The theory of evolution holds that everything in the universe, including life itself, sprang from nothingness, without the help of a Creator, and developed into the wonderful complexity we see today. Made famous by Charles Darwin, it is one of Satan’s primary tools of deception.
When Darwin first proposed this theory, those who denied God’s existence pounced upon it because it appeared to give an acceptable scientific basis for atheism.
Once evolutionary theory became generally accepted in the “scientific” community, like a giant octopus, it wrapped its tentacles around a wide variety of the “sciences,” including astronomy, geology, sociology, biology, and theology. It is such an overarching theory that people began to view most everything through the lens of evolution.
The satanic purpose behind the lie of evolution is to make people doubt God’s Word and his existence.
Most theoretic astrophysicists now believe the universe self-generated and is still evolving, in a complete contradiction of God’s Word. Evolutionary thought led to the proposal of the Big Bang theory by the Belgian Jesuit priest Georges Lemaitre. The Big Bang is now generally accepted as being the origin of all things and has generated other non-biblical models, such as the multiverse of modern string theory. Once a lie takes hold, it cannot seem to contain itself.
Probably most Christians today believe in the anti-biblical heliocentric model proposed by Copernicus, not realizing that the only way to get to there is via the evolutionary universe of the Big Bang.
Geologists long ago did away the young earth of the Bible in favor of one that is millions of years old. Sociologists now view human interaction through the lens of evolutionary philosophy, reducing God’s immutable laws to the whims and mores of human preference. Biology has embraced evolution to the degree that we are now willing to tamper with our own God-given immune systems, thinking that they are imperfectly evolved and need our help. Lastly, theology, in many cases, has caved to evolutionary thinking, too. We are often guilty of trying to overlay the scriptures with evolutionary concepts, resulting in interpretations of the Bible to are contrary to its original clear meaning. In many cases, the scriptures have been scrapped altogether as being a completely untrustworthy fabrication of men.
Satan spins his lies inside cultures like a deadly web.
Our public schools have become indoctrination centers where children are taught Satan’s lies by trusted adults before they are old enough to realize what is happening. Such brainwashing produces what the Bible calls intellectual lie-based “strongholds,” which are quite difficult to tear down or escape.
Only God’s Spirit in collaboration with God’s Word is able to set us free.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:4–5 (NKJV)
Over time, using such brainwashing techniques, the entire culture comes under the sway of Satan’s deception. The devil uses the vast resources of modern media to reinforce his lies with a barrage of deception every day. Satan knows what the Nazi propagandists came to realize: a lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.
The idea behind propaganda is to overwhelm people with falsehood so that they cease to think for themselves and simply go along to get along.
When an entire culture is deceived, anyone who dares move out of lockstep is persecuted by the rest. It becomes a self-perpetuating lie at that point.
Once the devil can get a person to go against his or her own sense of what is right or obvious in favor of a lie, the mind has been captured by deception.
The devil’s goal is to produce an atheistic, purposeless, immoral populace that only seeks its own pleasure and lives without reference to God or any fear of his coming judgment.
The more a system of knowledge or a theory relies upon unprovable hypotheses that are in opposition to God’s Word, the greater the likelihood that it originates with Satan.
We were created to live by faith in what God tells us, without having to know everything for ourselves. Satan convinced Adam and Eve to abandon their reliance upon God as their source of truth in a quest for forbidden knowledge. As a result of our first parents’ sin, human beings are now even more susceptible to Satan’s lies. We are drawn quite easily toward any supposed system of knowledge that goes beyond what God has revealed and does away with the need for God altogether.
Humans now seem to prefer most anything that contradicts what God told us in the Bible.
The world system has erected barriers against the spread of God’s truth, which include censorship in the media and persecution of truth tellers. Those who relentlessly pursue truth will run up against this resistance. The cost for truth telling can be as great as our lives, as some whistleblowers have discovered.
The persecution of truth tellers is Satan’s attempt to intimidate the rest of us into submission to the lie.
Our minds are useful tools when we are guided by God’s Spirit and protectively fenced in by God’s revealed truth, but when we diverge from God’s truth in pursuit of unscriptural knowledge, we are quite liable to end up being deceived, just as were Adam and Eve.
The only escape from whatever fortress of lies in which we may be caged is to fully embrace the Bible’s teachings, even when it makes us appear foolish in the world’s eyes.
Those who desire to be set free must be ready and willing to endure ridicule, resentment, persecution, and even death at the hands of those who love lies more than God and truth.
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” John 3:19–21 (NKJV)
Many believers already have made the choice to reject the lies of the spontaneous evolution of life from non-life. We know that we are created beings made in God’s image, not purposeless accidents. However, it seems that many of us are not aware of how evolutionary thinking has infiltrated other branches of science, such as geology and astronomy.
We have accepted Satan’s evolutionary lies regarding the origin,age, and structure of the universe, even though they contradict the Bible’s clear teachings. It is time for the church to cast aside such capitulations to falsehood and return to the truth. Genesis Chapter One should be accepted unequivocally as God’s true account of creation.
O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”— 21 which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith. Grace be with you. 1 Timothy 6:20–21 (NASB95)
