Vox Populi, Vox Dei (How True Is It?)

Vox Populi, Vox Dei (How True Is It?)
The popular saying, 'Vox Populi, Vox Dei' (the voice of the people is the voice of God), is absolutely incorrect, non scriptural, and a devilish notion to deceive the masses.  This is a statement i have heard many times from my youth, and has been used by the devil to cunningly deceive people into believing that what is popular, generally accepted and preached by many, must be of God.
From the earliest history of human/global civilisation, as captured in the book of Genesis 11, scriptures clearly show that the mind, will and voice of God, is not with the mass population. There we see how the whole world was of one language and one speech, yet their ambition, set goals and vision was contrary to God.
Genesis 11:1-8 "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city."

Secondly, not even the voice of the people of God should be taken as/assumed to be the voice of God.
In the book of 1 Samuel 8:5-22, the people of God, even the children of Israel, God’s chosen people, desired a king at all costs. They came to the man of God named Samuel and told him they wanted a king; he spoke to God, and God told him his mind/gave him his word concerning the matter, to speak to the people but they refused to listen. They said they wanted a king like all the other nations and that certainly was not God’s voice or even his mind because he revealed his mind to the king to speak to them; however, they still rebelled. In verse 18 and 19, he told them how wicked the king would be, how he would enslave them and abuse them, and that they would cry out to God because of the wickedness of the king but God would not hear them. Nevertheless, they refused to obey Gods voice, thus God gave them over to their own will and choice, by telling the prophet to hearken to their voice.

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