In the worldly culture today much of what was considered evil in the past is now seen as insignificant, normal, or even good. One example in vocabulary is the word "wicked" which the dictionary defines as "evil or morally wrong." Now that word is often used by younger people to indicate something is "interesting, wonderful, or fun." Age-old and accepted meanings of words are getting changed so the people of this world become easily confused and manipulated by those words. Evil will hide behind acronyms and slogans that sound good but have a demonic purpose.
One group or activity example from current events could be protests, which U.S. constitution allows if assembly and petition is done peacefully. However, protest is occasionally wrongly used as an excuse for breaking the law with violence, looting, injury to others, and destruction of property. Another examples is while the constitution also provides for freedom of religion, Christian churches are required to close and some actions are taken against them if they do not. Hmm, who does that benefit in a time when depression is growing? More and more things are going from bad to worse and being hailed as good to great by those who want to spread toxicity and ill-will. The Bible warned the church this would happen and cautioned Christians against going along with it.
In the past few decades, the church has become open-minded in an attempt to appear more up-to-date or open-hearted. Obvious sins noted in the Bible are allowed to come into the church and more people accept things that would have not been allowed and probably even denounced in the past. The Bible warned this could happen if churches allowed their congregations to continue in sin. New converts are to repent from sin and quit doing it. If immature Christians continue to do the sin and the leader or elders of the church allows it by not talking to the individual, this would result in more sinning within the body of the church. Then the eventual downfall of the church body would occur. Is this happening today? Yes, a few churches seem to be turning their back on Biblical truths and New Testament teachings. Can this be stopped? Yes, it requires revival first ,which comes from prayer and discipline in following Christ and the Bible guidelines for Christian individuals and the church body as a whole. Then we must teach the Bible so everyone can discern good from evil. Compromising Bible teaching for filling seats is dangerous for the Christian Church!
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