Why You Believe What You Do (Transcript)

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 All of us labor under immense misconceptions…ideas that we think are true that are not true, alleged facts that we believe are proven that are not proven.

Hi, this is Bob Barney with The Plain Truth Today and over the next few days we’re going to play some other broadcasts as well, some videos about both biblical misconceptions, a lot of misconceptions people have about the Bible, and a little bit today about misconceptions in general. As I mentioned, we will be discussing what people believe is true that is not true.

I can think offhand of something we have talked about on this broadcast several times in the past about the formation and the role of our government as designed by our forefathers.

If you were to go out on a street corner and you were to ask the average person out there, is America a democracy? 99% of the people would probably say yes that America is a democracy. To a lesser extent, part of that is true however we are really a democratic republic and virtually no one today, especially coming out of our school systems, no younger person today even understands the concept of what a democratic republic is. The very republic that our Forefathers gave us which expresses the role of individual liberties.

We are not a democracy.

A great example of a pure democracy is like what happened in Athens…and it always fails and in a very short amount of time.

3:45 Democracies always end up when the majority rules without any safeguards to become a majority of ruling by tyranny. That tyranny eventually gets into the hands of a few people representing the majority and their tyranny who then themselves become the dictators even against the majority.

Within 30, 40, 50 years like with what happened in Athens in the ancient world, the democracy always evolves into a dictatorship where there is no freedom of and for anyone.

@ That is the first misconception that I wanted to get into, the idea that the American people do not understand how important it is to have a republic form of government with individual liberty as the basis of that government. It’s more important than the idea that they believe we have a democracy. The last thing this country needs is mob rule and democracy is just another name for mob rule. Again, mob rule will always end up being or evolving into, or you could say devolving into, a dictatorship and loss of all liberty of all parties except those in charge. It is our duty to understand why our government was based on a democratic republic form of government, a representative form of government. It is our duty to understand why we have three distinct branches of government to act as a check and balance system so one group of leaders cannot usurp all the power to themselves that the other branch or two other branches can prevent that from happening.

5:21 The Supreme Court, for example, has always been in the past a body of judges who are not elected, and they do not have to run for re-election. Therefore, our Forefathers saw them as people who would always rule in the interest of the Constitution. 

Another misconception that people have is what is the role of the Bill of Rights? What are the amendments to the Constitution and why are the first 10 amendments so important to understand? Again, I think if you were to go up to anybody on the street, especially those under 40, and ask them the purpose of the Bill of Rights, most people could not even tell you what it says. Most cannot tell you what they are, or why they were put into our Constitution. The first 10 are part of the Constitution, the rest of the amendments to the Constitution are not, they are extensions of the Constitution. One may try to argue with me with this point by saying, well, no, the Constitution is its own set of four pages and then the Bill of Rights came afterwards, you know, before they ratified the Constitution. That is technically accurate, however without the Bill of Rights, there would not have been a constitution. See, our forefathers got together to make a constitution back in 1788 and 89, and they came up with a very good form of government with a three-branched form of government with checks and balances. Then many of the states who were really worried about tyranny, because they just had gotten rid of England and a king, they sure didn’t want to readopt that system of government here in America.

They saw that the Constitution did limit the powers of the central government somewhat, but it did not protect the individual people of their individual liberties. 

A misconception that Americans have about us being a democracy when we’re not, is that our forefathers did not fight the Revolutionary War for democracy like people think they did. They fought for individual liberty in that a person is designed by their creator God, to have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There is no government on earth that should be able to prevent that from happening, because therefore God’s right to these people cannot be abridged. So, when they wrote the Constitution, they all decided they needed to add amendments immediately to the Constitution, which we call the Bill of Rights.

Why is it the Bill of Rights?

It is so because it is about the rights mainly for an individual or a minority group of individuals.

8:56 The first one, of course, the freedom of the speech for an individual or freedom of the press for an individual or a group of people in a press, but there’s still a minority of American citizens that make up the press, where their right to free speech or to a free press cannot be controlled by any government agency. We have a history of government agencies trying to do just that. The second amendment, again, has to do with an individual having the right to, one, own firearms, and two, his right to owning those firearms cannot be infringed upon by any government agency. This means you have a right to own a gun without a permit. You have a right to own a pistol and carry a pistol on you without a permit. That’s really what it says. Also, that you also have a right, you and your neighbors to form a militia in order to protect you from the tyranny of a government agency that may decide to become a dictatorship.

That is right.

