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How do people get to think like this?
They are full of deceit (peace to you, dear Skals... and thanks for sharing this).
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And how do millions of other people not see anything wrong with it?
Three things: they are blind... they are asleep... and, as the poster states here:
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I keep going back to what the Apostle Paul explained at 2Thessalonians 2:10,11…
"Because they did not accept the love of the truth that is why God lets an operation of error go to them so that they may get to believing the lie.”
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they LOVE... the lie. People believe... what they WANT to believe. And so, if they WANT to believes lies... well, then...
For the most part, people don't want to know the TRUTH. Sure, they want to know SOME "truth." But if one only wants to know SOME "truth"... what does that leave room for? Either a whole bunch of some "truth"... or a whole bunch of lies. Either is lacking, though.
But they don't want to know the FULL truth. Not about God, not about Christ... and most importantly, not about themselves. They WANT to be lied to. They want to hear... what they WANT to hear ("Oooh, you're SO... good, wonderful, faithful, spiritual, tall, thin, cute, funny, clean..." what have you). They don't WANT to be told where they're TRULY falling short (which knowledge would HELP them, because then they would KNOW where to TRULY put on "clothes" and so cover up their REAL "nakedness").
Nope. They want to be told that they're "just like" those of whatever "crowd" they (want to) belong to. Thing is... there are crowds (
Revelation 7:9)... and then there are crowds.
Exodus 23:2; Job 31:33, 34; Jeremiah 9:2And, of course, they don't want to know THE Truth... which is Christ himself.
That is why it is said of those who ONCE loved truth... but have been hypnotized OUT of the love:
"[They] have LOST... even FORSAKEN... the love they HAD... at FIRST."
Revelation 2:4What love was that? Love...
of the TRUTH.
Why? Because they follow the one who
did not "stand fast... IN THE TRUTH," either. He did not remain IN the Truth... because he did not remain
IN UNION WITH CHRIST, the TRUTH.
May that never occur with any of us.
Peace to you all!
Your servant and a slave of Christ,
Shellamar