Loaded dice!

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"That we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error."Ephesians 4:14

The word translated 'trickery' means literally, 'cheating at dice'—the allusion being to the practice of gamblers loading the dice to obtain a favourable throw. The dice are rightly marked and rightly thrown, but being loaded on one side, they always come up in favour of the cheat who throws them. Likewise, errors and heresies resemble loaded dice!

 They look all right—properly marked with texts and passages—and the minister or writer seems to throw them fully and fairly down before the people. And yet, like loaded dice, there is jugglery and deception at the bottom!

As in sleight of hand, things are made to appear what they are not—so jugglers and cheats in religion deceive people by a show of piety and holiness—under the cover of which they hide the most destructive errors! Simple souls are caught—and still the game goes on.

Yet of all gamblers, religious gamblers are the worst, for the throw is for eternity, and the soul is at stake!