One click off

Note: I originally had this set to post much farther in the future, but with recent developments, decided to push it up a bit. 

When I look at my rifle's sights, it has two adjustment knobs:

The horizontal knob pictured adjusts for elevation (moves the sight, and therefore, the bullet impact, up and down). The vertical knob adjusts for windage (left and right adjustments).

Let's say I am zeroed in - my sights point to the same place as the bullet will strike - at, say, 500 yards.
Let's say then that I rotate the horizontal knob (elevation) only a single click in the clockwise direction.
This will raise the point of impact 1 minute of angle.

Note: a minute of angle is equal to 1/60 of a degree of a circle.
(remember, there are 360 degrees in a full circle).
At 500 yards, one minute of angle is just a hair over 5 inches.

If I were shooting at a 4-inch target, such an adjustment would cause a miss. 

That's the point - Satan wishes for people to miss the target. He wants us to fall short. He knows that the best way to cause a miss is not to lie such that we do something that is 180 degrees from being right. Instead, he knows a 5-inch miss is the same as a 5-mile miss.

So Satan's lies are really, really "small" in nature.

I was having a polite debate a few weeks ago with a Calvinist on Facebook. He claimed that the difference between believing in predestination and a refusal of the predestination myth was simply a "matter of differing soteriology." That's what Satan wants us to believe - that both views are valid.

A few of Satan's lies that are spread by people in the world:
- "Predestination and free will are both valid church doctrines."
- "Abortion is not murder - the fetus is not a person yet."
- "I am a Christian, and therefore, I must confront sin when I see it."
- "Everybody will go to Heaven - our God is a loving God."
- "Society is to blame when a person commits a crime against another."


Basically, any removal of personal responsibility, any blame shifting, and blame reduction, any compromise of Biblical principle - they are all tactics and tricks of the evil one. Designed to tear us away from God.


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