The first thing you look for in a society you're trying to discern whether God has abandoned that society is whether or not that society has gone through a sexual revolution so that illicit sex, adultery, every form of immorality is accepted as normal in that society. And we're there.The...
So we see we have a Biblical obligation to protect life. Now let's look at the Biblical view of bloodshed. When we come to this topic, we enter an area that requires cultural re-calibration. As you read through the Old and New Testaments, it's very clear that real blood, from animal...
The third point that may have facilitated suicide was Socrates’ general view, which he expressed in different forms on a number of occasions, that philosophy is “preparation for death.” While awaiting execution after his trial, Socrates maintains in an argument to Simmias and Cebes: Other ...
Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting our trespasses against us… No Matter what sin you have committed, God is not counting it against you: incest, adultery, rape, fornication, homosexuality, pedophilia, murder, theft – God is not holding it against you. ...
small influence both on Greek and Roman writers. This view was first prominently put forth by the Messenian Euemerus in the time of the first Ptolemies, and consisted in the flat prosaic assertion that the gods, equally with the heroes, were originally men, and all the tales about them ...
There are some which give pause, but none more so than their Marxist view on the quintessentially Christian institution of nuclear families: We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for ...
1. When the woman is guilty of adultery. 2. When the woman carries on secret intercourse with a man after her husband has warned her against it (Sota, 27; Jebamoth, 24). 3. Where, though betrothal had taken place, yet a matrimonial law (matrimonium injustum) is violated, either...
commit adultery, coveting your neighbors goods and so on. These are all good moral values and I believe that not many would disagree with them. However many do not want to obey them, or are trying to get around them with some human philosophy. In their moral world God’s views are obso...
no more adultery. In other words, we still have people among us who contend for the view that if an alien sinner living in adultery wants to become a Christian, then he can do so while retaining his adulterous partner on the grounds that following baptism, his adulteryceasesto be adultery...
I think based on the sources I’ve read that the Sovereign Grace Ministries quasi sacramental view on sanctification contributed to the sex abuse scandal as much as thefalse teachings on church government did. Not as directly, but taken together as a system. ...