You didn’t get the right to bear arms in the second amendment to go hunt a deer or to go hunting or to go target practicing. Our forefathers did not put that in the constitution for a right for hunters as the liberals are trying to say today. They are trying to say that the second amendment, you know, why does a hunter need an AR-15? Well, the second amendment has nothing to do with a hunter, nothing whatsoever. All the second amendment has in it is the right to bear arms to protect you from your government. That’s what it’s protecting you from, because they had just thrown off a tyrannical government and a king who tried to take away their weapons before the battle of Concord in Massachusetts. So, the second amendment, again, was all about individual rights, in this case, to own a gun. 

The other bill of right is like, for example, you have a right of a jury trial of your peers. You have a right not to speak without the representation of an attorney and you have a right to remain silent and not to incriminate yourself. You cannot be forced into a confession, something we do all the time in our police forces. Obviously, all you have to do is look at court records to show this is true. But anyway, if you’re following the Bill of Rights, a person has a right to remain silent. They have a right to have an attorney. If they’re imprisoned, their attorney or they themselves have a right to a bill of Habeas Corpus that the court orders in which a person is to be released from jail in order to appear in court to have a decision made by a judge if should they be held in jail or should they be released. This is so based on if there aren’t enough charges to warrant an imprisonment. There is in the Bill of Rights, the right against search and seizure of your property without a court order. The police cannot just go through your car or your home or through your private papers without a warrant. They do so all the time though, especially nowadays in this lawless country we’re living in. According to the bill of rights, according to your Constitution there is no government law passed by Congress or executive orders passed by the president that can take away a law in the Bill of Rights. Only another amendment can do so. It is illegal to pass a law or to make an executive order that negates any part of the Constitution or the Bill of rights.

11:56 Just remember that in the Bill of Rights, you have a right to keep your house from being overtaken by the police force or the army or navy as lodging in times of war. You have rights that were put in this Bill of Rights to protect you from tyranny. That is one of the great misconceptions, again, that the American people have about their form of government.

Also, this week, we’re going to get into a mix of Biblical misconceptions. People are full of misconceptions on what they think is in the Bible. They think “cleanliness is next to godliness”. Cleanliness is not found in the Bible. It just is not. They think that the God who spoke to Moses and appeared to him as God, is God the Father and it is not. They believe that the God of David, David’s Lord was again, God the Father of the New Testament revealed by Jesus Christ. Well, David’s God was not the Father God. David’s Lord was none other than the being and the God who became Jesus Christ.

Another biblical misconception that people have, we will get into this week with this show and others is of the idea that when you die, you have an immortal soul that goes somewhere. People believe their soul goes to heaven or goes to hell and that this is what the Bible teaches.

It does not.

You know, there is no such phrase in any part of your Bible that you have an immortal soul. There’s no phrase of a truth like that, but people think it’s there.

There are all kinds of things people believe are written in the Bible.

13:45 For example, a biblical misconception is that people think the Bible ordains Sunday as a day of worship as if that is the Sabbath day when actually the Sabbath day is what we would call Saturday. The Sabbath is the same day the Jews follow to this very day. It has never been changed in the Bible. Any good research that you want to do, and I would suggest you start with the Catholic church and their encyclopedia, the Catholic encyclopedia, which you can find online…you will see the history of how Saturday, the Sabbath day of God was morphed into Sunday, the day of the Christian Sabbath and who did so. You’re going to find out it wasn’t Christ. It wasn’t the Apostles. It wasn’t the first 230 years of the church. It was the Catholic church that made Sunday the Sabbath day and the day of worship and this is something that has nothing to do with your Bible.

There are other things people think that the Bible, and these are people that really get into it. We went into this last week. People think that the Bible says that you can eat anything and that all foods have been cleansed by Christ on the cross. The Bible says no such thing. You can find phrases in the Bible where people, long after Jesus is dead and resurrected, who still are following what the Bible calls a clean diet, not eating any pork, any shellfish, any creeping, crawling, slithering animal that they desire. You also have a biblical misconception of the diet at the time of the garden was only a vegetarian diet. Yet we know that Adam had canine teeth because another biblical misconception is that all death came due to the fall of mankind, the sin of Adam and Eve. There was no death before Adam and Eve. When the real plain fact is that human death came from the sin of Adam and Eve, but death came into the world really through sin. And it was the sin of the devil when an angel called Lucifer became, I mean, I’m sorry, an angel called, I just had a misconception here. The angel of light became Lucifer, or he was named Lucifer, became Satan in the Bible.

