The Crowd That Shapes You — When Everyone Around You Disbelieves

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When nearly everyone surrounding a person dismisses God, Scripture, Jesus Christ, and the Christian faith, unbelief can begin to feel intellectually normal simply because it is socially common. Human beings live in families, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, professional communities, and friendship circles, and the judgments expressed repeatedly in those settings exert real influence upon the mind. The Bible does not teach that every unbeliever rejects Christianity for precisely the same reason, because people differ in knowledge, experience, moral disposition, intellectual exposure, and willingness to examine evidence. Scripture does teach, however, that human approval, repeated association, pride, fear, moral preference, false teaching, and resistance to divine truth can profoundly influence what a person accepts or rejects. This is why a Christian should never assume that the number of people holding a belief determines whether that belief is true, since truth depends upon reality and ultimately upon what Jehovah has revealed rather than upon majority approval. Proverbs 14:12 warns that a way can appear right to a man while its end leads to death, establishing the crucial distinction between what appears persuasive and what actually corresponds to Jehovah’s truth. Jesus Himself ministered among crowds that sometimes admired Him, sometimes misunderstood Him, sometimes argued about Him, and eventually included people demanding His execution, showing how rapidly collective opinion can shift when governed by religious leaders, fear, misinformation, and emotional pressure. The Christian dealing with widespread unbelief must therefore learn to distinguish between the psychological force of a surrounding crowd and the evidential force of a sound argument, because those two things are not the same.

When Social Normality Begins to Feel Like Truth

Repeated exposure has a powerful normalizing effect because ideas heard constantly begin to feel familiar, and familiarity can easily be mistaken for credibility when a person does not deliberately examine what he is hearing. Romans 12:2 directly addresses this danger when Paul commands Christians not to be conformed to this world but to be transformed through the renewing of the mind, so that they can discern the will of God. The contrast is significant because conformity describes pressure toward an existing pattern, whereas transformation requires the deliberate restructuring of thought according to Jehovah’s revealed truth. A student who hears for years that biblical faith belongs only to the ignorant can gradually absorb that judgment even when nobody has actually presented him with a serious argument against Scripture. An employee surrounded by coworkers who casually ridicule creation, biblical morality, prayer, or Christ can begin to feel embarrassed about convictions that he previously regarded as reasonable, not because new evidence has appeared but because social costs have increased. A Christian household can experience the same pressure when extended family members continually treat biblical beliefs as outdated, making agreement with the family appear emotionally safer than standing with Scripture. This is precisely why the renewal of the mind requires active engagement with the Spirit-inspired Word, since the Christian cannot prevent every false idea from being spoken around him but can refuse to grant the surrounding culture authority over his conscience. The mind shaped continually by Scripture learns to ask not, “What does everyone around me think?” but, “What has Jehovah actually revealed, and what reasons have been offered for rejecting it?”

A Majority Cannot Turn Falsehood Into Truth

Numbers possess social power, but numbers do not possess the ability to alter reality, and Scripture repeatedly demonstrates that large groups can confidently embrace error. Before the Flood, Noah did not become wrong because the surrounding world failed to share his faith, and the wicked generation did not become right merely because unbelief and corruption dominated human society. Israel repeatedly followed collective rebellion despite having received unmistakable revelation from Jehovah, showing that belonging to a large religious community never guaranteed obedience or accurate belief. Jesus likewise stood against influential religious authorities whose social standing gave them enormous persuasive power among the people, yet their positions did not transform their rejection of Him into truth. In John 7:47-49, the Pharisees answered officers impressed by Jesus by appealing to the fact that the rulers and Pharisees had not put faith in Him, effectively presenting elite rejection as though it settled the question. Their argument was defective because the identity and authority of Jesus had to be determined from His words, works, fulfillment of Scripture, and relationship to the Father, not from a count of prestigious supporters. Nicodemus immediately exposed another weakness by reminding them that their own Law required hearing a man and learning what he was doing before judging him, which brought the discussion back from social status to evidence. A Christian surrounded by unbelievers must remember the same principle: ten people repeating an unsupported objection have not created ten pieces of evidence; they have repeated one unsupported objection ten times.

