After four quite solid months of working on this blog, I have rather shamefully neglected it for some nine months. I've been busy with a lot of translation work that the Lord has blessed me with, and also been quite heavily involved in the Creation Liberty Evangelism forum and church. My personal life has also got a little interesting lately. Anyway, one of the things I have never been happy about when starting the blog was its name. The name of the blog was simply a Scripture reference. However, I have now hit upon a new and hopefully more memorable name. After doing some research to ensure I wasn't inadvertently copying anyone else's blog name, I have decided to rename this blog to Not Conformed.
The verse that has inspired the new name is Romans 12:2, which states: "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
Christians are not meant to conform to the world. A couple of other passages show us that God and the world don't mix:
"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." (James 4:4)
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." (1 John 2:15-17)
The closer I get to God, the more I find that I am not conforming to the world. Indeed, there is much already in this blog that does not conform to the world. For example, the world says that homosexuals are "born that way" and that we should give them some sort of special treatment because of that. I agree with what the Bible says: that it is sin, that people who commit the sin choose it (so it's not inherent), and that it is against God's natural design for the body. Therefore, I do not conform to the world's position, but God's.
The world also wants us to believe that men who think they're women really are women, and that women believing themselves to be men actually are men. It would have us believe that men can get pregnant (a "pregnant man" is still a biological woman). I agree with the Bible that people dressing in the clothing of the opposite gender are an abomination to God (Deuteronomy 22:5) and that God has created everyone male and female. Once a man, always a man. Once a woman, always a woman - no matter how you want to dress or what weird things you want to do to your body to make yourself appear more like the opposite gender. Once again, I do not conform to the world on this point.
The world says that women should have the right to choose whether to let their unborn children live. A baby in the womb is supposedly a mere "foetus" and bunch of cells. But I believe that life begins at conception, and that an unborn child is just that: a CHILD. (This isn't just in the Bible either - millions of ultrasound scans now serve as additional witnesses to the truth of an unborn baby's humanity.) As such, to kill it in an abortion is murder, for that is the shedding of innocent blood. Even if a woman is raped (undoubtedly a horrible crime), it's not acceptable to kill an innocent baby for the crime that its father committed. (How about executing the rapist instead? The feminists ought to get right behind that one.) In my absolute conviction that abortion is murder and one of the most wicked things anyone can do, and that moreover God judges it severely in due time, I do not conform to the world.
The world says we should believe in evolution, whereby everything magically evolved over millions of years after some mysterious "big bang". I believe the Bible when it says that God created the entire world in six literal days and nights. So when it comes to the origins of life, I do not conform to the world.
The world claims that there are many paths that lead to God, whereas I believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to God. The world also says that truth is relative, whereas I believe that truth is absolute, and that God's Word is truth (John 17:17). Here too then, I do not conform to this world.
The world reckons that climate change will cause its end. I agree with the Bible that there will always be summer and winter, and cold and heat for as long as the world exists, and that when it DOES end, it will be in the manner prophesied in the Book of Revelation. Moreover, I am firmly of the view that man-made climate change is largely, if not entirely, a hoax. So on this matter too, I do not conform to this world.
And while the Bible does not specifically prohibit vaccines, the world sure seems to love them, especially this newfangled COVID-19 vaccine. So much so that they want to force people to have them against their will in some places. I do not agree with such coercion. Nor am I convinced that the COVID-19 vaccine is much good at all. So in my position on vaccines, especially the COVID-19 ones, I do not conform to this world.
The reason I do not conform to this world on this and other matters is because I seek to obey the Bible, which is my final authority for all faith and practice. The world hates the Bible, so in my very love for God's Word, I once more do not conform to it. The Bible is renewing my mind from years of brainwashing by the mainstream media and other forms of popular entertainment. And it is transforming me - into someone who is, in the eyes of the world, a nonconformist. The more obedient you are to God and His Word, the more you too will become someone who, like me and like this blog, is "Not Conformed" to this world - its values, customs and teachings. In my first new post after this one, I will elaborate more on what true Biblical nonconformity is, especially where it concerns government mandates and the like. So keep an eye out for that soon.
