In a Gallop poll done in May, 13 percent of the respondents stated that they believed man was a product of evolution without the aid of God. 36 percent stated that they believed that man evolved over millions of years with the guidance of God. 46 percent stated their belief that man was created directly by God within the last 10,000 years or so. This is despite the continuous attacks on creation by the scientific establishment, the educational establishment, and the mass media. Woe be to America when these numbers are fully reversed.
Sadly, many of the reported converts to Christianity on the African continent are being led astray by a false spirit. The television airwaves in the country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where most people still believe in black magic, are being dominated by charismatic preachers performing exorcisms as a great spectacle of power. The "Telegraph" reports: "The young Congolese woman lay screaming on the dusty ground, arms thrashing wildly as a white-gowned preacher gripped her head and prayed. As she fainted, thousands of spectators in Kinshasa's Tata Raphael stadium roared with excitement - yet another public exorcism was reaching its climax."
One of the biggest fads of recent years has been Reality TV. People want something real; not stuff all made up. What the customer wants, the customer gets. The television programming is filled with Reality TV. There is only one problem. It turns out that Reality TV isn't real. To a great extent, it is made up, fabricated, and edited for effect. But will the customers care? Probably not. Jeremiah 5:31 states, "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so."
According to today's "Wall Street Journal," nearly one million people have downloaded software over the last decade in order to take part in a project called Seti@Home. This project uses the idle time of personal computer to analyze data from the Arecibo radio telescope to search for signs of extra-terrestrial life. The system has worked superbly but, alas, no intelligent life has been found in outer space; little seems to remain on earth. For you see, those who professionally seek E.T.s (setiologists) "concede that early assumptions about the search for intelligent life--notably those popularized by astronomer Carl Sagan--have proven naively optimistic." There is "little chance of detecting the 'leaking' transmissions of another planet--its version of 'I Love Lucy' broadcasts. Those signals are too weak to stand out from the universe's background noise."
In the March 20, 2006, edition of "The Baptist Heritage," Pastor Jerald Manley discusses the methods used to take good churches away from the old paths of the gospel into the new ways of modern compromise. He states: "In recent years, I have discovered that books exist that are expressly designed to guide church leaders through the most effective methods of achieving these doctrinal changes in ways that isolate and overcome the opposition until sufficient strength has been achieved to enable one ultimately to ignore the resistance. Boiled down to the last dreg of essence, these are means to use the finances of the conservatives of the congregation to pay for their own extinction. They are to be viewed, it is suggested, as the means to an end--their replacement."
