Posted on 02/17/2015 6:45:20 AM PST by Faith Presses On
True. Dr. Dobson left Focus on the Family some time ago. He has started a new ministry, also based in Colorado.
After you need to shower so some does not accidentally get inside you.
They were unconcerned about its effect on adults? Both morally and medically (porn changes the brain -- similar to opiate addiction).
I actually got in an argument with a woman who was reading the book in public, talking about how it was liberating.
I finally closed the argument by bringing up how you undo all the Superbowl ads saying violence against women is bad if you then sit through a movie that says violence against women is OK if he’s rich, handsome and pressures her into a contract agreeing to the violence. AKA, violence against women is bad if she agrees to it - like a domestic abuse victim who puts up with it because she loves him. And “50 Shades of Gray” has more than just hitting his girlfriend, which was just denounced on the Superbowl PSAs.
The weather kept me from replying before now. First thing, you mention that you used to be liberal but now have some conservative leanings. Those by themselves are stricly political terms. What about on beliefs about the universe and our place in it, especially in relationship to God? Do you believe in Him? And what about the claims of Christianity? Do you believe in them, so that you are a Christian?
Without knowing those answers, I will say that Christians are obligated to speak out on sin, to tell the world what God says about right and wrong and to teach about what is true and what isn’t. So, what that includes is that we are not our own, to do what seems good to us and to live as we want and see fit and just follow ourselves and our proclivities to wherever they lead us. We have been given power as individuals temporarily, to be able to do things, for this life only, by God Himself, and at some point this life, and that power, will both come to an end, after which our ability to do anything will be taken away from us and we’ll have to give an account to God for everything we did here, and that will include if we were willing to listen to Him or not.
Since God is God, He creates the standards, and His are good and perfect. And we are warned not to trust our own. By not obeying God but using what seemed good to her, Eve chose to listen to Satan rather than God. And the Bible warns us not to do that, to follow what is “good in our own eyes,” or “what seems right to a man.”
It is pornography of a type, and as for other movies, pornography has in general been moving into mainstream films. It isn’t a personal matter of what people agree or don’t agree with, too, but what God says.
When the matter is truth versus lies or good versus evil, they aren’t equivalent. Does a Christian have to read the works of other religions in order to reject them as error?
There are plenty of “Christians” who will go see this trash. I know a youth minister who took her daughter to a Lady Ga Ga concert.
Some things are simply inappropriate and unclean. All you have to do is read the IMDB description and content advisory.
I know homosexuality is wrong. I’ve never tried it but I’ve no need to try it to know this.
No, but it is helpful to know what you are talking about when you argue the error of their ways with them, even with God's love in your heart and your desire to see them saved.
Bad weather or else I would have responded sooner. I very much appreciate you taking the time to reply. Although we disagree I do understand where you are coming from after reading your reply. Again thank you for replying in such a gracious manner.
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