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Perpetual Infancy

One almost has a sentimental reflex when presented with the image of a child setting out a plate of cookies for Santa at Christmas. Some can get angry at having these pleasant sentimental images disabused. However, it can be hard to explain the difference between someone who perpetrates a fraud to gain money from one who deceives a child to gain emotional stimulation for himself.

In the movie “The Matrix” one character who had been freed from the pleasant deceptions that the matrix offered was desperate to return. In a way this is representative of many, perhaps most, today. Comfort and pleasure seeking reflect our earliest motives. If we lived the life of an animal this would be a reasonable philosophy for life (1Cor 15:32).

In all fairness, while it is our natural inclination to drift into a comfortable somnambulance through life, we have come to this state also as a result of Satanic arrangement. It is to his advantage to have a population that is blind to his ultimate plans and having us in a state of perpetuated infancy helps us to be more easily manipulated.

Having us kill our own children with surgical and chemical abortions (including oral contraceptives) as well as having us fight for the right to do so is one indication of how we have already become enslaved. If one considers the amount of his “entertainment” resources he has allocated to promoting casual fornication and adultery, one can see how important it is to him to have us given over to the base desires that should have been abandoned in childhood.

Even Christians have been deceived into thinking that the consumptive and destructive forces unleashed are simply individual choices made by free people. The founding fathers were focused on freedom from external tyranny and did not appreciate how one could become enslaved by internal tyranny.

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. - John 8:34

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? - Romans 6:16

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. - 2 Timothy 2:26

A child cannot recognize that he is a slave to his desires any more than a dog can. A child does not consider that he will be judged for every thought, word, and deed of his life. There are consequences of which a child is completely unaware. Since a child is critically dependant on his parents to teach him self-discipline and about the larger world he will face, it was critical to Satan to disconnect children from parents and instead connect them to school, media, and peers.

Sadly even many Christians grow to have a crippled understanding of themselves and the world such that they themselves carry much of “childhood” with them.

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