Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. Some of you will remember

Pizza Gate if you don't let me give you the story behind it. There was a guy from all accounts a nice

Christian guy he loved John Eldridge he wanted to follow Jesus and be faithful to Jesus

He had a Bible verse tattoo don't him he he did Isaiah the passage about used growing weep, but the Lord never does.

And this is a faithful guy, but somehow at the end of this story,

he's going to be surrounded by police outside of a pizza hut

holding a gun. How does that happen? Well what ended up

happening to this guy is he got snookered by fake news most people think was

produced by Russia and in this fake news it was saying that the Clintons were running an

illegal sex trafficking ring and that one of the locations was a pizza place

called Comet ping-pong that he lived near in Washington DC and he decided to do what he thought was the

Christian thing which was take his gun and go free these children from the sex enslavement

and sure enough he shows up to Pizza Hut with his gun he breaks down a door where he thinks

they're supposed to be a staircase leading down to some sort of dungeon and instead it's just a janitor's

closet and the next thing he knows he's in jail for four years. Now, while this might not

quite qualify as a conspiracy theory, I think it does underline the fact that

even well-meaning Christians can be easily deceived by fake news, by stories that seem

plausible but in reality aren't true at all. And so in today's episode we're

going to talk about conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories have become, it seems like in the last five years,

more and more popular among certain circles.

And Christians need to think carefully about whether we should buy into those things

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