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The Price of Sexual Sin
- Loss of Faith in America 03

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From Book: America, Return to God (Second Edition)

By Jim Nelson Black

(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Notes)

The mindset of the sixties is still with us, as values and beliefs that were once cherished in this nation are being discredited by the left. Francis Schaeffer believed that we are living in the post-Christian age. Obviously, a large number of Americans still cherish our Christian heritage, and faith is still strong in many places. But for a growing number, the enlightenment view of reality has become their accepted worldview. For them, moral consensus no longer depends on Christian truths, but on secular values.

Our interpretation of man's place in the cosmos is known as our "worldview." Like the operating system on a computer, a worldview provides the rules, the language, and the framework for managing and sharing information. It tells us how things work, and the first concern of any worldview is the nature of life. It involves questions like, "Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?" and "Where am I going?" These questions were not invented in some laboratory. They are questions that everyone must ask at some point in their lives in order to deal with the basic demands of day-today existence.

We don't have to look very far to see that things are not perfect in this world. There is pain and loss and suffering; so we also want to know, "What has gone wrong with the world? Why is there pain? Why is there evil?" and, as Rabbi Harold Kushner asked in his famous book a few years ago, “Why do bad things happen to good people?" The Bible gives us the answer. Original sin. It's very simple, really, but the humanist worldview refuses to accept this answer.

For the humanist, evolution provides the explanation for where we came from; social and environmental factors tell us what is wrong with the world; and solutions for the problems in society are merely technological concerns that man, through his ingenuity and powers of deduction, can overcome. There is no doubt that postmodern thinking has begun to play a dominant role in contemporary culture. It has brought with it a form of moral relativism that allows for everv kind of personal expression, just so long as it is not encumbered by moral judgment.For secular humanism, absolute truth and morality do not exist; they are merely concepts left over from our ancient past.

Here we discover the roots of the sin and disharmony that have turned our culture upside down. D. James Kennedy has called the twentieth century a “century of seduction." For the past forty years, he says, "the American people have been seduced by a whole series of siren singers who have led them down the primrose path," and the primary agents of this seduction have been the perversion of truth, the debasement of sexuality, and the assault on the sanctity of life.

Theologian F. B. Meyer has written that sensuality (or unchastity, as he called it) can destroy a nation. He says, "There is no sin which will sooner bring about a nation's fall. If history teaches anything, it teaches that sensual indulgence is the surest way to national ruin. Society, in not condemning this sin, condemns itself." While a segment of the population recognizes that continued toleration of immorality and sexual deviance can only lead to ruin, the liberal idealists who set the pace of the secular culture are leading the way, not just to tolerance, but to the active promotion of vice.

Why should we expect them to be otherwise? This is their worldview. Ultimately, the responsibility for advancing truth is the duty of those who know the truth and who still have respect for our biblical heritage. This nation was founded on Christian virtue. The Founders, as has been proved so clearly, were men of deep faith and conviction. But today we bear their mantle, and we bear the truth of God's word revealed in Scripture. To allow ourselves to be silenced by the humanist worldview would be to abdicate our responsibility before God. It would be to hide our lamps under a bushel, when we have the Light of the world in our hearts.

(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Notes.) These parts of this article titled as below:

1. A New Moral Order
2. Escalating America's Breakdown
3. The Price of Sexual Sin
4. The Arena of Conflict
5. The Wages of Sin
6. Weighed in the Balance
7. Notes

 

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