Chapter 2:
The Sacrifice of Truth
“Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter.”
-Isaiah 59:14
Our modern society has taken on a pluralism that is entirely due to an erroneous understanding of truth. Accepting the idea of multiple truths is the most paramount ingredient for heresy in this present age. You have heard many people say things like, “That may be true for you, but that’s not true for me.” Or, “Truth is relative.” Or, “It is true if you believe it is.” These sorts of statements are exceedingly common and a real indication of a lack of understanding regarding the nature and definition of truth. Consider these dictionary definitions of truth:
1. The true or actual state of a matter.
2. Conformity with fact or reality; verity:
Verified or indisputable fact or proposition.
3. The state or character of being true.
4. Actuality or actual existence.
From these official definitions we can glean a few important pieces of information. Firstly, truth is outstandingly objective. This means it stands apart from any man's individual opinion of that truth. It is true whether someone recognizes it, or believes it or not. Truth is a description of what reality actually is, not someone's perspective of it. For that reason, something cannot be “true for you, but not true for me.” If we live on planet Earth, that is the actual reality, regardless of if you say we live on Mars. Even if it were your actual belief. There is an actual state of the matter, standing aloft and apart from opinion or belief.
This also defeats the other common statement of “it is true if you believe it is true.” An insane man who believes he is Napoleon living in an asylum will never be Napoleon in Paris, but the objective reality of being an insane man in an asylum, regardless of his belief.
All this may seem trite or redundant, but it is such a necessary thing in our day to simply say what truth is. People today are insistent on creating their own religious beliefs, patched together by picking and choosing things from various religious traditions, or excluding things that do not appeal to them from their own tradition. Between any given belief system, at least one of them is wrong, because they cannot both be right.
The demonic belief that all things are equally true is profoundly false. In logic training, there is something called the 'law of non-contradiction,' which states that two contradictory truth claims cannot both be true at the same time and in the same way. The two propositions, "A is B" and "A is not B" are mutually exclusive.
For example, you cannot be both sitting and standing at the same time. Either you are sitting, or you are standing.
To bring it into the spiritual realm, either there is a God, or there is no God. Or either Yahweh is God, or Vishnu is God. Not both.
There is only one objective, singular reality. The religious quest of mankind has been to discover what that is. However, due to the spiritual confusion in the heart of mankind, not only does he follow after false things and call them true; not only does he pursue evil things and call them good; but he even waters down the 'truth' he thinks he has discovered by calling it equal with all other contradictory 'truths.'
It is astonishing to think that if truth were really relative, we could never actually learn anything, since learning assumes there is an objective truth outside yourself that you do not yet know, that you want to assimilate into your knowledge. Everything you already know would be the whole container of truth. I would, in that case, implore you to put down this book since you could learn nothing from it, since what you already believe is true.
From a biographical perspective, in my years as an occultist, I cared nothing for having a cohesive and consistent worldview. On one hand, I believed there was no God, and on the other, I believed there were angels and demons I could summon at my command. I could implement the practices of European witchcraft one day and the next practice Kabbalah or Voodoo.
But I am not alone; man has often sought spirituality through occult means by seeking for power in forces greater than himself, and in doing so, often opening himself up to be deceived by the very ones who grant him the power he sought.
Since occultism is ultimately the pursuit of power, I practiced whichever tradition could promise it, irrespective of whether those worldviews or systems agree or synthesize. Most often, they logically deny each other, yet I found power in them. Did the fact that I found power in them make them true? Hardly. But where the worldviews disagreed in creed, premise and truth claim, they agreed in the source from which they derived their appeal and ability. The source which bound them together was an infernal one, and yet I overlooked their inconsistencies in order to gain what each one promised.
Ultimately, the nature of truth makes it unable to accommodate all truth claims. Although there is a never-ending demonic factory manufacturing new 'truths' persistently, each one will contain some semblance of wisdom and some measure of power in order that it may perchance deceive some. There is a hellish version of the statement of the apostle Paul, which says “I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.,” but rather Satan says, “I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means deceive some.”
Merrill Unger profoundly states, “As the 'Spirit of truth' inspires the genuine prophets and teachers of God (1 Cor. 12:3), so the 'spirit of error,' and his spirit-satellites energize the 'many false prophets who are gone out into the world.' (1 John 4:1)
“The Apostle Paul, in a pivotal prophetic passage traces all doctrinal aberration to its deeper cause and ultimate source in the invisible demon agents behind visible human actors. He presents the perversion of truth and godliness as the direct work of of Satan's minions, the demons.
