Comments from a reader on chapters of the “24 Hot Potatoes in the Church Today” and my reply below each item:
“I can’ t argue much with what is said ...I mostly agree, except for women
enjoying less the sex. I think that they
enjoy it just as much as men but have been brought up not to enjoy it.”
I could not remember saying that women enjoyed sex less then men, and it took me a while to search the book as to where this came from. I found it in chapter 9 where it says in context:
“God, the Creator made sex pleasurable to attract the husband and wife to reproduce. God is not unwise, if it wasn’t a pleasant experience, He could say good-bye to procreation. By the way, sex is more principally pleasurable for men than for women and don’t let Hollywood make you believe otherwise; that’s also built-in by God for a good reason. We saw that in the chapter “Male/Female Brain and the Gender Gap. My heart aches when I see young people today being “educated” by movies and videos that are all lies and perversions, distorted demonstrations of what a woman is and should be—and a man, as well.”
“I also do not believe that pornography is responsible for all the rapes
and lunatics walking around. Countries where prostitution is legal do not have
any more problems than the countries that outlaw it. In fact I think it should
be legalised and controlled by the government. Like any other job it’s not everybody that
can handle a job like that -- just like
it’s not everybody that would be a good candidate to go to the moon.”
My reply:
Again, I did not say ‘responsible
for all the rapes’, what I said in chapter 9 is that “… collective pornography in any of its many forms is the intrinsic cause of most of the
rapes, sexual abuse, and crimes.”
A good reminder to always read
within context. Countries that have legalised prostitution have a whole lot of problems with their societies. Sex outside of marriage is wrong either way according to the Word of God -- and common sense.
“The ‘judging’ chapter is extremely confusing.....too many authors with
too many different ideas. All texts come
from the Greek, how do we know that they were translated correctly to begin
with? They are 2000 year-old texts that
you try to apply in 2016, and those translated texts belonged to another
civilisation completely different than ours.
Somehow I think that it will never catch; all controlling cults are
slowly dying and for good reasons -- even ISIS can’t maintain it.”
My reply:
Firstly, let us not forget that my
audience is primarily “Church and Christian”.
The scriptures are an intricate part of the argument
that strongly exist in the church today.
The problem is that Christians
say “do not judge” to everything that goes on in the church, without
consequences. This is one of the
problems for the lack of teaching about certain responsibilities that Christians
have in living their lives as Christians (born-again Christians that is).
Just this morning I was reading
in the book of 1 Corinthians. Verses 14
and 15 say:
“But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all
things, yet he himself is judged of no
man.”
People have a responsibility to
judge between what is right and what is wrong – even the non born-again have a
responsibility to know the things that are wrong. However the ‘natural man’ –
that is the non born-again or the non-spiritual -- who lives without God in
his/her life cannot or does not receive nor discern the things of the Spirit of
God.
That's a whole Bible study in
itself./dmh
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