Since The People From Hollywood Display Such Moral Degradation Why Does Anyone Listen To Them

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

You may be surprised to realize that Christians world-wide submit to mind control from anti-Christians for 15 minutes to four hours per day. Yet you do know this. If you haven't been aware of this previously, it is simply that you have not thought it through. Others, with a less pure intent, have thought it through and they are using it.

Christians seek out ungodly counselors to hypnotize them. It's relaxing, they say.

If there ever were a group of people who are primarily ungodly it is the members of Hollywood ... The vast majority are not followers of Jesus Christ and have no relationship with Him. Most of them consider themselves to be sources of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. They use the word, intellectual, to describe themselves.

If you watch secular entertainment, you are submitting yourself to anti-Christian mind control and persuasion. The same is true of secular education and news, of course.

Though the ungodly have always been eager to control communication of ideas, since the 1960s, the emphasis on control of all the various means of communication has become intense. In Europe, Canada, South America, communist countries, and the United States, messages have been controlled mainly by the interrelated ungodly concepts of Materialism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Naturalism, Evolutionism, New Age and Liberalism. In other countries, Islam has controlled communication.

The decade of the 1960s seems to be a pivotal time when these ungodly concepts and their organizations, particularly Liberalism, began to recognize the power of the various means of communication. Now we see almost total control of colleges, universities, public schools, TV, movies, comedies shows, stand-up comedy routines, documentaries, books, educational programs, news papers, news organizations, and magazines. A few scattered media sources and some private schools have Christian influence, but it seems that there are only information sources that are controlled by the ungodly and those information sources where the ungodly are struggling for total control to give only the message of liberalism.

Here is an amazing fact: Without the willing support of Christians, Liberalism could not maintain control of all means of communication. Christians, addicted to entertainment and the media, assure the financial success of liberalism. Christian's support is necessary for the success of liberalism, and liberalism's goal is to destroy all followers of Christ. Those who watch "Law and Order," "CSI," and many other shows are helping to fund liberalism's crusade as they allow themselves and their families to be brainwashed. Most movie tickets bought by Christians are fulfilling the same two goals. Movies push ungodly doctrines such as Evolutionism. Christians bring about their own destruction.

Some think they can submit themselves and their families to this brainwashing and just take it with a grain of salt, but their minds are controlled to some extent because they are submitting themselves willingly to listen to lies. As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. And it is folly to eat at the trough of liberalism for "entertainment." The messages that are taught will tend to say that darkness is light and light is darkness-that evil is good and good is evil.

If you watch secular entertainment, you are submitting yourself to anti-Christian mind control and persuasion. Hollywood will seek to exploit your natural weakness, the old Adam, by stirring up envy, strife, promiscuity, perversion, disrespect, cynicism, doubt, anger, covetousness, self-righteousness, and such things.

If you regularly submit yourself to the influence of the ungodly, you may begin to take on the opinions of the ungodly. You may begin to believe in at least some of the precepts of liberalism. You may begin to have trouble breaking out of naturalism, rationalism, materialism, or other things that are contrary to Christ.

Add to this the fact that Christians world-wide are increasingly addicted to entertainment.

If you watch secular entertainment, you are submitting yourself to anti-Christian mind control and persuasion. The same is true of secular education. What would happen if Christians would spend their time in prayer, witnessing, Bible-reading, meditating on the Word, and praise of God rather than spending their time submitting themselves to worldly counselors?

Since The People From Hollywood Display Such Moral Degradation Why Does Anyone Listen To Them

How can we know anything about anything

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