MaxPC wrote:At 82 years old I can offer the "long view" observation:
In a word, yes, the culture at large has increasingly accepted immoral behaviors. What was once taboo is now touted publicly. The "sexual revolution" in the 1960s was the first mass public promotion of sexual immorality in the US. The internet has accelerated it with easy access to porn in the privacy of the domicile as well as social media offering anonymity in the sharing of such ideas. God will not be mocked and God will prevail. We cannot control others but we can control our own choices to live faithfully as a disciple of God.
So is it as bad to-day as it was in pre-Israelite Canaan? Or in the time before the flood?
Well I'm old but not that old.
Without being an eyewitness to that period I can't say for certain. However I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes that bad if it hasn't already.
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Max (Plain Catholic)
Mt 24:35 Proverbs 18:2 A fool does not delight in understanding but only in revealing his own mind.
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God
MaxPC wrote:At 82 years old I can offer the "long view" observation:
In a word, yes, the culture at large has increasingly accepted immoral behaviors. What was once taboo is now touted publicly. The "sexual revolution" in the 1960s was the first mass public promotion of sexual immorality in the US. The internet has accelerated it with easy access to porn in the privacy of the domicile as well as social media offering anonymity in the sharing of such ideas. God will not be mocked and God will prevail. We cannot control others but we can control our own choices to live faithfully as a disciple of God.
So is it as bad to-day as it was in pre-Israelite Canaan? Or in the time before the flood?
Well I'm old but not that old.
Without being an eyewitness to that period I can't say for certain. However I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes that bad if it hasn't already.
Remember what God's plan was for the people of Canaan, and what He did about the people before the flood.
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Noah was a conspiracy theorist...and then it began to rain.~Unknown
silentreader wrote:So is it as bad to-day as it was in pre-Israelite Canaan? Or in the time before the flood?
Interesting question. I'd be curious to hear some opinions on this!
Immorality is hardly a new thing. After all, Paul had to tell the Corinthians that sleeping with temple prostitutes is not a good idea, and if you make a list of individual's sexual sins mentioned in the New Testament, it's a longer list than you might expect.
Gay sex plays a prominent role in some ancient Greek and Latin literature. I remember blushing when I first realized what one philosopher was talking about ...
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Is it biblical? Is it Christlike? Is it loving? Is it true? How can I find out?
Morals and values have been going down the tubes since in the early church people decided they could give their infants a bath to wash away sins, and Constantine decided it was OK to kill people and told his soldiers to march through a river so they'd be "baptised".
It's not exactly a modern thing. I don't think God is necessarily more worked up about sexual sins than he is about the human beings he created deciding to kill each other.