{"id":83824,"date":"2025-01-29T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=83824"},"modified":"2025-01-29T17:39:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:39:57","slug":"propaganda-wars-the-use-of-the-education-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/propaganda-wars-the-use-of-the-education-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Wars – The Use of the Education System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

by Terry Wane Benton<\/p>\n

The propaganda that God does not exist unless He lets us see Him directly has always been treated as foolish propaganda, and rightly so. Psalms 14:1 says the “fool has said in his heart, ‘there is no God<\/em>.'” Just a few chapters later (Psalms 19:1), the Psalmist pointed out that “the heavens declare the glory of God<\/em>.” One cannot reasonably look at the skies full of stars at night and radiant with rays of the sun filtering through the trees in the day and think, “It all declares the glory of chemical and material accident.” You cannot think, “I think,” and “I gasp in awe,” all because the brain made chemicals that produced emotions, awe, wonder, and thought, with the power to store memories and make decisions and moral choices. You cannot believe that it could happen because of a series of lucky accidents and that humans are no more valuable than stink bugs. No! Yet, even our education system is based upon pushing the propaganda that the universe and life did indeed make itself. Intelligence is just evolving. Well, why are we no more intelligent than the minds that built the pyramids and learned embalming skills that have been lost to us for thousands of years? Why are we still trying to figure out the architectural skills of years ago? Could we have only discovered different uses from God’s creation, not that we have become so advanced in thinking and reasoning ability?<\/p>\n

Can we believe that even our most ignorant people have far evolved to a superior intellectual capacity than the most brilliant of 2,000 years ago? No! People are still people, foolish and wise, and every bit as gullible as yesteryear and every bit as intelligent as yesteryear. But propaganda has plagued the world to various degrees in every age, including the very beginning. People still are “professors” (Romans 1:20ff) and are still willingly ignorant of the obvious that God’s “eternal power and godhood” are obvious from the things He made. Propaganda tries to get the little children to think that dinosaurs roamed the earth a million years ago before man “evolved.” There is no proof of that! But the propaganda war for minds begins very early. God tells the truth that man and all creeping things were created in the same six days of creation (Genesis 1-2). Men and dragons (the word the Bible used before the word “dinosaurs” was invented) have walked the same earth simultaneously. Either the Bible and history are propaganda, or the story weaved from stones, bones, and a naturalistic philosophy in the last 200 years is made out of propaganda weaved into a claim of “science.”<\/p>\n

At any rate, we have to decide where the lies come from and what the actual truth is. Eternal chemicals collided and made everything, or “God created the heavens and the earth<\/em>.” One view makes sense and fits all the evidence. The other view is built on lies and builds a life and mind full of lies. That is the harsh reality of the propaganda wars. You must seek to find the truth, and the truth will set you free!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPropaganda Wars\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Terry Wane Benton The propaganda that God does not exist unless He lets us see Him directly has always been treated as foolish propaganda, and rightly so. Psalms 14:1 says the “fool has said in his heart, ‘there is no God.’” Just a few chapters later (Psalms 19:1), the Psalmist pointed out that “the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[381,80,1774,380,441],"class_list":["post-83824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-education","tag-evolution","tag-propaganda","tag-school","tag-truth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":83773,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/propaganda-wars-when-people-cant-or-wont-hear-truth\/","url_meta":{"origin":83824,"position":0},"title":"Propaganda Wars – When People Can\u2019t or Won\u2019t Hear Truth","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton We have the book of Jeremiah only because truth wins in the end. 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