backontrack Posted November 28, 2023 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 139 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,213 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 185 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/10/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted November 28, 2023 Has the world now come to the point where Sin is no longer recognized as being wrong. Are we at that point in time where we now can say Isaish 5:20, Romans 1:18-32, 1 Tim 4:1-4, 2 Tim 3:1-7 is come to pass. If so what's next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted November 28, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 598 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,132 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,858 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Online Share Posted November 28, 2023 Primed for the antichrist beast to come out of the closet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marathoner Posted November 29, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 71 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 10,143 Content Per Day: 7.07 Reputation: 13,100 Days Won: 97 Joined: 05/24/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted November 29, 2023 HAS THE WORLD BECOME LESS SIN CONSCIOUS The short answer: no. This world of man is as it always has been, enemies of our Lord and dead in their trespasses. A scriptural response: What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; as it is written: “There is no righteous person, not even one; There is no one who understands, There is no one who seeks out God; They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, There is not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave, With their tongues they keep deceiving,” “The venom of asps is under their lips”; “Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”; “Their feet are swift to shed blood, Destruction and misery are in their paths, And they have not known the way of peace.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” (Romans 3:9-18 NASB) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debp Posted November 29, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,021 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,321 Content Per Day: 1.80 Reputation: 16,370 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Online Share Posted November 29, 2023 4 hours ago, backontrack said: Has the world now come to the point where Sin is no longer recognized as being wrong. I think the world isn't as sin conscious. When I grew up (1950s and 1960s), we never heard of divorce. We heard of one man that was getting divorced and we were shocked at that. And no one ever thought back then about living together without being married! That would have been shameful. And we didn't hear about murders, fraud and stealing like we hear on the news every day now. Didn't hear anything about homosexuality. I think people's consciences were more sensitive back in those days. Also, mostly everyone went to church and believed in God. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOrangeCat Posted November 29, 2023 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 57 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,407 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 1,827 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/24/2009 Status: Online Share Posted November 29, 2023 15 minutes ago, Debp said: I think the world isn't as sin conscious. When I grew up (1950s and 1960s), we never heard of divorce. We heard of one man that was getting divorced and we were shocked at that. And no one ever thought back then about living together without being married! That would have been shameful. And we didn't hear about murders, fraud and stealing like we hear on the news every day now. Didn't hear anything about homosexuality. I think people's consciences were more sensitive back in those days. Also, mostly everyone went to church and believed in God. I feel this way too for the most part. I grew up in the 80s so I'm a bit younger but even over the course of my lifetime I've noticed a strong shift in cultural values. A lot of the cartoons I grew up watching tended to encourage doing the right thing and had some morality baked in even if it wasn't explicitly Christian. Then from the 90s and onward I noticed a shift toward vulgarity. In my teenage years the word "gay" was sometimes used as a slang term to mean something or someone was stupid. Try doing that in the present era and you'll get lectured. I don't approve of that particular usage of the term to begin with because it demonstrates contempt for our neighbors rather than love, but it does demonstrate what a shift in cultural values we've had in such a short time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marathoner Posted November 29, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 71 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 10,143 Content Per Day: 7.07 Reputation: 13,100 Days Won: 97 Joined: 05/24/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted November 29, 2023 It all depends upon the insular experiences of one's upbringing. What both you and @AnOrangeCat describe wasn't my experience, @Debp. Quite a few people did indeed profess to be Christian, but what I witnessed didn't testify of those who follow Jesus Christ. Christianity was an identity (or badge) rather than a relationship with the Son of the living God, and there was plenty of lip-service to go around. Ah, but beyond the confines of church on Sunday, these were no different from anyone else in this fallen world. There were murders, adulteries, the abuse of children, lies, theft, drunkenness, hatred, and the careful maintenance of illusions so no one else would be the wiser. That's truly the only difference between now and then: what was once done in secret is now revealed for all to see. Lips were sealed... no one would say anything for fear of shame and ridicule... and lives were destroyed in the aftermath. The good old days were not good at all. That's a delusion in my estimation. Perhaps they were good for some, but they were certainly no better than today. That's why I quoted the passage from the third chapter of Romans. It's always been this way, my friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who me Posted November 29, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,300 Content Per Day: 1.72 Reputation: 1,686 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted November 29, 2023 10 hours ago, backontrack said: where Sin is no longer recognized Just as God is no longer recognised as being God, so the morality associated with God and the consequential recognition of what sin is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted November 29, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 953 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,589 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,057 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted November 29, 2023 11 hours ago, backontrack said: Has the world now come to the point where Sin is no longer recognized as being wrong. The "world" has not become less aware of sin, not at all. It knowingly embraces it and knows what it embraces in defiance of God's will for each of us. There is not innocence, instead there is rebellion. Happily there is also a growing movement toward God in parts of this world, even as post Christian Western world especially the USA continues it's open opposition to God's will. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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