Hebrews 11:1,6 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Worldliness or Secularism? The Embellishment of Sin.
It's amazing how much humanity has changed in just a few
generations. What was wrong before now is acceptable, what was evil now is
good, what was ugly now is pretty, etc. Some things are just a matter of taste,
e.g.: You maybe think that i'm ugly, but my wife thinks that i'm handsome, her
taste or perspective is different from yours and she's not
"sinning" because she thinks like that. But when it comes to SIN,
what's right is right, what's wrong is wrong, there's no partiality. Whatever
was Sin for Abel was Sin for Jesus and it is still sin for us today, e.g.: Murder. It was sin
when Cain murdered his brother Abel, it was sin when the people murdered Jesus
and it's still sin today. Exodus 20:13, this commandment was given through Moses
a long time after the first murder (Cain's), the law only "revealed"
God's perspective about sin. Today, we're constantly led to think that good and
evil can "coexist", meaning, i can be "good and evil" and
still the good in me will, in some weird way, annul the evil. As in that song
"Ebony and Ivory" from Paul McCartney: "We all know that people
are the same where ever you go, there is
good and bad in everyone, we learn to live, we learn to give each
other what we need to survive, together alive". It sounds very nice, but
this is what Jesus Christ said: Luke 18:19. So the
concept of "there is good and bad in everyone" according to Jesus is
"false", in ourselves there's only the "bad"! That's the
very reason we need Jesus, the Goodness of God. Nowadays, even christian
thinkers (i honestly don't know what they are thinking) are creating
"nice" words to "define" or "describe" old sins,
e.g.: SECULARISM. Before, it was "worldly", now it is
"secular"; before it was "fornication", now it is
"premarital sex"; before it was "adultery", now it is
"having an affair"; before it was "he stole", now it is
"he found a loophole", etc, this is what i mean by
"embellishment of sin". The embellishment of sin is probably the
"father" of the "lesser evil" concept, which is so
prevalent in the post-modern christianism, they say that before God "you
can lie to avoid being killed", doing so, they are "grading"
God's morality. Is it
right to do something evil in hope that some good may come of it? If it is,
than Jesus Christ wasted his time and life dying on the cross, He could just
accept satan’s offer and have his "own" kingdom here on earth. If you
consider all the saints who were killed, they were killed because they didn't want to compromise, to deny their faith, they chose to be holy, they chose to
be righteous and they chose to lose their lives to gain the eternal life.
Can the lesser evil (sin) bring forth
the greater
good (salvation)?
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