The heathen are sunk down in the pit that
they made: in the net which they hid is their
own foot taken.....The wicked shall be turned
into Sheol (hell) and all the nations
that forget God.
Psalm 9:15;17
I used the word "sheol" as this is the Hebrew word that is
translated "hell." Sheol means the place where the dead go when people
die and there is in "Sheol" no understanding that this is a place of
torment or punishment, rather the resting place for the dead. (Strong's
Dictionary: #7585). I begin with this clarification so that there is no
misunderstanding as to what I write. If a person does not have Authentic
Faith in God, not just any god, but the God of the Bible, then they
face death, Sheol, and there they reside until the return of Jesus when
we all face the judgments seat and give answers as to our lives and
words.
As a 75 year old man I have the ability to take time to reflect on
my life, my past and I have found in this reflection time that the world
I live in is not the world in which I grew up in to become a man, an
adult. This history has much which is good, or seemingly good: i.e., the
phone. When I was a boy on the ranch we had a party line, that is there
was at least 9-13 people who could hear what was said when I spoke or
others spoke to me on the phone. Not a problem: just watch what you
said. Then came the rotary phone and even this had ears that could hear
what you said: the operators: so watch what you said. Now we have cell
phones and we can talk to people all over the world: but there is people
gathering your phone calls, even though not in the present do they do
anything about those calls unless NASA, or others think that you are a
threat. Nothing has changed: people can still hear what you say on the
phone. But it is good for business as one can be instantly appraised of
sells, and other business needs and not have to wait long for answers,
etc. and yet there is a down side to all this innovation: Texting and
driving and people getting killed or maimed and others using you texts
to affront you in some way. So this moderation is both good and bad.
As a boy growing up in the 50's television had just become
purchasable and the shows on TV were very moral: i.e., Ozzie &
Harriet; The Lucy Show: etc. Morals were held high and important. By
1960 things began to change and this change was a change in morality.
Cinemas were allowing what would previously declared as pornography to
be seen on the screen. The "hippie" movement that wanted to have "free
love," anywhere and in any place. Porno shops opened up on many corners
of the cities, not hidden any longer in the back room. Abortion became
legal: the killing of unborn human beings, marriages floundered, both in
the secular world but also in Churches as the world culture began to
infiltrate into the Church. Divorce skyrocketed both in the secular and
in the Church. The homosexual (gay) movement began, that is the lesbian
and the male homosexual, and the women's liberation movement began and
was and is now, taken to the streets. Television and movie producers
pushed and are pushing the envelope so that what was considered X rated
in the 50's and early 60's is now considered "g' rated. Here is an
example: 1965: movie of the year: The Sound of Music, the academy award winner. A few years later the academy award went to Midnight Cowboy an X rated movie, the first such movie to win such a prestigious prize. We have gone from Leave It To Beaver to Beavis And Butthead.
The change in this morality has not been good as sexual transmitted
diseases have risen to an all time high, especially among the 15-25 year
old boys and girls. Here is the facts:
CDC
FACTSHEET:
Reported
STDs in the United States
2015
National Data for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis
This fact
sheet summarizes 2015 data on chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis published in
CDC’s annual report,
SexuallyTransmitted
Disease Surveillance, 2015
(available
atwww.cdc.gov/std/stats).
The data
are based on state and local STD
case reports from a variety of private and public sources.
M
any cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis continue to go undiagnosed and
unreported, and data on several
additional STDs — such as human papillomavirus, herpes simplex virus
, and trichomoniasis — are not
routinely reported
to CDC. As a result, the annual surveillance report captures only a fraction of
the true burden of STDs in America.
However,
it provides important insights into the scope, distribution, and trends in STD
diagnoses in the country.
STDs are a substantial health challenge
facing the United States. CDC estimates that nearly 20 million new sexually
transmitted inf
ections occur every year in this country, half among young people aged 15–24,
and account for almost
$16 billion in health care costs. Each of these infections is a potential
threat to an individual’s immediate and long-term
health and well-being. In addition to increasing a person’s risk for acquiring
and transmitting HIV infection, STDs can lead
to chronic pain and severe reproductive health complications, such as
infertility and ectopic pregnancy.
Snapshot: STDs in
the United States, 2015
Despite
recent declines, 2015 was the second year in a row in which increases were seen in all three nationally
reported STDs. The approximately 1.5 million cases of chlamydia represent the
highest number of annual cases
of any condition ever reported to CDC. Substantial increases were also seen
among reported cases of gonorrhea
and syphilis. While young people and women are most severely affected by STDs,
increasing rates among men
contributed to the overall increase in 2015 across all diseases.
Here is a list and am I attempting to scare you? YES!
What Causes Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)?
Depending on the disease, STDs can be spread with any type
of sexual activity. STDs are most often caused by viruses and bacteria. The
following is a list of the most common STDs, their causes. Additionally, there
are other infections (see STDs with asterisk mark*) that may be transmitted on
occasion by sexual activity, but these are typically not considered to be STDs
by many investigators:
STDs caused by bacteria
Chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
Chlamydia (Chlamydia
trachomatis)
Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhea)
Granuloma inguinale (Calymmatobacterium granulomatis)
Lymphogranuloma venereum (Chlamydia
trachomatis)
Syphilis
(Treponema pallidum)
STDs caused by viruses
Genital herpes (herpes simplex virus)
Genital warts
(human papillomavirus virus [HPV])
Hepatitis B and D, and infrequently,
A*,C*,E* (hepatitis viruses, types A-E)
HIV/AIDS
(human
immunodeficiency virus [HIV
virus])
Molluscum
contagiosum* (poxvirus)
STD caused by protozoan
Trichomoniasis
(Trichomonas vaginalis)
STD's* caused by fungi
Jock itch
(Tenia cruris)*
Yeast infections* (Candida albicans)
STD's caused by parasites
Scabies*
Sarcoptes scabiei
As
the illustration about the telephone and that it has with all the new
technology as good as it may for people in some sense has brought with
it much trauma. This account about morality does not have a good side,
albeit those participating in "free sex," or "free love," have a
horrible side affect: some 19 million men and women in the United States
are affected by some sort of STD. Some STD, as with syphilis, a disease
that can remain in the brain even after treatment, and can and often
does disfigure a person, causes a women to no longer bear children and
can be passed on to their children.
This
world culture and cultural Christianity has allowed for this change in
morality. This is and has been done by new philosophical thought and a
denigrating Christian principles. Everything has become subjective, a
plurality of thought whereby everyone has some sort of right, not
earned, but some how imparted to them by birth, to allow all sorts of
beliefs: from antinomian that teaches that Christians are even free from
the moral law by grace and faith, or just to be a follower of antinomy,
an opposition against rules or laws.
Authentic Christianity has fallen under the sway of some eloquent
speakers that have conjoined world thought to Christianity making for
cultural Christians. The standard that they have set, that this world
has set is against the Gospel. There has and is a pawing off these
non-Christian philosophies made up by men as authentic faith, when in
fact it has nothing to do with Authentic Christian Faith. The world has
sunk down into a pit that they have dug sucking in those unaware of the
truth.
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