It's no new phenomenon that we followers of Yahweh are a tiny minority, Mike. It has always been that way. What's different now is humanity's ability to communicate to far-flung audiences. The falsehood you're seeing has always been there (since the days of Nimrod), but never before has it been so pervasive, so hard to avoid. You're right: the "Man-can-be-a-god" myth has been at the heart of satan's strategy since Eden, which is ironic because his real agenda is to make every man a slave, and himself a god. The idea that our destiny is in our own hands is fostered by the same idiotic human arrogance that insists we don't need Yahweh. As the psalmist says, "The fool has said in his heart, there is no God." Satan, of course, doesn't really want you to believe that. The adversary only wants you to believe that there is no Yahweh. Having achieved that, satan promotes the wierd concept that we can all be our own gods. Of course, left to our own devices, we'll soon disprove that theory by nearly destroying our planet and our species during the first half of the Tribulation, leaving him the only candidate for deity left. To be worshipped as God---it's all satan has ever wanted. What a pathetic excuse for an angelic being.

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