Can true Christian faith be the product of indoctrination?
Though many can be “indoctrinated” into a cult or a religion, it is NOT possible to be indoctrinated into true Christianity as true Christianity is an intimate, abiding, personal, relationship with our Creator by faith. Genuine, Life-Giving, Faith is beyond “indoctrination”…it is not possible to “indoctrinate” Christian faith and Christian faith cannot be taught, coerced, manipulated, but Christian faith is volitional trusting-believing with a sincere heart that what has been provided by the Holy Spirit in the Canon of Scripture is true and that same Christian faith believes that our Creator will do exactly as He has promised.
Christian Faith cannot be achieved, internalized or maintained through coercion or deception…faith in Jesus as Messiah must be internally genuine in order to ingratiate one’s self with our Creator and thereby establish New Covenant relationship with Him and receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant promise (Ephesians 1:13-14; Hebrews 11:6).
Though Christian faith comes through hearing the words of our Creator (Romans 10:17), those words must be volitionally internalized and received as true with a sincere heart and subsequently responded to in the affirmative in order that said faith be valid, applicable and regenerative.
On the other hand,
The false “faith” of the atheist, secular humanist, is the product of demonic deception as it’s the product of Satan, false teaching via Marxist education/indoctrination; generally, more often than not…atheism is a product of Darwinian Evolution forced upon the naive in public school settings. Atheism, once ingrained in the heart of the deceived, the arrogant, the proud, the narcissist, is likened to a metastasizing malignancy as it eats away at the soul and decimates the conscience and ultimately leads to antisocial, perverse, behaviors that destroy mind, body, soul, in Hell. It is the false faith of the atheist that comprises the “many” in Jesus’ warning…
The Narrow and Wide Gates
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 7:13-14
