Gullibility is the best word to describe the character of some of our young ladies desperate to enhance their social status in a bid to answer a “Mrs.” Gullibility according to Wikipedia is “a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which is the tendency to believe unlikely propositions that are unsupported by evidence.” How do people succeed in using unlikely propositions that are unsupported by evidence to deceive people in this age of enlightenment especially the women folk? Temple Ngwoke a friend of mine on facebook reacting to this said, “Most of our women hardly read. They know nothing about life but depend on fairy tales of pastors. Most of them haven’t finished an article in ten years. We are breeding a bunch of fish heads that wear the best of artificial wigs.” Social intelligence is really one aspect of our human quality that has been warped by the activities of the so called men of God recently referred to as “Pastorpreneurs.” A girl was asked why she continued visiting a pastor even though it is glaring that he engages unorthodox or non-Biblical means to solve people’s problems. Hear her: “As far as he has the solution to my problems what else do you want me to do? All I want is solution, where he is getting the power to do so is not my business. The Bible says we should not judge, so let’s leave everything for God to judge.” Robert Greene in his book “The 48 Laws of Power,” exposes how people can be exploited by playing on people’s overwhelming desire to believe in something. He urges those who desire to use this antic to deceive people, to become the focal point of such desire by offering them a cause, a new faith to follow. The words must be vague but full of promises, emphasizing enthusiasm over rationality and clear thinking. The disciples are given rituals to perform and sacrifices to make. Robert Greene quotes Niccolo Machiavelli as saying, “Men are so simple of mind, and dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.” These men who easily deceive ladies try to deify themselves. Deification has a powerful way of making people lose their inability to make use of their social intelligence, giving way to their sensual or emotional (sentimental) aspects. Acting based on an emotion that is not founded on rationality and social intelligence creates a malleable or gullible personality.
Beware of a man who constantly convinces people by telling them what he heard God said. Many sexual predators make use of this antic. How does it work? If one claims constantly that he/she is always hearing expressly from God or unseen forces, the person is employing the deification antics. This aura makes people feel secure with such a person since he has access to the Lord who does not mean harm to them. No man will naturally say no to God if he has spoken. When a person is telling you for instance, “God is saying I should marry you,” the implication of this statement is that you do not need to think about it again, you do not even need to pray to hear from God again, you do not even need to reason over it, who are you to doubt God? The only means of verifying what God has said is through a prayerful Spirit led study of the word of God. God cannot go outside His word. Anything that contradicts His word is a farce. Unfortunately many of our young girls are being led astray by those who erode their emotional, psychological and social intelligence to defraud and sexually abuse them. Do not be carried away if a man tries to convince you by speaking in strange tongues -often mistaken as utterances given by the Holy Spirit. Sometimes con-men use the antic of speaking in tongues to create a mystery around them. No man has a monopoly of speaking in tongues or monopoly to the throne of God. So when somebody begins to try to bamboozle you with “God said,” do not be afraid, instead tell the person to hold on until the Lord confirms.
