2nd Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
There is real danger in choosing to believe what you want to believe, regardless of the truth or the facts, for with each deliberate disregard of truth, the mind is being gradually programmed to interpret truth as falsehood. Thus, over a period of time, when in one instance a person may really need to heed the truth, the mind would have become so blinded by crying wolf, that it is impossible for it to respond in the positive.
This is what took place on the Titanic, as the captain was warned on numerous occasions of the icebergs. But he deliberately chose to believe the lie, that the Titanic was indestructible, and therefore, he plowed ahead with his own version of the facts, until he had sunk the ship, and in doing so he took a whole lot of people down with him.
Operator on La Bretagne Tells How Messages Were Sent in All Directions from Near Cape Race. New York, April 17 Captain Smith of the Titanic had warning of the danger ahead of him, in the giant iceberg that sent his vessel to the bottom of the North Atlantic. As a matter of fact, the Titanic relayed the warning to the shore.
2nd Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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