The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland

this subject is not important now. But if we expect
the Lord's coming in our generation, a true
understanding will be essential if the church is to
manifest the beauty of Christ's character in the final
fearful trials. The sad moral failures of so many
professed Christians in this age of "new morality"
(including sexual permissiveness) are due to a
failure to relate to Christ by faith in consequence of
erroneous views of His righteousness. "In our
conclusions, we make many mistakes because of
our erroneous views of the nature of our Lord"
(7BC 929). Those "mistakes" can be death-dealing
(see next question).
8. Supposing that we may find the truth on this
subject, what is its practical value?
As an example, let us look at one problem that
is a frightful emergency in the church and in
modern society: the world is drowning in a
cesspool of sexual immorality. Some 70% of
teenagers in the United States practice fornication,
of whom 3 million a year contract STD's; and over
half of marriages are poisoned by infidelity.
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