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PERSONAL PROM
Giving Sin Public
Acceptance
V,
early in 1927, when I was
in
my
first bibl ica l studies, leading to
my
conversion,
my
wife and I often visited
various churches. 1 was searching for the
truth.
One Sunday morning we attended a church
service at a leading downtown Baptist church
in Portland , Oregon. They were announcing
the conclusion of a contest at which a very
handsome new Bible was awarded to the
winner. The contest question had been , "What
is the most universal s in? "
The winning answer was " lngratitude. "
Assuredly that is a very prevalent sin. Another
very prevalent sin, and one of the oldest, is the
misuse of sexuality. lndeed, prostitution is often
spoken of as "the world's oldest profession."
Satan has seized on this si n to make it far more
universal than is generally realized. Satan sways
humanity into making sexual sins one of the most
universal and destructive.
During most of the so-called "church age" in
Roman Catholic teaching, and in England and the
United States si nce the Victorian age, sex was a
virtually forbidden topic of conversation, seldom
mentioned. Satan made sure sex was considered as
"shameful" and so evil it was not talked about.
About the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud,
founder of psychoanalysis, changed all of tbat. Up
until World War 1 it was illegal in the U.S. to
publish, sell, or even loan a book containing sex
knowledge. After World War I the legal barriers
March 1986
on the imparting of sex information toppled. An
avalanche of books, pamphlets, and newspaper
articles descended on the public. Yet in all this the
most vitally needed dimension of knowledge was
missing.
My book
The Missing DimensÃon in Sex
provides this missing dimension of knowledge.
It
is
offered, gratis, upon request.
Beginning the middle of the twentieth century,
the catch phrase "the new morality" was
completely changing public attitudes. Today
sexuality is openly discussed in the public media,
especially in television, turning promiscuous sex
into public acceptance. Today it may be questioned
whether as many as 2 percent of young brides go
to the altar as virgins. Marriage for much of
society is on the way out. In sorne areas divorces
virtually equal marriages. Family life is being
broken down though the family is a basic building
block of any stable civilization.
More and more, children are not wanted.
Abortion is fast gaining public acceptance.
God created sex, not only to keep humanity
alive, but to bring delectable, joyfully pleasurable
happiness in pure and wholesome !ove between
husband and wife, and as a means of binding
tightly together a happily married couple. But
under modero attitudes, the cord supposedly tying
a husband and wife tightly together is proving to
be the cord that cuts the marriage in two.
It 's time you knew the truth about the missing
dimension in sex.
It
is set forth frankly, fearlessly,
rationally and spiritually, as well as physically, in
my book mentioned above.
We commit individual and national sins and give
such sinning wide public acceptance.
God condemns homosexuality. He destroyed the
whole populations of Sodom and Gomorrah for this
sin. l t is condemned in the first chapter of
Romans, saying no such person can enter the
kingdom of God. Then we try to change the ugly,
reproachful name
homosexual,
and call those wbo
practice it "gays." The public media and the public
in general are coming to make this perversion
acceptable by calling it "sexual preference." We
are becoming nations of drunkards, and thousands
are being killed on our
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