How we are so good at fabricating and believing lies! In our fallen, sinful state, we do this as we view ourselves more important than God. Adam and Eve set the pattern when they first believed the serpant's lies, then they hid, then they blamed everyone else. David also, he took his neighbor's wife then lied, trying to hide his mistake and eventually committing murder to cover his sin.
Today our world abounds with lies. There is the lie of evolution. All the natural world came together by chance? Yet the complexities on the cellular level show this cannot be so. Still it is taught as truth and fiercely defended.
There are the lies of morality. Some say babies in utero are not people and are to be eliminated, if necessary. Others fight for their right to hook up casually, test marriage without actually getting married, redefining marriage to be something it is not nor cannot be, and each uses their sexuality in whatever manner is best for their own personal desires; never once do they question right or wrong.
There is the lie of right and wrong. If it feels good, do it. As long as you're not hurting anybody it's okay. You're only in trouble if you get caught. Nobody uses such an archaic word as
sin unless they're Bible-thumping fanatics. It was just a mistake, error in judgement, or poor choice.
The most problematic lie is truth. Too many people want to redefine truth. Truth is found only in God's Word. This is the lie Satan encouraged our first parents to fall for; it is the lie he still encourages us to fall for today. "You don't need God," he sneers. "There are other ways, other roads, other truths, other, other, other." Yet truth is found only in Christ who is the way, the truth, and the life.
