Should you lock your door, the handle on the door implies the door is always open. But the reality is that were it so thieves and muggers could come in to hurt and steal things from you and your family.
A door to most homes these days has a lock and it is visible on the door so that a person can put their key into it so as to unlock the door so as to open it. A VPN in my experience forces you to lie about your IP address or server location by you selecting the name of a real city that is not the location of where your server or IP address is really at. So no. This analogy does not fit or work in your defense for a person to lie using a VPN.
You said:
When walking down a street with 10000 dollars to buy a car do you carry it out in the open or conceal it in a bag or a pocket so that people are not tempted to steal it from you.
Hiding and lying are two different things. There is a vast difference between hiding an object vs. say lying. If you carried that 10,000 dollars and you came across a poor old veteran with no legs crying for food, and he asked if you had any money, would you lie that you had no money because it would be too risky to help him because there was a shady guy following you? What if there was no shady guy following you, and it was a poor family that was younger but they looked really poor? Would you lie to protect your money? I know. Most would strive to be clever with their words and not lie. But if the poor family was on the other side of a dangerous river or highway that is impossible to cross to help them, and they are too far away for you to speak to each other, your carrying the money in hidden place on your person is not lying to them or to others in public. You are merely concealing or hiding something. But if you ran into these poor people and in the heat, and they asked you for money, you cannot lie to them that you have no money because it would be lying. Hiding the money is not lying to them.
So no. Not the same thing.
With a VPN, you cannot choose an option that simply encrypts or hides your IP address. You have to actively lie and give a fake location of a real city that your server is not actually in in order to protect yourself. Lying these days is not that big of sin to people. But if we were to talk about say.... fornication (sex outside of marriage), it then changes the dynamic. For in our culture sex outside of marriage for a Christian is a... "no," "no." This is good. Well, there are Christian liberals out there. Anyways, my point is that would it be okay for a Christian to fornicate in order to protect themselves online or to protect themselves physically from outside attackers? While fornication is a more serious sin, the sin of lying is equally condemning as the sin of fornication.
You said:
We do not live in the New Jerusalem yet!
It is my prayer and hope that my preaching the Word will help a select few to be in the New Jerusalem. But only God knows all things. Granted, all glory goes to Him anyways. I am nothing. He is everything. For the 24 elders cast their crowns down before Jesus because it was Jesus doing the good work through them ultimately (under their free will cooperation).
In any event, whether you agree with me or not;
May God's love and peace be upon you today.
Stay faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ, no matter what happens in the outside world (Whether it be famine, a financial depression, a diseased location). Let the love of God shine amongst this dark and dying world. Declare the love of Jesus to all and salvation in Him with His death, burial, and resurrection. Preach His good ways and commandments in these last days.
Please be well in Christ Jesus.
Sincerely,
~ J.
