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Desecration and Titillation - The Soul Danger of Pornography
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Porn business near church.
Pornography is ubiquitous today; addiction to pornography, especially
among men, is equally widespread. Young men are often introduced to
pornography long before they are able to understand what it is and what
it means. Many a young man's first awakening to sex and sexuality is by
exposure to pornographic sex and nudity. This is sadly, increasingly,
the case with women as well.
Some Christians can take a kind of refuge in the fact that so many
others share in the struggle. "We are all in this together" can minimize
the weight of it. Yet the ubiquity of porn and porn addiction does
nothing to lessen the horror of it. I want to ask you a question. But
not quite yet. Read on…
Desecration and Titillation
There is an inescapable consequence to the fact that human beings
bear the image of God: there is nothing God values more than human
beings. Bearing God's image is an extraordinary privilege and brings
with it extraordinary worth. Jesus asked, "What does it profit a man if
he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul?" If you were to
accumulate the wealth of Bill Gates and add to it the wealth of Solomon,
you would barely be scratching the surface of the value of a soul, of a
person. Wealth will fade. It will rust and decay and be lost. People
are eternal. When all of that wealth is gone, the soul will live on.
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