Tough subject. I am guilty of it on a daily basis. Can not go out without seeing a woman that is attractive to me. Thank goodness for Grace.
“Is Jenny going to hell?”
The proper answer would have been “if she does not trust in Christ, then yes.” And it should have been said without shame.
There’s nothing wrong with being intolerant of wickedness.
Christian objection toward adultery is not intolerant. ABC’s attitude toward Christianity is.
When is the MSM going to mock some Muslims for intolerance?
:: crickets ::
Maybe Young should have quoted Jimmy Carter (1976):
“The Bible says, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Christ said, I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery. I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.... This is something that God recognizes, that I will do and have done, and God forgives me for it. But that doesn’t mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but who leaves his wife and shacks up with somebody out of wedlock.”
Better to leave a marriage than cause the one who trusts you to become sick.
Is she against rape? If so, does she feel a little intolerant about that?
When confronted by evil, tolerance, moral agnosticism, and subjestivistic relativism allows it to spread and increase, which is what evil wants
People are inclined to do a whole lot of stuff they shouldn’t do. Appetites can be fed through many kinds of sex—same, opposite, or self. If it’s with somebody you’re not married to (including your own self) then it is against Biblical teaching.
None of this is very surprising. We Freepers tend to look at cultural matters like this through 20th century lenses, but we need to remember that as long ago as the first century after Christ, Christians were cautioned that they would be mocked, cursed, and tortured for their beliefs. It’s in the New Testament. So, of course McFadden is a moron and the others are profiting from sin, but a Christian pastor being hammered for his views? Not surprising.
I did not see the program.
Was the pastor advocating some kind of government restriction or punishment on adultery or ‘open marriage’.
If not, why do they care what his opinion is?
He’s entitled to his opinion. It is they who are intolerant.
I am old enough to remember a time when pre-marital sex as well as adultry was frowned upon. You would say our society as a whole was much less tolerant then.
This was also the time when their was a stigma to being an unwed mother, and pity the poor teenage girl that found her self in trouble.
Did pre-marital sex occur, yes. Did people cheat on their spouces, yes. Did teenage girls get pregnant, yes. But society made those that transgressed pay a high price if their transgressions become known. That high price insured few were willing to pay the price. (As an aside, because of that price, young girls knew they had society on their side when they said “no”, often backed up by an angry father of older brother. Today young girls get a completely different message, “Sex is okay, no consequences, go for it.”) Up until the 1960s that was not the message society was sending.
Was it unfair to the individual yes, but what about society as a whole. Does society have a stake in maintaining some standands and rules about sexual contact? I believe it does.
If society encourages people wait until they get married before engaging in sex there is less chance of catching and spreading sexually transmitted deseases. It also lessens the number of unwed mothers in society, or number of abortions.
If society encourages people to remain faithful with their spouse is lessens the number of divorces (and again the spread of sexually transmitted deseases).
We do not have to guess what a society with few rules looks like, we are living it today.
Sexually transmitted desease is out of control.
The number of abortions are in the millions.
Unwed mothers have children that grow up in fatherless homes, which lead to all kinds of social problems (and I may add more unwed mothers).
Divorces are so easy it is common to know people that have been married three or four times. Many times with children involved. This leads to more social problems.
So being intolerant cause some individuals great personal sorrow, being tolerant has caused a once great nation to suffer.
At least this is one person’s opinion. Will we ever go back to the way it was. Yes, but not in our life time. Ours like most societies have to go through the cycle.
If you think about it, most rules are created to help a society to survive. We had it so good in the 1950s and 1960s we thought we could throw the rules away. Unfortunately it is our children and their children that will pay the price.
(I do not wish to gloss over problems of the past, there were some things that needed to be changed and for the most part they were)
God’s commandments are clear. Thou shalt not means exactly that. We respond by saying, “Yeah, but . . .”
Black is now officially white, white is officially black, and furthemore, it is illegal to say anything about it other than "yes sir, yes sir, three bags full."
Stable families are the foundation of individual lives, communities, societies and nations. Official stamp of approval of, and condemntion of criticism of illicit sex of all kinds destroy all of the above.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
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You could pick any commandment and use the same reasoning.
The Acorn Broadcasting Network continues to assault the foundations of this Republic.
I would never have it any other way.