Unbelief Does Not Always Result From Lack of Evidence

One of the most important biblical corrections to modern assumptions about unbelief appears in the Gospel of John, where people witnessed extraordinary evidence and nevertheless refused to believe. John 12:37 states that although Jesus had performed many signs before them, they still were not believing in Him, so Scripture itself refuses to reduce unbelief to a simple shortage of information. The Gospel presents Jesus’ works as public acts connected with identifiable people, places, opponents, disciples, and consequences, making His ministry something far more substantial than private religious feeling. Yet evidence does not mechanically compel faith because human beings are free moral agents who evaluate evidence through existing desires, loyalties, assumptions, fears, and moral commitments. Jesus made this point sharply in John 5:39-40 when He told opponents who searched the Scriptures that those very Scriptures bore witness about Him, yet they did not want to come to Him so that they might have life. Their problem therefore included the will, not merely the intellect, because information pointing toward Christ was present while willingness to respond obediently remained absent. Christian apologetics must respect this distinction by presenting evidence carefully without imagining that evidence removes human responsibility or automatically produces submission to Jehovah. When someone says, “I do not believe because there is no evidence,” the Christian should calmly discover whether the person has actually examined the relevant evidence or has simply repeated the judgment of the social environment around him.

The Desire for Human Approval Can Silence Conviction

John 12:42-43 provides one of Scripture’s clearest demonstrations that a person can recognize truth at one level and still refuse open identification with it because of social pressure. The passage states that many even among the rulers believed in Jesus, yet because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him because they feared being expelled from the synagogue. John then identifies the deeper motive: they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God, revealing that their silence involved a conflict of loyalties rather than a mere shortage of information. Expulsion from the synagogue carried serious social consequences because religious identity was connected with family relationships, community standing, reputation, and participation in ordinary Jewish life. These rulers therefore faced a concrete cost for acknowledging Jesus, and their desire to preserve human approval overpowered their willingness to act openly upon what they had recognized. The same mechanism operates when a university student privately accepts strong reasons for belief in God but refuses to identify as Christian because professors or classmates portray Christianity as intellectually embarrassing. It operates when a professional knows that a biblical moral position is sound but deliberately speaks as though he rejects it because colleagues reward agreement and punish dissent through ridicule or exclusion. Proverbs 29:25 accurately identifies the mechanism when it says that fear of man lays a snare, whereas trust in Jehovah provides security, because fear becomes a trap when another person’s reaction is granted more authority over conduct than Jehovah’s judgment.

The Crowd Often Supplies Permission to Stop Examining

A surrounding culture can influence unbelief not only by offering arguments but also by giving a person psychological permission to avoid arguments altogether. If every respected person in someone’s immediate environment treats Christianity as obviously false, that individual can conclude that serious investigation is unnecessary because he assumes the intellectual work has already been done by others. This attitude resembles the reasoning displayed in John 7:48 when the Pharisees asked whether any of the rulers or Pharisees had believed in Jesus, as though the absence of elite approval removed the need for personal examination. Genuine inquiry operates differently because Acts 17:11 commends those who carefully examined the Scriptures to determine whether the apostolic teaching was so, placing responsibility upon the hearer rather than upon the reputation of the crowd. The historical-grammatical approach likewise requires attention to what the inspired authors actually wrote in their historical and grammatical settings rather than allowing modern cultural assumptions to dictate beforehand what Scripture is permitted to mean. A person who dismisses the resurrection without examining the Gospel accounts, rejects biblical reliability without studying manuscript transmission, or denies fulfilled prophecy without reading the relevant passages has not reached an evidence-based conclusion merely because millions of others share his dismissal. Intellectual responsibility requires understanding a position accurately before rejecting it, especially when the position concerns Jehovah, Christ, resurrection, judgment, and eternal life. The Christian therefore serves the unbeliever well by moving the conversation away from slogans such as “nobody educated believes that anymore” and toward the specific question, “What claim are we examining, and what evidence actually supports or opposes it?”

