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That’s Fine, If That’s What You Believe
By Rob Pue September 2024
the peoples of the world believe in a god, and as long as you believe it and follow your religion to the best of your ability, and live a good life and try your best to be a “good person,” you will ul- timately find God, because there are as many paths to Him as there are people in the world. This way of think- ing makes perfect sense — to imper- fect, ignorant and self-centered human beings, many of whom believe they themselves are “god.” At the same time, the truth of the Gospel is often considered nonsense to these same people, who by the way, are per- ishing by their refusal to open their minds to the truth we’ve so graciously been given. These are just regular, ordinary everyday people from all over the world. Wherever you go, the attitude seems to be the same: 1) There are many paths to God. 2) Follow your path, (your religion), to the best of your ability and you’ll get to heaven in the end. 3) Whatever you believe is fine — as long as you’re a good person, God will understand, forgive you of any wrongdoing and welcome you to heaven. And 4) Don’t try to tell me what you believe. That’s fine if that’s what you believe, but don’t try to make me believe. So, following this logic, believing something, then, makes it true? As long as you believe it, it’s true? That’s really what they’re saying. Ok, let’s see if that theory holds true anywhere in the world...
There are several common attitudes and beliefs about spiritual matters, Christianity and various world reli- gions. Among the most common are: 1) Most people don’t really think about God all that much. 2) They never really consider their eternal destiny, but be- lieve they’ll be fine. And 3) They really don’t know much at all about the Bible or what it says, but they make drastic, sweeping assumptions about it. Perhaps the most important thing to note is that most people today believe spirituality should be an individual, private thing, not something talked about, and certainly no one should seek to “convert” anyone else to their faith. “It’s whatever you believe,” is a common theme. This is moral rela- tivism. “ Your truth” may not be “My truth,” and the very idea of “truth” is an ever-changing concept. What was true a hundred years ago may not be true today. That may be correct when it comes to our knowledge of science and technology or the cost of living or a myriad of other ever-changing things in our world. But when it comes to the things of nature and nature’s God, there ab- solutely are absolute truths, which never change. They have never changed, and they never will. Some things in this world are just plain nat- ural and true. An example of absolute truth is that in all species of animals — and plants — there are two genders: male and fe-
male. It takes both genders to repro- duce. Two females cannot reproduce, nor can two males. Further, only fe- males can conceive and bear children, but they can’t do it without a male fa- ther. And only mothers are able to breast-feed their babies. Today’s Leftist Lunatics will try to tell you there are 72 genders and they can’t define what a “woman” is. Cer- tainly, they can go to great lengths to try to prove “transgenderism” is a real thing — that it’s possible for a male to “transition” to a female. But the ab- solute truth is, they can take steriliz- ing drugs, they can get themselves disfigured through diabolical surgeries and they can play “dress up” all they want, but a male can never be any- thing other than a male, and despite the purple hair, piercings, tattoos, “butch” haircuts and foul-mouthed vo- cabularies, a female can never possi- bly “transition” to be a male. Such ideas are delusional, the product of depraved minds that choose to believe the lies of Satan, the enemy of our souls.
For centuries, people heard, believed and knew the truth about the one true God of Creation and His Son, Jesus Christ, but today, when approached with the Gospel message, people will say, “That’s fine if that’s what you be- lieve, but don’t try to tell me about it.” When pressed, most people seem to conclude that all the religions of the world ultimately lead to the same god, like spokes of a wheel leading to a cen- ter point. So, if you believe in buddah, or allah or Jesus Christ, that is your option, all these are equally valid, and all ultimately lead to the center, to God. If this is your belief, then it’s terribly “intolerant” for someone to say that there’s only one way to God, and we can’t all just “co-exist” because all the other symbols on that bumper sticker are paying homage to false gods and doctrines of demons. Yes, to our lim- ited human understanding, it would certainly make sense that all the peo- ples of the world seek God in their own way, following their own traditions; all
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