The Lie Virus

By J.A. Sloan

A disturbing allegory about the depraved nature of man.  A confused, albeit brilliant, man of science believes the lies of man-centered utopian dreams and is duped into using his gifts for evil ends.  He develops a biological weapon designed to "cleanse the earth" and "prepare the planet" for gods that do not exist. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.A. Sloan
• Release date: Nov 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215082553

Book preview

DEDICATION

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to

Victims

of

September 11, 2001

You will never be forgotten.

May your families find peace.

&

9/11 First Responders

Thank you for your brave service.

May your families be ever so proud.

&

All who still suffer

Our thoughts and prayers always.

SEE IN THE DARK

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The world is blind

It embraces the darkness

Where evil hides

Seeing but not seeing

Hearing but not hearing

Hunger, poverty, disease

Pain, suffering, injustice

Let us stay in the dark

With our shiny things

We accept the lies

Don’t shine a light

And make us see

Don’t speak the truth

We want to be blind

But

Where there is light

There can be no dark

Eyes can see

Where there is truth

Lies are revealed

We are free

LORD

Grant us Your light

Grant us Your truth

Grant us the eyes of faith

to

SEE IN THE DARK

2 CORINTHIANS 4:3-6 (NIV)

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And even if our gospel is veiled,

it is veiled to those who are perishing.

The god of this age has blinded the minds

of unbelievers, so that they cannot see

the light of the gospel that displays the glory

of Christ, who is the image of God.

For what we preach is not ourselves,

but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves

as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

For God, who said, "Let light shine out

of darkness," made His light shine

in our hearts to give us the light

of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed

in the face of Christ.

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INTRODUCTION

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"If you abide in My word, you are My

Disciples indeed.  And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

(John 8:31-32 NKJV)

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Jesus spoke these words to a people in bondage.

If the truth sets us free, then lies hold us captive.

~ Selah ~

From dust to dust:

Television parents; K-12 subtly indoctrinates; our colleges and universities—institutions of higher learning—lean far away from absolute truth;  history is rewritten to soothe our sensibilities, water down reality, and push hidden agendas;  churches preach prosperity rather than purity, message rather than mission, budget rather than new birth, relevance rather than revelation, and things of Man rather than Spirit; free speech is hate speech; fake news is news; political-party affiliation trumps individual identity; cultural relativism defines truth;  we poison the earth to feed ourselves; we spend thousands to extract a hundred dollars of energy and call ourselves good, green, and intelligent stewards; we give our children games that promote violence and reward them for their kills, call it harmless entertainment, and blame an inanimate object when it becomes bloody real; and we murder our unwanted children for convenience and argue it is a fundamental human right.

This list is far too long, yet it is only the headlines for today.  A full historical accounting would take volumes and still be grossly incomplete.  And then there will be new headlines tomorrow.  Everyone knows that lies beget even more lies.

Can you see, hear, feel, and smell the endless torrent of lies?

The world is in bondage.

~ Selah ~

Man is not who you think he is.  He is much, much worse.

Man is one who is detestable and corrupt, who drinks iniquity like water.  (Job 15:16)

Brought forth in iniquity and in sin conceived (Psalm 51:5), Man is by nature a creature of wrath (Ephesians 2:3).

Romans 3:10-18 summarizes the verdict:  All are guilty.

Do you need historical proof?

In the last century alone, Man has been the sole perpetrator of much evil:

Human trafficking; drug cartels; endless wars; weapons of mass destruction; government-sanctioned murder (Stalin, Zedong, Hitler, Congo, etc.); 9/11; ISIS; infanticide; mass shootings; suicide bombs; pedophilia; jihad; domestic violence; date rape; beheadings; the cornucopia of crime; the explosion of drug-and-alcohol abuse; clergy sex scandals; kidnapping; pornography; pollution; political scandal; Ponzi schemes; and racism.

These are but just a few of Man’s recent wicked works.  He is always creating more.

Man alone, in the last century alone, is responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths.  He is the soul-sick author of all pain and suffering in the world.  Man is the only species who exists with a horrendous propensity—an innate nature—for evil against his own kind.  No other species on earth is as hell-bent on self-destruction as Man is.  Somehow, it’s in the DNA of his soul.  It’s Man’s inherent sinfulness.

