You cannot fight aginst the Truth of the Bible!
This is the one statement of truth that none of us can escape.....no one here can argue against the truth.....but Pilate asked.....“what is truth?”
Good question....
As we are deep into the time of the end....and Christ’s return as judge and executioner is imminent.....
He will tell us all, in no uncertain terms, who has “the truth” and who hasn’t, (Matthew 7:21-23).....but one thing is also certain....it will not be those who hold the majority view, since Jesus has already told us that “few” are actually on the road to life. (Matthew 7:13-14) God’s people have never been in the majority because their common enemy makes sure that he steals them away from the true God by deceit....and self interest, just as he did in Eden. He has no new tricks, but do we recognise them?
Who are the victims of the devil’s deceptions.......? We will all find out soon enough.
But how can we know if what we believe is the truth? The fact is we can’t....all we can do is *believe* that we have the truth....and God will not make our decisions for us....they are ours to make for ourselves, and for our own reasons.
This following scripture is sobering....speaking of the time of the end....Paul wrote...
“The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 -ESV)
Those who rely on themselves in a world where the master deceiver has masked every truth, and can perform convincing ‘tricks’.......how will any of us know whether we have found the truth...or are being fooled into believing that we have.....?
If God, in keeping with the desire of people’s hearts “sends” a “strong delusion” to those who want to believe what is not true....that means that it is God choosing or rejecting us, based on what we have chosen to believe.....he allows us to keep the lies, because we love them. Anything that disagrees with their “truth”, has to be *wrong*. But none of us will know until that final judgment....
Do we see then, that on these forums, all we can do is present what we believe and why we believe it, according to our *take* on the scriptures.....but as to the passing of judgment on other people’s beliefs, we can state what we believe and why we believe it....and allow others to weigh the evidence from scripture for themselves.
Can we rely on God then to show us the way? Since Jesus said.....
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. . . . “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.” (John 6:44,65 - ESV)
God allows us to choose what to believe and when we choose the truth, he will step in and guide us.....but he will not make the choice for us. This is where we are ‘caught in the act of being ourselves’.
Jesus commissioned his disciples to preach about the ‘coming of God’s Kingdom’. (Matthew 24:14, Matthew 28:19-20) It was said to be a “testimony” or “witness” to “all the nations”....but who is it that mentions the coming “Kingdom of God”? Most “Christians” I speak to have no idea what “God’s Kingdom” is. Jesus taught us to pray for it.....so what is it? What part does God’s Kingdom have in Christendom’s disunited belief system?
Our own hearts are at work and what appeals to us will become our “truth”...this is why so many people can read the same Bible and interpret it in so many ways......but there is only one truth...not many versions of it, according to what people want the truth to be.
So, for me personally, what I have chosen as my truth is shared by an international brotherhood who all believe the same things, because I believe the truth unites people...it should not divide them. If there are divisions, that is proof to me that there is no truth....there is only opinions. We all have those, but the reality might be far from what we ‘believe’ it to be.
Food for thought...