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Re: The Narrative is not the Truth:

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Re: “Adam and Eve lost everything because they believed the devil's lies over the God's Truth. Perhaps we do well if we can simply not repeat their mistake in today's world.”Whoa. That's not my understanding. My understanding is:

Adam and Eve were as children in the Garden of Eden. God told them to stay away from the Tree of Knowledge. The devil came along in the form of a Snake and told Eve that God did not want her to grow up, and that if she disobeyed God and ate the fruit she would get answers that she was longing for. She did and that's exactly what happened. She ceased to be an innocent child. She then approached Adam and either tricked or persuaded him to do the same. In some versions of the story, God told Adam not to do it and that Eve had to go. Adam then chose his wife over his father - and ate the apple. They were then evicted from Paradise.

Where were the devil's lies? I don't think there were any. It told the truth. God was repressing his children and preventing them from growing up. Now, the Snake *did* perhaps convince them to disobey their Father... and some might think that was a sin. But if he hadn't done that, just think about where we'd be. Actually, I don't think we'd be here at all since Adam and Eve would still be innocent children living eternal lives as God's pets.

Maybe someone more Bibley (pronounced Bible-ee) than me can explain why I'm wrong. But, in my opinion, the Snake did humanity a big favor. No, we did not become God-equivalents, but in eating the forbidden fruit we certainly became something more and better than we were. For that, we owe the Snake our gratitude.





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The Narrative is not the Truth:
By: Zimbler0 in 6TH POPE
Sat, 01 Jun 24 9:29 PM 		Msg. 53745 of 60008

The Narrative is not the Truth: My swan-song column

http://www.wnd.com/2024/05/narrative-not-truth-swan-song-column/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=narrative-not-truth-swan-song-column

It's been a nice run, writing columns for WorldNetDaily. I still remember when Joseph Farah and I were each trying to start our own commercial news websites: He chose advertising supported, and I chose subscription-based.

His approach is the one that won out, even though both are still in existence today. The media world of today is quite different for all of the independent news sites now on the web. Sharing our truth with the rest of the world still seems to be an important human desire. Whoever would have imagined ordinary people sharing how they view the world with others could affect the reality landscape to the extent that it has?

Governments are also heavily involved in controlling the news that reaches their citizens, and the citizens of other nations as well. And we had better include wannabe governments, too. Disinformation can destroy governments and replace them with another. We are in the midst of a massive disinformation war right now. I'm glad there are people on our side who specialize in that; at the same time I'm glad that I'm not one of them. Sometimes God saves us from things we don't even know until much later in life were a real danger to us.

It's not that I'm abandoning the battlefield; just that I have slowly found out that Truth can actually be conveyed more effectively through the world of fiction, rather than reality. I'm not talking about he said/she said style books; rather worlds that writers create along with the people who inhabit them. Sometimes it is more effective to show people than to tell them. Fiction is powerful because once we see something happen, even in a book, it becomes more real to us than a news narrative explaining what happened and why we should believe it. Maybe that's why modern education has gravitated away from the traditionally great books. Modern education has been indoctrination for a long time.

Always remember, the Narrative is not the Truth. Even your enemies don't believe the Narrative – they just want you to believe it. It will take both natural knowledge and spiritual knowledge to pick out the gems of truth in today's world. Adam and Eve lost everything because they believed the devil's lies over the God's Truth. Perhaps we do well if we can simply not repeat their mistake in today's world.

God bless, and Godspeed.
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