Association Shapes More Than Behavior

Scripture recognizes that companionship influences belief as well as conduct because ideas travel through relationships, conversations, admiration, imitation, and repeated emotional reinforcement. Paul’s warning in 1 Corinthians 15:33 that bad associations corrupt good morals occurs within a chapter defending the resurrection, so the surrounding context connects harmful association with doctrinal corruption as well as moral consequences. The problem in Corinth was not merely that certain people behaved badly; some were saying that there is no resurrection of the dead, and Paul showed that such teaching damaged the entire Christian understanding of Christ’s resurrection, forgiveness, future life, and righteous conduct. This means that repeated exposure to unbelieving reasoning can become spiritually dangerous when a Christian stops evaluating what he hears and begins absorbing it because the speaker is intelligent, entertaining, admired, powerful, or personally important. Psalm 1:1 describes a progression in which the happy man refuses to walk in the counsel of the wicked, stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers, while Psalm 1:2 contrasts that pattern with delight in Jehovah’s law and regular meditation upon it. The movement from walking to standing to sitting portrays increasing settledness within an environment of ungodly influence, while meditation upon divine instruction establishes an opposing formative influence. This does not command Christians to isolate themselves from unbelievers, since Jesus sent His followers into the world to bear witness and Christians necessarily live, work, communicate, and evangelize among those who do not believe. It does require Christians to distinguish between loving unbelievers as people who need truth and allowing unbelievers to become the controlling intellectual community that defines what Christians are permitted to believe.

Scoffing Can Become a Substitute for Reasoning

Mockery possesses unusual social power because human beings naturally dislike humiliation, and a crowd can therefore discourage belief without ever presenting a serious argument. Proverbs 1:22 describes scoffers as people who delight in scoffing, while the surrounding passage associates rejection of wisdom with refusal to receive correction and hatred of knowledge. Scoffing succeeds rhetorically by making a belief appear ridiculous before the belief has been fairly examined, allowing laughter, sarcasm, labels, and contempt to replace evidence. A student who hears classmates laugh whenever biblical creation is mentioned can begin to associate belief with embarrassment even if nobody in the room has examined Genesis according to its historical-grammatical meaning. A Christian who hears repeated jokes about prayer, biblical sexual morality, resurrection, or judgment can begin censoring himself simply to avoid becoming the next object of amusement. Yet ridicule proves nothing, because a proposition remains true or false regardless of whether an audience applauds, laughs, or becomes angry. Jesus endured public mockery from soldiers, religious leaders, and passersby during His execution, but their contempt did not change His identity or invalidate His trust in His Father. Matthew 27:39-43 shows people ridiculing Him precisely while they were participating in events connected with the fulfillment of Scripture, demonstrating how confident mockery can coexist with profound spiritual blindness.

Daniel Shows How Conviction Survives an Unbelieving Environment

Daniel provides a powerful biblical example of faithful thinking under sustained cultural pressure because Babylon attempted to reshape far more than his geographic location. Daniel 1 describes a structured assimilation program involving Babylonian education, language, royal service, renamed identities, and dependence upon the king’s provisions, placing young Judeans inside an environment designed to redirect loyalty toward the empire. The commentary on Daniel correctly emphasizes that this education was not simply an isolated classroom experience but part of a broader strategy through which selected Judean youths were trained for Babylonian service and incorporated into the imperial system. Daniel nevertheless distinguished between matters he could accept and matters that violated his conscience before Jehovah, resolving in Daniel 1:8 that he would not defile himself with the king’s food and wine. His conduct is important because he did not treat every Babylonian custom as sinful, nor did he surrender the standards that Jehovah had established simply because Babylon possessed political power, educational prestige, and cultural dominance. Daniel also responded with discretion and respect rather than with needless provocation, demonstrating that refusing conformity does not require hostility, arrogance, or contempt for people who believe differently. Later chapters intensify the same principle when Daniel’s companions refuse idolatrous worship in Daniel 3 and Daniel continues his established devotion to Jehovah when political manipulation places faithfulness under governmental prohibition in Daniel 6. The Christian surrounded by unbelief needs this kind of settled conviction: informed enough to know where Scripture draws the line, courageous enough to remain there, and gracious enough to refuse unnecessary quarrels while maintaining loyalty to Jehovah.

Fear Becomes Strongest When Acceptance Feels Necessary

Social unbelief becomes especially influential when a person believes that acceptance by the group is necessary for emotional security, professional advancement, intellectual respectability, or family peace. Jesus exposed this connection in John 5:44 when He asked how His opponents could believe while receiving glory from one another instead of seeking the glory that comes from God. His words identify a conflict between faith and approval-seeking because a person who makes human praise supreme will naturally resist truths that threaten the approval structure upon which he depends. This explains why some objections to Christianity become emotionally charged even when the underlying factual question is relatively straightforward, since accepting the Christian answer carries consequences beyond the argument itself. A person raised in an aggressively unbelieving family knows that belief can alter family conversations, holiday gatherings, friendships, habits, moral decisions, and expectations about the future. Another person embedded in a professional culture that treats naturalism as unquestionable understands that openly affirming divine creation or biblical authority can change how colleagues perceive him. None of those social consequences determine whether Christianity is true, but they help explain why unbelief can remain attractive even after serious intellectual objections have weakened. The Christian speaking with such a person should therefore address arguments carefully while recognizing that the deeper difficulty can involve courage, loyalty, identity, or willingness to accept the social cost of following Christ.

