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Friday, February 7, 2014

If sin was legit, where are the judgements?

This question came up during a conversation I was having with Zack.
It stemmed from abortion. 

I learned that at 8 weeks the OBGYN will take a sample of the baby's skin tissue and the child will flinch from the pain. I also learned that in 38 states a woman can be driving to get an abortion and be involved in a car wreck with kills the child. The driver of the other vehicle will be charged with Fetal Manslaughter - he will be charged with the murder of the child.

Talk about a double standard. 


This is not about abortion. 

I am not here to tell you about abortion. The question is, if abortion and other sins are rampant in our country and very prosperous countries like those in Europe, why are they not "burning" in hell? Or having flaming stones fall on them like Sodom and Gomorrah? 

This is a great question. 

One thing I love about the scriptures is that the answers remain the same. It never changes to be relevant. It is not swayed by culture and changing tides. 

Romans 1:

 24Therefore sGod gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to tthe dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for ua lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, vwho is blessed forever! Amen.

26 For this reason wGod gave them up to xdishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, ymen committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, zGod gave them up to aa debased mind to do bwhat ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know cGod's righteous decree that those who practice such thingsddeserve to die, they not only do them but egive approval to those who practice them..


So have these nations, culture, and people who do not repent suffer judgement? Yes.

The judgement they suffer is the hot steaming iron burning dry their conscious. Their hearts grow cold and minds grow dark. Is it any surprise that the rise of sin has partnered with the rise of existentialism and postmodernism? Utter confusion in the midst of the highest elevation of self. Everything is left to the interpretation of the individual, and nobody knows how to fix their lives. All under a vague blanket of "here take this". 

This isn't some new dilemma, if anything this gives the Bible more credit as truth! And the true judgement is that these removing of conscious result in an inability for someone to repent. How can someone repent and be saved if they feel they have done nothing wrong?
Only if the Holy Spirit does His work. And He works when we pray and intercede. 

So take heart!
For where sin abounds, grace abounds even more.




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