Propagandists know that when it comes to lying, a big lie is often more readily believed than a small one. Most people cannot imagine that anyone would attempt to lie on a grand scale or be able to pull it off. Common wisdom is that it cannot be done, but it happens all the time.
A minority in possession of a convincing lie often is able to deceive the majority, especially if it uses trusted spokespeople to repeat that lie until it becomes regarded as the truth.
Over time, such lies, though initially resisted by those who understand what is happening, become accepted by the majority after the resisters die out. Those who believe the lie ironically become its ardent defenders, thus making the deception self-propagating. Once it becomes a settled belief, it is very difficult for us to entertain or accept an opposing version of things. This is why brainwashing works so well. Children can be easily taught to believe a lie, since they have no adult ability to properly weigh evidence. Once they embrace the deception at a young age, they will simply continue to believe as adults, unless someone is able to show them the truth in a way they can receive it.
It seems that it is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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contemporary example of the use of propaganda to propagate a lie is the history of how Darwin’s theory of evolution over time has become accepted as proven “science” by a majority, even though it is inherently unprovable, runs contrary to the established law of entropy, and flatly contradicts the Bible. The quote on the right of how propaganda “messes with” our minds. Tyson knows the difference between a theory and a fact, but he equates the two to fool the masses. Theories, by definition, are unproven.
Satan’s lies are meant to make us question God, accept a version of reality that contradicts God’s Word, and transfer our allegiance to him. This goes all the way beck to Eden.
Satan asked Eve, “Why did God say not to eat from every tree in the garden?” (Genesis 3:1 LXX) Rather than question the serpent’s motives and truthfulness, Eve was tricked into questioning God’s integrity and the truth of God’s warning. Satan went big. He accused God of being a liar.
When it comes to lying, Satan’s motto seems to be, “Go big or go home.”
Darwin provided an alternate version of origins that contradicts the Bible but satisfies man’s sinful desire to be free from any acknowledgement of or responsibility to a Creator. Today the theory of evolution, which is really an untestable hypothesis, has been so widely accepted that the “educated” feel free to mock and resist any attempt to introduce creationism into a science curriculum.
Yes, lying on a grand scale definitely exists and such lies work extremely well against those who imagine that science is king and who reject the authority of the Bible.
One of Satan’s least obvious tricks is to convince us to reinterpret God’s Word so that it agrees with his lies. This clever ruse still makes fools of many who profess devotion to the Bible. Those who fall for it remain convinced of their devotion to God and his Word, while at the same time believing a Bible-contradicting lie. Go big or go home.
Satan knows how to appeal to our imaginations in a way that makes his counterfeit of God’s truth powerfully appeal to our fleshly hearts and minds. For a great example, consider what a grip the science fiction of outer space has on people, who seem to prefer Satan’s version of the cosmos to God’s truth as revealed in the Bible. Christians who love God proclaim that the pagan universe of modern astrophysics glorifies God more than the heavens and earth revealed in the Bible! This is alarming, ironic, and profoundly sad. Go big or go home. Only the Holy Spirit can impart to us a love of the truth and set us free from the devil’s web of deception. (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)
Satan should never be taken lightly. Jesus warned us that he deceives the entire world (Revelation 12:9), but sadly most Christians vastly underestimate the scope of his lies.
Satan encourages us to believe that we are capable of figuring out the answers to the big questions of life – how things came to be, what is our purpose and destiny, what is the nature of the cosmos, and how does everything work without our needing any help from God. This attitude gained traction during the Enlightenment when the great thinkers of that age did their best to “unchain” us from dependence upon the Bible as our highest source of truth regarding life and creation. Little did they realize that we seldom discover truth by ourselves, if ever.
Understanding either comes from God, or we get a falsified occult version from the pit of hell. (Proverbs 2:6)
Satan seems to be more than willing for us to believe that the “insights” he provides come from our own brilliance. I have come to believe that anyone whom the world calls a “genius” is probably an agent of Satan. The etymology of that word gives it away. It comes from Latin and refers to a guardian spirit associated with the person. Many would be shocked to discover that Isaac Newton and Copernicus were influenced heavily by Egyptian hermeticism which is connected with sun worship. There is truly nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
How shocking it is to discover that modern astrophysics is a form of paganism that Bible loving and revering Christians ardently defend as if it were God’s truth while relegating God’s Word in Genesis Chapter One and elsewhere to the realm of rather meaningless poetry.
Yes, lies on a grand scale exist and prosper today. All it takes is for Satan to convince us that science has greater authority than the Bible so that we reinterpret what God said to match what godless men say. Go big or go home.
The unwavering truth is that any so-called scientific breakthrough that contradicts God’s written Word is, by definition, a lie. This basic principle never changes.
Satan has counterfeited a great number of extremely important foundational ideas: God, creation, how to reach our full potential as human beings, cosmology, the Old Testament, God’s chosen people, Israel, and eschatology. I will briefly comment on each one below and provide links to other articles in which I go into greater depth.
