Conspiring to Accuse Conspiracy

One of my math teachers in highschool was a Boeing engineer before he became a teacher. Occasionally he would mention a story about his job at a space observatory in New Mexico.

The students in my class asked him some terrible and bizarre questions.

One student claimed she had it on good authority that the government built space observatories in the Southwest to hide the fact that they were really growing marijuana.

My teacher's response: "It was a space observatory! Why would the government spend 100 million dollars to build a telescope to grow marijuana?".

Another student said he heard from his parents that the Air Force had a secret base in the Albequerque desert where the mountains would open and the helicopters could fly right in.

One time while on vacation in Hawaii one of the students read in the Honolulu Advertiser that the government had destroyed a battleship with a giant laser.

Perhaps it would not be out of line to ask if these students believed these allegations?

Or - going a bit farther - maybe the students didn't think the government was doing any questionable activity at all.

Maybe the real conspirators were the students themselves who felt a requirement to obey their teacher and the government. Perhaps instead of obeying the teacher and the government they instead wanted to undermine their authority.

Each man knows his own thoughts (as Paul writes) so I cannot conclude with certainty what their thoughts were.

There are a lot of conspiracies, and they are often very bizarre. For example, some people think there is a secret, underground city built underneath the Denver International Airport. [1]

Don't be confused into thinking people tell these stories because they give their own lives meaning. These stories are most often told for entertainment and sometimes as an evasion to living a responsible life.

People also have had conspiracy theories about God.

The Bible records in the book of Ezekiel that the people told one another that God treated them unjustly. Their tale was that God judged them on the basis of other people's decisions.

"But the house of Israel says, `The way of the Lord is not right.' Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?
"Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct," declares the Lord GOD. "Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.
Ezekiel 18:29-30

Some people today think that God wants to give people the hope of having a normal life ... but only so He can crush those dreams with cold insensitivity.

And so these people associate and tell each other this conspiracy. We see their mockeries on late night television. We hear their sterile voices in the universities. We read their drive-by views in the "associated" newspapers.

But are these the people not the ones who are conspiring together?

The Bible tells us in Revelation that we will not always have the luxury of banding togther in our beliefs and choices. There will come a day when every man shall give an account of his or her own choices.

At that point, it will not matter what the government or the inquisition or the crusades did. Each person will have to answer for their own choices.

So in the spirit of ending conspiracies I have a question. What is keeping you from bringing your views to God? Do you think He can handle hearing it? Do you think He cares about you?

Consider the words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 :
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.