On Conspiracy Theories (Wicked Men Do Conspire)

“Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
‘Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.’”

Scripture clearly testifies to the fact that men in power often collude together for a single, wicked cause, no matter how disparate their own varied end goals and personal benefits may be.

The Gospels themselves give us behind-the-scenes details of the conspiracy against our Lord. The wicked men doing the conspiring had an inside man, and they paid him off with thirty pieces of silver.

Our Lord cried out “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Ignorance, or stupidity, and sin are not pitted against each other in Scripture the way we might be tempted to do. “(F)ormerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,” the apostle Paul said.