Posted on 03/26/2015 2:33:33 PM PDT by NYer
We are just warming up to what Nero did.
So, yes.
**Can Christianity Survive the Sexual Revolution?,**
It has before and it will again. (Think Sodom and Gomorrah.)
**Change the inner man and the behavior will follow.**
“As a man thinketh, so is he.”
Win.
More to the point. Can America survive this sex mess?
“...it’s about understanding how God wants us to live our lives in a positive sense and that means that the topic of sexuality has to be approached as much from the perspective of what God wants us to do with the component of our sexual lives… as opposed to just what he doesn’t want people to do.”
Perhaps this might be a good starting point:
“Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated always in her love.
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD,
and he ponders all his paths.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,
and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
He dies for lack of discipline,
and because of his great folly he is led astray.”
Proverbs 5
Many parsons and priests are like RINOs: They have conceded moral authority to the secular media, and live in absolute fear of being singled out for opprobrium by that media. In short, they are hollow-men and cowards.
Just got it, I’m a little slow on the draw, lol. A big, Black Mastiff, think ye?
AMEN!
Genesis 20:1-10 (NIV):
20 Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, 2 and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.
3 But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”
4 Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation? 5 Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and didn’t she also say, ‘He is my brother’? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.”
6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her. 7 Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.”
8 Early the next morning Abimelek summoned all his officials, and when he told them all that had happened, they were very much afraid. 9 Then Abimelek called Abraham in and said, “What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.” 10 And Abimelek asked Abraham, “What was your reason for doing this?”
Sarah, even at 100 or so years old, was apparently “hittable”. But the sin of adultery was taken so seriously that Abimelek was afraid for his entire nation, even though he was innocent. Contrast Billy Jeff Clinton....
Yes....along with 1 Corintians 7: 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. 7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I. 9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Of course, true Christianity will survive as it has for the past two millenia. That doesn’t mean true Christians won’t face persecution for it.
Christianity has survived worse and will survived this.
From the RSVCE:
CE means Catholic Edition.
1 Corinthians 7:1-11Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
Directions concerning Marriage
7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.[a] 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control. 6 I say this by way of concession, not of command. 7 I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do. 9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.
10 To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband 11 (but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband)—and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
Please see posting number 35. Thank-you.
Read Jeremiah. Christianity has survived much worse than this.
Oh gosh yes, it has survived worse. You can not only cite scripture but history. The first 3 centuries of the Christian faith it was the faith of the underground.
That is a good point: All kinds of sexual sin are birds of a common feather. People who commit other kinds of sexual sin tend to ally themselves with the homosexual rights movement.
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