The Hard Questions

[expiated]

People curse the business man with no ethics, but the one with a social conscience recieves praise from all.

Of course, it depends on which social conscience you're talking about. To some, the growth of the welfare state was an answer to prayer. And the acceptance of sex out of wedlock was a welcome development, with the availability of casual sex being just about everything a free-thinking soul could ask for, not to mention a change in attitude toward illicit narcotics. (When I was growing up, among the most popular sayings were "don't knock it 'til you try it" and "try it, you'll like it.")

No one was predicting back then the destruction these changes would bring to out society, especially in certain minority communities, where the vast majority of children now grow up with no father in the home, where young men have gang members and drug dealers as their role models, and where murder rates are flying off the charts! When people start messing around with the natural order of things, there's no telling what might happen. But, one thing's almost for sure...whatever it is, it's not going to be good, at least not in the long run.

(P.S. Just look at what's already happening. If things keep progressing as they are now, pretty soon, there will no longer be any more biological women winning championships in women's sports.)

 

[stu]

If there's one lesson that history taught, it is to not base moral or ethical standards on Christianity and its book of doctrines and orthodoxy which condones, even worships among other detestable acts, those of genocide and slavery.

Funny how some Christians hanker after the very same cause of suffocating influence from which their religious forefathers fled.

 

[expiated]

Did Bible Translators Invent the Word "Homosexuality?"

 

[murray t turtle]

No one was predicting back then the destruction these changes would bring to out society, especially in certain minority communities, where the vast majority of children now grow up with no father in the home......
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Hard question. Is Annie Moses Oakley a ''Jezebel'' because she could out shoot most men??
Even Buffalow Bill
knew that ??
LOL/NO she is not a Jezebel just because she could outshoot most men.
And her dad died when she was 7, she also proved being an orphan is NO excuse to fail..................................................................................................................

 

[piezoe]

All religion is, is a way for us mere mortals to try to come to grips with the unnerving fact that being alive is senseless and has no purpose.

You may have overlooked its profitability!

If you have the right cadence to your voice, the right pitch, and can speak in short simple phrases like "lock her up", "stop the steal'", "get'em outa here" , "Tremendous person", "your a very bad person," "Greatest ever...", "And when they send us these people, they are not sending their best. They, are are sending their murderers and rapists, and some may be good people", "Stand by and stand down," "It was a perfect phone call," "We are going to the Capitol and fight like hell. And I'll be there with you"......

And if you can tell the same lie over and over with a straight face until people believe what you are saying is true, no matter how outrageous, then there is very good money to be made from selling religion.

 

[Overnight]

...then there is very good money to be made from selling religion.

But you cannot take it with you. Existence, like religion and money, is pointless.

 

[piezoe]

But you cannot take it with you. Existence, like religion and money, is pointless.

does this mean I don't have to do my tax returns this year? There's got to be an upside to pointlessness... or maybe not?

 

[expiated]

Does Medicine Impede Upon the Will of God?

The Christian worldview has some very basic principles that we need to keep in mind here. Number one, as you're thinking about medical intervention, the Christian biblical worldview is not against, in general, medical intervention. If you have a headache, it's not wrong to take an aspirin. If you have an infection, it's not wrong to take an antibiotic. In general terms, it's not wrong to take a vaccine. It's not wrong to undergo surgery, it's not wrong to undergo medical treatment, unless there is an ethical problem with the treatment itself.

But there's something else we need to recognize. And that is that the Christian worldview and Christian theological reasoning throughout the ages, consistent with the biblical worldview, has affirmed the fact that medical treatment, if it's legitimate, any kind of medical intervention, if it's biblical, must be intended to, say, enhance life or to sustain life or to correct something that is wrong or to defeat an illness or to push back on a virus or to restore some kind of normal, physical, biological process that has been lost.

Now, just note this very carefully. Christians need to think about this really closely. That means that there is no Christian biblical concern with an individual, say, undergoing surgery to restore reproductive ability. There would be no major concern there. To restore reproductive ability, that would be a medical intervention that is in line with protecting a purpose for which God created the human body.

The Christian worldview says that medical treatment in order to protect or to restore a normal operation of the body is good because God created the human body this way. He created it with a purpose. He is assigned to those purposes. Restoring or protecting those purposes is good—is biblically and morally legitimate. On the other hand, interrupting them or stopping them is a very different matter.

Let's just note something here. One of the most important statements in all of medical ethics is that, which is this concept within the ancient Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm. And furthermore, there is the injunction that doctors must not kill.

R. ALBERT MOHLER, JR.
MARCH 11, 2021 PODCAST - THE BRIEFING

 

[stu]

 

[expiated]

Can you embrace homosexuality, yet remain a committed believer?