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We live in perilous times where truth is in short supply. It is fashionable nowadays to be celebrated as a pathological liar. Both individuals and governments are in competition for who will lie more than the other. In fact, for the government, lying has been taken to a higher dimension by deceptively baptizing it as “propaganda” and tax-payers’ money is wasted on funding it.
Most countries of the world are adopting democratic governments which are purportedly “government of the people, for the people, by the people”. Unfortunately, the original democracy God created in the Bible by giving dominion to Adam and Eve has been stolen by satan, having tainted and contaminated it with destructive ingredients. This is because God’s original intendment of democracy was founded in the divine wisdom of God, while the new-found democracy is within the realm of human sense which is why the latter is crises-prone. According to the author, “History and God’s word have proven over and over that government articulated by humans without God’s guidance and the solutions, they proffer to problem always end up in upheavic topsy-turvy”.
The author did not only support his position on democracy with the Scriptures, he also embellishes it with well-crafted poems. He distinguished Wisdom from sense without ambiguity. For him, while wisdom is the application of knowledge to create and invent as inspired by Jesus Christ, sense is knowledge with destructive mandate because of its satanic origin. He, therefore, advises that democracies should tow the line of wisdom rather than sense. If our leaders will lead with the fear of God, the people will be better for it:
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.
Proverb 29:2.
Unveiling the Skeleton of Democracy by Apostle William Osahon is not your run-of-the mill kind of work. It is a great departure from the familiar trend where most of the works on democracy were written by philosophers, political/social scientists or politicians extolling the virtues of democracy. This is a rare work on the critical analysis of democracy with divine backing. It is a must-read.