More and more often, I’ve seen self-professed Christians embracing things that the Bible strictly calls out as sin. While I will not question their Christianity, I will suggest that they need to look closer at what it is that they are actually saying.
Our culture has accepted sin as good and wholesome. Each year that goes by, something more egregious becomes the “new” thing to be. We’ve accepted sexual immorality in many forms, we’ve accepted violence against one another, we’ve accepted the rejection of Jesus Christ. Not only that, for many, these sins, and more, are actually considered normal and the absence of these sins is unacceptable.
How upside down can we, as a people, become?
It is one thing to live in a society where sin is legalized and accepted and it is a completely different thing for Christians to actually embrace sin.
We are all sinners and we all sin, in one way or another, every single day. Yes, Christians, you sin too. You also know that we are both forgiven and called to walk away from sinful lives.
To turn around and say sin is good is sinful, in and of itself. When you embrace sin, you are holding God at arm’s length. You are separating yourself for the one who died to save you. You are, more and more, turning your back on Jesus. At some point, you will certainly choose to walk away from Christianity.
Does that mean you are no longer a Christian? That you are no longer saved? I can’t answer those questions. It is not for me to do so. I can, however guarantee, that any protection God may have afforded you will be removed. You will no longer have an anchor in the storm of life.
If this is what you want to do, go right ahead. God gave you free will and you can exercise it.
What you cannot do, is warp the Bible to fit your false theology. You cannot say that Christianity is something that it is not. You cannot lead others along the same false path you are heading down.
To do so is strictly forbidden and God has promised his wrath for those who lead Christians into sinful behavior. Christianity is not a get out of jail free card. There are responsibilities and there are punishments.
I would not want to be in line for God’s retribution for this reason. If you choose to do so, then it is fitting and just that God would do exactly as he promised.
I will pray for those who preach apostasy under the guise of true Christianity. I won’t follow them but I also won’t consider their punishment, one day, as anything other than good and true.
Matthew 16:25-27
For whoever wishes to save his life [in this world] will [eventually] lose it [through death], but whoever loses his life [in this world] for My sake will find it [that is, life with Me for all eternity].
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world [wealth, fame, success], but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory and majesty of His Father with His angels, and THEN HE WILL REPAY EACH ONE IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHAT HE HAS DONE.