:-).
I was just reading an article about Ecuador in the Human Life International newsletter, and it mentioned a seminarian there who has 21 siblings. (And they don’t practice polygamy in Ecuador!)
Objections to the points the author of this article makes tend to suggest that the teaching is wrong because it is difficult. I sympathize - there are points of morality where I’m a total failure! - but it’s not a rational objection; truth doesn’t become falsehood because the truth makes difficult demands of us.
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“Objections to the points the author of this article makes tend to suggest that the teaching is wrong because it is difficult. I sympathize - there are points of morality where I’m a total failure! - but it’s not a rational objection; truth doesn’t become falsehood because the truth makes difficult demands of us.”
Really nicely put. Some of the demands are almost impossible for some people and they give in time and time again (me too). Will we then call the Law evil because it highlights the nature of the person to failure in a particular area? Certainly not it is in fact the knowlege of one’s sin and sinful nature that drives one to repentance. When we call evil good and good evil, as is promintent in our modern culture, we remove the form of grace needed to drive us to repent. Is it any wonder people nowadays rejoice in their sinfullness. Their consciousness of sin has been removed and so they cast of the restraint of the Law and the guilt associated with breaking it. ( I think the Simpsons “church” jokingly called it the miracle of shame)
For myself I ask God to search my heart that I may know what is not His good and perfect will that resides within me!
Cheers
Mel