Pride Can Make the Crowd Especially Attractive

Unbelief can also be reinforced by pride because agreement with a prestigious group provides a person with a sense of superiority without requiring him to establish the truth of the group’s assumptions personally. Scripture repeatedly connects pride with resistance to correction because the proud person does not merely hold an idea; he becomes invested in preserving his status as someone who already knows. Proverbs 29:23 states that a man’s pride will bring him low, while other portions of Proverbs contrast teachability with the stubborn refusal of wisdom and reproof. The intellectual form of pride appears when a person treats belief in God as beneath him, not because he has carefully answered the arguments for God’s existence, but because his social circle associates unbelief with sophistication. It also appears when someone dismisses Scripture as primitive without learning anything substantial about its historical setting, textual transmission, literary forms, fulfilled prophecy, or internal unity. The apologetic material in the uploaded works rightly distinguishes objective truth from subjective certitude, because a person’s confidence in a judgment does not make that judgment objectively certain. A crowd can therefore be extremely confident and still wrong, just as an isolated individual can be extremely confident and wrong, which is why certainty must rest upon adequate grounds rather than emotional intensity or social prestige. Humility in biblical inquiry means permitting evidence and the inspired text to correct cherished assumptions, even when correction requires disagreeing with people whose approval once mattered greatly.

Moral Commitments Also Shape Intellectual Decisions

Romans 1 explains that unbelief cannot always be treated as a detached academic problem because human thinking is connected with moral responsibility before the Creator. Paul describes people who suppress truth in unrighteousness and exchange the truth of God for falsehood, showing that rebellion against Jehovah affects both worship and reasoning. This does not justify accusing every individual unbeliever of consciously saying, “I know Christianity is true and deliberately reject it,” because Scripture itself presents different levels of ignorance, hardness, doubt, deception, and responsibility. It does establish that moral preference can affect intellectual judgment, which is why a person’s desired way of life can influence what he is willing to accept as true. Jesus expressed the connection differently in John 3:19-20 when He explained that people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were wicked and that the one practicing evil avoids the light so that his works will not be exposed. A person who recognizes that accepting Christ requires repentance has more at stake than someone evaluating an abstract proposition in mathematics, because Christian truth addresses worship, sexuality, honesty, pride, forgiveness, money, authority, evangelism, family responsibilities, and accountability to Jehovah. This is why Christian apologetics must never reduce conversion to winning an argument, since salvation involves hearing truth, believing, repenting, placing faith in Christ, and continuing faithfully on the path of obedience. The Christian should therefore present reasons for faith without pretending that intellectual argument alone can replace the moral response that Jehovah requires from the hearer.

The Christian Must Not Become Frightened by Intelligent Unbelief

Being surrounded by articulate unbelievers can create the false impression that intelligence naturally produces unbelief, but Scripture gives no support to that conclusion. The question is not whether an unbeliever possesses education, professional accomplishments, scientific knowledge, rhetorical skill, or philosophical vocabulary, because capable people can reason correctly in one field while operating from false assumptions in another. The apologetic material in the uploaded works emphasizes that Christian belief rests upon cumulative considerations involving the existence of God, the reliability of Scripture, the historical resurrection of Jesus Christ, manuscript evidence, fulfilled prophecy, biblical coherence, and the explanatory power of the Christian worldview. Moral certainty does not require pretending that every Christian claim belongs to the same category as a mathematical equation; it means that evidence can become sufficiently strong that rejection is unreasonable even though the subject is historical rather than mathematically demonstrable. Christians therefore have no need to respond defensively when an educated unbeliever disagrees, nor should they imitate unbelievers by treating credentials as substitutes for arguments. Acts 17 presents Paul reasoning with different audiences, while 1 Peter 3:15 requires Christians to be prepared to give a defense to those asking about their hope, doing so with appropriate respect. Preparation matters because a believer who has never studied the reasons supporting his faith becomes more vulnerable when confronted by confident objections that sound impressive primarily because they are unfamiliar. Accurate knowledge strengthens faith because the Christian learns not merely what he believes but why the biblical position deserves confidence.

