“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you!” Luke 6:46
Most unbelief flows from a love of passion more than virtue. Unbelief is willful; a person can believe whatever he wants to believe. Rarely, if ever, do I find a man rejecting the gospel for intellectual reasons. It is almost always related to the moral restrictions entailed in following Christ.
Throughout Scripture we are reminded that God will only relate to people on His terms. Most Christians do not believe this, convinced that they – not God – determine the parameters of the relationship. This seems to prove acceptable to the rest of the Christian community as long as egregious sins are either avoided or hidden from sight. When, however, their willfulness becomes public, they simply say that they no longer believe. This ostensibly makes them acceptable to the church, and they think that if/when the time comes they wish to “return” to Christ, they are free to do so. Meanwhile, from their perception they have the best of all possible choices.
Sexual sins is where you most often see this expressed, for sex is the strongest appetite upon which the Bible places restrictions.
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