2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 (KJV)
“10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The righteousness of God is simply God at work in us reconciling us to Himself, the opposite of that is the absence of God as we work on our own.
We have been taught self-reliance from every angle we turn; Secularism, Individualism, and humanism, has given us rights to refuse boundaries set by any outside source other than ourselves. Anything disagreeing with us is viewed as rejection and militant. Anything disagreeing with us cannot be imagined as right. God working in us transforming us can only be viewed as God against us. After all, God transforming us would be a violation of our “rights of self-preservation.”
For this cause God sends strong delusion helping us to believe what we choose to believe. Delusion is a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact. In such cases God gives us the ability to live with faulty paradigms as we block every opposing idea that cannot fit our choices.
I could expound more on this, however, I will let the Word say what it is saying and let it be at that. We must have a love for truth to hear truth. In other words, we must choose to believe we are not God.
“10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The righteousness of God is simply God at work in us reconciling us to Himself, the opposite of that is the absence of God as we work on our own.
We have been taught self-reliance from every angle we turn; Secularism, Individualism, and humanism, has given us rights to refuse boundaries set by any outside source other than ourselves. Anything disagreeing with us is viewed as rejection and militant. Anything disagreeing with us cannot be imagined as right. God working in us transforming us can only be viewed as God against us. After all, God transforming us would be a violation of our “rights of self-preservation.”
For this cause God sends strong delusion helping us to believe what we choose to believe. Delusion is a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact. In such cases God gives us the ability to live with faulty paradigms as we block every opposing idea that cannot fit our choices.
I could expound more on this, however, I will let the Word say what it is saying and let it be at that. We must have a love for truth to hear truth. In other words, we must choose to believe we are not God.
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