Loved the quote from Wizard-50's article:

"Tebow is a serious young man in a "silly adult world".

A lot of tv is a "silly adult world". I used to like to laugh at the sitcom The Big Bang Theory til I realized it was promoting lechery like it was harmless.

Better write CBS and complain about the "filth" they're allowing to be broadcast on the airwaves.

Just out of curiosity, how do you feel when you see ads like this running on 2+2:



They're using the Whore of Babylon to sell poker books! For shame.

Sex sells when your mind is in the gutter.

But God created sex to be sacred. It's the way he grants life to people.

So you don't approve of the ads that 2+2 has chosen to allow on their site?

Do I have to approve or disapprove? I guess I do.

Aren't our minds suppose to be able to distinguish good from evil?

An ad like that is just a subliminal appeal to a backslidden mind to stay backslidden.

Do you approve of it why?

Are people safer for such advertising?

ra·tion·al·ize [ ráshən'l z ]

1.offer reasonable explanation for something: to attempt to justify behavior normally considered irrational or unacceptable by offering an apparently reasonable explanation
2.make something rational: to make something rational, logical, or consistent
3.interpret something rationally: to interpret something from a rational or logical perspective

Don't we rationalize the good and the bad?

For somebody such ad images might undermine their family loyalties, couldn't they?

To protect family loyalties I would suggest mandatory burkas and jail time for the scantly clad women and their promoters.

You couldn't think of anything less extreme than that?

Stop looking at nudity and the human body as sinful?

If it were up to God we'd all be running around naked. It's just not a good idea as the world is a dangerous place (see rape).

See aboriginal cultures who dont associate nudity with sex and had to be taught shame over it by missionaries.

So multiculturalism wasn't such a good idea for them?

More like the abrahamic religions views on sex and sexuality are bad for everyone.

+1

If you want to walk around in a speedo go for it. I'd be careful which "neighborhood" you walk through as a practical matter however.

The leader of the opposition in Australia.

'The Mad Monk', no less

Huh.

Adam and Eve lost their spiritual clothing on their own.

Or maybe they just lost their ability to think innocently.

What if they ate the freewill apple in the Garden and it brought along a loss of innocence?

I think gaining clothing could be more freeing than losing it. I don't think primitive people are mentally freer than modern ones. A primitive person has a struggle to get and maintain the big 3 things: food, clothing and shelter.

At the very least people wearing clothes means people are getting better at obtaining things for themselves. This is where the human mind would start to depend on itself more and God less though it might have completely depended on Him before.

A state of freewill could equal an imbalance between knowledge and innocence. Now what caused the imbalance?

I think it's something like this.

Before Adam listened to that treacherous woman, he knew he was a spirit living in an animal body. So he knew he had clothes (his body). Then he ate from the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, where he could see evil too, thus confusing him. He then thought he was that body, and therefore needed clothes.

Anyway, walking around naked is a pretty bad idea, i agree. I mean, it gets cold outside, rapists left and right, no one wants to see ball sacks ect....

Everyone on this forum is wasting their time. Just saying.

Ha, ultimately I agree.

Then why does Jesus tell us to get our raiment from Him?

I give up, why? I can't recall (or guess) what verse your referring to.

cf. Rev. 3:18 and Rev. 19:8

http://www.abible.com/devotions/2003/20031030-1325.html

Hmm, as always, the book of revelation is pretty interesting. I am wearing a white garment (body) fwiw.