Shadows of doubt puritan3/25/2023 ![]() There are definite validities to your anxiety, however, I recommend spending more time reading your bible, and if you can get a copy, read Dane Orthlund's "Gentle and Lowly". Sometimes, that might be some very hard times for us Christians. We don't see it very often, but looking back, He had his and in it. He is the only one in existence that has plan A, follows plan A, and it's executed as planned. We in North America have yet to see real persecution. That the church be wiped off the face of the earth? Historically, the countries and regions that committed the worse persecution usually saw the greatest growth. So far, my employment has only strongly encouraged it. Especially with the events going on around the world. Should we expect the success of the church to be understood in entirely different terms? "As dying, and behold, we live."Ĭlick to expand.I will fully admit, my big anxieties are currently, fear of my belief in Christ for my salvation being in vain. What are we hoping for? Our Lord was falsely accused, wrongfully arrested, cruelly tortured, and unjustly killed. But there's also a white pill of noticing that their win condition is entire hegemony when they can't even secure their own devices or stop people being red-pilled all the time.ģ. There's a black pill of despair when you see how far their tentacles extend. It sounds like you've taken a red pill and see that what is presented on your screens is a narrative crafted to keep unpleasant people in control. There are many double-edged weapons out there if money can be erased, so can social credit scores. Our earthly chances of a comfortable life have always had more to do with the weakness or limitations of rulers than with their benevolence and probity. But incompetence, corruption, and intramural competition remain. There are new tools that people didn't have before, it's true. No hope but divine intervention does describe a previous situation: when Christ was buried in the tomb.Ģ. What prospect is there for the success or survival of the church? Not much. I think there are several different dimensions to your original post, some of which are unprecedented, and some of which are old challenges in new forms.ġ. There's plenty of useless 'Christian' forums which don't have a very good grounding. I'm asking here because PB because I can think of no better place to go. But I'm increasingly under assault by the realization of the reality we now live in. Traditional wisdom does not provide comfort because it literally doesn't apply anymore. That would be very easy to do, overnight today.īig tech and alphabet agencies can, and easily purge us out of existence, one way or another. ![]() Babylon couldn't cut off your bank account, take away all of your money, and in fact, couldn't wipe out everyone's savings worldwide overnight. ![]() God seems to have provided no discernable divine intervention as Christians were slowly burned out of existence in the middle east.īabylon couldn't remotely sniff you out based on who you email or what you say even privately. People are unwilling to admit what is going on is bigger, more powerful, and unstoppable by any means OTHER than divine intervention. There is absolutely no period in history comparable to now. Telling me that God has delivered us before provides no comfort, because the delivery we have been granted has not lasted in any meaningful way since the fall of the roman empire. No one is taking everything that has changed to it's logical conclusions. the Turks invading Europe wasn't as bad as this, roman persecution wasn't as bad as our situation. We live in that world that Daniel didn't. Babylon didn't burn their books, and didn't abduct their children to brainwash them in the ways of Babylon.īabylon didn't have nuclear warheads, didn't have algorithms which can suppress the truth, and didn't exist in a world where there is NO ESCAPE no matter where you go. Things aren't so deadly (for now) but Babylon was largely disinterested in the Jews and thus made no effort to expunge their religion. He uses the same "it was worse before" argument.ĭaniel wasn't in a worse situation than we are. I was listening to Gary Demar on the canon press app. ![]()
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