Whom do you trust: God or man?
by Don Hank
If we were to be
honest with ourselves for just a brief moment, we would admit that Western
society is deeply sinful and even worships sin, celebrating with carnivals and
gay parades, and teaching young children how to perform sex acts in schools.
Romans 1:25 accurately describes the Western world (Paul uses homosexuals
as an example but this issue ranges far wider than that):
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for
ever. Amen.
And the end of
that discourse on sinners describes the outcome.
...men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
A graphic
depiction of some of that recompense for this particular group of sinners can
be found here.
which I
referenced in my commentary "The recompense of their error":
So why do people
deliberately engage in self-destructive practices that our superior intelligence
should be telling us to avoid for the purposes of self preservation? Or for
that matter, why do they pursue Keynesian economics amassing mountains of debt
that no one could ever repay in a headlong rush to destroy our economy, our
means of survival?
The answer is
right there in Paul's discourse, and this is the part Christians need to focus
on when examining the failure of Western society to manage its laws, its
immigration, its social ills, its finances and economy, etc:
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.
Did you ever
consider what that means?
It was GOD'S
doing. Paul is talking about people who worship nature instead of the
Creator. Why would people who once worshipped nature turn around
and do something unnatural, as Paul calls this behavior in this same passage? A
person analyzing this without spiritual discernment would say it makes no sense
and would be at a loss to explain it in rational terms. Some spiritually blind
(but otherwise very intelligent) analysts say that for this reason, Paul didn't
really mean "unnatural" when describing this behavior, and they
tamper with the translation from the original Greek to make it say something
else. (They forget that in the 4th Century, Jerome, a fluent speaker of koine
Greek, rendered this term as “contra naturam” in his Vulgate Latin Bible).
Well, since God
performs supernatural works—that is, works above nature—then Satan’s works
might best be considered asa infranatural, or below nature. An animal would not
destroy its own habitat and economy the way humans are now doing. Nor would an
animal devote itself almost solely to the pursuit of sex, especially homosex,
the way many humans do (although homosexuality is known in the animal kingdom,
there are no known strictly homosexual individuals that eschew all individuals
of the opposite sex).
These
infranatural phenomena are exactly why we face an imminent worldwide economic
collapse. Economists, supposedly specialists in math, no longer "do
math." Likewise, otherwise educated people who understand human anatomy
deliberately and routinely utilize a bodily organ designed as an outlet as an
inlet, a lifestyle that leads to horrific diseases and death (see here.)
GOD allows this.
Because people stopped trusting in Him and thought they could come up with
their own answers. Look around you. How do you like the results of Western
secularist, humanist political, economic, social, etc, behavior? Vote for
either candidate and you will get more of the same.
This is why the
West does not need more laws or a better government.
It needs a
spiritual revival. And that revival will not happen without the love that Jesus
taught. Americans, including the best and otherwise most civil and decent of
us, are beating each other up because we think this is about people. If people
do this or that, or if we make this or that law or elect this or that
politician, then we can get back on track. How can this group or that group be
so stupid, they say?
But
again, they ignore Paul's words in another letter of his:
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but
against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark
world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
If you think
this is too high-flown and ethereal to relate to your life and the world around
you, consider this article on John Maynard Keynes, the author of our failed
economic system (bailouts and other government intervention that kills free
enterprise):
If we take to
heart Paul’s message in Romans 1:25-27, we can easily see it was no coincidence
that Keynes was both a sexual pervert (pedophile, homosexual, etc) and the
author of the most perverted economic system known to humankind.
Portuguese
version of this article: Em quem você confia: em Deus ou no
homem?
Source: Julio Severo in English (Last Days Watchman): www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com
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