The Bible says here that God will send them delusions so they will believe a lie. How can a loving God do this? In other places, God seems to push those who want to sin deeper into their own deception. Why would God do this? First, we need to realize that these people God is talking about are like those in Romans 1:18-32; they want to believe a lie. They have rejected light and have embraced darkness. God sends them as the Greek (the original language )would translate a "working of error" or "energy of delusion." God gives them what they want. These aren't people who are good but are what God would call reprobate, or apostate. The world might look at them and say they're good people, but God knows the heart. God is passing judgment.
So why? Could it be that by believing the lie and going all in, as it were, this will show others the error of their ways? I have heard reports that the acts of radical Islam have caused many in that faith to question it and come to faith in Jesus. The barbarity of Hitler's eugenics program changed most of the world's thoughts on that subject. The abuses in the church show how bad people with absolute power can be. These people who have been given over want to go this way, and God says okay, but then he exposes the sin as what it is.
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