Throughout God\u2019s Word we find people making choices about what to believe. So for instance, Adam and Even in the garden of Eden: they have a choice. On the one hand they can believe God. God tells them that if they eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge and good and evil that they will die. On the other hand, they can believe the serpent who contradicts God and says, you won\u2019t die. They chose, mistakenly, to believe the serpent. As a result, they died, just as God had said. God was right, the serpent was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Christians we face similar choices every day. We have God’s Word on the one hand. We have the beliefs and ideas that come our flesh on the other. And we often choose to believe ourselves rather than believe God. The bible calls these choices sin. First because we are choosing something other than God. And second, because by default, the something other’s run contrary to God’s Will. But like Adam and Eve, we always discover that sin never delivers what it promises. And as a result, one common feature of sin is that it comes about through misplaced belief in a lie. Such beliefs are therefore fallacies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nfallacy (n.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound arguments: the notion that the camera never lies is a fallacy.
<\/p>\nOxford Dictionary of English<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the fact that God has been shown to be always right, it doesn\u2019t stop us making choices to believe in other things. To listen to other voices. To buy into other ideas. To fall for fallacies of the flesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n