The passage you posted, and indeed the whole chapter, most certainly applies to the current situation whereby false teachers wherever they are, can spread their pernicious ideology across the world via the internet, Facebook being a case in point, without leaving their armchair.
In the post you mention I was trying to make two points. The first point is that freewill is proven when we see how easily people are manipulated by advertising, the media and the internet etc. Matthew 24 warns us about this. In a nutshell, the message is to keep our eyes firmly fixed on Jesus. Those who deny freewill like the OSAS people are on to a looser when they try to deny freewill, so why allow it to be taught?
This brings me to my second point, whereby the Christian forums are an obvious target for false teachers, who come so that they may deceive. They are obviously well versed in Christianity as they have all their counter arguments in neat array. Debating with them is like casting pearls before swine, so why give them the opportunity to sully the Gospel of Jesus Christ. My aim is to glorify God and bring honour to His name, instead of which, I find myself defending Him against those who oppose the Saviour of the World, as only the One God in heaven and earth can do.
Overall, I ask myself, why give the adversary a ready-made platform? Should we not be saying, "get thee behind me Satan?" I certainly do not want the presence of the devil in my home and that is a fact.
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Micah 3:11
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
And, then when evil, sickness,
or calamity, does come upon them? They just don't, can't understand why. And are so resistant to any teaching that would cause them in making spiritual sacrifices acceptable
to God
by Jesus Christ.
Keeping one's eye firmly affixed to Christ only goes
so far! Because sooner, or later, Our Heavenly Father gets tired of Jesus confessing them to Him, and nothing happens! They won't
go unto the Him who sent Christ
to this earth to
show us the way
back to God!
It would seem they will only go as far as they can
rationalize.
And God said "lean not on your own understanding"...."Cuz you
ain't gonna understands it!"
Although Nimrod died a long time ago?
The reason/s
for his building never did!
1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
This "perpetrator's" name has changed over the millennia! But, his title hasn't!
He who deceived the WHOLE world!
