When a culture rebels against God

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Emphasis mine.

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When a culture rebels against God
Friday, September 23, 2016
Tim Wildmon - Guest Columnist

North Carolina's rough road isn't because of HB 2 but Romans 1:28.

All was quiet in the home state of Andy Griffith until February 22 of this year when the Charlotte City Council passed an ordinance requiring all government agencies and private businesses to ensure that men could use women's bathrooms if they want to.

The legal problem with that move was that the state constitution of North Carolina requires all "public accommodation" laws to be handled at the state level. In other words, what Charlotte did was not within their authority, so the governor and the state legislature responded by passing HB 2 on March 23, which "mandates people use the bathroom corresponding to their biological sex in public buildings, places, and schools." Simply put, everything was fine – Charlotte enacted a law they had no authority to enact, and the state of North Carolina put everything back like it was.

For this simple common sense law, the state of North Carolina has become the whipping boy for the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender political machine and their many powerful supporters in big business, academia, the liberal media, and the entertainment industry. No single group of people holds more power in America today than the LGBT lobby, despite the fact that they represent a relatively small number of people. It is estimated that two percent of Americans are lesbian or gay and 0.3 percent are transgendered – i.e., a person who is a male but says he is a female or vice versa.

Even the National Collegiate Athletic Association punished North Carolina by taking away sporting events scheduled for the Tar Heel state. NCAA leadership is made up of university presidents. So, very smart people who have reached the highest levels of academia sat around in a room somewhere and decided that because North Carolina wants to keep men out of bathrooms reserved for women and young girls, the state must be punished. And this law applied only to bathrooms, showers, etc. that were state property.

In other knee-jerk reactions, PayPal Corporation withdrew its plans for building a large office complex in North Carolina over this issue. PayPal is the same company that built their global operations center in Malaysia where homosexual behavior is against the law, punishable by whipping or prison time. The NBA pulled their All-Star game out of Charlotte. Christian sports celebrities Russell Wilson and Stephen Curry condemned their home state for wanting to keep women's bathrooms for women and girls only. Legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said what North Carolina did was "embarrassing."

What is going on here? Why is the whole world coming down on North Carolina over something like this? Even if you thought welcoming men into women's restrooms and showers was a good idea, does the penalty fit the "crime?" You would think North Carolina has reinstated slavery.

What is going on is a country in rebellion against God Almighty. This is about putting the final touches on the sexual revolution. The Bible clearly states that homosexuality is unnatural, immoral, and unhealthy. Everyone knows that a man who thinks he is a woman has a mental disorder, not to mention a spiritual one.

Bruce Jenner will always be a man – even if he wears a dress and heels the rest of his life. Yet, his confusion is lauded by the media and popular culture as brave and heroic. What's really going on here is demonic. It's a culture shaking its collective fist at God and shouting: "Don't tell us how to live! We will not listen to your rules!"

What we are watching in America today is Romans 1 being played out before our very eyes.

Tim Wildmon is president of the American Family Association in Tupelo, MS.
 

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Rom 1:28  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

 

 

[Guest Robert]

If we want to know what happens when a culture rebels against God, we would do well to ask not only Sodom and Gommorah, but the pre-flood Earth.

[emdie]

15 hours ago, B3L13v3R said:

. What's really going on here is demonic. It's a culture shaking its collective fist at God and shouting: "Don't tell us how to live! We will not listen to your rules!"

What we are watching in America today is Romans 1 being played out before our very eyes.
 

 

 

 

Yes, we're so good at believing we're all grown up and no longer need God, but we are nothing without Him. It seems as if popular society is having a collective childish tantrum, 'I want t that sweetie! I need that sweetie! Why shouldn't I have to have that sweetie?'

God is the only one who has enough foresight and knowledge to determine what we really need as human beings, and we can't seem to see beyond our noses, to our obsession with material things and the onus on the self, as if we were autonomous, we no longer believe we need our family or church structures that are designed to support us in living lives worthy of Him. The needs of the many, or society as a whole no longer matter. Family and Christian values seem to be disappearing in the face of the worship of the individual self. 

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On 9/26/2016 at 2:06 PM, Davida said:

I agree. Where obedience to GOD is removed , the peace & stability goes and it is replaced by and chaos and violence.

Amen ,  the countries who remove God ,God will remove His protection from their countries and what will the consequences be?

[Guest Robert]

On 9/26/2016 at 11:06 AM, Davida said:

I agree. Where obedience to GOD is removed , the peace & stability goes and it is replaced by and chaos and violence.

Without the Lord, the human soul cannot know true peace or stability. Sure, they can "fake it" for a while, but sooner or later, the empty hole left without God starts distorting, disrupting and eventually consuming everything. Scripture tells us what happens:

"What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures." (James 4:1-3, NASB)

They try to fill the empty space with the things of this world, and then "war" over them because they can only temporarily satisfy them. And without obedience to God, morality becomes subjective rather than objective, left up to each person to "decide". With no common standard of right and wrong as the Lord intended, conflict inevitably comes. And when Man tries to decide right and wrong without the Lord, we end up with the situation as described in Romans chapter 1:

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."  (Romans 1:17-32, NASB, emphasis mine)

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