Our text Bible verse is amazing! Our Lord Jesus Christ told His Jewish
audience that the reason why they wouldn't believe Him, is because HE WAS
TELLING THEM THE TRUTH. Think about that! Why oh why would a person, or
group of people, not want to believe someone who is telling them THE TRUTH?
Volumes of books have been written on this very subject. Human beings are a
strange bunch indeed.
While researching today I found an interesting website called GRethexis, which is dedicated to promoting the values of the ancient Greek world, to benefit our everyday life in these modern times. In an article titled, “Why Do People Believe In Lies So Easily?,” the author gives the following reasons (I agree completely with all of them)...
5 Reasons Why People So Easily Believe Lies:
- THEY LIKE BEING FLATTERED
- THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE
- SOMEONE THEY TRUST SAID IT
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TRUTH SCARES THEM
- Even the most gullible ones, have some doubts from time to time, most likely, when the same person has fooled them dozens of times. But even when that happens, they do everything they can to overcome these doubts and suspicions. Why is that? Because, when they start examining facts and arguments, there is a chance they’ll prove that they have wrongly believed in lies and liars all that time. Making peace with this awkward truth is a lot of trouble, and they know it. To hell then with clues and evidence! They don’t want to get in the uncomfortable state of disenchantment, of accepting that their expectations were faulty. That they have been tricked. They’ll keep believing this crook. As a financially dependent wife would do with her husband; she’ll keep believing he was on a business trip even when she sees the red marks on his shirt.
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THEY HEAR WHAT THEY WANT TO
HEAR
- Research has shown that people tend to avoid information that contradicts their beliefs or way of thinking. And this can be done in two ways, actively and passively. Actively means that they will choose which articles to read, to ignore the speech of a politician they don’t support, and generally to select the information they will consume. Passively means re-interpreting the information you receive if it runs counter your beliefs, judging it or adapting it to match your opinion so that you won’t have to doubt your own thinking. Opting for information that corresponds to your own views is easy and safe. People, who want the illusion of safety, build an impervious wall around them blocking all information that could question their opinion. [emphasis added]
READ MORE: http://www.grethexis.com/people-believe-lies-easily
I lieu of the preceding accurate information, I am particularly reminded of today's raging battle in the churches over the inspiration and purity of the Word of God. Today's average churchgoer is extremely naive, gullible and indifferent toward THE TRUTH. I included some expanded quotes for reasons 4 and 5 above, because these reasons in particular apply to the tens-of-millions of deceived churchgoers worldwide, who've bought into the Devil's lie of the modern Bible PERversions. The Devil is the father of the corrupt Alexandrian Greek manuscripts, upon which nearly every new Bible revision has been horribly translated.
Think about it, if you were the Devil, wouldn't you do everything in your power to corrupt, change and remove the Word of God from the lives of men? Sure you would, and Satan has been doing his darndest for millenniums to rid the world of the inspired Word of God. If Satan can't totally eradicate the Holy Bible, then he tries to ban it. If Satan can't ban the Holy Bible, then he tries to change and corrupt it. And if Satan cannot eliminate or corrupt the Word of God, then he leads men to question it... “Yea, hath God said?” (Genesis 3:1b).
There are churchgoers all across the world, who are afraid to seek the truth and act upon it, so they avoid the truth, choosing rather to go along to get along with bad pastors, counterfeit Bible versions, a false gospel and a lukewarm apostate church...
“Because, when they start examining facts and arguments, there is a chance they’ll prove that they have wrongly believed in lies and liars all that time. Making peace with this awkward truth is a lot of trouble, and they know it. To hell then with clues and evidence! They don’t want to get in the uncomfortable state of disenchantment, of accepting that their expectations were faulty. That they have been tricked.”
READ MORE: http://www.grethexis.com/people-believe-lies-easily
And so sadly, multitudes of Bible colleges and churches have been deceived by the Devil, voluntarily. Jeremiah 5:31, “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof.” Today's horrible churches are just as much to blame as today's horrible pastors. If your church hires a false prophet, or a shady character who straddles-the-fence doctrinally, then you get what you deserve... A LAODICEAN CHURCH!!! (Revelation 3:15-16).
Books could be written, and have been written, concerning the five preceding reasons why people so easily believe lies. Point 5 really hits home...
“Research has shown that people tend to avoid information that contradicts their beliefs or way of thinking. And this can be done in two ways, actively and passively.”
