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Deconstructing America for the New “gods”

 

About half of the United States population is being moved towards violence or aggravated activism over the “truth” that the mainstream media keeps telling them.

Even very normal, Christian men and women are angered by the reports they are getting from all kinds of supposedly “independent” sources. Which is due to the lack of discernment that Christians often refuse to apply to their selection of the news.

They tend to consume it pretty much as the popular culture does.

Which is 95% Left and progressively biased. Which isn’t really debatable. They don’t even pretend to be otherwise anymore. 

What we are witnessing is a tutorial on how to manipulate the public mind through a massive dump of opinions masquerading as journalism. By overwhelming people with supposedly objective facts. 

Again, as I’ve said in previous posts, if 95 out of 100 sources tell you something is true, then most people lazily assume the truthfulness of those reports. Because modern people love numbers. They love the majority. They do not want to be in a fringe group.

Nor to ever appear to be in some fringe group. 

So, they choose to trust the mainstream sources.

And, as far as most people go, they generally don’t want their beliefs to cost them anything in their friendships, families, jobs, associations, or fellowships. As with their local church or school or job.

Everyone wants to be accepted and to get along. 

And that is the problem.

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A Whole New Guilt Trip from the Church

In this current state of affairs, there are way too many voices, events, incidents, and media analyses that we are expected to sort through in order to really understand what is going on.

Not to mention that we are surrounded by personal friends, family, and acquaintances who angrily tell us what is true and then demand our compliance with their views.

All because they care deeply. While we supposedly don’t.

Therefore, they are good. We are bad.

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Reality by Consensus

Most people today are trusting in what is generally accepted. Not what is assuredly true.

Like what the doctors say. What the scientists say. What their professors say. What their favorite authors say. What their favorite actors say. What their favorite social media people say. What their favorite news sources say.

Or what their pastors say.

In other words, they look to these groups or “authorities” to get the common or the conventional wisdom of the day.

And most people look to the positions and pontifications coming from the many institutions of higher learning across the country. What they say. What they declare is true.

But why?

What Really is it about these institutions that gives them such weight in our world and our culture?

By what authority do they really speak? What is the real foundation upon which they stand?

Some consider asking such questions to be ridiculous.

Because much of the world believes that those who have a degree or two or three are smarter and wiser and more aware of what reality is than the rest of us less-educated folk.

And, therefore, the more highly-educated are given that authority.

The authority to tell the rest of us what is actually true.

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“Truth” Created by Popular Consent

Most people do not delve deeply into the events of the world. They are too busy.

Or they just trust select sources to give them what the truth is. To tell them what is happening.

And what to think.

Others delve more deeply. They may care more and want to be sure of what is true.

Yet, they make the same mistakes as the first group. They trust a limited group of sources to tell them what is happening.

And what to believe.

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Universal Reconciliation is a False Gospel

It seems like the re-definition of every major biblical doctrine is in full swing.

Every word, every doctrine, every major part of the gospel is being deconstructed today.

Just go onto YouTube and look up any major, fundamental truth of scripture. There you will find a host of men, women, theologians, pastors, writers, and whoever telling us that what the Bible says is not correct.

Or let’s put it another way, they say that our understanding of the gospel of salvation or the character of Jesus Christ or the historical record of the Bible is not correct in the way that we’ve been taught. That the true gospel has been lost over time.

And that everyone will eventually be saved after all. Or is already saved!!

But they just don’t know it yet!!!???

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The Gospel is Limited to God’s Written Word

Perhaps that sounds like a strange statement.

But we live in an age when everyone seems to know what the gospel is. Or at least they say that they do.

Leading to interpretations of what the gospel is being scattered all over the map. With new interpretations popping up all the time. New heresies, old heresies, and a bunch of mutations on the new and old combined.

Along with new teachers telling us all about how to have gospel-centered ministries. And how to transform your church into a gospel-centered one.

With very few of these “gospel-centered” ideas actually being Bible centered – let alone Christ centered.

Because their view of the gospel is based on or influenced by many things not related to the Bible.

From all this ministry talk, one might think that the gospel must be a very fluid thing. Something customizable, like clay formed by a potter. Something that can be conformed to suit or appeal to the culture or the times in which people live.

But it is not.

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Theological Lessons from Monkey Island

If you observe those who reject the Bible, they often assume an “intellectual” posture while pretending to be smarter than the Bible believer.

In other words, they presume to stand on a position of authority high above that of those who believe in the literal record of the scriptures.

Whatever type or level of education they hold to is set forth as their basis of truth and their proof of intellectual superiority. Generally, because they have completed some course of study after which they were issued a certificate or title or plaque declaring how smart they are.

And therefore, they are superior to others. Superior in the form of science, technical training, formal education, degrees, status, or some selected facts they have memorized and regurgitated to please their college professors. Based upon the philosophical and religious biases of their professors and universities.

This presumption of intellectual and philosophical superiority accounts for much of biblical denial.

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Kindergarten 101: Free Speech OR Hateful Actions

Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the media has been spewing a lot of poison toward Charlie and Conservatives in general.

But if there can actually be any value in any of their responses, it’s that they now seem to be more open and honest about their hate. Their carefully camouflaged hypocrisy seems to be disappearing.

Which means that their basic message has become more transparent.

That message appears to be the following:

  • People think hateful thoughts.
  • Then they speak their hateful thoughts.
  • Those hateful thoughts are equivalent to violence.
  • Therefore, physical violence is justified in retaliation for those hateful spoken words.

That’s it in a nutshell. Nothing to see here really.

Except a major philosophical and moral leap across the chasm of reason.

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Who or What Will Be Your Substitute Before God?

A man cannot stand before God on his own.

A man’s righteousness, even that of the best of men, is nothing but filthy rags before the perfectly holy God of all Creation.

So, men look for a substitute. Something or someone that will represent them before the Lord. Something, other than themselves, that they can rely upon and stand behind.

This is why the Substitutionary Atonement of Christ is so critical. Without the Lord standing in the place of a man, he has no hope whatsoever. 

Regardless of who that man is. 

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