Eve is in the Garden. Adam is beside her. The devil is telling her that freedom is doing whatever the hell she wants it to do. And instead of saying, “No, actually, that’s Hell,” Adam is ignoring the whole exchange.
The devil is telling Eve that making it illegal to kill babies after they’re 20-weeks old is “anti-woman.” He’s telling her that passing a law so that abortion clinics need to have the same health standards as surgical centers (because last time I checked, that’s what pro-abortion advocates say happen there — “safe surgical procedures”) is “bad healthcare.”
And all Adam does is tweet his support for Eve and then pats himself on the back for being pro-woman.
We’re in the garden with the serpent. He’s lying. We’re buying it.
And no one seems to care" -http://joaninordinarytime.wordpress.com/
The devil is telling Eve that making it illegal to kill babies after they’re 20-weeks old is “anti-woman.” He’s telling her that passing a law so that abortion clinics need to have the same health standards as surgical centers (because last time I checked, that’s what pro-abortion advocates say happen there — “safe surgical procedures”) is “bad healthcare.”
And all Adam does is tweet his support for Eve and then pats himself on the back for being pro-woman.
We’re in the garden with the serpent. He’s lying. We’re buying it.
And no one seems to care" -http://joaninordinarytime.wordpress.com/
It's true, our nation has become spoiled when it comes to sexual licensing. We have fooled ourselves into thinking we are entitled to have sex whenever, wherever, and with whomever we please, just because we are physically able to. It doesn't make sense. We have an intellect and a will, we make choices, we have a conscience. Sexual licensing is borderline rape. Rape of ourselves, of that precious intellect and will we were given freely and rape of the other person to see them as an object of sexual pleasure.
Christopher West has the perfect analogy here. When you buy a car for the first time, the sticker on the gas tank says "diesel only". Why? Because the person who built the car knows the vehicle inside and out, he knows what makes it run best. You wouldn't look at that and say "hogwash, I'm putting unleaded in here". That would cause car troubles. The sticker isn't meant to limit your freedom, it's there to help your car run the way it's meant to. Same with God's plan, He sets up the moral life not to limit your freedom, but to bring you happiness.
If you're a parent, what do you do to protect your child who is play in the yard? You put a fence around the yard to keep the child safe. The fence is there for their protect not to limit them. True freedom isn't doing whatever you want. True freedom is to do whatever's good, whatever's keeping with the truth of humanity.
Man only finds Himself when he makes a sincere gift of himself (Matt 22:37-40). Adam could not make a sincere gift of himself to a raccoon or a pigeon. Lets go back to the garden, Adam is the first man ever created...there he is and he's alone. God has created all these beautiful things, the birds of the air, the animals on the ground....yet he is lonely. Why? Why is Adam different from the animals on the ground or the birds of the air? He is different from them, they weren't free to determine their own actions like Adam was.
Then God puts Adam to sleep and takes a rib from him. Well it's been explained to me that translation wise things have gotten kind of lost. "Deep sleep" would have been better translated into ecstasy. And for Jews bones signified the whole human being. So out of Adam's ecstasy God created a whole human being that Adam looked upon and knew...at last..it was bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. Something he would give his life for.
This is why sexual licensing does not make sense. It is not ordered towards the good of the other, but rather a self desire that rises out of lust. It is not self-giving but taking and exploitation. It is the part of the garden when Eve eats the apple because selfishness arises out of her. The serpent promises that she will be like God if she eats of the tree. Little does Eve know she already was in the image of God, and loving like God, Satan was selling her something she already had. The lies that get told to us are exactly that...LIES. They are not there to bring us to heaven.
And I am sick of people buying the lies and telling me to believe them. That if I somehow don't think the same as them, if I don't see this new step as "equality", that if I don't conform...that I am somehow less of a person. That my opinion doesn't matter, that I need to shut up and let things go. That's not the way I operate. Freedom is NOT doing whatever the HELL I want. Freedom consists in doing the good, doing the better for society.
Christopher West has the perfect analogy here. When you buy a car for the first time, the sticker on the gas tank says "diesel only". Why? Because the person who built the car knows the vehicle inside and out, he knows what makes it run best. You wouldn't look at that and say "hogwash, I'm putting unleaded in here". That would cause car troubles. The sticker isn't meant to limit your freedom, it's there to help your car run the way it's meant to. Same with God's plan, He sets up the moral life not to limit your freedom, but to bring you happiness.
If you're a parent, what do you do to protect your child who is play in the yard? You put a fence around the yard to keep the child safe. The fence is there for their protect not to limit them. True freedom isn't doing whatever you want. True freedom is to do whatever's good, whatever's keeping with the truth of humanity.
Man only finds Himself when he makes a sincere gift of himself (Matt 22:37-40). Adam could not make a sincere gift of himself to a raccoon or a pigeon. Lets go back to the garden, Adam is the first man ever created...there he is and he's alone. God has created all these beautiful things, the birds of the air, the animals on the ground....yet he is lonely. Why? Why is Adam different from the animals on the ground or the birds of the air? He is different from them, they weren't free to determine their own actions like Adam was.
Then God puts Adam to sleep and takes a rib from him. Well it's been explained to me that translation wise things have gotten kind of lost. "Deep sleep" would have been better translated into ecstasy. And for Jews bones signified the whole human being. So out of Adam's ecstasy God created a whole human being that Adam looked upon and knew...at last..it was bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. Something he would give his life for.
Adam looked at himself, and then looked at Eve. He realized his profound reality: "We go together, God made us for each other. I can give myself to you, and you can give yourself to me, and we can live in a life-giving communion of love"-the image of God's plan for marriage. This is why they were naked and felt no shame. There's no shame in loving as God loves, only the experience of joy, peace, and a deep knowledge of human goodness.
This is why sexual licensing does not make sense. It is not ordered towards the good of the other, but rather a self desire that rises out of lust. It is not self-giving but taking and exploitation. It is the part of the garden when Eve eats the apple because selfishness arises out of her. The serpent promises that she will be like God if she eats of the tree. Little does Eve know she already was in the image of God, and loving like God, Satan was selling her something she already had. The lies that get told to us are exactly that...LIES. They are not there to bring us to heaven.
And I am sick of people buying the lies and telling me to believe them. That if I somehow don't think the same as them, if I don't see this new step as "equality", that if I don't conform...that I am somehow less of a person. That my opinion doesn't matter, that I need to shut up and let things go. That's not the way I operate. Freedom is NOT doing whatever the HELL I want. Freedom consists in doing the good, doing the better for society.
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