Nazi Germany was full of good people who kept quiet and when it was too late to speak up, they were enslaved to an evil tyrannical government take over and became partners to genocidal killing estimated at over 20+ million people who did not conform to the government's idea of people who should be allowed to live.
I am a follower of Jesus Christ. As His follower I must align with His heart and mind in all things. His word is clear about what He designed and authorized and what He did not. I and all true followers of Jesus must die to our own preferences or feelings every day and bow to His will and ways, not the other way round.
In our culture - even those who call themselves Christian, many in the name of love, have avoided talking about God's truth and values in order to soften any harsh reality from those engaging in things He does not author or approve of. But, I will ask - is that really loving? If you know that sin un-repented of and brought to Jesus for trust and acceptance of His salvation will result in eternal separation from God, how can you fail to grieve, mourn, cry out for and try to reach out to those caught in sin's deadly grip? How can you smile, comfort and wave them off on their freight train to hell? If you really care, wouldn't you risk offending them to save their soul? I don't mean being hateful to them, but truly caring about their wellbeing!
God put principles, values and the construct of all things into place for good - and He called it good. Man, in his sinful state, will always be at odds with those values and try to de-construct what God has laid down. He wants his own way - He wants to be God, deciding what really is good. Silly thing that - there is no good outside of God and His ways. It is what we see now in culture. The proliferation of evil to the point that anything good is now called evil. As people have moved away from God and His values the void has been filled with un-godly ways and values (the bible calls it Anti-Christ, for so it is) - it's exploding to such a degree that all of humanity is threatened with slavery to it. These ungodly values have proponents who years ago eased into the conversation just asking for tolerance. But that became a wedge and slippery slope to go further. They now demand not tolerance but embracing and endorsement of their values. Anything at odds with those values is now condemned as hateful and unacceptable. Who pleads tolerance, but, has none for those holding other values?
Ultimately, this has always been a spiritual battle. Will men submit themselves to God, accept His gift of goodness and life in Christ Jesus and spread light? Or, will they be their own god, proliferating evil, death and spreading darkness? We are in that battle - where do you stand? The good news is that Jesus won this battle long ago on the cross, raising from death to life and if we accept His gift, we too raise from death to life! We are either establishing His Kingdom victory in our own lives, families, neighborhoods, regions, country, world or we are allowing defeated foes to remain in authority and cause chaos, death and destruction.
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