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Deception and Leadership

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JasonBuursma
Jul 01 2003
05:22 pm

Laryn,

I’m afraid I don’t have the political knowledge to speak intelligently about the details of this situation.
I believe in doing what’s right just like you do. The question is, how do we know and how do we ensure that we do what is right?
Like Grant said, the Enlightenment/Humanistic movement would say that we should rely on reason, intelligence, and our hearts to lead us to truth.
The Bible says our hearts are deceitful above all else, and Godly wisdom is foolishness to the world. I believe that fixing the world’s problems will not come from human intelligence, reason, or effort, but only from following God.
God cares more about our heart than our intelligence. If we rely on ourselves instead of God, God will use someone else to accomplish his will.
So the key is not necessarily unifying the world together (God clearly wasn’t impressed with the Tower of Babel), but unifying the world with God.