Secrecy

According to legend (and this particular one is not only based on fact, but is - in fact - fact), Jesus Christ is attributed with stating:

Matthew 7:13 "Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many."

In other words, and to put it simply, most humans are going to Hell, and few are going to Heaven:

Isaiah 10:22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
Romans 9:27 And Isaiah proclaims concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved."

And Israel is chief representative of all types of people and cultures and nations on our planet.

That being the case, the following applies to the aforementioned immoral majority, who therefore (because of their willful wickedness) cannot be completely trusted and thus against who there must be secrets preventing them from knowing was must remain confidential:

Micah 7:5 Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

John 2:24 . . . but Jesus did not trust Himself to them,
John 2:25 because He knew all humans and needed no one to bear witness of humans; for He Himself knew what was in humans.

And the following Scripture passage applies only to very few [ good ] humans who are thus trustworthy to be made aware of everything going on, which most others are not aware of nor should be made aware of:

Second Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice, because I have perfect confidence in you.

Philemon 1:21 Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

Another manifestation of what appears to be deliberate secrecy is that he or she who apparently has and is keeping one or more secrets does not know the future (which even Hollywood's administrative Matrix "architect" and his negroid-smoking-female "oracle/prophetess" co-administrator might agree with pertaining to non-certain outcome of "zigh-onn"), even though there definitely is one:

Proverbs 23:18 Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 24:14 Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 24:20 for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD, "plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."
Jeremiah 31:17 "There is hope for your future," says the LORD, "and your children shall come back to their own country."

which non-certainty Scripture verifies:

Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for humanity while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell a human what will be after him or her under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:7 For a human does not know what is to be, for who can tell him or her how it will be?
Ecclesiastes 10:14 A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him or her what will be after him or her?

Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

John 3:8 The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know from where it comes or to where it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.
4:22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews [ NOT antisemitic anti-Zionist "palestinians" with or without their apocryphal Qur'an ].
7:28 So Jesus proclaimed, as He taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord; He (NOT she) who sent me is true, and Him (NOT her) you do not know."
8:14 Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness to myself, my testimony is true, for I know from where I have come and to where I am going, but you do not know from where I come nor to where I am going."
14:5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?"

James 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain";
James 4:14 whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

My dad used to be irritated at certain news anchors on TV who assuredly (and to him, somewhat arrogantly) ended their daily news reports with the exclamation: "We'll be here tomorrow at the same time" (or something like that) -- to which my dad countered at the TV screen with:

First Corinthians 4:19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power [ Paul was a tough guy, and had God on his side ].
James 4:15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that."

What is the difference between the Lord, and Satan . . . in terms of both of them, if not directly facilitating (but both certainly not "providing"), perhaps suggesting or at least allowing stumbling blocks to sin?

And even concerning (not "regarding") what can and should unquestionably be considered "stumbling blocks," have not both the Son of God (as part of the Triune God) and The Devil imposed "stumbling blocks?"

Well, for "stumbling blocks" to truthfully be deemed "stumbling blocks" (i.e. imposed and non-solicited accesses to sin), and - beyond that - such stumbling blocks be the fault of someone who can and should be blamed for imposing (not "providing") them, those stumbling blocks have to have been placed where they have been and are placed because of malicious intent.

Practically all phenomena and entities the Creator has created (including Satan and his demons?) are rightfully of a benign nature, and - by and of themselves - have never forced or incited nor suggested to any sentient free-willed creature that those creatures cause any of those phenomena or entities to be misused so as to become self-injurious stumbling blocks to sin. In other words, whatever God has created (including The Devil and his fallen-angelic demons) was never intended nor created to be an expression of God's [ presumed or supposed ] malicious intent against humans nor anything else originating from the Lord.

Was it a malicious-intent act against humans or anything else on God's part to allow the Tempting Serpent residence into an otherwise perfect Garden of Eden populated only by the totally-nude couple Adam and Eve? Was it a malicious-intent act against humans or anything else on God's part to place the potentially-then-assuredly-lethal Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the midst of The Garden?

Hopefully you the reader, and certainly I the author, should respond negatively to that.

