Christians should be encouraging teens to get married, and helping to make young marriage possible for their kids.
Unfortunately it's much easier for a lot of Christian parents to just send their kids off to college at 18, and turn a blind eye as their sons and daughters spend a decade or more living in sexual sin.
We're all paying the price through low birth rates that will cause our extinction if we don't turn things around very soon.
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck Your family is dying because you are following the allowances made for mankind’s evil desires after the flood instead of the good law of the beginning.
If devotion to the Mother of God repulses you, don’t kid yourself about where you’d have stood at Calvary. Those who hated her presence then were the same ones who mocked the Cross.
The faithful did not recoil from her.
They stood with her.
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck He told you specifically that He gave the Israelites laws that were unjust by which they could not live because of their evil desires.
Nowhere is that more apparent than when, after saying their desires were evil, He allows them to slaughter the innocent.
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck Because their desires were evil and they were killing the blameless for pleasure.
They were siding with death, and the result was hard lives and deaths.
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck Yes. There are times when violence is necessary and good. But when God gave this laws and He repeated His blessing over mankind from the start of Genesis, He specifically left out the statement that the world was good, because it wasn’t. Because that violence was unnecessary.
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck Being peaceful in one way doesn’t mean being peaceful in every way, just as being violent in one way doesn’t mean being violent in every way. But being violent at all when you were designed to be peaceful and can do so so easily does mean opposing the life and peace of God.
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck God will not stop punishing your people until you stop murdering the innocent for pleasure. Stop murdering the blameless for pleasure.
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck What is the word you are using when you talk about God’s laws, when you say things like “I believe God would not give unjust laws”?
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck You should. They allowed mankind to be evil, and the first time this occurred was when He allowed you to slaughter the innocent for pleasure. You will not live by following that.
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck Your decision-making is entirely up to you. You can side with life or with death. That’s the beauty of this world, and the horror too.
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck Perhaps you will accept that God does not want you spreading suffering. But you probably don’t care about God or life or peace, and you will probably side with death and slaughter and suffering for eternity.
@JimJumJam611@spiderguymandud@sibaburck No I think I’ll take it up with you, who knows that God specifically gave mankind laws because of their evil desires by which they could not live.
Ezekiel 20:25
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live