READ MORE: http://www.grethexis.com/people-believe-lies-easily
Yes Sir, that is absolutely true! It is in our stubborn human nature to resist change, and that includes resistance to accept THE TRUTH. John 8:45, “And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.” Many of the Jews in the New Testament believed on Christ, but were afraid of the Pharisees, lest they be excommunicated for associating with the name of Jesus (John 12:42-43). The truth scared them. The Lord Jesus introduced truths into the wayward Jewish culture that went contrary to the salvation by works message of the Pharisees (Romans 10:3-4). Jesus wasn't teaching some new strange doctrine, for Moses and all the prophets foretold of Christ's coming. Acts 10:43, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.”
The Lord's truth telling contradicted the heresy being taught by the unsaved, self-righteous, Pharisees and Sadducees. And for speaking THE TRUTH, the Jews believed Him not (John 8:45). They believed Him not for fear of suffering reproach for the name of Jesus. They only heard what they wanted to hear. They looked up to the Pharisees, trusting them, because they were the official teachers over Israel. The people didn't want to be outside the gate with Jesus, so they didn't believe the Lord. Likewise, churchgoers today (I fear most are unsaved because of the heresy of Lordship Salvation), don't want suffer persecution for the name of Jesus. They don't want to be put outside the gate with the Lord. They don't want to be ridiculed and labeled as being part of that “King James Bible ONLY cult.”
Bless God, I'm eternally grateful for the King
James Bible, and if that makes me part of a cult, then so be it. My friend,
think about how silly the accusation of being in a “cult” is. God only wrote
ONE BIBLE! Does that make me a cult member for sincerely believing that God
has preserved that ONE BOOK, as He promised to do in Psalms 12:6-7? Of
course not. In
Psalms 12:6-7, God promised to preserve His very pure Word unto every
generation. Check and you will see, that EVERY modern Alexandrian-based
Bible version, changes Psalm 12:7 to errantly say that God preserves the
saints instead of His very pure words. This is gross theological
incompetence in the modern PERversions!!! The ugly truth is that in order to
obtain a legal copyright from the U.S. government, so they can sell their
new corrupt version, they MUST make numerous changes which differ
substantially from all existing Bible versions. You can easily verify what I
say by searching through the various
versions available online, seeing how they all slightly (and oftentimes
drastically) alter God's Word. They corrupt God's Word, handling the Word of
God deceitfully, for filthy lucre's sake.
Building Up a Wall of Resistance Against the Truth
Again, books could be written concerning the five preceding reasons why people so easily believe LIES. How strange it is that pastors, churches and Bible colleges are amongst THE MOST DECEIVED group of people in the world today...
“Research has shown that people tend to avoid information that contradicts their beliefs or way of thinking. And this can be done in two ways, actively and passively.”
READ MORE: http://www.grethexis.com/people-believe-lies-easily
This is why the lukewarm Moody Bible Institute
and Bob Jones University camp today won't stand for the purity of God's
Word. They promote and even sell two different, contradictory Greek texts
(i.e., the Textus Receptus verses the Alexandrian text). Folks, God only
authored ONE BOOK!!! Bob Jones and Moody are selling and supporting Bibles
from TWO DIFFERENT SOURCES!!! The man with two watches never knows what time
it is. How can you know the score in a ballgame if there are four different
scores? Likewise, the man with two Bibles DOESN'T know what the truth
is. I've had numerous professed Christians from the Bob Jones camp scold me
for telling THE TRUTH!!! They believe me not because I am telling them THE
TRUTH. Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore become your enemy,
because I tell you the truth?”
Respectfully, why won't Bob Jones University, their president and their graduates seek and tell THE TRUTH? Why won't Moody Bible Institute seek and tell THE TRUTH? Why won't Baylor University seek and tell THE TRUTH? Why won't the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary seek and tell THE TRUTH? I could name a thousand apostate religious institutions. It is for the 5 preceding reasons. They blindly trust their mentors, pastors and college professors, going along with what they hear taught, regarding not THE TRUTH. They are afraid of being ostracized and shunned away by peers for straying from the common consensus (the herd mentality). The following quote, which is from the 5 reasons stated earlier, has Bob Jones University and their graduate's names written all over it...
“Opting for information that corresponds to your own views is easy and safe. People, who want the illusion of safety, build an impervious wall around them blocking all information that could question their opinion.”
READ MORE: http://www.grethexis.com/people-believe-lies-easily
I couldn't have said it better myself. That is why I have been excommunicated, shunned and driven away by a local independent Baptist church on Guam (aka, the Bob Jones crowd) since 2014, after I handed the senior pastor the TRUTHFUL book by Dr. Al Lacy titled, “NIV: The Antichrist's Bible!” Boy, that opened a Pandora's Box!!!
I know the Lord is proud of me, and will reward ands honor me in eternity; but the Bob Jones crowd will be put to shame, lose their rewards, be rebuked and be punished for being false witnesses! Proverb 19:5, “A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.”
