August 25, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, August 25.
“Fake news” is a term you hear a lot these days. But, as King Solomon told us, “there is nothing new under the sun”. Myth and misinformation have been around as long as man has been around. On August 25, 1835, the New York Sun newspaper printed a story on the front page. The article reported the invention of a super telescope that had made possible an amazing discovery . . . life on the moon. Through the lens of this powerful new device, scientists had seen roads and buildings and strange animals of many kinds, including unicorns. And the big headline - the astronomers had witnessed humanoid figures with wings. The Sun called them “bat-men”!
P.T. Barnum famously said, “there’s a sucker born every minute”. The newspaper, a few days later, announced that it was all a hoax, but not before thousands of readers had taken it as truth. It was the talk of the town, and the Great Moon Hoax of 1835 is still an item on the internet. Speaking of the internet, it has opened the floodgates of rumors and gossip and unfounded theories, and there are plenty of folks who are quick to swallow them hook, line, and sinker. The invention of Artificial Intelligence, with its amazingly “real” video and audio, is turning that flood into a deluge.
So, what are we to do? What are we to believe? That same King Solomon said, in I Kings 3:9, “Give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, and to discern between good and evil”. The wise king trusted the wisdom that comes only from God and from His Word. Solomon’s father, David, prayed these words in Psalms 119:66 - “Teach me, O Lord, good discernment and knowledge”. With any information, the key is finding a reliable source. We have access, through prayer and Bible study, to the supreme source - the truth of God.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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