Our ‘Belief System’ – What We Believe and Why
The old Australia died some more during these last few days with the deaths of the revered Judith Durham and Olivia Newton John. You all need to urgently anchor your minds into God’s words and promises, in order to navigate these stormy times.
Bud Hancock has sent a most timely and encouraging article. It will help you to understand where much of todays thinking originates. Humanity is locked in a battle for the mind, it is vital that humans understand why the Bible is the only book that has all the answers. This monkey suggests that you print this two part article off, there is a link below this preamble for you. I reproduce part one below so you can grasp the essence of this exciting work.
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
Our ‘Belief System’ – What We Believe and Why Part 1.
By Bud Hancock
Introduction
Sometimes we must take a step back from everything, especially the so-called news, whether local, national or international, everything that surrounds us and bombards us on a daily basis with so much information that ‘info overload’ is nearly impossible to prevent, or even avoid. During this step back, the time should be used to thoroughly review what we truly believe, and why.
Absolute Truth
The people connected to the mainstream media, as well as many who claim to be ‘alternate news’ sources, and who purport to provide us with ‘the news’ are no longer journalists, for the most part, but are actually highly trained and motivated ‘propagandists’. Thomas Sowell said: “If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”
Therefore we must use extreme caution when reading, or listening to, any news from these sources. It is becoming more and more apparent that they are not there to provide us with an honest account of what passes as ‘the news’; they are there to influence our thinking and decision-making based on what they tell us is the news.
Knowing this, as we listen to or watch these sources, we should be ready to closely examine every word and compare it to the only true ‘news source’, which is God’s Word. The propagandists will turn themselves inside out to prove that there is no such thing as ‘absolute truth’. They fail to realize that, simply by stating that absolute truth doesn’t exist, they have made an ‘absolute truth statement’.
The problem these propagandists have with the existence of absolute truth is that it would also prove the existence of a God from whom all absolutes come. The two main Merriam-Webster Dictionary definitions of ‘absolute’ are: a) free from imperfection: PERFECT, and b) free from mixture: PURE. These are two of the main characteristics of God and His Word, and reading the other definitions given by Webster are an education in the descriptions of God that He Himself has provided in His Word. So, whether the propagandists believe in absolute truth or not does not influence its actual existence, since to do so would make God non-existent.
The Formation of a ‘Belief System’
I have found that one of the things new Christians often fail to do is to establish in their hearts and minds, exactly what they believe. Unless they get deeply into God’s Word, and spend enough time there to let it settle in and form the foundation for what they should believe, they will be easily led astray by Satan and the evil people who follow him in this evil world, some of which are the best seat-warmers in many churches.
Until a Christian has settled the question of what to believe, and why, he or she will not be an effective voice for the gospel. In order to accomplish anything lasting for the Lord in this life everything we do must be done in faith while being led by God’s wisdom. James the half brother of Jesus, speaking of wisdom as being a free gift from God, states that anyone asking for God’s wisdom must ask in faith, otherwise he is a ‘double-minded man’ who will receive nothing from God (James 1:5-8).
When we are born we are like a new hard drive on a computer that has only been formatted to receive and process data, but with none having been provided as yet. Our parents are the first to provide data that we will eventually use as the basis for a belief system. As we grow and interact with other people, especially other children, teachers and then adult peers who have also formed their own belief systems, what we receive and store forms our individual personalities and becomes the basis of what we believe in our hearts. This then becomes our own personal belief system, whether founded on the Word of God, or what is input from worldly sources.
As children, we naturally take our parents input at face value, without questioning its validity, or whether their input is based on a genuine love for us. But, history shows that many people who produce children are not capable of providing the information that will create the basis of a sound belief system, since they do not always possess the kind of love that is required to do so. The children of those people then are faced with a very difficult situation, a true conundrum. Unless they were taught to carefully examine what they are told, and what they see, they may start their adult lives with a seriously flawed belief system, and many of them struggle with contradiction, or what seems to be contradiction, between what they have been taught and what is truth. They may not know it, but, they do have a belief system, since, every person believes something. But, unless they have a sound belief system, based on ‘absolute truth’, a belief system built on the foundation of God’s Word, which is absolute truth, they will likely lack the ability to separate ‘facts’ (think propaganda) from truth.
If a person tries to get through this life without a foundation of truth, he or she will eventually fall victim to the propagandists deception and will end up seriously deluded, believing anything they hear from any so-called ‘news source’. They may then actually resist real truth when they encounter it because it is so opposed to the propaganda they previously accepted as being true.
They are then like some people described by Bradlee Dean, ordained minister and host of the “Sons of Liberty Radio Show”, (https://www.sonsoflibertyradio.com/) who said: “Most people don’t really want the truth; they just want a constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth”. They have then become the victims of the propagandists attack and, unless they are reached with real truth by a believer in God who has the truth living in him or her, they may never recover from such an attack.
The World’s Version of ‘Truth”
On an almost daily basis, we are being hammered with what the unsaved world calls ‘truth’. They truly believe theirs is the only voice that should be heard, and when they are met with resistance to their version of the truth, they brand all such resistance as bigoted, hateful and racist.
Unfortunately, they have had considerable success with their tactics, proving what was said by Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” He also said: “The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.”
It is becoming easier every day to see why the world has no idea what Truth is, having spent many years, and for some, all the years of their lives being bathed in a constant shower of lies, deception and anti-God propaganda.
Judgment on the World’s ‘Truth’
Paul spoke of such people in the first chapter of Romans when he said: “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them (Romans 1:16-32).
The words “hold the truth in unrighteousness” in verse 18 above, would be better translated as “who unjustly suppress the truth”. This is a perfect description of the propagandists clever plan to keep the truth hidden from the masses by cloaking it in their own version of truth. Those pushing the current propaganda that espouses not only an acceptance of homosexuality, along with the entire LGBTQ agenda, but an approval of all who partake in it, might as well have been taught in a classroom by Goebbels himself.
They would also be at home in that classroom with those who deem human life so unimportant as to promote the ending of life in the womb as not only acceptable, but as a ‘right’ to be afforded to every woman on earth. If they are successful, then murder, condemned by God as a soul-damning event (Revelation 22:15), has now become a ‘right’.
To access parts one and two of the whole article click on the link below:
Born and raised in a small textile town in North Carolina, Bud Hancock’s family moved to Michigan in the hope of finding better employment with General Motors. After graduating from high school, Bud began an apprenticeship with General Motors to become a Metal Modelmaker. Retiring after a 30 year career, which included an eight year stint as a Meteorologist, he and his wife moved back to North Carolina to be near his elderly parents. Shortly thereafter, with both of his parents having passed, he started a new career in the bank security/ATM business, advancing from an entry level technician to one of two North Carolina customer service managers for his employer. Retiring again after 13 years, he and his wife of 51 years relocated to Tennessee where Bud began writing articles specializing in Bible teaching and geopolitical issues. At age 75, he and his wife relocated to South Carolina with their Miniature Schnauzer, Baxter. Bud continues to study God’s word and write articles on Christian living and geopolitical issues from the Biblical end times perspective
One thought on “Our ‘Belief System’ – What We Believe and Why”
So true! I was asked to attend a Bible study in our little neighborhood and I went to the first one with a total of 5 women, and no oversight. They decided to study Genesis which is a massive book and contains so very much that it would take a couple years to do a really in-depth study. I suggested we dig deeper…but no, they only wanted to skim the surface. I’ve had it with the Pablum form of Bible study, so I opted out. Sad that so few really love to deeply study God’s Word.
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