A MAN POKES OUT HIS EYES TO BOAST OF BEING BLIND
Rational Blindness (RB): "[Those] who are browbeaten must slip the blindfold over their eyes and accept their position as rational. Every decision after that is made using the blind rationale. Rational Blindness is one way that ideology affects one's ability to judge clearly. What one believes establishes what one can see and think." -James H. Ford.
The "Age of Reason" (or "Age of Enlightenment") has indoctrinated and browbeaten people to accept the belief that only what we can know "objectively" is real. This limits our scope of knowledge to the input of our five senses and instruments that help us explore the material world – the cosmos. But before the "Age of Enlightenment" people could hear the stars singing and the trees talking: "the heavens declare the glory of God and the earth shows forth His handiwork." So the modern era might better be called the "Age of Endarkenment."
What we fill our minds with is what we will come to think and believe. If you watch CNN, you'll begin to think and believe like the announcers on CNN. If you watch Fox News, you'll begin to think and believe line the announcers on Fox News. If you read critical race theory, you'll begin to believe that all white people are evil and all Black people are good. If your read critical gender theory, you'll begin to believe that all men are weak and evil, and all women are strong and good. If you read critical Biblical theory about "the historical Christ," you'll begin to disbelieve in His supernatural nature. If you scroll for hours on end watching Facebook or TikTok, you'll begin to lose your capacity to think clearly at all!
The term "smartphone" is a deliberate misnomer – they don't make you smarter, they make you dumber. The average attention span has decreased in the last 15 years to under 5 seconds: if a video clip doesn't "hook" you in the first few seconds, you go on to the next stupid clip. It's not only school children who can't read anymore, it's the average college freshman who can't read a whole textbook in a semester. Please, please read this: 30 Facts About Childhood Today that Will Terrify You by Ted Goia... and weep!
What am I driving at? This present "Age of Endarkenment" is an ideology that has made us dumber, to disbelieve in real reality. Modern physics informs us that "Dark Matter" or "Dark Energy" – some unknown "thing" or "energy" we can't perceive with our five senses or measure with our scientific instruments – makes up at least 95% of everything in the universe, and without it the universe could not exist or hold together – everything would fly apart.
What – or Who – is it? "[Christ] is the icon of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through Him, and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things are held together" (Colossians 1:15-17).
"Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the icon of God, should not dawn on them" (2 Corinthians 4:3-4).
"His Son is the radiance of His glory, the very icon of His person, and upholding all things by the Word of His power, when He had by Himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high" (Hebrews 1:3).
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him. Without Him was not anything made that has been made" (John 1:1-3)..
“Behold, the Virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a Son. They shall call his name 'Immanuel,' which is, being interpreted, 'God with us'" (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23).
"For to us a child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be on His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6).
"A voice came out of heaven, 'You are My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased'" (Mark 1:11; Luke 3:22; John 1:32-34).
"But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, 'Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?'" (Mark 2:6-7).
"Behold, [the demons] cried out, saying, 'What do we have to do with You, Jesus, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?" (Matthew 8:29; Mark 5:7; Luke 4:41, 8:28).
"Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'" (John 14:9).
"Pilate said to them, 'What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?'” (Matthew 27:22). So, what will you do with Him? Believe in Him? Or say – "Let Him be crucified"?
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