We Believe In Strange Things

I'm going to give you that. We, as people, humans, believe in strange things. If we were to assess the various things that people as a whole believe in, it would span the array of undeniable facts to outright hard-to-swallow things. Yes, there is such a thing as gravity, but there are people who think we can levitate just by thinking about it really hard. Yes, there is such a thing as blood in our veins, but there are those who believe in vampires who want to suck your blood. I can go on and on, but you get the point. Depending on your point of view, or the point of view of the people you trust the most, and what you fill your mind with, just about anything can be questioned, debated, and accepted as either false or fact. And there can be varying degrees of everything as well.

We Believe In Fake Things

In this world of people valuing the truth to avoid hurting people or being hurt by people, and social media giants employing whole groups of people to decide how true something is, a popular term is, I hate to say it, fake news. In the information age, detecting the difference and assigning the label of fake news is a cottage industry now, filled with those who can drill down to get to the bottom line of such discernment. And woe be to the person who is duped by fake claims and is led down a path of certain destruction, perishing in the flames of faux facts.

Isn't it a good thing we have those who care enough to think for us when we obviously can't do it for ourselves? How did past generations even get out of bed without all the knowledge we have at our disposal? Just a little bit of sarcasm there. Just kind of warning you.

We Believe In False Things

Some of these things are so outlandish now that we even thought about them, but we used to believe them. It wasn't that long ago we believed the world was flat. Some people still do. And that the sun and all other planets revolved around the earth. We also comically thought that in the event of a nuclear bombing, we could survive by hiding under our desks in school. And we had these drills, and we'd do them like, I don't know, every month or something. They'd do the alarms, the sirens and everything, and we'd have to hide under our desks in case a nuclear bomb went off outside the building. And I'm thinking to myself now, that wouldn't have saved us from anything. But that's what we thought. I mean, that was the thing. We built the bunkers underground, and you know, we're going to live there for who knows how long. And that was very real. If you want to search that online, you can find those things that actually did exist. But in light of what we know now, it wouldn't have done anything for us.

More False Things

We believed that if humans traveled faster than 30 miles an hour, we would suffocate because we wouldn't be able to breathe because of the air rushing past us. That was before trains were being made, and there were so many people that said, “You can't ride on those trains. If they go faster than 30 miles an hour, people are going to die.” In medieval Britain, it was thought that tiny demons hid between the leaves of sprouts and cabbage leaves, and that you could cure this by cutting a cross in the base of the vegetables. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato believed that the reason we can see is because our eyes generate invisible beams which pass back information about the objects they trust. I know this will make you pause, but coffee doesn't stunt your growth, and swimming right after eating will not give you cramps. I know you've heard that. It's not true. And then, of course, cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis, which is not true, nor is the belief that it takes seven years to digest gum. Don't swallow your gum, folks, and quit cracking your knuckles and all these things. I even heard those things, and it's not true.

We Believe In Things That We Can't Prove

Reincarnation can't be proven. There are so many flaws in this belief, it literally is funny.

And we believe in a myriad of lost races and continents like Atlantis, as well as belief in karma, which dovetails with reincarnation and teaches that we get what we deserve based on our actions from a previous life. Although some think it only happens in our lifetime, which is not really what it means. We believe in ghosts, UFOs, extraterrestrials, pantheism, where everything is God and God is everything. A significant number of people are more than open to healing from crystals, chakras, Reiki, meditation, yoga, and more. We believe in telepathy, psychic readings, tarot cards, numerology, and other forms of fortune telling. This isn't new overall, but there's one trend that is very troubling to Christians, and that is there are a lot of people who call themselves believers who feel the same way.

The New Age Is In The Church

If you didn't think it was, it is. It's been happening to the church since the 70s, but it's really taken off now, and it's concerning. According to a poll conducted by the website YouGov.com, nine out of ten people polled believe all the previous things mentioned I talked about, and about a third of them said they were religious. So, if you do the numbers, that's a third of them. The numbers include Christians, and I don't know about you, but that's a troubling trend indeed.

