Fear And The 'Strong Delusion'

The ‘Strong Delusion’

Bud Hancock

We have also been told that this virus is not ‘airborne’ but that it can be carried in droplets that are spread by breathing, talking, coughing or sneezing. We are told that we MUST wear masks, which by the way have been proven to be of little effect against this virus, indeed ANY virus due to the size of the critter versus the size of the pores in most masks. We are told we must stay at least six feet away from other people to ‘avoid the spread of the virus’. We are told that we must stay out of crowded places, and the owners of places where crowds gather must close their doors and eventually lose their businesses. Parents are told that their kids must not go back to their schools and that their children must be home-schooled or participate in ‘virtual teaching’ at home. In some states, people are being told that they must wear masks even in the privacy of their own homes when only their family members are present. Seriously?

It seems that nearly every day, certainly every week, much of what we were told early on is now ‘outdated’ and replaced/updated with ‘new’ information, much of it contradictory to the earlier proclamations. The result is that Americans, indeed the entire world, are kept in a state of ‘flux’ in their beliefs regarding this virus. The human tendency is to fear anything that is not well-known, or well understood, especially when the ‘experts’ we have always been taught to respect and whose words we have been told to heed seem to deliberately stoke that natural fear with predictions of the additional hundreds of thousands of deaths that this virus will surely cause if we do not comply with their demands to ‘stop the spread’.

Thus, what The United States has now become is a nation not only influenced by, but controlled by, FEAR. Now, those of us who are Christians, who know what God has said about fear, know that God is not the author of fear; in fact, He commands us to ‘fear not’ multiple times in His word. Why does He so vigorously instruct us in that respect? It is explained very well in the first letter of the Apostle John, wherein he states that God is love: “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love” (I John 4:8 KJV). Later in that same 4th chapter, John says: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love” (I John 4:18 KJV). One may surmise from the words of John that, because there is no fear in love, and God IS love, then there is no fear in God, nor does He allow fear to enter His presence.

God desires to fellowship with His family, not to be separated from them for any reason. When Christians allow fear to enter into their lives, into their minds, and control their actions, even their entire lives in some cases, they are allowing that fear to separate them from the God they claim to love, worship and obey. If that acceptance of fear becomes habitual, they may find themselves believing and obeying anything they hear or read, whereas, a resistance to that fear will bring the strength needed to refuse the lies and deception and will produce the ability to enjoy, in complete freedom, a close fellowship with God.

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