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Sin
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, t is forbidden because it is hurtful.
The crowd does not make right what God has declared to be wrong.
I have an incurable, fatal disease. My doctor has given me a maintenance program that holds it in check. As long as I stick to the program, the disease does not progress and I am able to function quite well. When I don't maintain the program, things begin to fall apart and I digress very rapidly. My disease is sin and my doctor is the Lord Jesus Christ. My program of maintenance is found throughout the Scriptures.
The suffering that results from sin is most tragic because through our own choices, we can choose to avoid it. We have that power.
It is not his sin that caused him to suffer, it is ours. Life's most important choice is not between wealth and poverty, or fame and obscurity. It is between good and evil. When we finally understand that, our happiness will not be determined by material things. (The New Era, August 1989)
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
But no matter what everybody does, an error is still an error even though it is multiplied millions of times. So is an evil, and it doesn't matter how popular or how glamorous or how universal evils become, they are still evils. Some evils have been made very glamorous, very appealing and very popular, but we must be aware of the fact that they are still what they are, regardless of who partakes of them or what they are called, or what appearance they assume. History has proved many times over that the opinion of one man who knows and who knows that he knows, the opinion of one man who has the truth and proclaims it, is much more important than the opinions of many millions who don't know. |
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