Website owner: James Miller
We are constantly surrounded with attractively packaged poisons being presented to us for sale. What am I talking about? Cigarettes. Alcohol. Drugs. Junk food of all kinds and description that is high in sugar, salt, or fat. All these things are harmful to our bodies. They are like poisons that are being cleverly sold to us. But these things that are poison to our bodies are not the only poisons being sold. There are also things being sold that are poisons to the soul and spirit of man. What am I talking about? Pornographic literature. Lewd movies. Most of the stuff being produced by Hollywood. The trash constantly being shown on TV that glamorizes or sanctions immoral conduct. All these things are cleverly packaged deceptions. We are constantly being bombarded with lies and deceiving voices. The air is so thick with lies and deception that we can hardly find any truth anywhere. For every person who might provide us with sound advice for body or soul there are a thousand people telling us lies. We are constantly beset by lies --- lies from without and lies from within. The world lies to us and our lower nature lies to us. Satan acts through the world without and our lower nature within to deceive us. He roams the earth like a predatory animal (as the Bible says, a "roaring lion") endeavoring to deceive people and harvest their souls for himself. Sept 1996
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