Are people living in sin if they are not imitating the Pilgrim fathers, their lifestyle and their codes? Were all marriages perfect and loving when divorce was not allowed? Was homosexuality non-existent because it was not allowed? Do you think people were somehow more virtuous because of how they were made to behave under the watchful gaze of others?
Yes, people are living in sin if they are disobeying the moral laws that were set out for us in the bible. Whether you believe that or not won't change it.
Were all marriages perfect because divorce was not allowed? How can that be so? If things were perfect, God would not have required His only begotten son as a sacrifice. Nothing has been perfect since the fall.
Has divorced made things better Linda? consider how it is today and how many marriage break ups there are. It's just too easy now to walk away. Adultery is promoted on TV constantly, as is fornication. It's exciting, it's "cool". Once upon a time, those things were not so ripe as they are now. Marriage was once respected as a sacred union between a man and a woman under God. Now it's "do what you want and if you don't like it, walk away". Nobody really wants to commit, they like to leave the door open for other "opportunities" and often leaving devastated children, and on it goes. Marriage has become a game for some people. In fact, sex comes before marriage. Try before you buy. People treat eachother like objects rather than human beings worthy of respect. Just goes to show fornication has not improved the state of marriages. If anything, divorce is ripe.
I don't believe that saying well it's going to happen anyway, is an excuse to say "it's right". It just opens the door wide open. It's a cop out. Like here, they decided to lower the drinking age because "They're going to do it anyway". Well did this solve anything? No, they now have a far bigger problem on their hands than they had before.
Oh come on Linda, was homo-sexuality non existant because it "wasn't allowed"? Of course not, but giving people a moral code to live by is the entire point. They can choose to ignore this, or obey. We're given that choice. But to stand idly by and ok everything because you're afraid to rock the boat is condoning these behaviours.
Does making child abuse illegal mean that nobody will abuse kids? Obviously not. Do you feel by legalising it, that it'll make it any better Linda? That because it's happening anyway, we should just stop putting laws or restrictions on these things right?
For starters, this does not improve matters, they have been shown to worsen them. If people do not continue to stand up for basic morality, what you see now will be nothing compared to what will come in the future. We're already seeing more than enough now.
