(June 27, 2017 at 6:21 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 26, 2017 at 1:13 pm)Lek Wrote: The message of the Holy Spirit is always true. Individuals who perform evil in the name of the Holy Spirit are not following him. Do some people commit evil in the name of God? Sure. People commit evil in the name of many things and may even think they're doing the right thing. We should always check our desires against scripture. In the case of burning witches, the bible doesn't condone it. It may have been commanded to the old testament Israelites, but not to us. God's covenant with Moses had it's purposes and his covenant with his followers after the cross has it's purposes.
Then please explain 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12:
'For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.'
If the message of the Holy Spirit is always true, why does God deliberately delude people?
Boru
If you read the preceding and following verses you will discover that he is referring to people who already refuse to believe God. It says that he will cause these people to believe and follow the man of lawlessness. It's not that the Spirit is lying to them, but rather that God is withholding the Spirit from them so that they will naturally be deceived by the man of lawlessness.