us that many true Christians went to their death refusing to deny Christ and that hasn't stopped SINCE the first century.   Today, there are at least 18 major nations that are actively persecuting Christians around the world (as per Voice of the Martyrs) and persecution has always been the seed of the Christian church around the world. 

The vast majority of those who profess to be Christian sadly, are not Christian.  And that's what he's seeing.  In fact, what he's seeing is the death of Christianity in the western world and if Christianity is dying, it's because there are LESS Christians around... Get it??

He's not seeing Christians.

The Christians are the few that are so few, you can't hear them protest!   That's the point!

Tate uses the word, "Fight" a lot but if his concept of fighting is anything similar to that of the historical "violence" seen in Islam (or those calling themselves Christian in the Crusades), he's failing to see that Christianity historically grows by the blood of Christian martyrs not by wars in self defense.  

We saw that as early as John 18:36 --

"Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”

Christians fight for truth by standing up for the truth and speaking up for truth and those who demonstrate that they're not Christian simply don't fight for truth... As in:  John 18:37 ---

 

"Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."

Perhaps he's confused because he sees the reaction people have to the popular violent responses to critique with bombings and death threats even from the most conservative of the Islamic religion.  But Christianity isn't like that.  We don't force people to follow Christ and we don't react violently to critique.

We simply just testify to God's truth with the Gospel (Good news) of Christ's salvation, and leave it to The Holy Spirit to communicate to people's hearts.

Andrew Tate just doesn't understand what true Christianity is and sees weakness in non violence but he has yet to listen to The Holy Spirit which would teach Him supernatural strength in humility.

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