The Sky Fairy

The Game-Winning Insult

One of the tactics the world uses against the Christ-follower is shame and embarrassment. For example, “Oh, maybe you should go talk to your sky fairy about that.” We, then, are expected to skulk away like a whipped puppy, with our tail between our legs.

They got us! Oh, boy. The “sky fairy” phrase again. Let’s put that to rest right here, and right now.

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing.
– 2 Peter 2:12-13, ESV

But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
– Jude 1:10, ESV

It’s bad enough in English, but I want you to understand exactly what is being said here, because you never, ever need to hang your head before the fools in the world.

We’re looking at the wording, “unreasoning animals,” and “irrational animals.” The Old Testament parallel is “brute” or “brutish,” derived from בַּעַר (baʽar) which basically means, “stupid.” In our verses above, the term is ἄλογος, (álogos) “without speech” or “devoid of reason.” Scripture sees them as analogous to the dumb beasts, roaming the fields or wallowing in the mud, lacking intelligence or understanding.

The Twice Born

What we are looking at is the distinction between those who are merely alive and those who truly live, those who have been granted eternal life and who are indwelt by the Spirit of God. It is the difference between the born and the twice-born.

All of us were, at one time, children of wrath,¹ but we have escaped the corruption of the world, and been given the divine nature.² Those tossing paltry insults our direction do not have this advantageous blessing.

It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
– Jude 1:19, ESV

It is the worldly man versus the spiritual man. The worldly man doesn’t even have the capacity to begin to understand what the spiritual man understands. It is foolish gibberish to him because he does not have the Spirit of discernment. You do!

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
– 1 Corinthians 2:14, ESV

Continue to Contend

This is all very strong language, but it is accurate and befitting those who attack you with such nonsense as “the sky fairy.” The stupidity of such an argument, if it can even be called that, warrants no response. Thus my focus here is on helping you to understand the antilogical, brutish, animalistic mind from which such a vapid attack springs.

Dumb animals. That’s exactly what scripture calls them.

So your task does not change. You continue to contend earnestly for the faith that was once delivered to the saints, God’s holy ones, you.³ Just as the brutes are dull of mind, they are also stubborn, intransigent, unwilling to budge or change. In some cases, they are tares sown among the wheat, only to be removed at the harvest.⁴

Again, your charge is unchanged. Contend for the faith, undaunted by the opposition, confident in the truth of your message, struggling mightily with all Christ’s energy which works powerfully within you,⁵ In the end, you can say with Paul and Timothy that you have fought the good fight, you have finished the race, and you have kept the faith.⁶

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God.
– Philippians 1:27-28, ESV

Blessings upon you, my friends.

Victoriously in Christ!

– damon

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1. Ephesians 2:3
2. 2 Peter 1:4
3. Jude 1:3
4. Matthew 13:24-30
5. Colossians 1:29
6. 2 Timothy 4:7