THE WORLD LIKE CRETIANS, ARE LIARS, AND INHUMAN, PROFITING FROM IT.

Titus 1:12, King James Version states: "One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies." CRETE, is one of the largest island of the Mediterranean, bounding the Aegean Sea on the South. Mount Ida in Crete was famous in Greek legend as the birthplace of Zeus. CRETE currently is called CANDIA. ONE OF THEMSELVES, EVEN A PROPHET OF THEIR OWN, their own philosopher for the Greeks esteemed men of learnt characters; not prophet of God.  This PROPHET was Epimenides, who was born around 600 BC.,at Gnossus, in Crete, and was reckoned by many the seventh wise man of Greece, instead of Periander, to whom that honour was by them denied. Many fabulous things are related of this poet, which are not proper to be noticed here. He died about 538 BC. When St. Paul calls him a PROPHET OF THEIR OWN, he only intimates that he was, by the Cretans, reputed a PROPHET. And, according to Plutarch, (in Solone), the Cretans paid him divine honors after his death. Diogenes Laertius mentions some of his prophecies: beholding the fort of Munichia, which guarded the port of Athens, he cried out: "O ignorant men! if they but knew what slaughters this fort shall occasion, they would pull it down with their teeth!" This prophecy was fulfilled several years after, when the king, Antipater, put a garrison in this very fort, to keep the Athenians in subjection. See Diog. Laert., lib. i. p. 73. Plato, De Legibus, lib. ii., says that, on the Athenians expressing great fear of the Persians, Epimenides encouraged them by saying "that they should not come before ten years, and that they should return after having suffered great disasters." This prediction was supposed to have been fulfilled in the defeat of the Persians in the battles of Salamis and Marathon. He predicted to the Lacedemonians and Cretans the captivity to which they should one day be reduced by the Arcadians. This took place under Euricrates, king of Crete, and Archidamus, king of Lacedemon; vide Diog. Laert., lib. i. p. 74, edit. Meibom. It was in consequence of these prophecies, whether true or false, fable, that his countrymen esteemed him a prophet more than philosopher; that he was termed Greek ανηρ αθειος, ANER ATHEIOS, a divine man, by Plato; and that Cicero, De Divin., lib. i., says he was FUTURA PRAESCIENS, ET VATICINANS PER FUROREM: "He knew future events, and prophesied under a divine influence." These things are sufficient to justify the epithet of prophet, given him here by St. Paul. It may also be remarked that VATES and POETA, prophet and poet, were synonymous terms among the Romans. THE CRETIANS ARE ALWAYS LIARS - The words quoted here by the apostle Paul are,  from a work of Epimenides, now no longer extant, entitled in Greek Περι χρησμων, PERI CHRESMON· Concerning Oracles. The words form a hexameter verse: - Κρητες αει ψευσται, κακα θηρια, γαστερες αργαι, KRETES AEI PSEUSTAI, KAKA THERIA GASTERES ARGAI. The Cretans are always liars; destructive wild beasts; sluggish gluttons. That the CRETIANS were reputed to be egregious liars, several of the ancients declare; insomuch that Greek Κρητιζειν, KRETIZEIN, to act like a CRETIANS, signifies to lie; and χρησθαι Κρητισμῳ, CHRESTHAI KRETISMO to deceive. The other Greeks reputed them liars, because they said that among them was the sepulchre of Jupiter, who was the highest object of the Greek and Roman worship. By telling this truth, which all others would have to pass for a lie, the Cretans showed that the object of their highest admiration was only a dead man. EVIL BEASTS - Ferocious and destructive in their manners. Rude, savage, cunning and greedy. SLOW BELLIES - Addicted to voluptuousness, idleness, and gluttony; sluggish or hoggish men. Indolent through pampering their stomach. This is exactly what is happening in this world which is technically CRETE. We have politicians. They deceive in order to get votes. Once they get into office, they deceive they are the choices of God. They only satisfy their selfish interests. We have leaders of denominations, religions, who deceive they are servants of God. Once they have converts, they milk them dry, having posh homes, private jets, record labels, book copyrights, and many much accumulated wealth. These denominational pastors are enemies of Jesus Christ destined to hell, Romans 16:17-18; Philippians 3:17-19. Children are brought up in lies. Education is deceptions. Media is deceptions. People had cook and crook ways of survival. People are enlarging their stomachs, bellies, like pregnant women by becoming parasites on the less fortunate, the poor. They don't want to work and live by honest means. They are reproach after reproach, have scandals after scandals. They are crafty and cruel. They have no human sympathy, and lying, falsehood is the way they invade humanity. God as the Supreme Ruler of both heaven and earth, has put a knife on the throat of these idle gluttonous people, Proverbs 23:2, which John the Baptist, Matthew 3:10; and Jesus Christ, Luke 13:6-9, explained as axe laid on unfruitful trees to cut them down. Most people in the world are sick, spending their fortune in medicine because they are CRETIANS.