How does our culture stack up in the eyes of God after reading these scriptures?
"envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." Galations 5:21
"For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality" 1 thessalonians 4:3
2007-02-01 13:19:17 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not only does it have terrible consequences, but it's ruining this generation and the way we think.
"If I have this, I will be happy"
Our culture, in general, is morally bankrupt, or at least, in a lot of moral debt.
2007-02-01 13:22:35 · answer #1 · answered by Doug 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
150 years ago preachers preached that the railroad was Satanic. 100 years ago it was the car. 80 years ago, radio and films. 50 years ago, television and rock 'n roll. Were they wrong, or did God change His mind? Seriously, if the preachers were wrong then, they could be wrong now so why pay any attention to them? And if God changed His mind, why care about what He said 2000 years ago because He easily could have changed It again.
You can't eat bacon. You have to slaughter animals on the altar of your church. Menstruating women have to be locked outside the gates of the city (where are the gates of your city by the way?) You can't wear mixed fabrics. You can't rotate crops. You can't eat scallops or shrimp. Do you take any of that seriously? No? So why take anything in the Bible seriously? How do you know what is silly and what is real? Please, I want to know.
2007-02-01 13:30:47 · answer #2 · answered by jxt299 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The problem of taking anyones word for these things being anti-God because he says so doesn't explain why their bad so people will do them for relaxations. I stopped seeking friends because there doesn't seem to be an enjoyment of discussion anywhere, either one imbibes or one prays, either one practices safe dating or one practices no control. Its the extremes that destroy cultural advantages, not the middle grounds which the Bibles prophets promote. So because we live in todays cultual mix we can cancel the extremes with Gods help who wants us to live and prosper in this world he has made us.
2007-02-01 13:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by Marcus R. 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Being Modern is not synonymous to being promiscous. We live in a modern life to show how people progresses in their needs and their lifestyle. God is definitely happy with the comforts we try to give ourselves. But with every comfort that is found we always mix things with irresponsible actions. We tend to forget the very basic reason why we want to make things easy. To have quality time to ourselves, to our families, to our God. Instead of having what we want to make our lives easy, we submit ourselves to become obssessed with wants rather than the needs. And that became our taskmasters and the Lord became the money. Without money, our wants can no longer be achieved.
Since money have not supplied us enough to cater to our wants we learned to escape from that realities and have placed ourselves to live in illusionary happiness. Those illusions are the ones that made us immorals and abominables.
WE have been calling on the wrong God and we been serving the name that is not His, that is why we are Cursed. Modern life is not an abomination but it is our concept of wants that bring our humanities level below the expectations that God created us for.
2007-02-01 13:51:12 · answer #4 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
According to Christians, Jews, Muslims and all the other made-up religions (are there any other kind..) every ability "god" gave us is a sin.
If we have sex it's a sin
If we kill (like 90% of the animal kingdom) it's a sin
If we fart, sin
If we breathe..sin (especially if we breathe in that fart :-<)
If there was a God, and I dont think for one second there is, and if that God created us, which I dont think for one second he did, then why would he give us so man sinful abilities, why would a gunsmith make a gun if not to kill someone...
Basically this simple logic suggests that God was made by man, and I dont approve of that for one second...
2007-02-01 13:35:24 · answer #5 · answered by Im a killer 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
jot really alll we tend to do is make things more complex then they actually are ancient cultures thast existed 5000 years ago had scientific knowledge on par with quantum theory which we've only 'discovered' through science in the last 20 or so years,
2007-02-01 13:24:32 · answer #6 · answered by harro_06 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think He is happy with it at all, but I do believe that born again believers are not the focus of His unhappiness.
I believe that a born again believer would not go out boozing, and taking advantage of women, cursing, and using violence to get their own way.
Sure we are not perfect, but I see many things going on in mass in this country that we would never do.
Not because we think God would strike us dead, but because we want to always be in His favor.
Sometimes people make it sound like it is the Christians that are out there violating the laws of man and of God.
I think that is far from the truth.
The worst that most people can say of Christians is they are intolerant of others beliefs.
That is because we base our beliefs on the word of God.
I would rather stand up for His word, and risk being thought intolerant.
The laws that jxt299 was talking about were given to the Israelites, God's chosen people.
He was attempting to keep His people pure, and that is why so many of those laws were written, but it did not do any good.
His people continued to violate the laws at will.
This required God to have to take other methods if He was going to save His own people, so He devised a plan to send His own Son to live with His people, teach them and then to give His life for the forgiveness of their sins.
There was not other way for God to continue a relationship with His people.
So He sent His Son and His people killed Him.
He then told Barnabas and Paul to go out and preach His word to the Gentiles, the unbelievers, and to bring into the kingdom all those who would accept His word.
At that point men were not judged by the purity of their character, but by the goodness of their heart and their relationship with Him and His Son.
No one has to believe, and heaven will have those who truly believe on Jesus as their only hope and salvation.
grace2u
2007-02-01 13:33:28 · answer #7 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
while Jesus substitute into on earth, He informed the Jewish human beings: "now's the time for judgement in this international; now the prince of this international would be pushed out. and that i, while i'm lifted up (exalted) from the earth, will draw fairly everybody to myself". it incredibly is precisely as Jesus has suggested. while somebody says the call 'Jesus Christ', everybody is conscious who he's. Our verification of Him isn't a "popularity" contest. He declared that this might ensue.
2016-10-16 10:38:25 · answer #8 · answered by serpa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I couldn't care less what your gods think of us. They're not doing us any favors anyway.
The more important question is: Should modern culture have to endure the narrow-minded bigotry of religion?
2007-02-01 13:28:29 · answer #9 · answered by link955 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God loves popular culture. He watches the OC and America's Next Top Model religiously.
2007-02-01 13:26:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