Poisonous Mushrooms & Counterfeit Christianity: When Death Looks Like Food

When Death Looks Like Food

Poisonous Mushrooms & Counterfeit Christianity

The deadliest mushroom in the forest does not look dangerous.

Neither does spiritual deception.

A meditation on counterfeit life and hidden destruction.

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The most dangerous mushroom in the forest does not have fangs. It does not hiss. It does not announce itself with a roar.

It simply grows.

I just learned a new term: aposematic coloration, a biological term for warning colors in nature. Warning colors? Yes.

In evolution, some organisms develop bright, high-contrast colors to signal that they are toxic, venomous, bad-tasting, or dangerous.

Nature, in spite of its tight schedule, still cares enough to put out signposts for us: do not touch. It is dangerous.

Examples?

Coral snakes, red, yellow, black bands. Wasps, yellow and black.

Digression:

A certain musician, before fame, had just one sweater and it was yellow and black. His mates took to calling him Sting.
The name stuck, and every little thing he did afterwards was magic.
Magic, magic, magic.
Sorry for the digression.

Aposematic coloration, sadly, is useful only for those who can see. Many cannot, born that way. We call it color blindness.

They thus need assistance: true friendship and assistance from those who see clearly, to steer them away from poison, from harm.

St. Paul admonishes those who can and do see: “Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.” 2 Timothy 4:2.

That is responsibility.

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But Nature Does Not Color All Poison

Nature does not advertise every danger. Mushrooms show us how this works.

Poisonous mushrooms did not evolve to look like edible mushrooms. It was the other way around. Edible mushrooms evolved to look like poisonous mushrooms.

Why?

Because poison mushrooms have a winning formula. No one messes with them. “Let’s begin to look like them.”

So thus it was that the good imitated the bad. Reason? To survive.

Does this sound familiar?

Reminiscent of a church becoming more and more worldly, in order to “survive” as they defined survival to be?

But let’s leave that train of thought for a second.

No. Let’s remain there.

In order to survive, the Church, sorry, the good mushrooms took on the nature of the world, the bad mushrooms.

And so the spiritually hungry, the stragglers searching for food, walking in unfamiliar terrain, see these perfectly formed mushrooms, the kind Grandma made soup with.

See that? Grandma made mushrooms familiar. Grandma told us, as we made our way into the world, “Go to church every Sunday!” See that?

So?

So, the spiritually hungry, searching for food for the soul, in unfamiliar terrain, see these perfectly formed spiritual mushrooms.

Grandma would have known the difference.
She has been round the world twice or thrice, seen almost everything under the sun.

She would not pick those mushrooms, but 9 out of 10 times, you will pick wrong. You ingest the poison. It does not kill immediately. It simply grows in you.

That is how deception works.

Scripture never warned us that the Antichrist would look monstrous. It warned us he would look convincing. It warned us he would resemble light.

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St. Paul speaks directly about false apostles.
He says he will continue his work in order to undercut those who boast and claim equality with the true apostles.

See that?

It is of utmost importance that all true apostles speak out.

If you are not speaking out in these days of multidimensional heresies, leaning on lazy theology, absolving yourselves with “God can use anybody,” St. Paul calls you out.

Read it yourself: https://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/11-12.htm

We’ve got to move on.

Paul calls them what they are: false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

He did not hide under the huge “God can use anyone” umbrella and hail false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ, devastating the Christscape.

Paul goes on to explain why this should not surprise us, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

Here are the Bible verses quoted verbatim:

But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 11:12–14

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The death cap does not scream, “I am death.” It whispers, “I am dinner.”

The false prophet whispers: “I am the bread of life... the bread of life... whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

There is no greater lie than that, and that is the tragedy.

It looks like what you need.

It offers itself as bread, never as destruction.

Like the toxic mushroom does not look alien. It looks like food.

Exactly like a counterfeit gospel looks like Christianity.

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Delayed Consequences

One of the most unsettling aspects of the death cap is this: symptoms are delayed. After ingestion, a person may feel fine for hours. Sometimes a day. Then liver failure begins.

In theological symbolism, deception often works the same way. It does not destroy immediately. It reassures first. It flatters. It stabilizes. It promises. Only later does the internal damage surface.

That is a sobering metaphor.

The forest contains true nourishment, but it also contains convincing counterfeits.

In Matthew 7:16, we are told, “By their fruits you shall know them.” The warning is not about appearances. It is about outcomes.

And what is the fruit of the antichrist?

Death.

Not always immediate. Not always dramatic. But eventual. A slow hollowing out.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. Discernment thus matters before the harvest, not after.

Not everything that grows is good.
Not everything that glows is light.
Not everything that calls itself bread gives life.

Question:
What are we consuming?
(What am I consuming?)
What will it produce in us?
(What will it produce in me?)

I rest my case.

Don Kenobi 

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