- God. In the garden of Eden, Satan introduced himself as an alternate god, asking Adam and Eve to believe and follow him instead of their Creator. Over the centuries, all sorts of other false gods have arisen, each being a counterfeit designed to take glory and our allegiance from the true God and and give them to demons. According to God’s Word, anyone who rejects Christ is not serving the true God. Go big or go home.
22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 1 John 2:22–23 (NKJV)
- Creation. As mentioned above, the theory of evolution seeks to replace the Creator with a quasi-scientific explanation of how all life came into being. Going beyond Darwinism, the Big Bang theory purports to give us a godless way the entire universe came into being. The purpose of these evolutionary lies is tempt us to deny God’s existence, absolve ourselves of any responsibility toward him, and steal from us any sense of meaning and purpose beyond the experience of pleasure and the acquisition of wealth and power. Embracing such lies results in the loss of the ability to properly reason, as has become somewhat obvious, it seems. Go big or go home.
21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:21–22 (NKJV)
- Reaching our full potential. Jesus said he came to provide us with abundant life (John 10:10) if we place our faith and allegiance in him. Satan offers an alternate path to “godhood” that is based on the acquisition of knowledge, which will ultimately lead to our destruction. The truth is that we can only become what God intends by submitting our lives to Christ and learning to live through the power of his indwelling Holy Spirit. Conversely, the serpent told Eve that she could become “like God” by independently partaking of what the devil promised would provide her with hidden (occult) and forbidden knowledge. Through the centuries this lie has taken many forms including the heresy of Gnosticism (knowledge), Buddhism, Hinduism, New Age paganism, the Jewish Kabbalah, Trans-humanism, etc. The rise of modern theoretical “science,” which should be called the religion of “Scientism,” to the exalted status it has acquired today is a result of believing this lie. Science has become one of our greatest false gods that many Christians believe has greater authority than the Bible. Go big or go home.
- Cosmology. Satan introduced an esoteric or occult cosmology during the Enlightenment. I have written extensively on this subject. If you wish to read more, click here for a list of articles. Once again, the purpose of this counterfeit is to “disprove” the Bible, eliminate the need for God’s existence, steal his glory, and alienate mankind from our Creator. Go big or go home.
- The Old Testament. The Alexandrian Septuagint (LXX) was translated from paleo-Hebrew into Greek by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of King Ptolemy of Egypt. It was completed over 200 years before Christ and was the most accepted version of the Hebrew scriptures in the Greek speaking world. It was the version quoted in the New Testament and by the Jewish historian
Josephus. The Masoretic text (MT) was introduced after the resurrection of Christ and appears to have been used to cast doubt upon some of the verses quoted in the New Testament that show that Jesus is the Christ. In around the year 300, a great controversy arose resulting in the Western church’s moving toward acceptance of the MT over the Septuagint, which was set in stone by Jerome’s using it to translate the Vulgate into Latin and the Reformers accepting it as being more reliable than the more ancient LXX. The Eastern Orthodox Church, to its credit, has retained the LXX to this day. I have been diligently comparing the LXX to the MT and find that there are many minor and major differences. My position is that I believe the LXX is to be preferred because it is validated by the New Testament and is an older translation. I find it somewhat shocking that the Western church could be led astray in this matter. Go big or go home. If you wish to read my article on this subject, click here. - God’s Chosen People, Israel, and Eschatology. I put these three together because the false teaching of Dispensationalism is responsible for the lot. John Nelson Darby and C.I. Scofield introduced the Dispensational heresy in the late 1800’s, which contradicted the covenant theology held by the church for the previous 1800 years. Dispensationalism makes modern Israel the focus of the end times and insists that the natural descendants of Abraham are still God’s chosen people, even though they refuse to acknowledge Christ. This false teaching, which contradicts Paul’s and Jesus’ clear words about the kingdom of God, the identity of true Jews, and the church, became widespread due to the publishing of the Scofield Reference Bible by Oxford University Press in the early 20th century and its distribution to seminaries all over the USA. This project was underwritten by Jewish Zionists, particularly Samuel Untermeyer, as a way to garner support for the establishment of the modern nation state of Israel. Believing this lie has resulted in the growth of Christian Zionism, which holds that Christians have a moral obligation to support the nation of Israel in all things, including its genocide of the Christians in Gaza, lest we forfeit our blessings from God. This contradicts the New Testament which clearly states that we are blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ. (Ephesians1:3) This has produced an Israel-focused eschatology (doctrine of the end times) rather than a Christ-centered one and has deceived Christians into unreservedly supporting a nation that is decidedly against (anti-) Christ.
Much more could be written about these things, but I hope you have read enough to make you want to investigate further. Do not take my word for it. Search the scriptures to see of these things are true. Resolve to study God’s Word so that you can recognize and refute Satan’s counterfeit. It is time for a brand new Reformation in which we recapture the Reformer’s creed – Sola Scriptura! Let’s go big after God’s Word and send the devil home.
