“Be Deceitful as your Heavenly Father is Deceitful” (Things Jesus Didn’t Say)

“Be Deceitful as your Heavenly Father is Deceitful” (Things Jesus Didn’t Say)

It struck me powerfully as I replied to a comment on a recent post featuring an infographic about the age of the Earth, that there is indeed a resemblance that appears between a deity and his or her worshipers, as one might and indeed should expect.

In the case of young-earth creationists, the resemblance is deception and dishonesty.

Think about it. Young-earth creationists claim to worship and serve a God who placed evidence in creation all of which agrees in pointing to a very ancient universe and a still really old planet Earth, and who rewards those who are willing to disbelieve the evidence the Creator placed in creation because they believe that, in a separately-published series of literary works, he revealed to them that he was kidding.

Is it any surprise, then, that the young-earth creationists who claim to serve such a God are themselves guilty of deceit, dishonesty, misrepresentation, and everything else that falls under the broad category of lies?

By contrast, Jesus is recorded as having said โ€œBe perfectโ€ฆas your heavenly Father is perfectโ€ (Matthew 5:48).

Choose ye this day whom you will serve. The God of young-earth creationists is clearly not the God of Jesus Christ.

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