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Yes but also by modern secular western societies as well. Theres some elements of Viking beliefs coming in but also New Age Mysticism such as crystals, Moon and Sun worship and making the earths elements like spirits of gods. Even Hollywood and celebs become godlike and worshipped and if you look at their events you see all the trappings of idol worship.
Christ also acknowledges their existence as false prophets. He knew there would be copycats and warned us. Todays gods are very cunning. At least with the old pagan gods you could call them out today. Its just a calved rock. Its an unconscious lump of inanimate material and can do nothing. Look we can even see the atoms and they are not gods lol.
But just like when Abraham was called by the one true God there can only be one God if God is the creator and moral law and truth giver. Without truth and authority the pagan gods begin to compete and undermine each other until there is chaos.
Just like today we know there can only be one truth. Many truths is a logical fallacy. The greatest lie the false gods have manage is to convince people there is no truth in a Post Modernist and relativistic world.
Because no one is sure and everything is acceptable. Hamas and Hezbullah can be rationalised as the victim and doing good and the truth is rationalised as being bad.
How do we measure the truth. Christ told us He is the truth. So we can expose the radical Islamists as evil because their actions don't align with Christs truth. With His 2nd greatest commandment. Which also happens to align with most of our Rights, laws and Declarations.
This is a good point and I didn't think of it in this context. When you take a step back and consider all the religions and ideologies which are so varied that you could get lost in which one to believe in or not. It seems when it comes down to it everything leads to Christ.
As Christ is the truth and the world is for many truths then there will come a showdown between truths until one is left standing. That is the nature of truth as there can only be one truth. So as you stand on that truth and the more the world becomes untruths the more you are in conflict.
Yes as mentioned today there are 100s of ways to pervert Gods truth. The thing with Islam is that it has used an obvious truth to Christians and Jews of the Old Testament GOd and they have percerted it fundementally. Its so obvious.
But it seems in a strange and contradictory way this has aligned with western progressive ideology. So you get Queers for Palestine or students who should know better if they are taught critical thinking, a principle of free thinking are for the extermination of the Jews.
Its this weird amalgamation seem to have one thing in common. They hate the Jews and Christians. I don't think thats a coincident. Which tells me fundementally its a spiritual war. Its coming down to a spiritual battle and its going to increase.
Yeah I have heard this said a lot. Oprah did it, the View women do it, celebs do it while all claiming to be Christians. This is the new truth being pushed. The all encompassing, accepting, equal, diverse, tolerant and lovin melting pot of a new Utopia. Its very powerful as it sort of incorporates a bit of Christianity without the commitment to Christ. He is made into a good man, who teaches good living principles.
Its very cunning. But like you said Christ came to divide and His truth is the only truth and not many truths. But as with truth sooner or later it comes out. If you notice with all these new high priests making these claims that cracks are appearing in their facade. Revelations of dirty deeds and schemes done in secret. Their hypocracy will be exposed. But still they will deny the truth.
I read a similar example though not religious or the church but telling of modern society compared to years ago. At the DNC when the Pledge of Allegiance was being recited most went silent when God is mentioned. That is very telling of the Left today. I did not think it was that ingrained.
But then like if you said that the Woke church and society are pushing that there is no one God or no god at all then they are not going to want to acknowledge the one God their own very nation was based on. Quiet a detachment from the founding principles of the US.
This is part of Post Modernist thinking. There is no objective reality of truth and everything is self referential and created though words. Say it enough, muddy the waters and it becomes true.
Peterson does a good talk on the bible as the pre requisit of truth. That is without God there is no truth and that all truth in literature traces back to the bible.
Yes its almost as if you are not in conflict with these common relative ideologies that something is wrong with your faith. You havn't committed enough. The world is a powerful force and we naturally are tempted to go along as it involves our natural desires. But that is exactly what being Christlike is, conflicting and putting to death our natural desires. That should then put us in conflict with the world.
Yes and this matches the Isalmists ideology that Christ is just a prophet. They are almost helping them spread the ideology. Like I said these ideologies blend into one and even conflict within themselves as they are contradictory to the truth.
But Christ is not just made another prophet in among many truths. There is a conceryed effort to denounce Him. We see this with how even Islam is regarded with more empathy and worth than Christianity.
If you demean a Christian its OK. But if you do the same to a Muslim its Islamaphobia. If a Christian says God created man and women they are a transphobe. But the Woke can attack and destroy a Christian who simple expressed their belief. So ultimately its coming down to a spiritual battle between Christs truth and the worlds.
If you look back we see society was more Christian. As time has gone by God is being rejected. Things have become more relative. Christians always objected as society has become more secular. First it was the desolution of marriage. Well even before that things were becoming more progressive.
But as time has gone by we have seen the gradual devaluing of God and His moral laws. Which have been replaced with many different meanings and values. But primarily they oppose the one true God in Christ.
So it stands to reason that the more the world becomes Godless the more this will conflict with Christians. If the current trend keeps going we should see increased persecutions of Christians but also the rising of great Christians and works that will both amaze and antagonise the world.
Relating this back Iran I think this is a time where the world is called to take a side pragmatically. It comes down to what you stand for, what sort of world do we want. A more chaotic and terrifying one or one that supports the truth that we need to at least stop an obvious evil being committed.
One we should have dealt with years ago by standing together on Gods truth but have now made worse. BUt I am not sure whether its too late. The damage has been done, the truth undermined to the point of causing many to be blind to it.
The righteous should not be joyful when the adversary is made to suffer,
they should know it is not pleasant to suffer.
Who is the adversary, anyone with another take on things, spare a thought for the millions buried under rubble,
made homeless, losing family and much more.
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