How The Lie of Evolution Has Affected Sexual Morality

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/8/2014 10:59 PM

My Worship Time                  Focus:  How The Lie of Evolution has affected Sexual Morality

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  1 Thessalonians 4:3-8

            Message of the verses:  “3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you. 7 For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. 8 So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.”

            I think that it was in 2011 when I first became serious in studying about creation, creation that the Bible talks about.  I read and then lead a Bible Study on a book that John MacArthur wrote entitled “The Battle for the Beginning.”  One of the statements from that book that I hope that I never forget is that evolution is impossible, it cannot happen.  MacArthur even said that God could not make evolution work, and I believe this statement.

            I have to say that this SD will be a bit different than most of the ones that I write because I am not really following a set amount of verses from the Bible even though this subject fits in well with our study of 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8, which is why I quoted them at the beginning of this SD.

            One may wonder why I would say that evolution effects sexual morality when evolution is a theory about the origins of the earth.  I believe that this “theory of evolution” came straight from Satan, and Satan has a lot of time to develop the things he wants to develop many years before they actually become a problem, and in this case they are a great problem.  I am not too familiar with a trial that took place many years ago that had to do with the teaching of evolution, but I am sure that there is plenty to say about that trial on the internet. This was the beginning of the downfall of teaching in schools in our country.  When I was in the eighth grade I was first introduced to evolution and it was at that time that I told my parents that did not want to attend church anymore because I believed in evolution, and this is one of the purposes of this lie, to make people think that there is no God, and God did not create the world’s as Genesis describes it.  If there is no God and if things just happened by some kind of accident then we are not accountable to God.  While attending our Church service this evening I listened to a missionary who ministers in downtown Chicago.  He stated that he was told that by someone who did not want to hear the teachings of the Scriptures that “we are past that kind of thing because we know that there is no God who created us.”  This is a very dangerous teaching that will cause people not to believe in God and then because of their unbelief they will spend eternity in hell.

            Perhaps you can begin to see why it is not hard to understand why evolution can produce sexual immorality for if man is now the highest chain on the evolution rung then all sex is, is something only for pleasure with whom every you desire to have it with.  This too will get a person into trouble.  Now I want to quote from John MacArthur’s sermon on this subject in conclusion to this SD.  I will have to break into the middle of his sermon but once we see the whole quote it will be understood.

            “The church has literally imbibed this. And when you go back and look at the roots of it all, you really could start with Charles Darwin. Once the thinking of Charles Darwin, which I believe was certainly spawned by Satan, invaded the world and said, "We are not the creatures of God, we are simply the products of chance," then all morality was questionable. If we are nothing but the result of a collection of atoms that occurred sometime in the past or something that crawled out of some primeval ooze somewhere, then there is no real morality. Charles Darwin influenced people like Karl Marx who took  Darwinian evolution to its logical extreme politically and he influenced people like Sigmund Freud who took Darwinian evolution to its extreme in terms of psychology and personal behavior. They influenced people like Friedrich Nietzsche who decided that really there was no God, God was dead, family life was unimportant. All that was important was pleasure and fulfillment.

           

“The influence philosophers like Bertrand Russell who mocked all Christian values and along came people influenced by them. Margaret Sanger who founded Planned Parenthood, Ernest Hemingway, probably the most classically famous Hedonist in western culture. Havlok(?) Ellis(?), Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, Hugh Hefner, and they all flow out of that same basic line of philosophical thinking. What you have is a sexual revolution produced by atheistic, hedonistic, pleasure mad, anti family, homosexual, pornographic, perverted people. It starts, as it were, supposedly in the environs of science and philosophy, it ends up in behavior. And mix that kind of behavior with alcohol and drugs and you have the American culture. And what is so frightening about it is that the church doesn't seem to be aware of what's happening and it jumps on the self-fulfilling, feeling good bandwagon, unwittingly capitulating to the philosophy of atheists and evolutionists.

           

“And I guess we would have to say that in Paul's time the kind of behavior that existed there would have been as bad, and as I said earlier maybe worse, there was no shame attached to immoral behavior at all in Paul's time. No shame attached to any sexual conduct at all. There was in that society a plethora of prostitutes, concubines, mistresses, homosexuals, pedophiles, transvestites, temple harlots, adulterers and adulteresses and they abounded in that culture. In fact, it was from that very mass of people that the churches were plucked. Paul says to the Corinthians, "And such were some of you." What? "Fornicators, adulterers, homosexuals, effeminates."”

 

There are a couple of things that upset me when I think about evolution.  First of all it is a lie, second this is partially the reason that our country is in the trouble that it is in.  Thirdly it is believed by many born-again believers because they are too lazy to dig into the truth of Scripture to find out it is a lie.  Lastly it can undermine other doctrines found in the Bible, for if they tear this one apart, then what will stop them from tearing others apart.

 

Answer to our last Bible question:  “To Egypt” (Genesis 12:10).

 

Today’s Bible question:  “Who were the first persons, other than Joseph and Mary, to hear that Jesus had been born?”

 

Answer in our next SD.

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