I'm sure I'm not the only one whose heard this concept tossed around when discussing loving your neighbor. I just don't get what condoning sin looks like. Any ideas?
Am I condoning sin if I am friends with an adulterer and don't say anything? What if I am friends with them don't say anything to them directly but am praying for the Holy Spirit to show them their error?
(I only used adultery because it seems like a non disputable sin. Although I'm sure someone could use some verse to defend the extra marital activities if they wanted, but that isn't really what my post is about. Wow, I'm highly caffeinated at the moment.)
i have a hard time with this kind of thing. my theory is, people know what they do. even in the example, adulterers know they are committing adultery. so if one willingly choose to sin, i say, suffer the consequences and deal with it. its how i look at it in my own life, so what else can i expect for others or what can i be for others? the voice in their head that they've already ignored?
plus, when one sins, that means they want the sin. so whether or not i condone it, they want it. speaking out means nothing. can't lead a horse to water if it doesn't want to be leaded.
plus i don't like partaking in one's sin. becoming that middle person is a fragile thing that i'm very careful to who i do that with. i don't want others' sins in my life. i don't want to be sin for someone else. i'm here for support, not to tell others what to do. plus i think very high of us being on the highest of part of the evolution pole, so if people willingly want to lower their standards then i let them, because they know they already know they are doing it to themselves.
if someones comes to me seeking with questions about my opinion about this and that, then my answer would be completely different than the way i'm answering now.
until then, since i have sin that i deal with, and since, at least in my perspective, people know what they do and there's only one way to sin and that is by choosing to do something that is considered sinful, then i say let cause and effect take place.
so my answer is, i don't condone something that i stay away from in others lives. i just avoid judging and condoning all together.