Two Percent Matters

One time I had trouble with mice, so I bought some d-CON. I noticed on the package that only 2 percent of its contents was actually poison. The rest was edible.

Now if some educated mouse could read, he might reason: "But there is so much good in it, a little bit won't harm me, and besides, I'm hungry." Yet all that good food didn't do that poor creature much good, because the little bit of poison either killed him or gave him some mighty nasty indigestion. The 98 percent nourishment was useless if that 2 percent killed him! The 98 percent was not enough to offset the 2 percent. The makers of d-CON know they have to put much good-tasting food in before mice will be tempted to eat that little bit that kills them.

This parallel with a situation we often find in religion. Many feel that if there is so much good in their doctrines, a little bit of error won't hurt them. However, the devil is smart enough to give people enough of the truth to make his lies appear wholesome, but just enough error to condemn. No one will benefit from 98 percent truth if there is 2 percent error mixed in with it. Man won't go 98 percent to heaven and 2 percent to hell; he'll go either one place or the other. Did not James say,"For whoseover shall keep the whole law, and yet often in one point, he is guilty of all"? (James 2:10). The person who rejects 2 percent of the truth of God is guilty, just like the person who reject all. "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).

Think about it.

~ Author Unknown