{"id":602,"date":"2016-10-10T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogaumont.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2017-02-14T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T17:46:14","slug":"a-choice-of-but-two-things-worldview-series-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/10\/a-choice-of-but-two-things-worldview-series-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"A Choice Of But Two Things: Worldview Series (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Choice Of But Two Things: Worldview Series (Part 4) by L\u00e9o Gaumont\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kIKV1E2BdxE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Christians actually have it simple. It really boils down to the fact that we actually have but two choices. Simple, but not necessarily easy.<\/p>\n<p>From the Christian perspective, we\u2019re either going to serve the little god (man), who\u2019d like to be God, or the real God. We\u2019re either going to do things that will ultimately lead to destruction, which the Scriptures refer to as things on earth or we\u2019re going to concentrate on the things of God and reap accordingly. Simple, but not necessarily easy.<\/p>\n<p>So, we\u2019ve got Heaven and Hell, and then we\u2019ve got good and bad. It really is a matter of you\u2019re being bad or you\u2019re being good, of you\u2019re being disobedient or you\u2019re being obedient to scriptural directives. Ultimately, you\u2019re going to reap what you sow in the form of the curse, or the blessing. Simple, but not necessarily easy.<\/p>\n<p>You notice there really are only two choices here. We can believe a lie, and operate in fear, or we can believe in the truth, and operate in faith. Put another way, we can be against Him\u2014the scripture refers to that as pleasing man\u2014or we can be for Him, which the scripture refers to as pleasing God. The focus is either the temporal or the eternal. Simple, but not necessarily easy.<\/p>\n<p>Really, when you look at the scripture, we can ask \u201cWhere are the greys in scripture? There are none. We\u2019re on one side or on the other. There are no greys. Relativism has no place or support in scripture. The choice is simple, but not necessarily easy.<\/p>\n<p>I have a theory about what greys are. There\u2019s a book called\u00a0The Screwtape Letters\u00a0by C.S. Lewis. Reading it is a must, if you enjoy bending your brain a little. It\u2019s a book that\u2019s written about a senior devil instructing a junior devil in the art of temptation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really hard to read after you\u2019re been reading the Bible, which is teaching you how to do good things, and then you\u2019re reading a book that\u2019s teaching you how to do all the bad things. But it\u2019s worth the brain bend just to get a perspective on what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I was the devil, and I did not want you to believe in the one true God, what would I do? I\u2019d get rid of the black and white. I\u2019d get rid of the idea of right and wrong. I\u2019d create a whole bunch of greys and I\u2019d make both ends extreme, then I would introduce all kinds of evil as choice on the notion of there not being a right or wrong, truth or lies. No black and whites, just grays. Isn\u2019t that what the world does?<\/p>\n<p>We are constantly fed greys. We are supposed to accept the \u201cprogressive\u201d notion that everything is ok because nothing in and off itself is right or wrong. Nothing but greys.<\/p>\n<p>If you challenge this thinking and suggest that there are absolutes in morality, you\u2019re going to find that you\u2019re not going to get a lot of support for your position, you are actually stepping on somebody else\u2019s faith system. One where there is no truth, no absolutes and freedom for all to do as they wish.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is not the freedom to do as we wish that is at issue here, but where will it lead us? You can be worldly-minded or you can be Heavenly-minded. For true believers, it is actually that simple. It is not, however, necessarily easy.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-602-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/lg-wp-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WV4Aud.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lg-wp-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WV4Aud.mp3\">https:\/\/lg-wp-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WV4Aud.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians actually have it simple. It really boils down to the fact that we actually have but two choices. Simple, but not necessarily easy. From the Christian perspective, we\u2019re either going to serve the little god (man), who\u2019d like to be God, or the real God. We\u2019re either going to do things that will ultimately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/10\/a-choice-of-but-two-things-worldview-series-part-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Choice Of But Two Things: Worldview Series (Part 4)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog2017","category-worldview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leogaumont.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}