Changing Meaning of Words

As we begin to learn things as a child, it is important that the values for what we learn about do not change during that learning process. When we teach a child about colors, we use items that are “red” to teach the value of “red” and “green” items for “green”. We do not use the wrong color of items just because we can or to be different or because we want to fight the rest of society. We would consider that to be harmful to the child and factually incorrect. For eighty years of my life, at least since I began learning the meaning of words like colors, consistency of values has always allowed the learning process to move forward.

As we get older, the box of colors gets bigger with more shades of those basic colors, and we learn by building our vocabulary with additional words or colors without changing any of the basic colors that we have known. Another thing we learn at an early age, even before we learn colors is our “name”. In the beginning, our name is just our “first name” and we learn that it is personal to us. As we get older, we then learn to associate our first name with our last name and one or more “nicknames” that we get in our journey of life.

In school, we learn about “nouns” and how “nouns” are used to identify a class of people, things, or places that help with our conversations. We learn that “names” for people, or a particular place is called “proper nouns”. As we get older, we learn that “names” have been given for certain reputations like “a drunk” that becomes a name for people with drinking problems. When I learned about a “pronoun” the dictionary said, “a word used in the place of or as a substitute for a noun. I, you, he, she, it, we, they, etc. are pronouns”. In the dictionary the word “he” says, “the man, boy, or male animal (or the object regarded as male). “She” says, “a girl, woman, or female animal”. We learn at an early age that we are a single person even if we tell different people that our name is something different like perhaps a man in a strip joint.

“Deception” is defined in the dictionary as, “1. the act or practice of deceiving. 2. The fact or condition of being deceived.” The Bible has many scriptures dealing with deception and the source of it. Deception is a fancy way of talking about “lies” and “liar”.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 New International Version
⁹ The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, ¹⁰ and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

Both the dictionary and the Bible identity two sex categories – male and female. Dissociative identity disorder, formerly referred to as multiple personality disorder, is characterized by a person’s identity fragmenting into two or more distinct personality states. People with this condition are often victims of severe abuse. Once a rarely reported disorder, the diagnosis has grown more common—and controversial.

For thousands of years of recorded history, in every society until the past couple of years, there are no records where it was accepted that a man could conceive, carry, or birth a child in his body. Satan (the devil) has only one source of power and that is deception or lies. He uses that power in the form of temptation with lies to get people to first question what they have been told or to want something they have not worked for. The first recorded lie was told to Eve that she could eat from the one tree that God had told Adam and her to not eat from.

For the past twenty to thirty years, America and most of the world have been traveling down a slippery slope by allowing increasingly more sinful activities to be accepted as normal. With that Satan has pulled a larger percentage of people into his flock. In the beginning, the deception just asked to be left alone and allow them to do “their thing”. Then “their thing” had to be protected by laws. And the last stage is where those not participating in “their thing” must be punished for talking about those doing “their thing”.

Diversity and Inclusion: “It’s about empowering people by respecting and appreciating what makes them different, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education, and national origin.”

Have you noticed that with the push for “diversity and inclusion,” every organization, group, and idea of the past has lost all their right to exist without adopting a single new ideology? The “diversity and inclusion” is implemented by describing all other ideas as “hate speech” or “hateful people”. Many of the leaders of those pushing this on the rest of the world claim to be members of large religious organizations and yet they present their changes as being in accordance with God’s values.

So why are we witnessing the changing of the meanings of so many words these days? Because Satan has gained control over many more people through our education systems and his followers have reached high positions in governments, media, and major corporations. What is the goal of those pushing these changes? The goal is to divide families, churches, communities, and nations – giving Satan greater control. What is the harm? Everything that made our country great has been attacked, even how a family is defined, and the value of work to improve things in our lives. Who will gain from the changes? For a period, those leading this effort will gain greater control over our lives and wealth.

For many years, the percentage of people claiming not to have any connection with religion has increased and many of them deny the existence of God. However, the proof of God’s existence is clear in the Bible. Some say it is just a book and everything in it is made up. So, a book written thousands of years back that talks about history that is supported by hundreds, if not thousands of other books that are accepted as factual, and a book that predicted everything happening today – that is not all the proof needed?

Isaiah 5:20-21 New International Version

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 clever in their own sight.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 New International Version

3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. ² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.