Therefore, we cannot ignore the following points.
People can be deceived on the basis of facts.
Those who use facts to deceive others are called fraudsters.
We may deceive ourselves out of ignorance, and thus deceive others unintentionally.
Satan, the father of lies, uses facts to deceive people.
Remember what Satan did when he deceived Eve and when he tempted Jesus.How did Satan deceive Eve?
When Satan deceived Eve, he spoke lies that contradicted God's warnings and rendered God's words meaningless. Satan told Eve that by disobeying God, she could become like Him, knowing good and bad.It is desirable to know good and bad and to become like God.
God Himself wants us to be like Him, knowing good and bad.
The goal of "becoming like God" that we should pursue is right, but the way Satan proposes to achieve the goal is wrong.
Think about what it means to be like God through disobedience to Him.
To become like God through disobedience to God is to become another god competing with the true God.
It is a reflection of disrespecting God, and it is nothing less than usurping God's position.
Is 14:13-14
13 As for you, you have said in your heart, 'To the heavens I shall go up. Above the stars of God I shall lift up my throne, and I shall sit down upon the mountain of meeting, in the remotest parts of the north. 14 I shall go up above the high places of the clouds; I shall make myself resemble the Most High.'
To raise self up in such a manner is incompatible with God's character who are humble, considerate, and loving.
Those who are greedy enough to take what belongs to God will also covet what belongs to others.
Such people create a ridiculous society full of greed, competition, robbery, violence, and all kinds of crime, which comes from greed.
Remember what happened at the beginning of the human history.
Adam accused his wife Eve in order to protect himself.
Cain killed his brother Able because he wanted to have the upper hand over him.
The fallen angels joined with Satan to become the gods against YHWH.
They robbed Adam's family of the safety and happiness that YHWH intended for them.
The earth, as you well know, became filled with violence.
How should we know good and bad?
Satan encourages us to know good and evil by disobeying God. What does that mean?It means to experience bad things, to taste bad things.
By disobeying God we will actually experience what bad things look like.
Do you think knowing bad in such a manner a wise thing to do?
I don't think so.
We can know good and bad without being suffered by the harm that results from bad things. This is what our loving Heavenly Father, YHWH, wants us to know. We don't have to taste the bad. We can choose to reject the bad things without trying them.
Therefore, God wants us to be wise enough to obey Him.
The tree of good and evil in the middle of the Garden of Eden represents this fundamental truth.
Satan, Demons, and Adam's family made stupid decision with regard to knowing good and bad.
They chose disobedience to God.
The result is as expected.
They are plagued with all kinds of pain, grief, and harmful consequences.
People end their lives tormented by the consequences of evil.
That is not the way God intended us to know good and bad.
God wants us to experience only good.
We don't have to try it to know bad, so we can avoid bad from the start.
We don't need to experience bad.
Is 7:14-16
14 Therefore Jehovah himself will give YOU men a sign: Look! The maiden herself will actually become pregnant, and she is giving birth to a son, and she will certainly call his name Im‧man′u‧el. 15 Butter and honey he will eat by the time that he knows how to reject the bad and choose the good. 16 For before the boy will know how to reject the bad and choose the good, the ground of whose two kings you are feeling a sickening dread will be left entirely.
Leaving the source of good means the first step toward choosing something bad. YHWH is the source of good. He is the creator of all thing, the source of life and every good thing. God is the guarantor of our happiness.
Jas 1:17
17 Every good gift and every perfect present is from above, for it comes down from the Father of the [celestial] lights, and with him there is not a variation of the turning of the shadow.
Mt 7:9-11
9 Indeed, who is the man among YOU whom his son asks for bread-he will not hand him a stone, will he? 10 Or, perhaps, he will ask for a fish-he will not hand him a serpent, will he? 11 Therefore, if YOU, although being wicked, know how to give good gifts to YOUR children, how much more so will YOUR Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
Ps 84:11
11 For YHWH God is a sun and a shield;
Favor and glory are what he gives.
YHWH himself will not hold back anything good from those walking in faultlessness.
How did Satan try to deceive Jesus?
Recall what happened when Satan tempted Jesus.Satan tempted Jesus using a scripture.
He gave a wrong meaning to the scripture to cause Jesus stumble.
Mt 4:5-6
5 Then the Devil took him along into the holy city, and he stationed him upon the battlement of the temple 6 and said to him: "If you are a son of God, hurl yourself down; for it is written, 'He will give his angels a charge concerning you, and they will carry you on their hands, that you may at no time strike your foot against a stone.'"
Jesus used other scripture to reveal Satan's error.
Mt 4:7
7 Jesus said to him: "Again it is written, 'You must not put YHWH your God to the test.'"
The point is that people can be fooled by misinterpretations of facts.
The way to find erroneous interpretations is to become familiar with the Bible, as Jesus did, and to eliminate errors through relevant Scripture.
People who realize the "Flat Earth" is providing circumstantial evidences and also biblical evidences, which is very educational source of thought.
However, Bible believers, atheists, agnostics, New Age believers, trinitarians, etc., all have different backgrounds and different ways of perceiving the facts.
Therefore, it is good to be careful that our faith is based on the Bible.
We also want to make sure that we make an effort to carefully examine the content and scriptures provided to us.
Instead of being critical, it is better to take the gentle view that everyone is in the process of wanting to know the truth. Then mistakes can be corrected and eventually the full truth can be reached.
1Co 13:12
12 For at present we see in hazy outline by means of a metal mirror, but then it will be face to face. At present I know partially, but then I shall know accurately even as I am accurately known.
Joh 16:12-13
12 "I have many things yet to say to YOU, but YOU are not able to bear them at present. 13 However, when that one arrives, the spirit of the truth, he will guide YOU into all the truth, for he will not speak of his own impulse, but what things he hears he will speak, and he will declare to YOU the things coming.
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People from different backgrounds have testified about a "flat earth".
Satan is the father of lies, and he is trying to deceive us with false ideas.
Therefore, we need to always keep Jesus' warning in mind.
Mt 24:4
4 And in answer Jesus said to them: "Look out that nobody misleads YOU;
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