-Caveat Lector- STRONG DELUSION By Chuck Baldwin Posted: January 30, 2003 - 7:30 pm pst NewsWithViews.com
When people demonstrate a perpetual pattern of gullibility and even willful compliance with evil, one must wonder what is really the root cause of it all. Is it ignorance? Is it indifference? Maybe it is personal ambition or the love of comfort. There is another possibility: it could be divine delusion. According to the Scriptures, people who reject truth are destined to receive "strong delusion." They will "believe a lie." I am reminded of what my good friend and noted evangelist of many years, John Hull, recently told me. He said, "Americans today love being lied to." Indeed they do. Thousands of politicians have made fortunes by lying to people. Thousands of preachers and merchants are guilty of the same thing. Americans are deluged with deception on a daily basis. Deception has become more than an aberration in the United States; it is an art form. However, it seems that the majority of the American people today are quite content at being deceived. More than that, they seem to gladly choose to be deceived. This is easily seen by the way most people react to truth. It is rejected out of hand. Beyond that, messengers of truth are viciously and vehemently repudiated and castigated. Truly, most professing Christians and most Americans today have "heaped to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they have turned away their ears from the truth, and have turned unto fables." This willingness to accept falsehood could be explained in part by cowardice or convenience. However, such massive and universal compliance suggests something much greater at work. Could it be that God Himself has sent a "strong delusion" to America and especially to America's pulpits? Could it be that Christians' willingness to accept, even practically worship, a presidential administration as diabolically deceptive as the current one signals "the time of [America's] trouble"? It just could be. © 2003 Chuck Baldwin - All Rights Reserved ------------------------ -iNFoWaRZ LIBERALS: "There is no God. We worship the intellect and man's rationalism." JESUS: "The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good." -Psalm 14:1 CONSERVATIVES: "Bush and Rush are Gods. George W. Bush, our Savior, of the Holy Order of the Skull and Bones Society and the Blessed Bohemian Grove Club of Molech, will save us from terrorism, and Rush will tell us what to believe and think". JESUS: "Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord." -Jeremiah 17:5 "You shall have no other gods before Me." -Exodus 20:3 <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
