How People are Deceived Into Not Caring About Spirituality

[Jason76]

Well, the thing in the Bible saying people are deceived by promises wealth, fame, sex whatever are true. Of course, I think wealth and fame would be more sneaky deceptions. Well, everybody wants the attention, the better quality of life, the feeling they are being rewarded for effort.

Anyway, the thing is: if things are normal, these things are big temptations. I mean, the more normal things are, the more weird stuff - sounds weird.

Case in point: Would you say the gospel message of end-times seems more real than before Covid-19?

 

[Lamb]

Well, the thing in the Bible saying people are deceived by promises wealth, fame, sex whatever are true. Of course, I think wealth and fame would be more sneaky deceptions. Well, everybody wants the attention, the better quality of life, the feeling they are being rewarded for effort.

Anyway, the thing is: if things are normal, these things are big temptations. I mean, the more normal things are, the more weird stuff - sounds weird.

Case in point: Would you say the gospel message of end-times seems more real than before Covid-19?

We've been living in end times since Jesus ascended into heaven. There have been a lot of bad times happening within history and we are told no one knows the time of Jesus' 2nd coming for judgment day.

I've heard that the "church" is growing stronger because of covid because they can't go into the building to worship and they're doing other things that brings God's Word to them in new ways such as watching online and Zoom meetings.

 

[tango]

Well, the thing in the Bible saying people are deceived by promises wealth, fame, sex whatever are true. Of course, I think wealth and fame would be more sneaky deceptions. Well, everybody wants the attention, the better quality of life, the feeling they are being rewarded for effort.

Anyway, the thing is: if things are normal, these things are big temptations. I mean, the more normal things are, the more weird stuff - sounds weird.

Case in point: Would you say the gospel message of end-times seems more real than before Covid-19?

Sure, given none of us breathing lived through the Black Death and few of us alive today lived through the Spanish Flu from 1918. If you look at the world through a lens of wondering whether this event or that event is going to be an end times trigger there are always things that could conceivably be a harbinger. The key thing to remember is that the best we can do is figure something may be a sign of the end.

It can be fun to don the tinfoil hat and figure this thing or that thing is going to be the mark of the beast, but it's important to keep a sense of balance. Sometimes conspiracy theories online can provide some entertainment but usually that's all they are good for.

During the COVID shutdown I had a chat with a friend of mine who works on vaccines for unrelated diseases. You've probably seen the conspiracy theories about microchipped vaccines that track where we go and I was trying to figure if such a thing was even technically possible, assuming blind acceptance that Bill Gates is pat of some global cabal trying to bring in a dystopian future. People online were talking of the danger of this vaccine that could track your every move and yet at the same time carry round that little device in their pocket that, you know, pings towers from miles away and has a GPS chip in it so it can track your every move. Who needs a microchipped vaccine and endless posts to see who is where, when the overwhelming majority voluntarily carry a cellphone everywhere they go? If you want to look for the mark of the beast, the chances are more likely it will be a variation of a cellphone or a credit card than a vaccine.

 

[NewCreation435]

Well, the thing in the Bible saying people are deceived by promises wealth, fame, sex whatever are true. Of course, I think wealth and fame would be more sneaky deceptions. Well, everybody wants the attention, the better quality of life, the feeling they are being rewarded for effort.

Anyway, the thing is: if things are normal, these things are big temptations. I mean, the more normal things are, the more weird stuff - sounds weird.

Case in point: Would you say the gospel message of end-times seems more real than before Covid-19?

No, I would not say it seems more real.

 

[Jason76]

No, I would not say it seems more real.

It wouldn't to someone not obsessed with money, fame etc.. as the Bible says.