Does God decieve people 2 Thes 2: 11?

Question

This question is posed to gather views from different backgrounds not because I don't know the answer. Nor to draw criticism from people who have no idea about the context in which the question is asked.

Answer 1

I think you asked a very perplexing question! This Question cannot be answer in a yahoo forum but rather by knowing God through a life long relationship.

Answer 2

For those who have understood God's Word, yet continually denied / rejected the Bible and God's love because they continually choose instead the pleasures of sin, then " there remains no more sacrifice for them, but a certain fearful looking of judgement ( Hebrews 10:26-27 ). God will send a strong delusion to those who have had "adequate" opportunities for repenting and trusting in the Lord. They are forever "doomed" to believe a lie, that's a fact. That is why one does not need to gamble with their eternal souls today.

Answer 3

God gives people more of what they have. They have deceived themselves :
" . . . . 10 and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved."

So God gave them more of what they wanted. It would seem that by reading the Bible that God doesn't like fence walkers. He likes people to make a choice, one way or another, and He gives them even more reason to believe what they want to believe.

All too often, people who do not want a world with God as their God say so explicitly. And so God will give them a world without Him. They complain about how He does things, they complain about Him, and they would trouble Him if they could. So God gives them what they want, more reason to be against Him, to hate Him. I think that He is being generous! Because He owes them nothing!

Answer 4

yes...this is talking about the tribulation period...7 years...all these people have had the chance to accept the Lord or reject him... You have to read.the verses before==Vs 8- 10 2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
It is not going to be a pleasent time on earth...but because this person will be able to perform powerful, and wonderus things...they will believe his lie (the antichrist)
The reason:
They believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness: they did not love the truth, and therefore they did not believe it; and, because they did not believe the truth, therefore they had pleasure in unrighteousness, or in wicked actions, and were pleased with false notions. Note, An erroneous mind and vicious life often go together and help forward one another.
(2.) Their ruin is thus expressed: God shall send them strong delusions, to believe a lie. Thus he will punish men for their unbelief, and for their dislike of the truth and love to sin and wickedness; not that God is the author of sin, but in righteousness he sometimes withdraws his grace from such sinners as are here mentioned; he gives them over to Satan, or leaves them to be deluded by his instruments; he gives them up to their own hearts' lusts, and leaves them to themselves, and then sin will follow of course, yea, the worst of wickedness, that shall end at last in eternal damnation. God is just when he inflicts spiritual judgments here, and eternal punishments hereafter, upon those who have no love to the truths of the gospel, who will not believe them, nor live suitably to them, but indulge false doctrines in their minds, and wicked practices in their lives and conversations.
in Rom 1:28 the word reprobate means..without redeeming value

Answer 5

The context is the seven year period of the Antichrist.

The message is that you can reject God so many times that the door to accept Him has been closed to you. So He sends them a strong delusion to prevent them from accepting Him, but instead will continue to believe the lie they have believed for so long.

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Answer 6

I think a better way to put it is that God prevents a person who refuses the truth from seeing it. A prime example would be the "veil" He placed over unbelieving Jews' eyes (2 Cor. 3:15).

Answer 7

If sinners refuse to believe the gospel God in His righteousness will give them over to a depraved mind. Those who don't come to the light will be given over to the darkness. It is not deceit on Gods part. He means exactly what He say's. It means they will no longer be under Gods protection from satan who is the father of all lies.

Answer 8

Allowing deception in the world is God's plan for our salvation. It is stated throughout the Bible who the deciever is and that it is allowed so that we, as Christians, have something to choose against. If there was no deception, there whould be no "freedome of choice".

Answer 9

Hello :)

I think that this means God will withdraw from them and allow Satan to taunt them, as in the book of Job. However, unlike Job these people will not desire to love God and will not have faith, and so they will be lead astray by Satan, rather than persevering with God until Satan is driven away.

Answer 10

Yes, when it serves His purpose. God is sovereign and can do anything, any time, and any way He chooses. But, the good news is God loves you and there's not a darn thing you can do about it. Romans 8:28.