Everyone loves to be righteousness

For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. (Romans 10:3 ESV)

Everyone loves to be righteousness. Even wicked men love to be righteousness. But all seek to define their own righteousness. They do not want to recognise God or acknowledge His standards. Because everyone loves to be righteousness, some people thought that men are born good.

Pet topics of human rights activist

The pet topics of human rights activist in Europe and America are these:

1. Gay rights
2. Euthanasia
3. Legalisation of abortion
4. Abolishment of capital punishment
5. Abolishment of corporal punishment for kids
6. Animals rights

Gay today, euthanasia tomorrow

Of all the Ten Commandments, six of them (the fifth to tenth) regulate human behaviour. The seventh commandment "Thou shalt not commit adultery (Exodus 20:14, Deuteronomy 5:18)." covers all sexual sin (Matthew 5:27-28). It is also the only sin that can be victimless, unlike murder or theft. Plain adultery has a victim, the spouse of the adulterer. But fornication between consensual adults has no victim. It is just pleasure for two persons. Likewise for other consensual sexual activities, gay or straight. This is the reason why people who do not consider the Ten Commandments may support these activities; after all, it harms nobody. It is only sin in God's eyes, and they do not bother about Him anyway. They are talking about freedom, inclusiveness and tolerance, not holy living. Of course they support holy living (being inclusive), as long as you do not impose it on them.

What is the next item on their agenda? The sixth commandment, "Thou shalt not kill (Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17)." There is a campaign to get euthanasia legalised. After all, if there is someone who wants to die, and another wants to provide a painless death service, there is no victim, it is just a business transaction.

Gays, Paedophiles and others

Do you consider gays as:

1. People who engaged in sinful practices and perversions and they must repent of their sin;
2. People who are sick, like AIDS or leprosy, who needs treatment, but we should not discriminate against them;
3. Normal people, but are discriminated against because of some differences, much like the Rohingyas or Dalits (or even left-handed).

Then what do you think of the paedophiles. Are they 1, 2 or 3?
What about adulterers and fornicators?
What about those who engaged in other sexual perversions, such as fetish sadism and masochism?
What about beasitility?

I consider those who opt for option 3 as pro-gays. A pro-gay person need not be a homosexual. He or she just have to consider homosexual acts as a normal activity.

So for those who think that gay is option 3, do you think that paedophiles is also option 3? Paedophiles are the bad guys in the world of sexual perversion. Those who engaged in it are named and shamed. Even sinners and perverts want to feel righteous. They must have a bad guy to reflect their righteousness. And paedophiles have victims. These victims are usually young children. But what if it is consensual? Would you think that consensual paedophiles are also normal (option 3), just like the gays? Or is your inclusion not inclusive enough to accept those who prefer sex partners of certain age, but can accept sex partner that prefer the same sex? Can you accept people who prefer non-human sex partners? Are they also normal, if the animal is a mammal?

Cain and Abel - 1

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. (Hebrews 11:4 KJV)

Abel had offered a blood sacrifice and gave of his best (Genesis 4:4). But many have offered blood sacrifice, but are not accepted. Many have offered their best, but for the wrong causes.

Abel was accepted, not because he offered a blood sacrifice, nor because he offered his best, but because it was offered by faith to God, for without faith no one can please God, for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and He rewards those who seek Him diligently (Hebrews 11:6).

Inclusion and separation

My church is a fundamentalist church, and emphasize on Biblical Separation based on 2 Corinthians 6:17. But there is also Biblical Inclusion (Acts 10) where we should bring the Gospel to all. However, we have to obey God's timing and direction. The Holy Spirit directed Paul to turn from Asia to Macedonia (Acts 16:6-9). Thus the Gospel went to the Roman Empire and later to Europe.

Values, Sex and Death

Chua Mui Hoong, senior writer of Straits Times wrote in today's (1st May 2009) edition of the paper that "There is no such thing as a value-free sex education." The same Straits Times also reports that the Singapore Police ban talks by Dr Philip Nitschke of Exit International, an Australian-based pro-euthanasia group.
Indeed everything has value. When I decide the colour of my shirt, I have personal values. When an architect designs a building, he may have cultural values, ecological values and engineering values.
Sex and death definitely have moral values. It is not possible to have sex education and not talk of morality. It is not possible to teach children the technical details on sex, without touching on the morality of sex. Apparently, inclusive groups like AWARE Singapore thinks that sex can be educated technically so that morality needs not to be pushed down the throat of people.
Death also have moral values, which is why the police banned Exit International from speaking. What Exit International wanted to do is to give you some technical tips on how to die. On learning that suicide is illegal in Singapore, Dr Nitschke decide to change his talk to discuss about changing euthanasia laws world-wide.
Singapore has come to cross roads for sex and death. Our decoupling of sex from moral values is more advanced that death, with many advocates for gay rights openly campaigning for the decriminalization of homosexual sex. However, if the current trend persists, it would be a matter of time that Exit International can speak in Singapore. Let us all be aware.