Beware Of Buyer's Remorse!

1. Caveat Emptor. This is a Latin phrase that is defined as,  “The principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of goods before a purchase is made.” [Oxford Online Dictionary].

   Two millenniums ago during His short tenure on earth, Jesus Christ has solemnly warned against the future emergence of false cults and bogus ‘messiahs’, or in the modern vernacular, 'snake oil salesmen’ posing as ‘saviours’ of the world: 

   “I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me. If another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.” [John5:43]. 

  Since that warning the world has been inundated with such bogus prophets, priests, messiahs, gurus, swamis, holymen, godmen, agnostics, atheists, skeptics, pagans, Darwinists, Marxists  tand postmodernists (even in some theological seminaries and churches) trying to tell us how ‘deluded’ Jesus Christ was.

    Well, only a cursory glance at the resumé of Christ (as compared to that of those alluded to above) already exposes them for the charlatans they were or are … there simply is no con-test. Jesus has warned: 

   “And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him. For they know his voice. And they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”  [John 10:4-5].

2. Buyer's Remorse. Defined as, “A feeling of regret (a wish that you had not done something) after making a choice or decision.” (Cambridge Online Dictionary). Examples from the Bible:

2.1 Judas Iscarioth. “Then he who had betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned, sorrowing, Judas returned the thirty pieces of silver again to the chief priests and elders … And he threw the pieces of silver down in the temple and departed. And he went and hanged himself.” [Matthew-27:3,5].

 2.2   The forces of darkness ('princes of this world') who crucified Jesus Christ. "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." [1Corinthians2:8]. 

2.3 The Jews complicit in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." [Acts2:36-38]. 

3. No 'Goods Returned' counter. The last time I checked there will be no ‘Goods Returned’ counter in Eternity. A wise man has once written: 

   “The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on; not all your piety or wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.” [Omar Khayyam, 1048-1131 A.D.]. 

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