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Thought for Today
Jun. 16

THE OLDEST RELIGION, PART TWO

Not only does Satan not want the truth to be known but he also does not want people to find out that it has been known before. From the earliest days of Christianity, it has been the policy of Satan's ministers to destroy the writings of holy men who told the truth. For one example, there was a man named Arius who told the truth concerning the Father being greater than the Son. He was condemned by the Emperor Constantine's council of Christian Bishops and his books burned. Untold numbers of other documents containing truth have been destroyed over the centuries by order of Christian church officials.

We should be able to believe what is true, regardless of how many others believe it today or have believed it in the past, but we are frail creatures, and there is no denying the fact that we are encouraged to believe what is right when we know others have believed it, especially when those others have lived godly lives, and even more especially when we learn that the apostles of Jesus believed it, too. Keeping God's people from discovering that in times past godly men and women have known the truth, have loved the truth, and have suffered for the truth, can make it more of a challenge for God's children to believe the truth when they first hear it. It seems too new.

If the ungodly make the truth seem to be a mere innovation, to be just another a modern idea, or a misguided "new revelation", then people will be suspicious of the truth when they hear it, and Satan's little Christian kingdom will remain secure in his hands.

That is why the evil one not only hates the truth but he also hates for anyone to find out that it has been preached before, loved before, and clung to before, even to the death that his ministers brought upon many of those who dared to believe it.