The question is easily answered, and applies to everything from God's created benign nitric acid and glycerin to concoct devastatingly-destructive nitroglycerin, to God's created benign charcoal and potassium nitrate and sulfur made into gunpowder to inflict genocidal war, to God's created scattered-throughout-the-deserts benign U235 to incinerate imperialist japs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to God's created benign hemp made into nooses for hanging criminals, God's created benign carbon and iron crafted into knives and swords and spears and guns for self-defense execution or for murderous stabbings or shootings, God's created benign rocks misused for homicidal bludgeoning, and God's created benign gravity pulling victims pushed off cliffs to a smashing demise on rocks below?

The Forbidden Tree in The Garden did not walk over to completely-naked Eve in The Garden and suggest that she eat of its Forbidden Fruit. Not only that, but it (by itself of itself) obviously did not force her to eat of itself. So the Tree, or handgun, or alcohol, or marijuana or heroin or automobile is not to be blamed.

So you or I should never say: "Where did it go?" if either one of us cannot find something lost - as if it by itself grew legs and walked away on its own. Instead you or I must say: "Where did I misplace that, and cannot remember where that was."

Who then is at fault?

It is not even known if The Serpent in The Garden crawled over to Eve instead of her wandering over (by herself, apparently) to The Serpent. And the Serpent himself did not force Eve to eat of The Forbidden Tree, and did not even suggest whatsoever that she eat of it. All he did was ask her an overbroad question of: "Did God say that you shall not eat of any tree in The Garden?" A simple answer from Eve such as: "Who do you think said it? The air around us? Who else is around to say anything besides my husband?" Or simply: "No!" would have been quite adequate, and better than the previous answer, in that this latter one would not have begged for a response nor further discourse.

Proverbs 20:19 He who goes about gossiping reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with one who speaks foolishly [ and in the case of the Tempter in The Garden, that one who spoke foolishly was The Devil ].

Ecclesiastes 5:3 For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice [ naked Eve, with her apocryphal extended blattering trying to uselessly explain things in her own peculiar way to The Tempter ] with many words.

Matthew 5:37 Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil.

Obviously, neither The Tempter in The Garden, nor non-clothed Eve, complied with the intentions of the following admonition:

Second Corinthians 4:2 We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

but instead:

Second Peter 3:16 . . . speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.

From the start, Eve (who of herself, by herself and even apart from any coercion from the Serpent initially merely asking an overbroad question) was mysteriously predisposed to play the power-and-authority-craving sexist feminist by already violating the essence of First Timothy 2:11-14 (i.e. I allow no woman to teach or have authority over men, nor snakes in The Garden . . . or something like that) . . . and thus she started to sin before she finally fatally sinned by taking and eating some of The Forbidden Fruit . . . presumptuously jabbering and thus consorting with the Devil by staying there and giving the too-lengthy-and-needless added-apocryphal answer to the deceptive-half-lie "You-shall-not-die" Satan that she did give.

So the non-tempting benign nature of all of what the non-blameable/non-faultable God created, as the environment for Adam and Eve plus offspring following to reside in, is well put in the book of James:

James 1:13 Let no one being tempted say, "I am tempted from God." For God is not tempted by evil, and He tempts no one.
James 1:14 But every human is tempted when they are drawn away by their own lust and enticed.

But, is not God - at least in one sense and to some extent - at least partially responsible (or at least kind of involved) for the presence of The Tempter and The Forbidden Tree being in The Garden, and also for Him allowing Satan to maliciously inflict the Old-Testament prophet Job with family and financial tragedies and painful debilitating sores, and for Him allowing demonic jealous jews to incite Roman soldiers to lynch and crucify Christ Jesus, and for all sorts of other things in which "bad" things happen to "good" people?

Yes He is, and without providing Christ and His related gospel of simple-belief salvation, God indeed would have understandably been categorized and deemed sadistically unfair, even though His created entities and phenomena themselves did not maliciously approach and confront victims (instead, victims aggressively and without authorization went to them) -- let alone force victims to sin against the consent of the free wills of those victims.

