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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, “ Atheism is an idolatry which worships that strange God--absolute Man. There is in atheism a metaphysical connection between its arrogant assumption of divinity and its self-indulgence in egocentric absolutism. For just as a child spoiled on the excessive love of its parents, turns upon and attacks them with irrational cruelty, so too the atheist, spoiled on the excessive flattery of humanists proclaiming him to be god, turns upon mankind and brutally victimizes it. At the mysterious depths of moral wickedness, self- indulgence in absolutism and boundless cruelty join forces in an allied effort to destroy god and man. The fact is that humanism without God has not succeeded in humanizing man; it has succeeded in driving man insane and putting him to work wrecking the world and his own great civilization. Chesterton was convinced that when man denied God, he would not believe in nothing, but he would believe in anything. He would, moreover, not do nothing, but as a fanatic he would do anything, even wreck this world out of hatred of the nonexistent other. Chesterton wrote (in Orthodoxy). “There men who will ruin themselves and ruin their civilization if they may ruin also this old fantastic tale. This is the last and most astonishing fact about this faith. That its enemies will use any weapon against it , the sword that cuts their own fingers, and the firebrands that burn their own homes…He (the atheist fanatic) sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon someone who never lived at all.” … in 1926 Oswald Spangler, like a prophet of old called in to advise the king of Israel about God’s wrath on a faithless nation, wrote (in Decline of the West), as a salutary warning to the Western Nations, a diagnosis of the disease that was slowly but surely destroying them. “You are dying. I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove that your great wealth and great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality, your broken-down marriages, your birth-control, that is bleeding you from the bottom and killing you off at the top in your brains—can prove to you that these are the characteristic marks of the dying ages of the ancient states—Alexandria and Greece and neurotic Rome.” The Gods of Atheism, Vincent Miceli, p. 473-474. |