If you fill a soul-sick Man’s head and his heart with lies and arm him with the means to destroy, he will.  Cain murdered his own brother, Abel, with a rock in jealous anger.  Nothing’s changed since . . . . Man just has bigger rocks.

Only a supernatural Savior can change Man’s nature.

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And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

(John 3:19 ESV)

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The world seeks a remedy in vain because it is blind.  It is blind because it refuses to accept a point of reference outside itself.

A disoriented road-warrior salesman, late for an urgent appointment, stubbornly refuses to consult the map beside him.  He has no point of reference.  He is lost.  Pride will not let him admit it or stop to ask for directions.  Instead, he presses on—navigating by his corrupt nature, zigging then zagging, trusting his instincts, and believing the next lie—This is surely the way!  He is hopelessly and pitifully lost.  He is blind.

Sadly, this is what he has chosen.

Such is the condition of the world.

We must certainly pray for the lost and blind but, as a passenger on the ship of fools, it is maddening.  I want to scream, Stop!  You’re lost!  Don’t believe the lies!  You can’t trust human nature!  Look at the map!

That’s why I am writing this book—to say to the world, Stop!  Look at the map!

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The story you’re about to read is a work of fiction.  By definition, it isn’t true—but it could be.  It contains many shocking (to me) historical facts, such as America having a national eugenics program that inspired Germany’s Final Solution; the recent birth of CRISPR twins, Lulu and Nana; and the eerie existence of the Georgia Guidestones and the Raelean cult.

Truth is often stranger than fiction.

I’m unapologetically using a fictional story to make a statement.  Jesus did this: He utilized fictional stories—called parables—to clarify His messages.

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Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

(Matthew 13:13 NKJV)

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You will hopefully see, hear, and understand what I’m saying.

These are the two points I am trying to make:

Lies are everywhere.  Lies are not harmless, little, or white.  Lies are like an infectious virus, and the world is infected.  Lies blind people.  Lies are evil.  They are deadly.

Finally, I want to say LOUDLY that there are light and truth!  There is a map!  There is a way!

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I am the way, the truth, and the life.

(John 14:6 KJV)

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I deliberately spent a few waking moments with my eyes closed today.  No, I wasn’t resting my eyes.  I wanted to see what being physically blind would be like.  It was, in a word, enlightening.

It was difficult.  I’m extremely dependent upon sight.  I tried navigating my familiar bathroom affairs – showering, shaving, styling my hair, and brushing my teeth—while I was blind.  After ten minutes of uncertain fumbling, I opened my eyes to see my accomplishments.  I’d made a real mess.

Without sight, I had to trust the senses of touch, smell, sound, and taste to orient myself.  I’m thankful for each of my sensory gifts—so easily taken for granted.  Still, I had to have faith in what I could not see.

I recently read an article about a blind man who, unassisted, built an entire house.  People laughed at him.  I watched a documentary about a blind child who wanted to read, and developed Braille.  He was scolded.  I read about a blind man who learned to ride a bicycle employing echolocation, and a blind man who made it to the summit of Mt. Everest, and a blind woman runner who set Olympic records.  No one believed in them, but they all had faith.

To accomplish anything without sight requires a lot of faith.  As the Mt. Everest climber said, You don’t need to have sight to have vision.  You must have faith.

Lies—they are an assault on faith and sight.

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"Faith is the assurance of things hoped for,

the conviction of things not seen."

(Hebrews 11:1 ESV)

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The world will tell you that faith is foolishness.  It will tell you that you cannot build the house or climb the mountain.  It will tell you to trust them.  Follow us!  We know the way!

Obviously, the world will tell you lies.

The most damning lies, however, are the ones we tell ourselves:  Nobody will notice; everybody does it; it doesn’t matter; I don’t need a map!

There is nothing more beautiful in life than seeing the truth with the eyes of faith, and walking in the light.  To believe otherwise is to believe a lie, and to walk in darkness.

Don’t believe the lies.

Please, don’t walk in darkness.

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For we live by faith, not by sight.

(2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV)

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PROLOGUE

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Seeing is never believing: We interpret what we see in light of what we believe.  Faith is confidence in God before we see God