Where We Shop

Chuck Colson's remarks about Ayn Rand raise a question.

I'm appalled at where many Christians "shop" for ideas.  We have Jesus' Own endorsement of scripture: that God's word is truth (John 17:17).

. . . Why would CHRISTIANS shop anywhere else ?

Yet many "Christian" websites and e-mails endorse and promote ideas from controversialist and partisan sources.  The general run of "Christian" information pressed on me daily as "the Christian view" traces back not to the Bible, but to Ayn Rand, Glenn Beck, Fox News, WorldNetDaily, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart News, anonymous "conservative" bloggers, and even less Godly sources (if such a thing can be imagined).

In the nature of our form of government...more importantly, in the nature of spiritual warfare...it's a given that manipulative lies will exist.  In the nature of mankind, there will always be those who CHOOSE to believe and promote such lies.

The question is why so many CHRISTIANS are among them ?

Ultimately, the only answer is because they choose to.  Receiving "the love of the truth so as to be saved" (II Thessalonians 2:10) is a choice.

When we want shoes, we go to a shoe-store.  We go to a candy-store when we've decided we want to buy candy.  We shop in a place where we can find what it is we want to buy.

Christians who "shop" for their operative ideas someplace else than the Bible show they're not really looking for Truth.   When they CHOOSE instead to browse the shelves in places where lies are sold, it's because they want to buy lies.  They will find what they are looking for, and they will "buy" it.

God guarantees so: "For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false..." (II Thessalonians 2:11)