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I was reading through the book of Jeremiah the other day and I am reminded that a primary reason I believe the Bible is because of the way it illuminates much of what is discussed as a conspiracy and helps make things easier to understand.
For those of you who don't know, Jeremiah was a prophet before and during the time that the people were being taken into captivity. His writing reflects the same experience of inner turmoil that many have expressed around here. His message contains a heightened sense of urgency for people to recognize the things that will lead to losing their livelihood that is ignored, leaving him isolated with a message that causes him grief and distress.
There were a couple of passages that stood out to me and I thought it might be interesting to discuss how the Bible can be used to help us identify things that are being done that we should not ignore.
For example, "O Lord, teach me, and I shall know; then I saw their practices. But I as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, knew not: against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more." (Jeremiah 11:18-19)
There are a couple things that this reminds me of like shadowbanning on social media or maybe this could be compared to devising an evil plan like MK ultra. In either case, a verse like this causes me to seriously consider the things that are not always transparent and the potential that humanity has to devise evil plans in secret.
How does reading the Bible motivate you to listen and seriously consider what is labeled as a conspiracy?
For those of you who don't know, Jeremiah was a prophet before and during the time that the people were being taken into captivity. His writing reflects the same experience of inner turmoil that many have expressed around here. His message contains a heightened sense of urgency for people to recognize the things that will lead to losing their livelihood that is ignored, leaving him isolated with a message that causes him grief and distress.
There were a couple of passages that stood out to me and I thought it might be interesting to discuss how the Bible can be used to help us identify things that are being done that we should not ignore.
For example, "O Lord, teach me, and I shall know; then I saw their practices. But I as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, knew not: against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more." (Jeremiah 11:18-19)
There are a couple things that this reminds me of like shadowbanning on social media or maybe this could be compared to devising an evil plan like MK ultra. In either case, a verse like this causes me to seriously consider the things that are not always transparent and the potential that humanity has to devise evil plans in secret.
How does reading the Bible motivate you to listen and seriously consider what is labeled as a conspiracy?
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