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Truth is truth wherever you find it."
(Week 3)
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We Wrestle Not? The Three Front War: The battles that Christians
face are on three fronts.
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Self (we have a sinful nature)
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Society (there are worldly systems in place to keep us enslaved
and deceived)
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Satan (the least pervasive but most often blamed)
A good counterfeit will contain enough similarities to pass for
the real thing. A great counterfeit will be almost identical. Over
the last couple centuries many counterfeits have had large circulations.
The following are just a sampling of the lies that have led many
from the straight and narrow. The important thing to realize is
that each of the following does contain Truth. If it didn't no one
would respond to it. The problem is that it also contains errors.
Separating the wheat from the tares is not as easy; however, as
some idealists would make it seem. That's why it is a wrestling
match and not an avalanche.
Some counterfeits that have tried and are trying to replace or
merely distract from Jesus Christ are Hedonism, Pluralism, Communism,
Socialism, Relativism, Materialism, Pantheism, Syncretism, Militarism,
Pacifism, Buddhism, Animism (Witchcraft), Romanticism, and many
many more.
Discussion: How much deception is acceptable before someone
is not a Christian? Can someone be a sincere Christian while being
sincerely deceived? How do we respond to a brother/ sister that
is deceived? Is everything Black and White? Is there room for Gray?
Illustration: Traveling from here to the Ballpark. If you
travel due East you will need to make a minor modification and turn
North when you get to 360. But if you go South or West you will
first have to backtrack in order to be going in the right direction.
By our nature no man takes the shortest route, but some lines are
straighter then others. And some routes are sheer lunacy.
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