<h1>Prepared for the Times, Part 29</h1>
<p>Week 29, 2010 <br /><br /><br /></p>
<p><img src="images/stories/r_joyner_85px.jpg" border="0" style="float: left;" />     The first strategy of the devil to seduce mankind was to get our first parents to doubt the Word of God—“Did God really say that?” Once he got them to doubt what He had said, it was just a short step to getting them to doubt God’s intentions for them. From there, his ploy was to get them to feel rejected by God because He was holding something back from them. Christians who have been caused to stumble often go through this same pattern. <br /><br />     It is interesting that this is the same way our Constitution has been attacked and eroded. First, we have been encouraged to question what it really says, and then if that does not work, to question the intentions of the Founders who wrote it. If that does not work, we’re encouraged to believe that it was a document written for a primitive agrarian society, not the modern world, and it is therefore no longer relevant. Actually, it was written in plain English so that it is would be clear to those who would bother to read it. It also had nothing to do with agrarian or modern societies, but rather the fundamental corruptibility of men when given power and how to keep this corruption in check. Their wisdom has been based on truths that have been proven in every age of men because it is not dependent on the circumstances men are in, but rather what is in men that will manifest in certain circumstances. <br />   