Protecting the Mind Does Not Mean Avoiding Unbelievers

A Christian response to widespread unbelief must never become fearful withdrawal from ordinary human contact because Christ commanded His followers to make disciples and bear witness. Jesus interacted with religious opponents, morally compromised people, political figures, grieving families, skeptics, ordinary workers, educated listeners, and large crowds, yet He never allowed those audiences to define His message. Christians follow the same pattern when they remain courteous neighbors, dependable employees, thoughtful students, loving relatives, and patient evangelizers while refusing to surrender biblical conviction. The distinction lies between contact and control: interaction with unbelievers is necessary for Christian witness, whereas granting unbelieving companions authority to shape one’s theology and morality is spiritually destructive. Psalm 1:1-2 therefore does not command geographical isolation but contrasts submission to wicked counsel with delight in Jehovah’s instruction, making the source of formative authority the central concern. Jesus’ prayer in John 17:15 likewise was not that His disciples be taken out of the world but that they be protected from the wicked one, demonstrating faithful presence rather than retreat. A Christian can listen carefully to objections, read opposing arguments when necessary, study relevant evidence, and speak with unbelievers without granting every skeptical assertion the status of established fact. Mature faith combines intellectual openness to genuine evidence with unwavering submission to Jehovah’s Spirit-inspired Word, because the Christian seeks truth rather than either social conformity or defensive isolation.

Answer the Individual Rather Than Fighting the Crowd

When dealing with someone who does not believe, the Christian accomplishes more by understanding the individual’s actual objection than by delivering a speech against unbelief in general. One person has never encountered serious evidence for biblical reliability, another has absorbed philosophical naturalism, another fears family rejection, another has been influenced by hypocrisy among professing Christians, and another rejects biblical morality because obedience conflicts with his preferred conduct. Jesus regularly addressed people according to the specific condition revealed in their words and actions, while Paul likewise adjusted his point of entry according to the audience without changing the truth of the gospel. Christian apologetics therefore requires careful listening because an answer concerning manuscript preservation accomplishes little when the real objection concerns suffering, while a philosophical argument for God’s existence does not directly answer a person who is confused about an alleged Bible contradiction. The historical-grammatical method supplies the same discipline in Scripture study by demanding attention to actual context rather than imposing a preferred issue upon a passage. A useful conversation moves from vague assertions to identifiable claims, asking what the person means when he says that science disproves God, that the Bible contradicts itself, that miracles cannot happen, or that nobody can know religious truth. Once the claim becomes clear, evidence can be examined and faulty assumptions can be exposed without attacking the person. This approach respects the unbeliever as a responsible moral agent while keeping the discussion anchored to truth rather than allowing the emotional force of the surrounding crowd to determine the direction of the conversation.

The Christian Must Know Why He Believes

A person who possesses only inherited Christianity is especially vulnerable when surrounded by unbelief because borrowed conviction often collapses when social support changes. Christian parents can teach children Scripture faithfully, congregations can provide sound instruction, and mature believers can strengthen younger Christians, but every Christian eventually bears personal responsibility for knowing and obeying Jehovah’s Word. Acts 17:11 presents the Bereans as examining the Scriptures carefully, and 2 Timothy 2:15 calls the servant of God to handle the word of truth accurately, establishing active study rather than passive religious dependence. The Christian should understand the basic case for Jehovah’s existence, the inspiration and reliability of Scripture, the identity and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the meaning of His sacrificial death, the condition of humanity under sin, the resurrection hope, and the moral authority of God’s Word. He should also understand how the biblical books communicate according to grammar, historical setting, literary form, immediate context, and authorial intent rather than treating verses as disconnected slogans. The uploaded hermeneutical material emphasizes that faithful interpretation asks what the inspired author intended to communicate rather than beginning with the modern reader’s preferred meaning. Such study creates stability because unfamiliar objections can then be investigated without the believer interpreting every difficult question as evidence that Christianity is collapsing. A faith rooted in accurate knowledge does not panic when the crowd disbelieves, because the believer understands that truth has never depended upon being socially fashionable.

