This question is one that always looms before us. Whom shall or can we trust?
On this blog I include links to Alex Jones’ Prison Planet/InfoWars because this site presents much valuable reporting of information. Included in this is exposure of the dangers of processed free glutamic acid and aspartic acid being added to our foods and vaccines. This really is very important news.
However, also on this site is the promotion of products from which Alex receives income to support his news network. Among these products are the Youngevity products, including one that Alex promotes highly, Beyond Tangy Tangerine.
Here is the product label listing the ingredients from http://www.deaddoctorsdontlie.com/Beyond-Tangy-Tangerine.463 and http://www.american-nutrition.com/beyond_tangy_tangerine.html:
In the “OTHER INGREDIENTS” section are other items of concern, but specifically listed under the amino acids are aspartic acid and glutamic acid.
Both of these are in free form, having been processed, and therefore having the effects of excito-toxins. Alex has rightly made a big deal about the dangers of both of these when they exist in this free form and are added to our foods to be ingested.
So I e-mailed him and his associates at every e-dress provided on their contact page, drawing to their attention that they were promoting a product that includes the very things that they are warning people to avoid.
Sadly, I never received a response and Alex continues to promote this product heavily.
My conclusion is that I cannot trust Alex not to compromise when money is at stake. This is typical. It is true of many companies, news sources, and even the mainstream church bodies.
So who can we trust?
As a pastor I have always admonished those entrusted to my spiritual oversight that they should never trust me and what I say without being certain that what I say is actually in accord with the Scriptures. While I explained that it is right for them to give their pastor the benefit of the doubt and not to suspect him, they nevertheless should do like the people of Berea, in Acts 17:10-12, who carefully examined what St. Paul preached to them to be sure that he was preaching what the Scriptures declare before they received his preaching as true.
Regarding the Gospel, this is the most important area in which we must be absolutely certain of what we are hearing and receiving. But we should also apply this caution to those to whom we turn for our news and nutrition and health information.
After all, what we don’t know can indeed hurt us, especially if we do not know that we are being fed spiritual and/or bodily poison.
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