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NASB | Proverbs 6:16 ¶ There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 6:16 ¶ These six things the LORD hates; Indeed, seven are repulsive to Him: |
Subject: Why the spotlight on gays? |
Bible Note: Hi, brother Mark... I will not address the arguments of the authors of that article. I think they can stand on their own feet, and do so well in the light of scripture. Instead, let me pose a few rhetorical questions and thoughts: As I asked another, to what extent are we salt and light? What does being salt and light really mean? When we do something that actually prevents someone from committing a sin, is that not a service to our Lord? When we do something that actually encourages another to sin, are we not in some way responsible? Every sin is always the ultimately the responsibility of the one who commits the sin. Yet is there no such thing as corporate sin? What of the "solemn assemblies" that are mentioned in scripture and observed by our American Christian fore-fathers. Are those simply a misunderstanding of "we are each individually responsible for our sin?" God is a personal God, but don't we also see examples of God dealing with groups of people, not just individuals? Individualism is a modern secular philosophy taken to an extreme. It is not a Hebraic philosophy or even a Biblical philosophy. Responsibility for one's behavior does not insist on embracing individualism. As usual, the church adopts the philosophies of the world, paints them up to look presentable on Sunday morning, and calls them Christian. These questions and thoughts ought not be easily dismissed by the believer. We should wrestle with when we ought to "come out from among them" versus what it means to be salt and light. We shrug these things off at our own peril, for God will purify the Bride of His Son, regardless of whether we wash our hands in the fount of individualism or not. In closing, is it not worth the time to go to our Father and ask Him to search out our sin; regardless of the label; regardless of whether it is overt, covert, comitted, or omitted; regardless of whether it is strictly my fault or another's? Who cares about these things? All sin is infinitely odious, offensive, and insulting to a Holy God. In Him, Doc |