When Everyone Around You Says You Are Wrong

The most difficult moment often comes not when an unbeliever presents a new argument but when several respected people simultaneously communicate that Christian belief is foolish, embarrassing, dangerous, or intellectually unacceptable. At that point the Christian experiences the very pressure described in Proverbs 29:25, because fear of man can become a snare when human reaction begins controlling speech, conscience, and obedience. Daniel’s example teaches the believer to establish convictions before pressure reaches its highest intensity, since Daniel 1:8 describes an inward resolution that preceded his respectful request concerning the royal provisions. Jesus provides the greater example because He remained faithful to His Father when religious leaders rejected Him, crowds divided over Him, associates abandoned Him, soldiers mocked Him, and public opinion turned violently against Him. The Christian therefore measures faithfulness by agreement with Jehovah’s revealed truth rather than by applause, professional advantage, family acceptance, online approval, or the comfort of belonging to the majority. This firmness must never become arrogance, since Christians remain imperfect people who must continue learning, correcting misunderstandings, and distinguishing biblical doctrine from personal preference. Yet humility before Jehovah is entirely compatible with strong conviction, because the humble believer gladly changes when Scripture corrects him while refusing to change merely because the crowd demands surrender.

Helping Someone Who Has Been Shaped by an Unbelieving Crowd

A person deeply shaped by unbelieving surroundings often needs patient reasoning rather than immediate confrontation because many assumptions have become normal to him through years of repetition. The Christian can begin by asking what the person actually believes about God, Scripture, Jesus Christ, morality, death, and human purpose, allowing hidden assumptions to become visible through ordinary conversation. From there, one claim can be examined at a time, using Scripture appropriately and supplying relevant reasons rather than overwhelming the person with unrelated information. Jesus used questions effectively, and Christian evangelism likewise benefits from questions that require people to explain why they believe what they believe instead of merely repeating the language of their social group. A person who says, “Everyone knows the Bible has been changed,” can be asked what manuscript evidence supports that claim, while a person who says, “Science has proved there is no God,” can be asked which scientific discovery logically establishes the nonexistence of the Creator. The purpose is not verbal victory but the exposure of assumptions so that truth can receive a fair hearing and the individual can recognize where confidence has exceeded evidence. The Christian must also keep the gospel central, because demonstrating that an objection fails is not identical with bringing a person to faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism, obedience, and continued discipleship. Jehovah’s Spirit-inspired Word remains the governing instrument of Christian teaching, and the believer reasons from that Word while patiently helping another person distinguish inherited unbelief from conclusions actually established by evidence.

Faithfulness When the Crowd Never Changes

Sometimes a Christian gives sound reasons, maintains good conduct, speaks respectfully, and remains patient, yet relatives, coworkers, classmates, or neighbors continue disbelieving, and Scripture never promises that faithful explanation will produce universal acceptance. Jesus Himself performed signs, taught with unmatched authority, fulfilled Scripture, lived without sin, and spoke the words His Father commanded, yet John 12:37 records continuing unbelief among people who had witnessed His works. The Christian must therefore reject the idea that another person’s refusal automatically proves that the message was poorly presented or that stronger social conformity would have produced a better result. Evangelism requires Christians to proclaim and explain the truth, but Jehovah does not authorize them to manipulate people emotionally, conceal difficult doctrines, weaken moral requirements, or reshape Scripture to gain approval. Paul’s principle in Galatians 1:10 establishes that the servant of Christ cannot make pleasing men his controlling objective, because loyalty to Christ necessarily places divine approval above human acceptance. Faithfulness means remaining prepared to answer questions, correcting error when appropriate, demonstrating Christian conduct, praying according to Scripture, and continuing to treat unbelievers with patience and dignity. The crowd that surrounds the Christian can influence his circumstances, reputation, opportunities, and emotions, but it must never be permitted to become the authority that determines what is true. Jehovah’s Word supplies that authority, and the Christian who continually renews his mind through that Spirit-inspired Word can stand among many who disbelieve without allowing their unbelief to become his own.

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EDWARD D. ANDREWS (AS in Criminal Justice, BS in Religion, MA in Biblical Studies, and MDiv in Theology) is CEO and President of Christian Publishing House. He has authored over 220+ books. In addition, Andrews is the Chief Translator of the Updated American Standard Version (UASV).

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