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Sunday, 11 March 2012

"Jekyll and Hyde"

I  have written a series of articles about what the Bible calls 
"Evil communication" ( 1Corinthians 15:33).
They are  stumbling blocks which we must leap over; and they could be persons, attitudes or  thought patterns which Christians must identify  and avoid , even before they trip over them  and fall. 
{Isaiah  57:14}.
 Here is the first of them, "Jekyll and Hyde".

"Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?" Job 20:5.


 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886.
 "Jekyll  and Hyde Syndrome "  is a  term coined  to describe  the  rare mental condition often spuriously called "split personality", wherein within the same person there are at least two distinct personalities , for good and evil . "Jekyll" is the good , public face and  "Hyde " is the secret  "evil " character, all in one person.
These are characteristics  adopted  by  a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next ! 
These double or multi persona usually are presented under the mask of the "good" personality  of the Jekyll and Hyde character ,in order to win the victim's approval.
The Jekyll and Hyde syndrome is a disease of the mind and it is also a lifestyle, deliberately chosen by fraudulent persons with the aim of presenting evil as  "good" to defraud others.
"They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper ". Isaiah 59:5.


There are fraudsters who people , easily, would sniff out a mile away , but not so with split personalities.
In the world of fraudsters,"Jekyll and Hyde" characters are a class act  because of their mega shock factor! 
Lies and misrepresentation are  the main thread in the art of deception , so the  deceiver must be  expert in telling their victims what they KNOW the victims would love  to hear.
In addition to sweet words, fake appearances do give the wrong impression. 
Fraudulent characters are also known as "hypocrites" , "cheats", "rats" and "sham".
 These  characters set out  to deceive by masking  their evil lifestyles  with false appearances of good character.
Who wouldn't  be impressed by a  decent  first impression?
Concealment of evil by presenting  false  "glossy pictures " of who they are not , is  therefore vital to the Jekyll and Hyde's games of deception. 
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9.


When dealing with split personalities what you see is not what you get.
Success for the two-faced person  is sure when their art of deception  is mastered by keeping their prey in the dark about their true identities , intentions and lifestyles.

Split personalities , like Dr  Jekyll , in R.L.Stevenson's novel, are found everywhere and in the most unlikely persons.
Some doctors  and nurses have been exposed as serial killers of defenceless patients in their care.
 Priests in whose charge young  boys and girls were kept , whose duty it  was  to  teach and nurture them and to protect them from the "wicked  world"; have turned out  to be wolves let loose into the midst of lambs.
Police men on the investigating teams of  serious crimes have turned out  to be "dirty cops" who were the real perpetrators of the crimes being investigated.
Before  being elected , Politicians would stand before press cameras, beaming with smiles , spewing great oratory skills and big grammar, as they list  the "wonderful poverty- alleviation projects"  which they