“'Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.' Hence the Apostle Paul, like John, traces error to its real source in satanic and demonic activity, rather than solely human agency.”
And so now, we will no longer have only the assertion and doctrine of religious demonism, but shall demonstrate it in practice and proof.
1. The true or actual state of a matter.
2. Conformity with fact or reality; verity:
Verified or indisputable fact or proposition.
3. The state or character of being true.
4. Actuality or actual existence.
From these official definitions we can glean a few important pieces of information. Firstly, truth is outstandingly objective. This means it stands apart from any man's individual opinion of that truth. It is true whether someone recognizes it, or believes it or not. Truth is a description of what reality actually is, not someone's perspective of it. For that reason, something cannot be “true for you, but not true for me.” If we live on planet Earth, that is the actual reality, regardless of if you say we live on Mars. Even if it were your actual belief. There is an actual state of the matter, standing aloft and apart from opinion or belief.
This also defeats the other common statement of “it is true if you believe it is true.” An insane man who believes he is Napoleon living in an asylum will never be Napoleon in Paris, but the objective reality of being an insane man in an asylum, regardless of his belief.
All this may seem trite or redundant, but it is such a necessary thing in our day to simply say what truth is. People today are insistent on creating their own religious beliefs, patched together by picking and choosing things from various religious traditions, or excluding things that do not appeal to them from their own tradition. Between any given belief system, at least one of them is wrong, because they cannot both be right.
The demonic belief that all things are equally true is profoundly false. In logic training, there is something called the 'law of non-contradiction,' which states that two contradictory truth claims cannot both be true at the same time and in the same way. The two propositions, "A is B" and "A is not B" are mutually exclusive.
For example, you cannot be both sitting and standing at the same time. Either you are sitting, or you are standing.
To bring it into the spiritual realm, either there is a God, or there is no God. Or either Yahweh is God, or Vishnu is God. Not both.
There is only one objective, singular reality. The religious quest of mankind has been to discover what that is. However, due to the spiritual confusion in the heart of mankind, not only does he follow after false things and call them true; not only does he pursue evil things and call them good; but he even waters down the 'truth' he thinks he has discovered by calling it equal with all other contradictory 'truths.'
It is astonishing to think that if truth were really relative, we could never actually learn anything, since learning assumes there is an objective truth outside yourself that you do not yet know, that you want to assimilate into your knowledge. Everything you already know would be the whole container of truth. I would, in that case, implore you to put down this book since you could learn nothing from it, since what you already believe is true.
From a biographical perspective, in my years as an occultist, I cared nothing for having a cohesive and consistent worldview. On one hand, I believed there was no God, and on the other, I believed there were angels and demons I could summon at my command. I could implement the practices of European witchcraft one day and the next practice Kabbalah or Voodoo.
But I am not alone; man has often sought spirituality through occult means by seeking for power in forces greater than himself, and in doing so, often opening himself up to be deceived by the very ones who grant him the power he sought.
Since occultism is ultimately the pursuit of power, I practiced whichever tradition could promise it, irrespective of whether those worldviews or systems agree or synthesize. Most often, they logically deny each other, yet I found power in them. Did the fact that I found power in them make them true? Hardly. But where the worldviews disagreed in creed, premise and truth claim, they agreed in the source from which they derived their appeal and ability. The source which bound them together was an infernal one, and yet I overlooked their inconsistencies in order to gain what each one promised.
Ultimately, the nature of truth makes it unable to accommodate all truth claims. Although there is a never-ending demonic factory manufacturing new 'truths' persistently, each one will contain some semblance of wisdom and some measure of power in order that it may perchance deceive some. There is a hellish version of the statement of the apostle Paul, which says “I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.,” but rather Satan says, “I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means deceive some.”
Merrill Unger profoundly states, “As the 'Spirit of truth' inspires the genuine prophets and teachers of God (1 Cor. 12:3), so the 'spirit of error,' and his spirit-satellites energize the 'many false prophets who are gone out into the world.' (1 John 4:1)
“The Apostle Paul, in a pivotal prophetic passage traces all doctrinal aberration to its deeper cause and ultimate source in the invisible demon agents behind visible human actors. He presents the perversion of truth and godliness as the direct work of of Satan's minions, the demons.
“'Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.' Hence the Apostle Paul, like John, traces error to its real source in satanic and demonic activity, rather than solely human agency.”
And so now, we will no longer have only the assertion and doctrine of religious demonism, but shall demonstrate it in practice and proof.