Resisting the Dragon's Beast: It's Our Wits That Make Us Men

In the beginning of Braveheart, young William Wallace wants to join the Scottish clans in fighting the British. Malcolm Wallace says to his son, William, “I know you can fight. But it’s our wits that make us men.”

God has given us our wits, our human reason. He has also given us a conscience, our awareness of our relationship with God. In this study, we discuss how Christians were tempted to set aside their gifts of reason and conscience to trust the media, authorities, and experts when it came to Covid. These same entities also employed one of the favorite tools in Satan’s toolbelt – fear – to cower the masses into going along with their masks, mandates, and lockdowns.

These are some of the questions we discussed in this study:

• What happens when we stop using our gift of reason?
• What are some of the negative unintended consequences of governmental and experts’ responses to Covid?
• In the words of Dr. Luther, why is it neither safe nor right to make someone go against their Christian conscience? What does Paul say about this in 1 Corinthians 8:12?
• Was it wrong for churches to dispense or even enforce medical advice on wearing a mask, getting the Covid shot, separating by 6 feet, etc.? If yes, then why did churches do it? If no, why was it not wrong?
• Agree or disagree and discuss: It is not the church’s responsibility to enforce the government’s mandates.
• When is fear good and healthy? When is fear bad and unhealthy?
• How might fear have induced Christians into doing un-Christian things within their churches during Covid?
• When is it wrong and fearful to test God? When is it righteous and faithful to test God?
• Agree or disagree and discuss: We are being fed a diet of fear and anxiety by the dragon of Satan so his beast of the persecuting government can provide us safety and security.
• Why is the annual trip to the tomb with the women every Easter so important for us as Christians?