Satan Lies, God Replies. How the devil lies to us and what the Bible says about that.
Lie #5: Everyone’s beliefs are true.
T2 Trainspotting
Paraphrasing “choose life quote”
This is the quote from the trailer from T2 Trainspotting was released in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2017 based on characters from two books by Irvine Welsh.
“Choose life.
Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares.
Choose looking up old flames, wishing you’d done it all differently.
And choose watching history repeat itself
Choose your future.
Choose reality TV, slut shaming, revenge porn.
Choose a zero hour contract, a two hour journey to work.
And choose the same for your kids, only worse, and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody’s kitchen.
And then… take a deep breath
You’re an addict, so be addicted.
Just be addicted to something else.
Choose the ones you love.
Choose your future.
Choose life” Google for written word.
I’ve read this quote (monologue) several times making sure I read it right. And yes; according to the script on-line, I read it right.
The quote from the book is much much more – – – interesting. For lack of a better word. But still nothing about choosing God.
Choosing life is the start of a long road. Choosing life can become choosing God but isn’t the same.
Why would I open a Monday School about ‘Everyone’s beliefs are true’, in such a manner? Many people think of a belief structure would be: Christianity, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish. These ARE religious beliefs structures.
The secular world wants humanity to just believe.
Believe in: yourself
Your spouse
Your job
Your dog
Your best friend
Your car
Your house
Your parents
Your siblings
Your children
Your cat
A drug
The order of nature
Just believe!
“It doesn’t matter what you believe just so long as you’re sincere.”
When you believe in something so much that it takes the place of God it becomes an idol. Exodus 20 “And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God,”
Society is eager to believe in anything. Everything. But so few are eager to believe in Jesus. Satan is encouraging us to believe in all the wrong things when the Bible plainly says:
John 14:6 (ESV)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Trainspotting by Irvin Welsh is a cautionary story about heroin use. According to Wikipedia, Welsh was an addict in his early life.
The Bible
T2 Trainspotting: TriStar, Sony
SAMHSA National Helpline (USA)
1-800-662-4357
Author’s note: I worked for a year and a half in a faith based female treatment facility. I saw the hard work, after the fact. After detox. After (some of) the women realized that this was it. Some (not all) had lost everything except their life. And it starts with choosing life. That’s when the hard work starts of rebuilding. If possible, working to get back all the things they lost: parents, spouses, children, jobs, health, careers.
In all fairness, I haven’t read any of Mr. Welsh’s work. My Monday School lesson was based solely on the monologue.
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