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Any similarity to Hegel's thesis-antithesis dialectic is incidental. All people live in the same world. Christians must live in the world yet not be of it. The Holy Spirit has the power to protect the Christian believer - sin comes from the inside, from the heart (cf Ps. 51), not from the outside.

The Anabaptist tendancy to try to construct a completely separate Christian culture finds no support in Scripture. Transformation of the existing culture, through lives, however is the duty of every believer within his sphere of influence.

As applied to abortion, if it pleases the Lord to remove this scourge from the land who are we to question His means?

We are not Anabaptists, just Baptists. We don't isolate ourselves (as might Amish, some Mennonites, or others who claim the Anabaptist handle). Our children, fully clothed, have played stick ball with naked Filipino children. But we don't preach with any pleasant tones toward those who just WANT to be naked. Some Filipino children don't really want to be naked out of vile desire, they just don't have any clothes, and would love to wear some if they were given any. Some Filipino young people, on the other hand (like American young people), after watching American Hollywood productions and pornography on the Internet at the local Internet cafe, desire a VILE and LICENTIOUS and VULGAR course of life. Sodomy is so flaunted on Filipino streets and in the markets that Sodom and Gomorrah residents would blush. We don't use such tones of voice that make us seem to others as though we can just tolerate sodomy or other reprobation. We firmly preach against what God says is sin and debauchery. We would not be interested in appearing to legitimize what God says is reprobate by buddying with them just because they happen to be able to articulate a position that might be reasonable in one or two issues. "Transformation of existing culture" in a Godward direction would only happen if sufficient numbers of people see themselves offensive to God's holiness, condemned by sin, on their way to judgment before a Holy God, on their way to Hell, and if they see the Cross of Christ as the only remedy for their sin nature and sinful acts, if they repent toward God and place their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; if they experience the New Birth, Regeneration by the Holy Spirit. The world is a ship that is SUNK. Judgment is on the way, and the Christian's duty is to preach the gospel of the Grace of God that He may rescue the perishing that are on the open sea watching the the bow slip underneath the surface. There will be NO restoration, the ship is sunk, this dispensation will end in apostasy and under judgment.