" Behavior Affected by Belief "

Psalm 10:1-12  " Why stand THOU afar off, O LORD ? why hide THOU THYSELF in times of trouble ? The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after GOD: GOD is not in all his thoughts. His ways are always grievous, THY judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them. He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net. He crouches, and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. He has said in his heart, GOD has forgotten: HE hides HIS face; HE will never see it. Arise, O LORD; O GOD, lift up THINE hand: forget not the humble."

     How a person behaves is vitally connected to what a person believes. Many today believe the satanic lie of evolution, and this has affected human behavior in a major way. For example, leading Nazis and German biologists revealed in their writings that Darwin's theory had a major influence upon Nazi race policies. Although it is no easy task to assess the conflicting motives of Hitler and his supporters, Darwin-inspired eugenics clearly played a critical role. If the Nazi Party had fully embraced and consistently acted on the belief that all humans were descendants of Adam and Eve and equal before the CREATOR GOD, as taught in Scripture, the Holocaust never would have occurred. If a person believes he owes his existence to blind chance, then he can find no real purpose or meaning to his existence. Such a hopeless worldview often leads to lawless conduct since no accountability to a HIGHER BEING is conceded.

     Before his death, convicted mass-murderer Jeffrey Dahmer stated the following on the NBC program Dateline (November 29, 1984):  "If a person doesn't think that there is a GOD to be accountable to, then what's the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges ? That's how I though anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing, and I've since come to believe that the LORD JESUS CHRIST is truly GOD, and I believe that I, as well as everyone else, will be accountable to HIM." Only a vibrant faith in GOD and HIS inerrant WORD can counter the godless philosophies of our age that so greatly affect the actions of the lost ! GWZ
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie
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