Sentences with phrase «as immorality»

But the Mann Act, passed by Congress in 1910 to address prostitution, human trafficking and what was viewed at the time as immorality in general, makes it a crime to transport someone between states for the purpose of prostitution.

When immorality is publicly put before a Christian on a ballot, they will vote it down as the immorality it is.

The emphasis on the value of experiencing pleasure, love, and peak experiences, makes for a whole new and freer approach to sex on the part of many young people, an area which is particularly distressing to parents who view the new morality of youth as immorality.

Evil is not the same thing as immorality.

But I can believe there IS such a thing as immorality and it does have a concrete, immutable definition.

Not exact matches

(Not as tracts for atheism, immorality, and physicalism!)

It was the glaring immorality in the traditional church position concerning homosexuality that drove me to rethinking my views on that subject as well.

Did they kill the women and boys because of the known $ exual immorality and associated disease that riddled these tribes that offered their children as human sacrifice and $ ex toys?

Essentially, what you are trying to say is, «As a nation, we need to reject immorality.

On one end is the noncompromising «sin perspective» summarized in these words from an article in a conservative periodical: «The New Testament blasts homosexual activity as the lowest, most degraded kind of immorality» (Alliance Witness, July i6, 1975).

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

Yet, as Elliot Dorff points out, the apparent agreement on issues such as idolatry, killing innocent life, and sexual immorality belies deep interpretive differences, not only between but within religious traditions.

The married - sex - only agreement that Wheaton students and faculty sign is part of the college's Community Covenant, which says that students agree the Bible condemns «sexual immorality, such as the use of pornography, premarital sex, adultery, homosexual behavior and all other sexual relations outside the bounds of marriage between a man and woman.»

«All political choices of the time were interpreted as choices between morality and immorality, good and evil, virtue and vice,» writes Kekes.

The issue of Homosexuality and Fornication are for both testaments because as Paul said 1 Corinthians 6:8 - 9 Flee from sexual immorality.

As long as art is useful as a means of heightening religion and morality, it is permitted; but if it leads to immorality, it is forbiddeAs long as art is useful as a means of heightening religion and morality, it is permitted; but if it leads to immorality, it is forbiddeas art is useful as a means of heightening religion and morality, it is permitted; but if it leads to immorality, it is forbiddeas a means of heightening religion and morality, it is permitted; but if it leads to immorality, it is forbidden.

We will not... bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family.

Second, he suggests that Auschwitz and Kolyma are instances of religion as a «source of immorality.»

As a former Catholic and religious person, I do appreciate that church brings people together once a week to think about morality, even though there are some immoralities mixed in — religion is a work in progress.

I guess the confusion for me is that «sexual immorality,» as far as the NT audience was concerned, referred back to the sexual sins outlined in the OT law, and it seems like sleeping with one's father's wife would be on par with homosexuality, which is included in the same set of «sexually immoral» sins.

«I wish to express my church's sincere and joyous preparedness to cooperate as best they could with the government now ruling that had set itself that tasks of promoting the Christian education of the people, repelling ungodliness and immorality, developing readiness to make sacrifices for the common good and protecting the rights of the Church.»

Christianity is being sold as the only cure to immorality, and that everyone is terminally ill with it, but this is simply not the case.

«1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named [a] among the Gentiles — that a man has his father's wife!

Just as giving an extra hundred dollars to the collection plate is not as good as giving an extra thousand, still both are goods, and there is no immorality in opting out of the heroically generous higher option.

So he pointed to the well - known ruins of the earlier sanctuary of Shiloh as a sign that the Jerusalem temple too was destined for destruction, for the religious practices in it were leading Israel into a false faith, dishonesty and immorality.

Immorality is defined as stupidity in the Bible.

Of course there are immoral homosexuals, just as there are immoral heterosexuals, but simple orientation carries no implication of morality or immorality.

All they had to do was refrain from things that Jewish people found incredibly offensive, such as sexual immorality and from eating food sacrificed to idols.

I understand that you draw a diiferennt conclusion in terms of morality / immorality, but I'm not sure why comparitive examples would come as a surprise.

Your false religion is BASED on that immorality, so it is not surprising you think the rest of the garbage in the bible is moral as well.

Pagels points out how promiscuity and immorality in the late Roman Empire resulted in widespread infanticide and abortion, as well as a slave trade in child prostitutes who were treated, in Justin's phrase, «like herds of oxen, goats, or sheep.»

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.»

It's not just a relaxed attitude to adultery, divorce, and pornography; it's a swerve into political immorality as well.

Christianity is immoral from the outset... we do not allow someone who did not commit a crime to be punished as if they did it because they want to take that persons just punishment... but christianity is based on that very immorality.

Scott mentions some examples of grievous willful sins such as murder, rape, sexual immorality, etc. and wonder what they mean in light of the gift of salvation freely given by faith in Christ.

I say let them get married... Just don't make the church conduct it or recognize it... Let individuals still say it is right or wrong... Don't try to legislate what many to believe is immorality to be demanded as moral.

Family standards are continually subject to erosion from the inflow of debased materials from the mass media — as in the brutality and immorality of many of the so - called «comic» books, the triviality, sensationalism, and distortion of most journalism, and the preoccupation with crime and violence in many television programs.

We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press — in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past... (few) years.»

Sexual addictions are frequently touted as being the scourge of the modern church, and our answer to people struggling has too often been a simple, «flee from immorality!»

It was conceded that the application of so strict a rule as celibacy to those not called to a life of asceticism but ordained to the diaconate in preparation for ministry in the church had led to widespread abuse and immorality.

The left commends sexual liberation as the best avenue to achieve individual autonomy, while nonsensically condemning the immorality of a marketplace in which sex is the best sales pitch.

Again, it is recorded that on one occasion a group of lawyers brought before him a woman detected in adultery, with the hope that he would take the responsibility of pronouncing the ferocious sentence laid down in the Law of Moses (not enforced at that period), or alternatively, would by refusing to do so expose himself as one who condoned immorality.

When confronting the rampant sexual immorality that was present in the Corinthian church, Paul does not threaten them with hell and everlasting destruction, but with the theological truth that as believers in Christ who have been raised with Him, we should not behave in such a manner (1 Cor 6:12 - 20).

Here Dowsing pulls few punches, presenting well the «children as gift», not burden or right, argument and is very clear on the immorality of separating the unitive and the procreative.

As a natural kind the Gentiles were considered to be naturally prone to immorality and sexual deviance.

Admissions of sexual immorality by megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, following allegations by a male prostitute, rocked his 14,000 - member New Life Church, as well as the National Association of Evangelicals, which Haggard served as president.

«An African pope will bring about more unity on the continent and confidence in Africans,» said one woman from Zimbabwe, while a young Nigerian man polled said an African pope «will eradicate immoralities, such as same - sex marriage.»

As humans in a broken sinfilled world we often struggle with «The Desires of The Flesh» found in Galatians 5:16 - 26, which are: «Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,...» Because we are human, but we CAN CHANGE, because Christ forgave us at the cross of EVERY sins as Jeremy states over and over in his messagAs humans in a broken sinfilled world we often struggle with «The Desires of The Flesh» found in Galatians 5:16 - 26, which are: «Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,...» Because we are human, but we CAN CHANGE, because Christ forgave us at the cross of EVERY sins as Jeremy states over and over in his messagas Jeremy states over and over in his message.

(In a recent column, he labeled as «radical fiscal immorality» Bush's request for $ 87 billion for Iraq with no new taxes to pay the bill) But he does not despise Republicans, often agreeing that market approaches are dynamic ways of organizing production, even though they are inequitable ways of organizing distribution.

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.