Posted on 12/13/2009 12:17:56 PM PST by The Ignorant Fisherman
Tiger Woods of late has been the center of great controversy in light of his sexual addictions and appetites. Tiger has many exceedingly great accomplishments in his young life. One though that he has fallen short on is the discipline and managing of his own heart and the unbridled passions.
Tiger is just the tip of the iceberg in today’s Red Light District American culture. He is par for the course in light of the countless others in the professional sports world and the entertainment elite industry that are part of this decadent and licentious pleasure seeking crowd. With their grand achievements and prestige their godless heart is still empty and seeking to find sustainment in the basest and unbridled passions of fallen humanity (Romans 5:12-19) that never satisfy their soul (Eccl 3:11). Countless of these in this industry can attest to that in the end. Only Almighty God can satisfy and fill the eternal void and vacuum of man. It is only when a man or woman turns to Almighty God and seeks His pardon and forgiveness that there is great healing, restoration and satisfaction (1 Cor. 1:30).
The Bible teaches; So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh (Gal 5:16) and; Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires (Gal 5:24) also; But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts (Romans 13:34).
"Only in Christ can one be set free from the bondage of sin and such destructive passions and vices (John 8:36)"
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Amen to the selected bible passages.
I hope that he has believers among his friends who will reach out to him.
Unfortunately it is not just the sports and entertainment world.
I fully agree.. the post gets into that.
TGBTG!
I do to..it’s never to late to turn to Almighty God. He is always there!!!! I know!
Total moral depravity so they can drug it up, fornicate and commit adultery without stigmatization.
I fully agree. If you want to do it..do it..who cares what the results are.... Jim Morrison.. esk
Here, let me give you a tip.
No doubt porn is big business. I it interesting to see a reduction in video marketing, with a simultaneous increase in the internet porn market. It would appear that the net is the new method of accessing porn.
As to things unwinding morally, I'd say it is true if one is basing moral values on question teachings. As to the US, and the amount per capita spent on porn, we are pikers! One wonders what those crazy South Koreans are up to re. porn. Given they they far outspend everyone else in the world, it would appear that it is the national hobby.
As to STD’s, not much new there. Many diseases no longer have the big influence that they used to. Since gonorrhea and syphilis are generally controlled by antibiotics, others have come along to replace them. Being a child of the Sixties, an put myself through undergrad working in public health clinics, I wouldn't be surprised by much, unless you told me that STD’s no longer existed. Coming from a medical family, it was interesting to hear about the stuff that came back from WWI. Plenty of accounts of how grampa brought stuff from Europe and it went back and forth between the two of them for years and years. Very frustrating for physicians before effective antibioitics, cause folks could and did die commonly from syphilis (AIDS did the same thing, until they came up with some very effective treatments). Same for WWII, except then there was Penicillin. Much more effective at getting that “little” outbreak under control.
I'm tempted to say that there really nothing new here, but on reflection I'd have to say that there's been something of a sea change with regard to public acceptance of moral turpitude. It's nothing new, but it is a significant increase what Christians speak out against. Of course, depending upon the Christians, religious folk are saying a lot less about problems that have truly mushroomed.
Political correctness within the Church itself? Probably. IMHO, they've changed just like the general population, making the institution much less viable as an arbiter or public/private morality. Too bad. There’d be lots of job security if they really started hunkering down and trying to “judge”. Trouble is, not judging is just an excuse for not taking a stand. That needs to change if they are to be relevant in our society.
I think with the increase of secularism in our society, sex becomes one of the last forms of escape, drugs being another, that lets us touch something outside the normal everyday experiences, that let us escape our bodies so that we become ecstatic. The ecstasy — the out of body experience — associated with sex can be similar to religious experiences and may satisfy our craving for religion, though the thorough going secularist/atheist can’t admit to a God. A best this experience can be called “spiritual” which doesn’t necessarily suggest God. Escape from our tawdry, calculating, self-interested self smacks of something noble and, therefore, takes on that spiritual role... unless in the end it just continues to ground us in the pleasures of the body and it becomes addictive.
I can think of a few guys off the top of head who make Tiger look like an amateur.
interesting articulation. sadly, the banality and triviality of modern existence has taken its toll on the church and on believers as well. when we train our souls and minds to comprise of shallow thoughts and small concepts, it makes it harder to contemplate and comprehend the things of God—eternal things,as described in the Bible.
Developing a passion, excitement, and sense of awe of GOD, of Christ can be quite tough.
Whittaker Chambers (an ex communist) sums up the danger of materialist existence really well:
“Thus, as children, you experienced two of the most important things men ever know-the wonder of life and the wonder of the universe, the wonder of life within the wonder of the universe. More important, you knew them not from books, not from lectures, but simply from living among them. Most important, you knew them with reverence and awe-that reverence and awe that has died out of the modern world and been replaced by man’s monkeylike amazement at the cleverness of his own inventive brain. I have watched greatness touch you in another way. I have seen you sit, uninvited and unforced, listening in complete silence to the third movement of the Ninth Symphony. I thought you understood, as much as children can, when I told you that that music was the moment at which Beethoven finally passed beyond the suffering of his life on earth and reached for the hand of God, as God reaches for the hand of Adam in Michelangelo’s vision of the Creation.”
Bring it...
That data is quite sobering indeed!Thanks for your feed back!
We have to be born again to be free from the things of the flesh. When God saves us we are able to contain and surpress the old sinful nature we posses. When we live after the passions of our fallen nature it will be come an addiction as you stated and rule over us. John 8:36!
Indeed he is just the tip of the iceberg. Check out the link on the post to the porno stats. It will blow you away!
A tip of the hat to you...hint... hint. You forgot to leave a tip... hint ...hint.
The issue is we don't buy products from lowlifes because no one likes them.
And now that Tiger has shown his true colors - and what he really is - no one is going to want to buy things with his picture or name on them... same with OJ. And yeah, OJ's not the only sociopath out there either...
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