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To those who believe that God compromises with sin, you should really read through the Old Testament. The Old Testament, particularly the books written by the prophets, is filled with examples of human beings deciding God’s standards are too high. He then gives them the opportunity to repent and be saved from all kinds of misfortune. And though He is God and they are not, they refuse. They then end up being destroyed over and over again “by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.” (Jeremiah 14: 12)

The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear My words.”

Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?” saith the LORD. “Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in Mine hand, O house of Israel.

“At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

“If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

“And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

“If it do evil in My sight, that it obey not My voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

“Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus saith the LORD; “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.” ’

“And they said, ‘There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.’ ” (Jeremiah 18: 1-12)

Many times the wicked, unrepentant leaders are removed from power as in the Babylonian captivity written about in Jeremiah. In Numbers 14, most of the people in a rebellious generation are not permitted to enter the Promised Land, but instead end up dying in the wilderness after forty years of wandering.

It becomes pretty obvious after a while that God is not a God of moral compromise. And yet, people continue to act as though He is. They continue to play the lesser of two evils game. As though someone else behaving worse than you do makes your behavior acceptable to God.

Saving souls is of chief importance to God, and you don’t save souls by allowing people to slide down into hell by a progressive series of moral compromises. And the biggest problem a society faces is in the normalizing of sin. Sin is always with us unfortunately. It’s in our fallen nature and has to be constantly battled against. Jesus provided us with the means to fight it, but it remains a struggle. But when a society normalizes sin — denies it exists, tries to hide the consequences of it — then there is no room for the necessary repentance. In the Old Testament, corrupted generations were replaced by ones who would listen to God. Now, in a society which normalizes sin, children are being taught there is no sin to repent of. Sin is taught to be good — that it’s who you are. The message is that to love sin is to love people. Yet, the sin actually becomes more important than the individual. They are even implying, when they aren’t bashing God for being mean, that God loves sin, which is far from the truth. As Jesus says in Matthew 5, “Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
“For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled.
“Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
“For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5: 17-20)

At the end of the day, if you have a problem with your sin and the consequences of it, repent and gain forgiveness from God through His Messiah Jesus Christ. Don’t try to turn everyone else into the proverbial drunk just so you can continue to drink and feel good about yourself while doing it.

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