LIVING With LIES

Perhaps my parents were naïve.  They raised me to respect my teachers, the government, and other authorities and to believe these entities acted in my interests and certainly wouldn’t deliberately lie to me.  I was not to trust used car salesmen, “ambulance chasers” and some politicians…….but, these were in a class by themselves. 

Now I know, I was misled by these authorities on some very important things.   In all my science classes I never heard the word “creationism.”  I was only taught about evolution and there were no questions asked.  I knew what Genesis 1 said, but that was ok for church but not in the real outside world. 

Lying has gotten far worse, however.  I never felt institutional coercion to join a perverse government-led movement that told me what I believed about Adam and Eve and male and female was backward thinking. Today, anyone daring to speak common sense is publicly pummeled with a disparaging name (or worse) by members of a rapidly growing deviant movement.  They use a hostile  crowd to systematically ridicule people by name- calling and  strong armed methods…..hate mail as well as personal attacks. 

As many Christians ponder whether to acknowledge more than the two sexes God created, they need to consider true Biblical teaching as well.   Are Christians ready to take on the role assigned to us?  I’m not being divisive here.  But, at the same time we need to hold fast to the real truths of Scripture. 

One government lie sits on top of another.  Under scrutiny, many lies all seem to flow together.
How do you get people to assent to completely bizarre flights of fancy?  By repeating them incessantly:  cancel culture; woke, critical race theory, evolution, more than two sexes! 

What many Americans don’t recognize is that the train long ago left the station and took our country along the line to nonsensical beliefs.  That happened when they swallowed the lie that over long periods of time one kind of creature can morph into another…….something else that has never been observed…including the fossil record with no transitional forms.  There should be thousands.

What’s worse, is that these lies about evolving creatures and interchangeable sexes are not just ludicrous, but they are intellectually and morally perverse.

The Bible teaching is plain.  Government is responsible to promote good and punish evil, but today the government often oppresses, if not outright persecutes people doing good and they exult evil behavior.

Christians should not and must not feel that we are entitled to special treatment, any more than other people.  We live in this country and are responsible citizens,  but at the same time we are set apart for a purpose.  That is to make disciples and by doing so….. we will take on the yoke of our Master who called each of us into His service for good. 

We must always work for the good of our country basing our actions on what we are taught in Scripture.  The challenge facing Christians is whether we will cast aside clear biblical teaching and embrace the world’s view of morality or confirm our faith by refusing to live by the world’s standards,

“If you abide in My word, you are my disciples indeed.  And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32)

Christians need to be a sanctuary of truth; we must refuse to live by the world’s lies!!