How Far Our Society Has Degenerated...
Breaking News: ATLANTA (AP) A government advisory panel has recommended the routine vaccination of 11- and 12-year-old girls against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
I still remember the days when this problem used to apply only to those in their mid-twenties -- and then only to the so-called 'promiscous' ones. At least in those days, even though fornication as a sin was hardly preached, there was still a kind of social taboo against pre-marital sex. At present, it's so widespread it's a fact of life. Of course, the fact that people have a certain aversion to mixing 'social' and 'educational' issues with 'religion' doesn't help anyone. One can hardly blame the youth of today for acting as they do when nobody ever taught them what to do. "But we do have sex education", people would argue. We do have that -- but sex education doesn't teach kids that God views fornication as a sin, it doesn't teach kids about immorality. Sex education teaches that fornication is ok -- just use a condom.
Who's to blame? Television, for one. Promiscuity is not only promoted in almost every teen show, movie, or music video -- it is actually glorified. But does the blame rest squarely on the shoulders of the producers? No...the greater weight if not all the blame rests on the parents. Every incident is a direct result of the parents' failure in their responsibility to train up their child. As Michelle Rodriquez so elegantly put it on an interview about her role in The Fast and the Furious, "You raise an asshole in your house, you'll get an asshole. If you raise up your kid to be an asshole, he's gonna be an asshole whether we made this movie or not". 'Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it'. A very basic teaching but one set aside by even 'conservative Christians'. As 'good stewards', all parents have a God-given duty to guide their children in ALL decisions until they are mature enough to make their own decisions. The very fact that even the children of pastors are engaging in pre-marital sex should show us how far we have strayed away from 'The Way'. In today's culture, having more than one relationship at any given time is not just commonplace -- it's a status symbol. You have one boyfriend or girlfriend, you're OK. Two, you're good. Three...you're smokin'... -- and playing around with additional 'prospects' is SOP, by the way. Just don't get caught. But if you do get caught, at least you get to add the poor fool in your 'trophy list'.
Nowadays, fornication is seen as part of growing up but the Bible clearly states that anyone who commits it cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Sadly for everyone, it is hardly preached to the youth of today -- what is being preached is 'safe sex'. Fornication is now just a word that only prudes use and if you preach against it you become labeled as 'ultra-conservative' or 'laid-back', 'behind-the-times'.
"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" 1 Corinthians 6:15-20
"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication...of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Galatians 5:19-21
I still remember the days when this problem used to apply only to those in their mid-twenties -- and then only to the so-called 'promiscous' ones. At least in those days, even though fornication as a sin was hardly preached, there was still a kind of social taboo against pre-marital sex. At present, it's so widespread it's a fact of life. Of course, the fact that people have a certain aversion to mixing 'social' and 'educational' issues with 'religion' doesn't help anyone. One can hardly blame the youth of today for acting as they do when nobody ever taught them what to do. "But we do have sex education", people would argue. We do have that -- but sex education doesn't teach kids that God views fornication as a sin, it doesn't teach kids about immorality. Sex education teaches that fornication is ok -- just use a condom.
Who's to blame? Television, for one. Promiscuity is not only promoted in almost every teen show, movie, or music video -- it is actually glorified. But does the blame rest squarely on the shoulders of the producers? No...the greater weight if not all the blame rests on the parents. Every incident is a direct result of the parents' failure in their responsibility to train up their child. As Michelle Rodriquez so elegantly put it on an interview about her role in The Fast and the Furious, "You raise an asshole in your house, you'll get an asshole. If you raise up your kid to be an asshole, he's gonna be an asshole whether we made this movie or not". 'Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it'. A very basic teaching but one set aside by even 'conservative Christians'. As 'good stewards', all parents have a God-given duty to guide their children in ALL decisions until they are mature enough to make their own decisions. The very fact that even the children of pastors are engaging in pre-marital sex should show us how far we have strayed away from 'The Way'. In today's culture, having more than one relationship at any given time is not just commonplace -- it's a status symbol. You have one boyfriend or girlfriend, you're OK. Two, you're good. Three...you're smokin'... -- and playing around with additional 'prospects' is SOP, by the way. Just don't get caught. But if you do get caught, at least you get to add the poor fool in your 'trophy list'.
Nowadays, fornication is seen as part of growing up but the Bible clearly states that anyone who commits it cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Sadly for everyone, it is hardly preached to the youth of today -- what is being preached is 'safe sex'. Fornication is now just a word that only prudes use and if you preach against it you become labeled as 'ultra-conservative' or 'laid-back', 'behind-the-times'.
"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" 1 Corinthians 6:15-20
"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication...of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Galatians 5:19-21
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