What's Love Got to do with it?
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COLUMN: Understanding the Times
What's Love Got to do with it?
By Emmett Smith
The lyrics to the 1994 song of that title seem to
have really resonated with a lot of people. It got
a lot of airplay, so most of us were probably
exposed to it in some venue or other. The notion
that sex is simply to be enjoyed indiscriminately
with no emotional complications is not new. But
the widespread acceptance of this philosophy is
relatively new here in the U.S (as I've said
before, we're a generation or so behind the
Europeans).
Just this past Friday, an article in Worldnet
Daily discussed upcoming officially sanctioned
events at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
According to the article, these events were mind-
boggling in their explicitness and depravity. It's
hard to believe this is sanctioned on any college
campus. The unfortunate fact, however, is that
such things are also encouraged in many, if not
most, publicly funded secondary schools. Tolerance
is highly esteemed as a virtue these days and is
preached energetically in these forums as well.
But what can I, as a Christian, tolerate? What do
these folks mean when they preach their doctrine
of tolerance? Well, as anyone with one eye and
half sense can deduce, they're not preaching
tolerance of the Christian worldview. No, the
message is that we must be "tolerant" of:
Homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle
(Massachusetts and San Francisco are making big
waves at present)
The inviolable "right" of any woman to "choose" to
abort her unborn baby at any time she wishes
The acceptance of paganism and Wicca into the
mainstream
The idea that personal character isn't important
in choosing a political leader
Of course I could continue the above list ad
infinitum. But surely you get the picture. As a
Christian, I must not lend my support to such vile
false doctrines. As Paul ended his discussion of
activities for which, "God gave them up", he said,
"Though they know God's decree that those who
practice such things deserve to die, they not only
do them but give approval to those who practice
them" (Rom. 1:32).
That's not a very tolerant position is it? Paul
made it clear that as Christians we may not give
approval to those who practice such abominations.
What's love got to do with it? Here's what!
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
Son, that whoever believes in him should not
perish but have eternal life. For God did not send
his Son into the world to condemn the world, but
in order that the world might be saved through
him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but
whoever does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the
only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the
light has come into the world, and people loved
the darkness rather than the light because their
deeds were evil" (John 3:16-19).
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