The New Morality
"So what's wrong with it? It's alright, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else."
This is the theme of the New Morality generation. It is the idea of "doing your own thing — living as you wish, and with whom you wish."
There is certainly nothing further from righteousness and Christianity then this! It may sound good to "do your own thing" and do it, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, but living as you wish, will hurt you, even if it doesn't hurt anyone else.
But it is quite unlikely that "living as you wish" will not hurt anyone else. NONE of us live unto ourselves, and our influence plays an important role each day of our lives.
The New Morality laughs at Biblical marriage and the old moral concept that allows one woman to one man. It decrees that love should be universal in scope and enjoyed by all. Adultery is never considered nor fornication given a second thought. The New Morality has been said to be the item which shall allow many of the world's problems concerning "communication" and "understanding" to be solved.
What all this boils down to however, is the fact that this New Morality concept is against the Bible's standard of morality! There has never been a more favorable concept of morality than the one the Bible speaks of. But more important is the fact that this sort of morality originated with someone greater than man, and for that reason alone it has to be better than anything man could dream up.
The New Morality is a front!! I know! I have seen it in the educational institutions of the day, and I have seen it devouring the souls of young men and women everywhere. It (en)slaves people's conscience and they think it gives them a license to sin. It is corrupting those who partake in it and those children born under it will be ashamed that they were not conceived under a marital situation.
Marriage originated with God! And as the Savior so aptly put it: "Have Ye not read, that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female?" Jesus was teaching here (Matt. 19:4-9) that it has always been inclusive under God's plan for men, that each have his own help mate, as Adam had Eve. Jesus went on to say that those which did otherwise sinned, or that is THOSE which made light of the sexual relationship God had planned for man and woman erred! There certainly is not any room in heaven for such people.
It naturally is questionable, whether these New Morality people believe in the Bible at all! I think and say they do not! What they practice and teach can no where be found in the Bible. The fact of the matter is, is that this New Morality speaks to the opposite. It is ANTI BIBLE MORALITY!!
Actually this New Morality is nothing new at all — as some might like to think. These people have not dreamed up anything different than the Apostle Paul was condemning as he wrote to Corinth "Flee Fornication!" Every Sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body!! (I Cor. 6:18-20)
In the next chapter Paul has written concerning this New Morality which calls for free love and expression. He condemns it strongly and mentions that if love in this respect is going to be exchanged between a man and a woman it must be done in marriage! "If they cannot contain, let them many: for it is better to marry than to burn!"
This article is not written for those who condone the New Morality generation or are in it. It is written with the hope and prayer to curve the growing number who join its corrupt party yearly.
There are no advantages to the New Morality. All it can produce is shame reproach and illegitimacy! It will condemn all who share in it, in God's sight. It is of the world, and not of God. It is a moral code which is trying to replace a code as old as man himself. God will not tolerate such foolishness!
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