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NASB | Luke 17:3 "Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 17:3 "Pay attention and always be on guard [looking out for one another]! If your brother sins and disregards God's precepts, solemnly warn him; and if he repents and changes, forgive him. |
Bible Question:
I hear ya, they are doing many things. I don't want to make light of that or offend the people who are involved. It is a selfless mission. Having said that, let me address the issues you raised to make my original point. The Catholic church does not have enough conviction to survive at this point. They have an internal pedifile problem, Ted Kinnedy, John Carrey and Tom Harkin who are all not only all pro choice, they are pro abortion and they are also all for third trimester abortion, yet they have not been thrown out. Prisons? True, there is only one way help a prisoner. Install a new set of morals. Yet our government lacks in that area so much, it would be misguided if they got involved. The churches no longer have the power needed to complete their mission. It starts in the schools where they are not allowed to talk about right and wrong unless its "non god" talk. The stuff that they conclude is amazing and baseless. They are training the future prisoners of America, but at least each and everyone will know how to put a condom on a banana. Many choose to live in a bubble and home school. When the good kids leave, only the bad kids are left and there is less interfereance in their path. I guess what I am saying that there are 4 times as many battles going on as are being met. Again, I appreciate those who are participating. |
Bible Answer: Pete2, Our American culture is already throughly secular and has been for decades, despite some vestigal trappings of our its Protestant roots. Strangely enough, Christianity is thriving where it is an "outside" influence and under persecution, such as in China and on the bloody borders of Islam in sub Shaharan Africa and the Mollucas of Indonesia. It may yet revive in Europe and American, once the wheat has been separated from the chaff and a new spirit of re-evangelization takes root and as our society moves from marginalization to open persecution of committed Christians. This is already beginning. "...Since the life of the spirit is the very source of order in man and society, the very success of a Gnostic civilization is the cause of its decline."1 Humanistic atheism in the modern form of the idolatrous adoration of the new Gnostic gods is destroying the society of man.”2 “An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age, but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesday. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends on his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century. If a man believes in an unalterable natural law, he cannot believe in any miracle in any age.”3 “After starting out from unlimited freedom, I arrive at unlimited despotism.”4 When man becomes God, history testifies that then millions of men become imprisoned slaves, terrified automatons and murdered corpses. Society in the words of Gabriel Marcel, becomes “a termite colony.”5 1 Eric Vogelin, The new Science of Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952) p.131 2 Vincent Miceli, The Gods of Atheism, (New Rochelle, N.Y., Arlington House, 1971) p.xvi 3 G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, cited in The Gods of Atheism p. 439 4 Goerge Siegmund, God on Trial, quoting the Dostoevsky character Schigalev, cited in 5 The Gods of Atheism, p.463 May I strongly recommend two books by Vincent Miceli: "The Gods of Athesism" and "The Roots of Violence". More from The Gods of Atheism in my next post. |