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Last week we saw another school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas and another on the grounds of a school in Atlanta, Georgia.
Evil and chaos surrounds us, all you have to do is look at the news and you will get the idea.
The resounding idea of how to curb the violence is to ban certain guns.
Kelly Clarkston while MC’ing the Billboard Music Awards calls for a “moment of Action” instead of a “Moment of Silence”.
Representatives are making similar claims, the media says prayers are not working it is time for action.
So my questions is:
Is the Church responsible for the growth of Evil?
Does this violence prove that there is not God?
Does it show that God does not care about what we are going through?
Let’s take a look at these 2 particular incidents.
In Atlanta, two women were shoot after a graduation ceremony.
The shooting was a result of an argument that the police has not released the subject of.
In Santa Fe, a student walks into school and begins shooting “students he didn’t like” and passing other students the “he did like” (his words to police).
He killed 10 and wounded 13 more.
Now the blame brigade has come out and the reasons are numerous and many are predictable.
The gun is responsible, the availability of guns is the reason, not strict enough gun laws.
Drugs that are prescribed to curb a persons behavior issues.
Some blame the mental health of the shooters.
Now I don’t blame the gun, you never hear of a gun just going off without some type of cause, whether it is a person, object falling on it or in some cases fire causing the effect of the gun to fire.
Mental health, well that can be a debated cause for the actions that we see.
Who in their right mind (our what we would call a morally acceptable) would think it is ok to kill for the heck of it.
My thoughts go to how he was raised, what he was taught about handling disputes.
Did his parents teach him or give him the tools to handle adversity.
How was he treated at school, did the school openly fertilize a ground of discord?
Bullies are rampant in school, but they always have been to some degree.
But now we see the school teachers and administrators joining in on the bullying tactics.
Parents have increasingly became their kids best friend or ignore what is going on.
But since the bullies have been there what has changed?
Look to the protest mentality that has grown from year to year.
You have kids that have grown up being taught by the teachers and participants of protest.
Then some of them become teachers and the cycle continues and grows more bold.
Each generation gets more and more violent.
Look at the college campuses and how they react to a conservative speaker, or anyone who does not agree with them.
Schools bully students, parents and some teachers to fall in line or move on.
There is a school district that keeps suing a school and cheerleaders for using a Bible verse on a banner that the kids pay for all the material.
The State supreme court has already ruled in the favor of the cheerleaders.
Not to mention every court below it has ruled in favor of free speech.
It is nothing but a bullying tactic to get the kids to submit to their way of thinking.
We have violent video games and movies that desensitized viewers to violence or glorifies the violent act.
But some themes are hidden and very obscure when you are not looking for it.
Case in point is a kids movie called “Show Dogs”.
This movie is marketed towards kids specifically.
It is about a canine officer and his human partner who are investigating the thief of a panda.
Which leads them to the show circuit of animals.
Now it sounds like a good show, except the canine officer has to allow the officials of the dog show to groped (have his privates inspected) other words he will be disqualified and will not find the kidnappers.
So the dog goes through training on how to find a special place while the “inspection” is going on.
Other words find a good place in your mind to allow this behavior.
It is teaching kids grooming for sex is ok.
The scene that most of the kids select as their favorite is this particular scene because of all the funny images and music.
The culture, media and society are teaching that certain behavior is ok, as long as it gets you what you want.
But does the church hold any responsibility for the growth of evil?
YES!!!!!!
we see the increasing corruption on the earth.
Yes God wipes it out with the flood.
But man still exist, and with his flesh we see sin continue.
Galatians
we see the fall of man in the garden, which led us to the previous verse, but before we got there we saw Cain murder Abel.
And without restraint it will grow
Romans 1:29-
We have God’s own words and His warnings and yet, we don’t do what is necessary.
Play David McGee
That may be a joke but it really defines the issues.
People do not engage in conversations, they don’t study the Bible and many do not know scripture or how to look it up.
We are more interested in not offending someone, than introducing them to Jesus.
There is an inconstancy in teaching across the board.
Interpretations runs wildly different depending on what denomination you belong to, if you hear any scripture in a Sunday service.
The church service today or many of them is more about politics, how to feel good or topical messages instead of the word of God.
The church is not teaching and studying God’s word, nor are they sharing it.
I have had more visits from non-christian churches sharing what they believe than I have had of Christians brothers coming to my house.
Forget about having a discussion out in public.
Why is it so hard for us as Christian brothers and sisters to just go door to door and share what we believe and why?
We don’t have to get into debates about scripture but we can share the Hope and love that is in Christ with our neighbors.
Free Will - depending on the denomination, theology leaning (progressive or conservative), the idea of free will has tremendously different views.
From we have no free will, God is our puppet master; to God has no real power over us and we choose everything in our lives.
People on each side of the debate has scripture of reason that they use to prove their belief.
Free will is only one theology point that Christians differ on.
If people do not know scripture, how can they take a stance on any doctrinal point.
When the body of Christ argues and attack each other, the world seizes on this and greater divides are created.
So we have to come together as brothers and sisters to discuss our different beliefs.
So until we do this as the body of Christ, we will continue to see evil and violence increase.
What Do We need to understand about Evil
The world is under the power of Satan
He is prince of this world
ESVI will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming.
He has no claim on me,
Jesus was telling us that He would not be here much longer because Satan through the control over sinners, is coming for Him.
Jesus was telling us that He would not be here much longer because Satan through the control over sinners, is coming for Him.
we also see mentions in ; , and Paul even tells us that we do not fight against man, but the ruler of darkness.
Satan rules through his sinners through chaos, and not through peace.
What we are seeing in the world is playing out just as scripture says.
We are warned to be in the world, but not of the world.
Satan blinds people to the truth through lies upon lie.
Not giving the time for many to see the light of Christ.
Look at the groups today, they create chaos and build lie upon lie about Donald Trump.
They say he is a womanizer, a racist and anti-immigration.
But they can’t allow facts to enlighten them.
Donald has a woman that ran his campaign, He has a black woman that has ran one of his companies for years (if not decades), He is married to an immigrant.
Facts do not support the lies, but these people are blinded to the truth.
See also ; ;
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