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Tools are Misbehaving Yet Again!

The murders committed by two young men in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio are truly horrific and senseless killings. They are the sad and regrettable taking of innocent lives by young men consumed by sin; they are tragic manifestations of the sin nature out of control!

I have found it interesting that not one news article has mentioned the sin problem inherent in their behavior; we read of more gun control, of mental illness, the quick execution of mass murderers but not one reference to a sin problem.

There has been a systematic effort to remove objective moral standards from the American scene, to abandon Biblical morality and replace it with nothing of any substance.

The consequence of such foolishness is the wild misbehavior we are seeing proliferate in this country; behavior ranging from licking ice cream and putting it back on the store shelves, urinating on grocery shelves and food, flash mobs of young people attacking and looting a store, attacking others who may have different opinions, all the way to murdering large numbers of people are clear manifestations of a total lack of a personal moral compass in the lives of these individuals.

These are all symptoms of a dead spirit, a sin nature in control of the individual and influencing bizarre behavior that is distorted and delusional. An abundance of gun laws and restrictions will not solve this problem; it is not external, it is internal; the longer this nation turns its backs on Biblical morality the worse the situation will get.

Childproofing the Room

It is tiresome and frustrating to see how so many of our nation’s leaders fall into the trap of environmental solutions to what is a spiritual problem. I have written more on this in “Money, Guns, Tire Tools and Christianity.”

In this essay I wrote:

“During this time a new notion was becoming popular, a notion which we rejected for our family; a notion that avoided setting limits on children’s behavior coupled with efforts to remove all temptations that might result in inappropriate behavior. Families were trying to childproof the environment of the child so there was nothing the child could actually do to step over the boundaries of acceptable behavior; I referred to it as childproofing the house.

I was amazed at these efforts and thought of all the problems that a lack of self-control could generate when these children grew up and tried to integrate into society. What I had not anticipated were the efforts that society would eventually try to childproof itself and remove all things with which the out-of-control child/adult could damage or use to possibly harm themselves or others.

I had not anticipated society seeing these undisciplined adults as victims of an unfeeling society that had failed to adequately remove all of the dangerous objects from their environment. The beautiful vase was there so they broke it, the sharp object was there so it was used to injure themselves or others, and regardless they were innocent victims of a thoughtless society that had failed to properly prepare the environment for their arrival.”

So yet again we see our politicians ranting on about our societal failure to properly childproof the environment; more feeble efforts to alleviate symptoms without addressing the virus of sin which is responsible for those symptoms.

There is only one cure for the sin virus and that is the new birth by faith in Jesus Christ as Savior! There has never been another answer and there never will be!

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and You Will be Saved!”