The "father of all lies" has squirmed into our heads and hearts. Our language is SNAKEBIT. 🐍
John 8:43-44 ESV
[43] Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. [44] You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Words no longer are the same. The thoughts behind them are divorced from context. 🐍
"I am a 'safe person' ... this is a 'safe place' ... All this, for all its virtue-signaling effort, is SNAKEBIT. It is poisoned. 🐍
Other examples would be glibly, and even arrogantly, dismissed, also ... 🐍
Why cannot a person, supposedly qualified for Supreme Court, NOT be able to define "woman"?! Roy Orbison was not a biologist either... 🐍
We have been so snakebitten that we are euphorically ignorant. Any effort to treat the wound is misperceived as hateful. The venom has deteriorated any healthy response... 🐍
Romans 1:21-22 ESV
[21] For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. [22] Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
He has stomped the snake's head, but it still is biting... 🐍
Genesis 3:14-15 ESV
[14] The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. [15] I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Isaiah 5:20-21 ESV
[20] Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! [21] Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
