Hmmmm... I find your response to Shadowstrike filled with nastiness. Have you looked in a mirror lately?
There are many people on this thread who are getting flak because they refuse to wink at sin — especially a specific trend of sinning. Remember, it was sin that sent the Savior to the cross. And, yes, He paid for it all and we do serve a loving and forgiving God, but His sacrifice was complete in that it paid for deliverance from sin as well. This means that we don’t have to serve sin as we did in the days before salvation.
Bristol has a problem. A very public problem. God is certainly able and willing to forgive her and the baby’s father, but His forgiveness doesn’t give them license to continue in that sin for the world to observe. I’m not a big follower of the Palins, so I wouldn’t know if either of them or the family as a whole went before the public in a church service or some similar setting and repented, explaining why the behavior is sinful. The whole family gives an air of “well, this is just business as usual,” without any apparent thought to what kind of message it sends to those who are considering Christianity. Does Christianity have loopholes? Can Christians live like the rest of society and never pay a price for it? Is it really necessary for me to live a chaste life if I’m a Christian? Does God really mean that Christians are supposed to be separate from the ways of the world or is it acceptable for them to blend in without detection?
I wish good health and happiness for all the Palins, not the least of which is the new little baby who has just been delivered. I hope the Palins get their spiritual house in order so that she can be reared in a Godly manner. I would like to see less of them as they step out of the public eye for as long as it takes to address their dysfunction as a family. And I would be thrilled for them to step back into the public eye with their spiritual foundation renewed and intact. Then and only then do they deserve the respect that so many tend to want to give them because of the Palin name. It’s the Jesus Name that commands respect, and I would like to see them, as public figures, represent it well. All Christians win when that happens.
Hmmmm... I find your response to Shadowstrike filled with nastiness. Have you looked in a mirror lately?
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I’m sorry you find my “response” to be “filled with nastiness”. I last looked in the mirror when I was shaving for Church this morning—and I saw a sinner (just as I have always seen a sinner).
This will be my last post in this thread so I’ll let the “judges” have the last word. I’ve come around to believing that the nastiness I’ve seen in this thread is not from the “casting of the first stone”, but rather, more likely IMHO, a reflection of the posters’ envy and jealousy. And I’ll leave it at that.