I just can’t understand how someone would want a lie and love it. That’s crazy. It’s one thing to be deceived and not know any better. But to know it’s a lie and like it makes no sense.
It's not because they loved the lie. It's because they didn't love the truth. It's a weird little point, but it's important.
People who love truth won't be deceived.
They love truth, not saved YET, but love truth, and don't buy the lie.
People who hate truth will come under strong delusion. They don't have a choice anymore, because they didn't love truth to start with. They are like those people who lie like breathing
Think of it like those who watch Oprah and The View and believe what they hear without critical thinking. The critical thinkers in the audience don't buy everything they hear. But the die hard fans do. They can't even see that they are deceived.
The ones who would rather say that there are 48 sexes are willingly accepting one lie (a lot of lies actually but call it one). Once they accept one delusion, the next is easier. The boundary lines of reality are blurred.
Those who remember we come out of the womb as male or female are grounded in reality. They are the truth lovers in my example. They are more likely to look for truth elsewhere and reject a bunch of social programming as lies.
So the ones who've been programmed to buy into the current set of lies (including the 48 or more sexes they think exist) and ignore and suppress the biological truth of 2 sexes based on XX or XY chromosomes, will be all ready to buy into the next escalation of lies from the leaders.
Going over to Romans 1:18-31 it shows the progression of lies.
THIS is what Paul is talking about in 2 Thess 2:8-12
Look at the progression- I'll bold the bits to help and think about this in terms of Creation- which plainly shows the Creator, but the inventions and lies of evolution etc blur the truth they could see just by looking around. And just look at how it goes from denying the Creator, to idols, and then to sexual impurity, then homosexuality, then a depraved mind, then every sort of sin that we see all around us, and finally they not only do these evil things, but they heartily approve of those who practice these sins.
NIV
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and
wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
19 since
what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20 For
since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For
although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but
their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Although
they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 and
exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
25 They e
xchanged the truth about God for a lie, and
worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way
the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore,
just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
29 They have become
filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31 they have
no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
32
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.