{"id":150,"date":"2010-05-05T07:46:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T13:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2014-10-17T10:48:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:48:03","slug":"the-big-two-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"The Big Two Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Q:\u00a0 How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?<\/span><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0 Only one, but the light bulb really has to WANT to change.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even Satan’s lies are often 80% truth.\u00a0 That’s what makes ’em so hard to spot sometimes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But — as intended, no doubt — it means that most folks must do so for themselves, since they are even less likely to be accepted when pointed out by someone else. To some extent, that is nothing but human nature.\u00a0 But there are Bigger Issues, either unique to the current culture, or exacerbated by it.<\/p>\n

So, to paraphrase Rod Serling – here are two, “submitted for your approval”:
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  1. There is more utter idolatry <\/em><\/strong>in post-Constitutional, post-Biblical Amerika than most of its denizens want to admit.\u00a0 Much seems to pass for unquestioned “truth”, even when directly contradicted by Scripture.
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  2. The very act of attempting to point this out almost invariably makes one seem “JUDGMENTAL<\/em>“.\u00a0 (Which is, of course, a worse Sin than mere idolatry itself, in a nation which has forgotten Him anyway, and likes to teach in its State-licensed Church<\/em> that the only part of His Word which still applies is the part which says the rest doesn’t.)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Perhaps, therefore, it is easier to speak of such things in a posting than it could ever be “one-on-one”.<\/p>\n

    Once again, the oft-wrested lesson of Acts 15 is a good place to start.\u00a0 Just before the Apostles point out that those who choose to “follow Him<\/em>” should begin their study with the Torah, which was read in synagogues “in every city…every Sabbath day<\/em>,”\u00a0 they outlined\u00a0 the four “minimum necessary conditions” that must be met in order for those formerly pagan ‘gentiles’ to be cleaned up enough to get in the door.\u00a0 (Acts 15:20)\u00a0 Once they got these down, in other words, they could begin to learn the rest:<\/p>\n