15:54 He was originally, Lucifer means bright shining star, and he rebelled against God in heaven, the original Star Wars, and became Satan of our Bible, the great lawless one. And because of him, sin entered into the world. But it is obvious if you just know a little bit of biology about the human lifespan, about digestion, that there was animal death before there was human death.But that’s just another biblical misconception. Going back to other misconceptions that people have, people believe that what they consume, we went into this last week, what they consume, what the government says is healthy for you, what your doctor says is healthy for you is healthy. That the pyramid of the food you should eat is based on real science. It is not. It is based on pseudoscience. People believe that there are people who believe on both sides of this issue, that all vaccines are good for you, and there are other people who believe that all vaccines are bad for you. But very few people on either side understand the role of vaccines, where vaccines came from. And ultimately, the greatest thing that God gave you for you to survive disease is vaccines. But you may not know this, but those vaccines, they come from God.

When you are exposed to a disease and you are healthy, without immune problems, you’re eating a good, healthy, godly diet, and you are exposed to even smallpox or chickenpox, or you name it, your body will vaccinate itself with white blood cells, with antibodies that will make sure that they can defeat that disease from happening to you. To the anti-vaxxers out there, I would like to say that if you’re bit by a rabid raccoon, you are not going to turn down the rabies vaccine, even though it’s still filled with the same harmful chemicals that the regular vaccines are filled with. There is a purpose for vaccines, and there are also natural vaccines, which are superior to anything man can make that God gave us…which is called immunity.

Another misconception. 

18:22 So, this week, or the rest of this week, we really want to get into a few shows on biblical misconceptions, and also of just misconceptions we have about our form of government, about the role of our military, the role of big business, the role of what free enterprise is, is capitalism, pure capitalism, really what our forefathers envisioned for this country? Like so many, what they call themselves ultra-conservatives tell you is true. Can a small family business trying to make a living today, making things in a small-town America competes with communist China? If they decide to go against them with a product, the answer is no.

So pure capitalism just does not work. So what, you know, Teddy Roosevelt said the rule of our government was to do was not to pick a winner, but it was to keep an even playing field with referees to stop the big guy from taking over the little guy. It’s a different kind of capitalism. It’s a populism that is what we are needing in this country. There are other misconceptions that I think is worth noting that people just go down their life and you were to ask them about something, and they would tell you a plain fact. And when you look into these plain facts and we’ll get into that this week, you’re going to find out those plain facts aren’t supported by the science or about rationality or about common sense. They’re just bogus. One of those that I can think of offhand is the idea of radiation. Radiation can kill you or it can save you. Some people get cancers cured by radiation, which can harm just as much as it can help. But radiation is just a light wave on a spectrum that can, in a lower form, cook your vegetables in what’s called a microwave, a lower form of radiation, or in a high grade can power a nuclear submarine indefinitely on a very small fuel matter. Radiation is what makes the sun work. Radiation is what makes photosynthesis happen. The sun’s light is a form of radiation. Radiation creates life, helps life survive, and can kill life.

21:32 We have a lot of misconceptions and again this week we want to get into biblical misconceptions, misconceptions about our government, misconceptions about our world, misconceptions in science and medicine, and realize that we have to do our own research. We have to start looking at things past what people tell us to look for. I say this in the past.I haven’t said it lately, but I’ll say it right now. It is very important that you do not believe everything you hear. You don’t believe me.I don’t ask anybody to believe me. What I want people to do when listening to this program is to hear what I have to say, then look it up for yourself. Find out if I’m wrong about something.

Maybe I’ll plant something wrong on purpose just to see if you’re looking it up. But I don’t want you to follow me like some zombie out there. I don’t want you to believe in something I say. You don’t even know who I am really. You’re listening to my voice. You don’t know what kind of person I am. Don’t believe in me. Believe in God. I think you should believe in God.

You’ve got to also believe in your mind that God gave you.

23:00 So do your own research. When I say, you know, what the Second Amendment really says, or what our former government really is, or how we’re not a democracy, look it up for yourself. If you do enough research, you will find that I am righter than I am wrong about these topics. That you will come away with an education that our leaders really don’t want you to have today which is what this program is really trying to do, we are trying to get the listener out there to think to himself and say, hey, wait a minute. I’ve always believed this, but how do I know it’s true? Let me look into this. Then, when you start looking into it lo and behold, all of a sudden, wham, you will see for YOURSELF that this has been a lie…or this is the truth. But it’s nice to know, once you prove it to yourself, one way or another, isn’t it? Again, this is Bob Barney saying thank you for listening. Goodbye.