In our society today, we see so many people trusting their own hearts, feelings, impressions, and opinions. Can we trust these things? Most people will say, “This is my opinion, this is what I believe in.” People will believe that everything they say is true when it is not. Just because it came from their minds, they trust their minds to be infallible.
This is often the case for people who do not believe in the Bible, but now we see many Christians claiming to believe the Bible while still trusting their own minds. If God gave us a mind, can we not trust it? There is a good reason why God gave us judgment. Let us find out the five reasons why we cannot trust our own minds.
1. Man’s Heart Is Wicked
Man’s heart is wicked and sinful. As long as humanity trusts and worships the human mind, people will end up in great errors and lies and will depart further and further from God. There is a good reason why God sent the Bible. Since the fall of Eve, humans have had deception in the mind. The devil has had the right to deceive and enter the heart, giving thoughts, feelings, and impressions.
Trusting the human mind is trusting the murmurings of Satan to your heart. The Bible says the human heart is mixed up and confused, and cannot know right from wrong unless led by the Bible.
Jeremiah 17:9 — “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
When the Bible asks, “Who can know it?” it means: who can understand how deceitful the human heart is? The human heart is so deceitful that many humans trust their opinions when, in fact, they believe a lie.
Psalm 62:9 — “Surely men of low degree are a vapor, men of high degree are a lie; if they are weighed on the scales, they are altogether lighter than vapor.”
Believing something does not make it true. A lie is a lie, even if you believe it strongly.
Proverbs 14:12 — “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
In fact, many people who end up in hell will have been people who were convinced by their own minds that they were in the right. Yet God does not accept what men believe; God cares nothing for what men believe, as the truth never changes. The truth is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
2. Men Cannot Create Truth
Men cannot create truth; men are born, men die, and truth remains the same — whether the man was a great leader or an unknown person. Some people have very strong opinions, yet these are worthless in the eyes of God to change eternal truth. The only way men could distort truth and have their opinion matter in the judgment is if men were the creator of truth.
Sadly, we find that men did not create truth, men cannot create truth; men are subject to truth and the laws of God — whether those laws are physical, like gravity, or spiritual, like “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
3. Men Cannot Decide Truth
Just as men cannot create truth, before a man is born, truth already existed, and after that same man dies, the truth remains the same. It means that all the talking that man did all his life did not change reality. Unless a man becomes a worker with God, and God wills to use him as a mouthpiece to speak the truth, then that man’s life was in vain.
We either work for God or against God.
Matthew 12:30 — “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.”
Men cannot decide what truth is, as God is the Creator. Do we run into a great problem if a man thinks he can decide truth? Yes, for man then mocks God and says to His face, “I am the creator.” How well will that go with God when men claim to be creators? It will not go well.
James 2:19 — “You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe — and tremble!”
Proverbs 16:5 — “Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord; though they join forces, none will go unpunished.”
4. Men Cannot Create or Do Good
The Bible warns us of the danger of trusting in our own hearts. God gave us reasoning powers for worldly things, like repairing a car or cooking a meal. For those things, our minds work well and are very helpful. But for spiritual things, our minds are darkened and cannot see truth — especially given that many people are not honest, but plain liars. It is remarkable to see dishonest people claiming they have the truth, when a dishonest person cannot find the truth.
It is like putting “Rome” into a GPS while wanting to go to Madrid — you will never arrive in Rome, because your GPS is messed up and has the wrong information in it. A computer with viruses cannot work well, as it is infected. The human mind has been infected in the same way.
On top of that, most humans — even those who make laws — do not understand how to find truth. They are very quick to judge before they know the whole matter. It is remarkable to see that those who rule have such a mindset; they come to conclusions too fast, before knowing all the facts, and they always arrive at lies.
5. Man Is Led by Either God or Satan
Man has been taken captive by Satan. In fact, the whole human race is under Satan’s power. Government, sport, the music industry, the fashions of the day, and the way people speak, talk, dress, and behave are all under the influence of demons.
2 Timothy 2:25-26 — “In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”
Satan invents, with his angels, new ways to deceive humans. We now see this new deception: man thinking that he decides truth, and man thinking that there is no absolute truth. These are masterful deceptions — grandiose deceptions under which the whole human race now lies. Imagine if you could invent a way to nullify the Bible and the truth. What would you invent? What could be more deceptive than sending evil angels to men and making men believe that their own minds are the truth, so that they never have to seek truth elsewhere?
Ezekiel 28:12-19 — “You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering: the sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created. You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you. By the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within, and you sinned; therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God; and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones. Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, that they might gaze at you. You defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trading; therefore I brought fire from your midst; it devoured you, and I turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who saw you. All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you; you have become a horror, and shall be no more forever.”
Satan is the deceiver, and most people think it’s cool to believe their own minds and not trust God. They will sadly soon find out that they were under a terrible deception. They will thus lose eternal life and will have to be destroyed forever. What a sad deception, to follow society and to follow the human mind — the seat of so many evil thoughts, feelings, and dishonesty.
When we have the Bible, we find out from God Himself what truth is. Do you like to hear the truth? Do you want to know what truth is?
Repeat after me: Father God, forgive my sins. Forgive the fact that I have trusted in society and my own mind to find out what truth is, and that I have not sought for truth in the Bible. Forgive me for having believed lies and thus having become a liar. Help me to seek the truth, to believe it, and to put it into practice, in the name of Jesus. Amen.