Monday, June 29, 2015

The immutable meaning of words and sacred symbols



There is a direct correlation between the meaning of words and veracity.  A person of good will who insists on accurate definitions in daily discourse is a truth lover.  A person who trifles with word meaning is no lover of truth.
Here are a few examples of the highjacking of words with the intention of deceiving:  Abortion morphed into choice.  Sodomy/homosexuality is now gay.  Pride - one of the seven deadly sins - is now marched through the streets in defiance of the Father's purposes.  
God's covenant after the earth-destroying flood was symbolized with the rainbow of promise.  The rainbow has been highjacked by those who know better than the living Lord.

It starts with perverting words.  It ends with perverting sacred symbols.  Foolish.  Only a fool encrypts the Lord's righteous inscription:  I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.  Genesis 9:13

"The LORD regretted that He had made human beings on the earth, and His heart was deeply troubled."  Genesis 6:5-7

Everyone did what seemed right in their own eyes prior to the flood.  It was hatred of God and His peaceable ways that opened the floodgates.  After the flood, God debuted His rainbow.  It represented the promise that God's judgement upon humankind would never come again through water.
Two thousand years later, the same defiant spirit pervades:  Those who do what seems right in their own eyes defy the living Lord by pimping His rainbow.  The gay rainbow symbolizes pride in sexually deviant behavior.  

It is a dangerous thing to make God in one's own image.  We are, after all, the clay.  Not the potter.
Only a fool has no fear of God




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