But that is not enough. Susceptible men, understandably weak in avoidance techniques and faith that God will promptly enough provide sensual satisfaction in time immediately after being irreparably incited by past-the-point-of-tolerance and/or accumulated female immodesty, do not forget the visual enticement deliberately or even ignorantly and/or carelessly and/or accidentally imposed by even so-called "christian" girls or women who even merely momentarily expose and thus demonically "fatally" seduce with various types of lurid-and-lewd lasciviousness, such as general-public-view mopheadedness or nude-armed sleeveslessness or naked-legged slackslessness or soxless-feet-in-sandals immodesty . . . which already-did-the-non-repairable-damage quasi-indecency by non-absolvably-guilty females invariably results in men responding by committing various forms and types of porno-lusting (with or without self-sodomizing masturbation) and/or fornicative or adulterous substitutional compensatory relief . . . and [ ironically ] quite frequently not with the particular females who stimulated them in the first place, and thus whose deliberate or non-deliberate allurement was a senseless and needless futile and socially-destructive waste with consequential retaliatory disassociative alienation and bitter disappointment cemented-in permanently against those initial female offenders by resentful male victims.

Such "mistakes" or "oopsies" or outright sins committed by non-"sexy" non-"glamorous" floozies are in NO way "made up for" nor neutralized by their cheap-grace claims of forgiveness by belief in the gospel of Christ, and God would yet be a sadistic fiend and unfair bastard if He did not promise and actually put into effect eternal-punishment lake-of-fire/outer-darkness damnation against gals who relentlessly and impenitently persist in repeatedly publicly seducing men who they are not presently married to with various types of immodesty -- whatever rote mantras of musical or non-musical "gospel" liturgy and Scripture they mouth to attempt self-absolvement.

Jeremiah 5:9 "Shall I not punish them for these things?" says the LORD; "and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
5:29 "Shall I not punish them for these things?" says the LORD, "and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
6:15 "Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.
8:12 "Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.
9:9 "Shall I not punish them for these things?" says the LORD; "and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
11:22 therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Hey, I will punish them; the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine"

Hosea 4:9 "And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways, and requite them for their [ publicly-immodest ] deeds."

Nahum 1:8 But with an overflowing flood He will make a full end of His adversaries, and will pursue His enemies into darkness.
Nahum 1:9 What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end; He will not take vengeance twice on His foes.

Matthew 13:41 The Son of man will send His angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers [ especially human female flaunting porno-immodest mopheadedness and/or sleeveslessness and/or slackslessness and/or soxlessness ],
Matthew 13:42 and throw them into the furnace of fire; there immodestly-misattired human females will weep and gnash their teeth.

Romans 12:19 . . . "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

Second Thessalonians 1:6 since indeed God deems it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you [ with non-solicited public-view mopheaded/sleevesless/slacksless/soxless immodesty ],
Second Thessalonians 1:9 They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might

Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6 if they then commit [ mopheaded/sleevesless/slacksless/soxless ] apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold Him up to contempt.
7 For land which has drunk the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.
8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed; its end is to be [ eternally ] burned [ with being burned out of existence ].

Hebrews 10:30 For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge His people."

Revelation 18:6 Render to her as she herself has rendered, and repay her double for her [mis]deeds; mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed.
Revelation 20:10 and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they [ along with all impenitent mopheads and arms-or-legs-or-feet-exposers-in-general-public-view whose names are not written in The Book of Life ] will be tormented day and night to the ages of the ages.
Revelation 22:12 "Hey, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to requite every one for what he/she has done [ especially girls and women innocently or pseudo-innocently flaunting longer-than-mouth-level loose long hair in general public view especially to men they are not presently married to and in private with ]."

THAT makes it all fair. Just. Right. Acceptable. Satisfying. And portrays God to be the fair-and-just-minded Being He should be regarded as. Requites presumptuous Eve and her ilk for screwing up in The Garden. Requites progeny of Eve for sadistically tantalizing men with satanic public immodesty of all types whenever and wherever who they are not currently married to and in private with.

Now, not all secrecy is bad, or evil.

Sometimes, secrecy is simply a matter of understandable sovereignty:

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Matthew 24:36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only."

