Deceptions

The world is full of deceptions and lies. Usually deceptions and lies take the form of words, spoken...or in books and art. In art, a lie is any depiction of an event by a human artist or film maker that represents reality as a lie.

Usually when someone wants to sell a lie, they package it up with an appealing set of truths or emotional inducements. That's why sex and flesh play a big part in advertising, and false religions also. The good things that are packaged with lies are prestige, friendship, power, sex, tasty food, pride of position, or one's own accomplishments.

A lie is linked to something else that people love. The thing they love is offered to them, but they have to accept the lie also to get the good thing that they desire. Adam and Eve desired to be like God, being wise about good and evil. Eating from the tree might give them that, but they were taught that eating from the tree would kill them. The serpent came along and repackaged the fruit with a lie: ˆYou shall surely not die.” Adam loved the benefits of eating too much to take the possibility of a lie seriously. He knew what God had said, but he disbelieved God and believed the serpent because he wanted what the fruit would give him.
Let's take a look at evolution. The Bible teaches evolution is a lie.

Evolutionists try to discredit the Bible by claiming it teaches a flat earth. Evolutionists offer acceptance by the scientific and academic world. They offer this friendship, but it comes with a price. You have to believe their lie. If a person is attracted by the offer of friendship with the evolutionary community then they will swallow the lies without doing an investigation.

Is the earth really flat? Not on the large scale. Is the earth locally flat on a small scale in a small part of it? That depends on how you define, "flat." If flat means a Euclidean plane, then there is no flatness anywhere because nothing is exactly flat in that sense. It is purely a mathematical ideal. If flat only means that it looks flat to the parameters of the human eye or the common sense definition of flat, like in a desert plain or a large lake, then those parts of the earth are flat. Actually, the Hebrew word for "earth" (erets) also means "land." One might say that the land of a farmer is "flat" or "hilly." The Bible never calls the Earth "flat" on a large scale. If anything is flat, then it is on a local scale. The Scripture actually implies that the earth's surface is curved when viewed from above:
KJV Isaiah 40:22: It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:"So it should be apparent that very little thinking or examination is actually needed to dispense with the lie that the Bible says the earth is flat on a macro-cosmic scale. Sometimes it is said that the Church believed the world was flat.

This is true of the medieval Catholic Church, but we must not blame this view on the Bible. The Bible was chained to the pulpit most of the time and only the clergy learned in Latin could read it. When the Reformation came, men began to read the Bible for themselves and learned that the Bible taught truth, while the Church taught error. As a result of unchaining the Bible, there was a scientific revolution in the world.
Now, the modern Roman Catholic Church has embraced evolution, yet the Bible does not teach evolution. So it should be apparent that what the Church believes is not what the Bible teaches. The institutional Church is merely reflecting the ignorance of whatever age it is in.

Now that we have examined the so called flat earth claim against the Bible, it is apparent that the only real reason for believing this lie is the love and attraction of the academic community that embraces lies about the Bible as a litmus test for their friendship and patronage. The Scripture says that we must love God above all else. If we love the world, then we are liable to swallow the lie with whatever we love.

Edited by a friend.