mcgyver
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Hey there!
You asked me a question in another thread, and I wasn't able to get back to it, so rather than derailing the other thread (which has pretty much run its course), though that I'd bring it here.
Interestingly, for the first 500 years of the Roman Republic, there was not a single recorded divorce (at least from what I've seen), but by the time that Paul and Peter wrote their epistles there were high-born Roman women who counted years not by the Olympiad; but by the number of husbands they had gone through. Homosexuality among certain Caesars was rampant, and morality was crumbling. Rome first fell from corruption within...allowing the Visigoths to conquer from without in the 5th century.
I guess that it boils down to the old saying that: "Changing the rules has never changed the truth". Fortunately we know the truth: John 14:6
Full circle: As long as the law of the land does not cause us to blaspheme our Lord, or demand that we as individuals break God's "higher moral law", then IMO we are bound to obey the laws of the land.
You asked me a question in another thread, and I wasn't able to get back to it, so rather than derailing the other thread (which has pretty much run its course), though that I'd bring it here.
I don't think that it will affect our duties as Christians at all. Might make it harder to stand up for the truth...but then again standing for the truth has never been easy.I have a question for you, (I don't want to debate, I just want your opinion) pretty soon the law of the land in America will allow for the marriage of homosexuals. This is going to degrade the definition of holy marriage between man and wife. Do you think following the law of the land will matter as much then. Will we as Christians still be required to follow the law of a corrupt land that is trying to define marriage?
Interestingly, for the first 500 years of the Roman Republic, there was not a single recorded divorce (at least from what I've seen), but by the time that Paul and Peter wrote their epistles there were high-born Roman women who counted years not by the Olympiad; but by the number of husbands they had gone through. Homosexuality among certain Caesars was rampant, and morality was crumbling. Rome first fell from corruption within...allowing the Visigoths to conquer from without in the 5th century.
I guess that it boils down to the old saying that: "Changing the rules has never changed the truth". Fortunately we know the truth: John 14:6
Full circle: As long as the law of the land does not cause us to blaspheme our Lord, or demand that we as individuals break God's "higher moral law", then IMO we are bound to obey the laws of the land.