Revelation 19:12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name inscribed which no one knows but Himself.

Righteous lack of secrecy is needed to authenticate honesty and truthfulness, or humility:

Isaiah 45:19 I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in chaos.' I the LORD speak the truth, I declare what is right.
Isaiah 48:16 Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his Spirit.

Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:18 that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

John 18:20 Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together; I have said nothing secretly.

Acts 26:26 For the king knows about these things, and to him I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things has escaped his notice, for this was not done in a corner.

At other times, secrecy is for the sake of personal identity protection and safety:

Judges 16:9 Now she had men lying in wait in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

First Samuel 19:2 And Jonathan told David, "Saul my father seeks to kill you; therefore take heed to yourself in the morning, stay in a secret place and hide yourself"

Psalm 51:6 Hey, you desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
Psalm 81:7 In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
Psalm 139:15 my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.

Proverbs 21:14 A gift in secret averts anger; and a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.
Proverbs 25:9 Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not disclose another's secret

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

First Corinthians 2:7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.

Revelation 2:17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white [ access/identification ] stone, with a new [ security ] name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it.

Disclosing secrets is sometimes done for the sake of retribution and justice:

Psalm 90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Isaiah 3:17 the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.

Isaiah 45:3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.

Matthew 10:27 What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops.

Mark 4:22 For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light.

Luke 8:17 For nothing is hid that shall not be made manifest, nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light.

Ephesians 5:11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them [ without defiling everyone or anyone what what is exposed, such as presenting porn pix or vids ].
Ephesians 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret;
Ephesians 5:13 but when anything is exposed by the light it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light.

However, there are those who do not like their phone and other conversations recorded nor captured on tape, not because they think their verbage is lacking or later subject to laughable ridicule for mistakes voiced, but because they do not want to be held accountable for what they uttered so that they afterwards can obfuscate whatever they think vital to confuscate for devious and selfish purposes. (Case in point is probably my own biological sister).

Sorry, sis. What you have said privately will become quite-embarrassing-to-you (and likely incriminating) public knowledge:

Matthew 12:36 I tell you, on the Day of Judgment, humans will give account for every careless word they utter.

Luke 12:3 Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and [ videotapes, flashdrives containing .mpg and .wmv and other video files ] books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is The Book of Life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done [ including what beliefs and disbeliefs they had professed, what they had said, and more ].

Non-transparency in the guise of claiming transparency (case in point are Reid, Pelosi, Obama, and others concocting Obamascare without full Congressional oversight) is a form of wicked secrecy to cover up what is deviant and even devastating.

The secretive are frequently secretive for diabolical and evil intentions:

Exodus 7:22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.
Exodus 8:7 But the magicians did the same by their secret arts, and brought frogs upon the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 27:15 "Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret." And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'
Deuteronomy 27:24 "Cursed be he who slays his neighbor in secret." And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Second Samuel 15:10 But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, 'Absalom is king at Hebron!'"

Job 13:10 He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.

Psalm 10:9 he lurks in secret like a lion in his covert; he lurks that he may seize the poor, he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
Psalm 64:2 hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the scheming of evildoers

Habakkuk 3:14 You did pierce with your shafts the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.

Constitutional-civil-rights-promoting Edward Snowden is purported to have [ thankfully ] disclosed Obamination's NSA surveillance secrets to free-world Guardian sources -- the same Obama who publicly espoused abortion-homicide choice and allowed his DHS Napolitano to mis-categorize anti-abortionists as "terrorists," appointed two inferior-gender feminists to the High Court, gave his support to homoqueer-sodomy-unions licensing, turned his Schumer-conspiring IRS attack dogs such as Lois Lerner against Tea Party opposition helping him win elections, pandered to anti-Gaddafi Al-Qaeda-affiliated Benghazi murderers for campaign pursuits, allowed homosexual censors to label and thwart e-mail internet communications of Christians as so-called "spam," despised Israeli settlements in their own God-apportioned Jewish homeland while hypocritically wearing a skull cap at a Holocaust memorial and suckholing to antisemitic anti-Zionist "palestinians," etc.

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