The Truth Can Set You Free, or Keep You Locked Up -taken from my tumblr from last year

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. ¹⁵ The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. ¹⁶ For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. ¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. ¹⁹ For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, ²⁰ and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.²¹ Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. ²² But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— ²³ if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. - Colossians 1 13-23
Knowing that man was created in the image of God, and choosing to believe that we are here for a reason, apparently means that i am “denying myself the education i have the right to” and that i “have been lied to”.
Lets make one thing clear, to assume that just because someone is a Christian they have just fallen for a trick, not really searched for the answer, and blindly follow what the bible says just because they have been told to, is a MISTAKE.
The Bible says to search for yourselves the truth, not to take someones opinion about it.  For we can’t come to God through someone else’s reasoning.
“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14-6
Knowing that there is only one truth and believing it, is the same thing as believing in gravity.  You see the evidence, however asinine some may think that it is, and you believe it based on what you know to be true.  We have been instilled with the ability to know wrong from right, but no one questions that.
It is not me that has been lied to.
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.” John 12:40
It’s hard to argue with people about anything serious, because emotions get the best of the situation.  Before you know it, its more of a personal attack than it is a debate.  It’s funny how irritating simple truth can be, and while i am laughing at the insults, the “offended” are fuming until steam is coming out of their ears.
Anyway, heres a good bedtime story.  It applies to everyone, even me.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God -Romans 3:23
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I saw an Angel descending out of Heaven. He carried the key to the Abyss and a chain—a huge chain. He grabbed the Dragon, that old Snake—the very Devil, Satan himself!—chained him up for a thousand years, dumped him into the Abyss, slammed it shut and sealed it tight. No more trouble out of him, deceiving the nations—until the thousand years are up. After that he has to be let loose briefly. I saw thrones. Those put in charge of judgment sat on the thrones. I also saw the souls of those beheaded because of their witness to Jesus and the Word of God, who refused to worship either the Beast or his image, refused to take his mark on forehead or hand—they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years! The rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years were up. This is the first resurrection—and those involved most blessed, most holy. No second death for them! They’re priests of God and Christ; they’ll reign with him a thousand years.
When the thousand years are up, Satan will be let loose from his cell, and will launch again his old work of deceiving the nations, searching out victims in every nook and cranny of earth, even Gog and Magog! He’ll talk them into going to war and will gather a huge army, millions strong. They’ll stream across the earth, surround and lay siege to the camp of God’s holy people, the Beloved City. They’ll no sooner get there than fire will pour out of Heaven and burn them up. The Devil who deceived them will be hurled into Lake Fire and Brimstone, joining the Beast and False Prophet, the three in torment around the clock for ages without end.
I saw a Great White Throne and the One Enthroned. Nothing could stand before or against the Presence, nothing in Heaven, nothing on earth. And then I saw all the dead, great and small, standing there—before the Throne! And books were opened. Then another book was opened: the Book of Life. The dead were judged by what was written in the books, by the way they had lived. Sea released its dead, Death and Hell turned in their dead. Each man and woman was judged by the way he or she had lived. Then Death and Hell were hurled into Lake Fire. This is the second death—Lake Fire. Anyone whose name was not found inscribed in the Book of Life was hurled into Lake Fire. -Revelation 20