January 13, 2012 – 1 Peter 2:11 - 3:22

2:16 - “Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God”

How can anyone believe in the Bible and still support a pro-choice stance. You are free to choose, but that freedom does not give you the freedom to choose evil. You are free to do God’s will, which may not sound like freedom to some, but you are also free to ignore and go against God’s will. If that is the choice you make, then you deserve what you get. You cannot ask for it to go both ways. If you want God to give you your freedom to make choices, you must be responsible for those choices.

In writing the above I was thinking how can anyone believe in Sola Fide. It is obvious that our works and deeds are something we will be judged upon. I understand that they say a person with “true” faith automatically has good works, but that isn’t true. There are no sinless people around, so there appears to be no one that has “real” faith. If someone with “real” faith can make mistakes, how are we suppose to determine someone with “real” faith verses a lesser faith. You might say that God knows, but how does that help a person trying to find salvation. Tell them that their faith alone saves them if they have the right kind of faith, but we really cannot tell you how to know if you have the right faith. That seems out of whack to me.

3:7 calls the female the weaker sex. A statement like that will cause an uproar. But look at what is surrounding it. Husbands are to honor their wives. This not only means to respect them, but when you honor them you place them above you and revere them. And after it, it states that we are joint heirs of the gift of life. Joint heirs means that we receive equally. The feminist movement has tried to make male and female equal in all things, causing confusion in many areas and leading to many negative things. Male and female are not equal in all things. We were not created to be so, it is not our purpose to be so, and to move in that direction damages both. We are equal in the gift of life from God, but we are unique in many very special areas and we were created to unit and benefit from each other’s unique gifts. Every step we take to make males more feminine and females more masculine takes us in the opposite direction of God’s plan. God’s plan is about unity and community. We are not supposed to be the same because it takes away the effect of unity.