Who has the devil?
Posted on February 14, 2010
Filed Under Intelligent Design, Reason, Religion | Leave a Comment
I’m kind of astonished about this phenomenon—more like an epidemic maybe—taking place among the critics of the Higher Law.
Take this one for example from “Mary’s Friend:”
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks, do we really need to pray about it?
That same sentiment is followed up by “Sean:”
In scripture it teaches “by their fruits ye shall know them.” Jason’s fruits are a house full of demons and frightened children, a friend who took his own life, and a British pop-opera singer whom I’m pretty sure will be filing a restraining order in the near future. Also, speaking of Ms. Brightman, a quick google search will show you that, without trying to be judgmental, Sarah’s lead a less than honorable life as far as morality is concerned. I’m pretty sure that if God needed a ‘Goddess of the Stars,’ there better candidates…
People don’t doubt the higher law because they’re close-minded. They doubt it because anyone with even the slightest gift of discernment knows utter nonsense when they are presented it, even if at this point it’s not fully “revealed.”Just as you don’t need to eat an entire cake to know that it’s good, you don’t need to drink an entire gallon of milk to know it’s gone bad.
Or how about this one from Alex:
[W]e do not need to wait until The Higher Law is published to know that what it will contain is NOT of God. There is nothing to ponder and pray about.
The same trend has continued here, on my own blog. I won’t cite specifics in that case because they’re kind of long and more subtle, but can you spot the dysfunction?
If not, let me pose a question: Who has the devil? The person who claims to be doing the work that God asked him to do, work that poses no threat to any belief system that isn’t false and no threat to anyone that isn’t interested in unrighteous tyranny, or the person who engages in prolonged attacks against that person without even knowing anything about it while refusing to pray about it?
Sean is quick to run to the scriptures with the oft quoted, “by their fruits ye shall know them.” There’s nothing wrong with going to the scriptures, but sadly for Sean, the scriptures aren’t enough to know their fruits. That’s why the scriptures are literally full of statements that practically beg for us to pray about such things: “ask and ye shall receive,” “…let him ask of God…and it shall be given him,” “ask God…if these things are not true.”
The amazing thing to me is how resistant to praying about it these people all are. They are all quick to try to put their spiritual guidance on display by citing scriptures and such, but not a one of them can say that they have prayed to know whether or not it’s true. In fact, in the case of “Mary’s Friend” (s)he goes as far as to effectively say that prayer isn’t necessary: “…do we really need to pray about it?”
Well let me cite a little scripture myself:
And now, my beloved brethren, I perceive that ye ponder still in your hearts; and it grieveth me that I must speak concerning this thing. For if ye would hearken unto the Spirit which teacheth a man to pray ye would know that ye must pray; for the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray.
So let me ask again: who has the devil, the person who prays constantly to do what the Lord asks or the one who refuses to pray to find out if it’s true?
Here’s another question for the “Mary’s Friend” types: there was a guy about 2000 years ago who claimed to be the Son of God and that he died and then came back to life. His whole life people rejected him because he made these outrageous claims. That guy had to be crazy, right? I mean, coming back from the dead? No one else has ever done that, science can’t prove it. I heard he was even accosted by demons and even the devil himself once. So hey, if it walks like a duck…
(Just watch, the argument is now going to turn into “Oh, so you’re comparing Jason to Jesus now?” Classic misdirection to try to put me on the defensive and avoid facing the fact that pretty much everything relating to religion is pretty crazy if you think about it with purely secular perspective, i.e. without praying about it.)
Comments
Leave a Reply