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This hopeless human condition reminds me of Platos Parable of the Cave. In his book The Republic, Plato postulates prisoners who were kept chained up from their birth and facing one wall all the time. As a result, they mistake their shadows on the cave wall for real, and die in their chains without realizing how miserable they are, or how beautiful and glorious the world is outside the cave. But there is a prisoner who breaks his chains and comes out of the cave. Imagine his dazzling experience with the glorious light of the sun and the world under it, and imagine how overwhelming his confusion and realization would be. After experiencing this amazing world, he goes back to the cave. And he testifies the unbelievable real world outside the cave to his fellow prisoners, who are trapped in the false world, but he ends up being killed by those who would not accept the truth. Just like a fable, this parable is reflecting our reality. Satan the Devil trapped the mankind in the cave of confusion and falsehood. It is not an overstatement to say that even most Christians are prisoners in the cave of false doctrines that Satan created. They believe their doctrines are the only truth because they are born in the cave of false doctrines and listen to the confusing teachings from false teachers and die without receiving the remission of sins. In other words, they go to hell without knowing why. When they hear from us the gospel of the water and the Spirit, they not only refuse to accept the word of the Truth but they even antagonize us, because they have been enchained for so long by the false doctrines. Therefore, the blood of martyrs like Abel, Zechariah (who died in between the altars in the temple), Stephen (who was stoned to death) and the Apostles (who testified to the Truth by death) is still crying out loud from the ground: Return to God promptly. Leave your evil ways and stubbornness and come back to the righteous way of God. Receive salvation only by faith in His love and His salvation, for God has already remitted all your sins through His Sons baptism and His death on the Cross.
