The Great Deception
It’s unfortunate that we live in a world devoid of truth. The political arena isn’t just about politics; it also shapes religious thought. The art of twisting truth began in the Garden of Eden. Ever since then, the spirit of deception has influenced the world that we live in. The Bibles that we read, influenced by European theologians with an agenda, have led people away from the truth of the Creator. With so much true knowledge available, intelligent people have no reason to keep accepting lies they don’t realize are lies.
From the day we enter the world, our minds begin recording information that governs the rest of our lives. Information from what we hear, see, feel, and taste. Our five senses begin recording information from our environment. Our environment includes our family and our educational and spiritual resources. We build relationships with people we trust, and we become attached to issues that shape their world. If what shapes their world resonates with our values, we align ourselves with them. As we grow up, we carry the values of those who have most influenced our lives. While these people are good, we are unaware that they, too, have been affected by the origin of the great deception the Serpent used in the Garden of Eden to deceive the first human beings by twisting the Creator's words.
The great deception operating in our being functions like a disease, eating away at our senses until we can no longer receive the serum of truth. Deception becomes a diagnosis we refuse to accept, and it is something we were all born with. The great deception is sin. How to cure it is the greatest debate of all time.
The Greeks and the Romans became influencers who proclaimed their agenda and cure for the disease of sin. They introduced a man conceived as partly divine and partly human, born as the offspring of a deity and a mortal. Then they told the world that this was the serum to cure sin. Once again, the net of deception widens, and the serum of lies further affects humankind. They said that this demigod would die for their sins, and that everyone who accepted and believed would be cured.
Because of the Great Deception, we failed to realize that the sole Creator of everything in the world created the antidote to the Great Deception, which the Creator knew would occur. It was, and is, what the Creator gave us. The Creator gave us commandments, teachings, and rules. The Great Deception will cause us to die rather than live. But the Creator said to his servant in Deuteronomy 4:1, "Now, Yisra’el, listen to the laws and rulings I am teaching you, in order to follow them, so that you will live." Yes, the Creator’s laws and rulings destroy the Great Deception. You can live rather than die. Ezekiel 18: 20 The person who sins is the one that will die—a son is not to bear his father's guilt with him, nor is the father to bear his son's guilt with him; but the righteousness of the righteous will be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked will be his own. The deceiver says we don’t have to believe what the Creator says, and that’s the Great Deception.