![]() ![]() ![]() Surely no government in the 21st century would ever search, punish with death, or sentence you to Siberia if you were caught carrying books! But the suppression of truth – deceit, lying in its naked form – is a sin committed daily at an advanced level by the powers that be. Words on Fire reveals why people were willing to go to such great lengths for the preservation of words on paper. ![]() Lithuanians died trying to smuggle books into the country that would keep their history, the truth, alive. It’s about the Russian ban of Lithuanian literature in the late 1800s in an attempt to erase all religion, culture, and language but their own. We just finished reading Jennifer Nielsen’s book, Words On Fire. God made His abhorrence of lying plain: hypocrisy and dissimulation are not to be tolerated. (Aren’t we all guilty of leaving out certain details to make ourselves look better?!)Īnanias and Sapphira were punished with immediate death for their collaboration in a “white lie” that was made to elevate their appearance to the rest of the church. The suppression of truth to advance one’s own agenda is nothing new. ![]()
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