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Wow, so God is on the staff of Christianity.com, you'd think they'd cite that somewhere but I couldn't find it. Here I thought that it was just a bunch writers and editors trying to masquerade as divine authority.
At this point, we either try making some compromises their way or in their favor, and hope they will do the same with some of ours, or we give up trying at this point.
It used to be that a certain kind of sexual "immorality" was pretty much unique only to elites and some pagan religious cults, etc, but "that kind" is now becoming common now, even among the very common now, etc, to where it could become like Sodom and Gommorah, etc, which became a place where rape and molestation (and beastiality) were no longer considered wrong or taboo, and were even very much highly cherished/worshipped as a part of their "sexually free liberated culture", etc, and was even part of introducing others into their culture, etc, all the way down to all the visitors and their young children, who, in that culture, were just as sexually active now/immoral now, as all of the rest of them were now at that point, and them with the adults and the old, and they with them regularly, etc, and none of it was considered wrong or out of place or taboo anymore, etc, no, not even close anymore, etc, but it was all "normalized/cherished" among all in those cities, including all the very young children from the time they were very young, etc, if it felt good to your flesh, then you were taught to just do it in that culture without any inhibition or restriction, even with the very, very young children, etc, because even the very, very young children were taught this from a very, very young age, so that they saw or felt nothing wrong with it at all either, and were even taught to encourage older ones, or ones of any age really, etc, to come and have some sex with them regularly or on a regular basis, etc...
If you're talking about compromising with the world, that is not what we're supposed to do as Christians.
It's called the 10 commandments and following Gods moral law results in the 2 greatest commandments Jesus stated in Mark 12:29-31
I find that highly unlikely, so if you could cite a source for this claim I'd appreciate it. Not just stories about the elite et al, but rather some sort of evidence that this wasn't representative of the societies as a whole.
Yes, it's beginning to sound like the same old doom and gloom warning that has persisted ever since one group looked upon another group as being somehow morally inferior to themselves. So far those warnings appear to have had no basis in reality. This one is probably no more accurate than any of the preceding ones.
So it's bad, but not so bad that God feels the need to do anything about it. I think I'll take God's side on this one and sit out any judgment about who's being moral and who isn't. It's not my call. I think people are just being people with all the foibles thereof.
It ain't the commandments that bother me, it's the self-righteous, and the self-serving application thereof that bothers me.
I'm probably talking about putting band-aides over bullet holes at this point to be honest with you, but, we've lost certain ground already when it comes to the rest of the world, and we might be partially to blame for that, and the only other option is to just give up altogther completely, and not to try, etc...
I understand that. Jesus didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it through him. He came to fulfil the law because we couldn't achieve it through the flesh. Once we repent and are saved, the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth and helps us put off the flesh. It's not a Christian duty to condemn non-believers, we are called only to share the Gospel truth. Which is the Good News of salvation. People either accept it, or they reject it (believe on Jesus or not).
Perhaps religion has lost ground, but Jesus is not religion. He hasn't lost ground. The bible states clearly what will happen before his second coming, and most of it has occurred already.
There is a new theory for training dogs that is becoming popular. It involves the idea that only positive reinforcement should be used, and that dogs should never be punished. Turns out it makes for pretty crappy dogs. We should probably try it out on kids.
If the ends were supposed to justify the means, and the Being had no previous reason to doubt why they would end up in failure...?
This is quite wrong as any social psychologist will tell you. Positive and negative reinforcement work great.
