I was revolted today. Someone sent me a piece from one of the moon worshipping realms claiming something about "good news!" when according to The Bible all there is are additional offences designed to challenge God's authority above and beyond the mere worshipping of idols. Now they want to force apostasy onto unborn children and abandon the mother to a life where she must fend for herself because no-one following God's standard would want to buy her.
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The Lebanese parliament passed a law to abolish a controversial article which granted rapists an ‘escape’ from prison if they married their victims.….Lebanese law stated that rapists are punishable by up to seven years in prison. If the rape victim is a person with a special need, physical or mental, the penalty was increased. Article 522 added that if the violator marries his victim, criminal prosecution is suspended.
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God has been very explicit in this matter. If you have some other opinion you are disagreeing with God and let's face it if He could be wrong on one point He could be wrong about Jesus, wrong about Heaven and Hell, wrong about resurrection of the dead in Christ and the innate vileness we all inherit from conception and wrong about every baby born deserving of unspeakable torture forever.
II CORINTHIANS . KJV . context .. WHOLE CHAPTER which I can recommend reading for anyone continuing to claim God got it wrong
5:15 [Jesus] died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The opportunity is there for reconciliation with God. Jesus will accept all who come to Him, subject to the foreknowledge of God the Father, but for that to happen the path to Jesus needs to be opened up. This is how the congregation of the L
ORD works. But illegitimate children are excluded.
DEUTERONOMY . KJV . look up
22:28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Even in Lebanon there'd be a chance to encounter a true Christian who could explain about Jesus or to visit a Church since I understand these have not yet all been blown up. But think of the children born to these women. The Church which admits them is not in accordance with The Word Of God but rather have made something up for themselves, something different from what God commanded, something more in line with "modern" values. In no such Church will Redemption be available. You might as well go down to the nearest dubstep orgy and look for Salvation there. But for the child of married parents, access is permitted.
What about those who don't become pregnant? What are they to do? God, who made everyone and knows how revolting we are, has explained about that in The Bible:
PROVERBS . KJV . look up
30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
15a The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.
15b-16b There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb;
16c-16d The earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
I have read the arguments trying to outdo God in their understanding of the world we live in, proposing different value systems having no basis in anything other than what everyone finds comfortable. Those are NOT standards described by God. His word is pure, reliable. Unchanging. Certain for Salvation. But God has foreknowledge and understands what will happen under various future scenarios. One thing He knows is that some people are excluded. Another thing He knows is who those people are. And He has told us. That is how I know too. I don't need to work anything out or invoke obscure theological interpretations. All I need to do is read The Bible. And that is why I was revolted.
Those poor creatures, being moved farther away from Salvation, farther even than they are now. Jesus is the answer. Turn to Him today.