And yet it makes sense when you consider how bombarded we are with those beliefs in the media of every form. We accept it in large and small doses, and our children are getting it from shows they watch from the earliest of video ages. Video games are filled with it, and books for children and teens inundate the young and impressionable of our society. Christian parents run the risk of their children hating them for not letting them have access to all these venues, and all too often cave in when they know it's wrong, no matter how it's packaged. And a lot of people are trying to shield their children from all these influences, and it really is almost impossible to do. You have to lock your kids up in rooms and then not let them watch any media. You just can't simply do it. I mean, the Bible says we're supposed to be in the world but not of it. But how do we protect our children from this? And then, of course, if they all say, “This friend, we went to the friend's house, they were able to watch this, and their parents are Christians. Why can't we?” It happens all the time. While this is all a major concern, and it should be, something else doesn't make sense. What's that?

The Bible's Full Of Supernatural

Well, you see, if you're going to be believing in the supernatural,. If you want to believe in the supernatural, you want to be able to raise your kids on believing that there's something more than this life that we're living, just read the Bible. I mean, it's all there. God intervenes with man. God speaking to man, giving them prophets, and seeing prophecies about Jesus and prophecies about the end times. It's all there. It's all there. And yet we ignore that. And sometimes a lot of people say they don't believe in the Bible at all, and yet they'll believe all this other stuff. It's crazy, but it's true. It is sad, frustrating, and hard to understand how even mature Christians balk at prophecy, miracles, speaking in tongues, and a God who speaks to us if we are willing to listen. They call those of us who believe God is speaking to us through prophets and words of prophecy, they say, “You're hearing voices.” And they avoid aligning with them, mainly because they think they will be seen as freaks or wacky and deniers of reason and logic if they agree with these people on any level at all or even believe in the topics.

How Dare We?

And how dare we tell God how we think He should work? How dare we actually believe He can still overthrow ungodly leaders and judge the unrighteous actions directed at His children, and do so in ways that have never been done before? You know, we don't bat an eye when aliens and UFOs are brought up, or religious concepts of reincarnation or karma, and even pantheism are spoken about. And when we use New Age techniques like meditation, yoga, and the like, somehow thinking God is okay with it, we do that all the time. At least some people do. Why do we criticize things the Bible supports while embracing things the Bible detests? Reading Deuteronomy, there's plenty of things there. Why do we call outlandish prophecy and prophets today, and can't see how God can do the impossible, while we pursue and support aliens and UFOs and all manner of occult teachings and practices? So we make room for some things that we can't prove, and then we say it's outlandish for the stuff that's said in the Bible. Some people just disregard it totally, and yet the Bible is the thing we should be living by. So it doesn't make sense. It's an upside-down, topsy-turvy way of looking at things. And I think if we really want to see God move in the ways He says He's going to, and I'm not talking about just current words of prophets and prophecy. I'm talking about prophecies that have been in the Bible for over 2,000 years. If we want to believe in that, if we want people to believe in that, then we have to make sure that we are not dismissing the miraculous. We're not dismissing the way that God speaks to us.

We Need To Repent

Basically, if we want revival the way that God wants us in it, we've got to give up a lot of things that we think shouldn't happen, and. That's what it really gets down to. Revival starts with the church, and the church right now is dabbling in all manner of the occult, as well as backing leaders who have no problem selling out the least of these by advocating abortion, infanticide, and assisted suicide. Life is cheap, and when God tries to get our attention through prophets and prophecy, they are the most vociferous critics. Yet they entertain doctrines of demons from their leaders, their doctors, and the things that occupy their recreational lives. Holiness is not on the radar, as they might be seen as far-right religious nuts who hear voices and kill people. Instead, they are doing nothing to abate the onslaught of filth and demonic influence, and in some cases, promoting the same, while they accuse those of us who are highly cognizant of the battle and fighting against it as the problem. May God shake us to wake us before we find the churches impotent and even complicit in our own demise and the demise of our loved ones.