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And where is the church; and what is the local church doing to help society return to the day when such things were not so prevalent?

rd2, this would require a "change" in attitude. Ain't gonna happen.

Otherwise, what you've described is absolutely horrendous.

 

Most of these sexual assaults on youth are not momentary indiscretions, they are planned attacks.

The youthful victims are chosen because of their vulnerability - they choose the weak, they choose the those that won't be believed, they choose the ones no one wants around.

They spend time with them; cultivating their weaknesses, making them think that the choices they make are their own.
Many victims don't even know they have been abused until years after the event.

This is how predators like Penn. State's Joe Sandusky operate.

The church often looks at these predators as willing volunteers, good people because they spend so much time with the youth, they see the time they sacrifice as service – setting up opportunities, stalking victims, preparing the scene.

They are wolves among sheep; so many churches just close they eyes and see good ole uncle Joe whose been around for years helping our youth.

Churches need to set up strong programs with robust rules that protect both youth and youth workers from charges of abuse.

Rob

 

Why? The same reason Adam disobeyed God, Cain murdered Abel, King David committed adultery and murdered, Judas betrayed Jesus...just to name a few. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

All of mankind is sinful by nature--totally depraved, totally without remedy of ourselves, our freewills enslaved to our sin nature. We know not how to make the right choice of ourselves.

Sexual immorality is not a new phenomenon. Personal demons have been at work since day one. Daily we are bombarded with lust of flesh, lust of eyes and pride of life. We have become adept at rationalizing and covering up what sin might be.

Remedy: flee Satan. Eve did not flee. She was beguiled. Adam was not beguiled, he sinned willfully. We become beguiled by the Angel of Light, the God of this world, the prince of the power of the air. Jesus knows how to deal with Satan.

Flee to The Word and the prayer closet.

Jesus said He would save, seal and protect. He us faithful, even when we are not.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Bro. James

 

Doesn't sound "free" to me!

The one who masquerades as "an" angel of light.

Make that a lower case g.

 

There has always been sin's of every nature throughout history. The difference now is through media everyone knows what is going on in every state of the union. Also it was shameful to a family years ago if their daughter got raped and things were kept silent.

 

RighteousDude,
This may not be the answer you're looking for, but much of your thought has been led by society, and not scripture.

Virtually every society, up til the last quarter of the 21st century, has viewed people as adults at about age 13-14. Only recently has society influenced Christians into thinking of young adults as children

Many "children" who are sexually "exploited" are actually willing adults.

Jesus' own mother, at about age 13, was betrothed to a man about 40 years old. Did an angel come and tell Joseph that he was a pervert?

No, the angel told Joseph to not put Mary away when she became pregnant. The pregnancy at that age was quite normal in that time, and apparently acceptable enough to God. The only issue the Jews had was that she looked to have been sexually active outside of marriage

Today's society has refused to bring children to emotional and psychological maturity before they become adults. But just because they think like children doesn't mean they are, scripturally speaking

Your beef shouldn't be with society in general anyway. Society is sinful, so why are you so shocked to see people sinning? That's like being shocked to see new cars on a showroom floor, or shocked at the thought of balloons at a birthday party.

As far as Christians go, the problem is that they're sexually engaged with someone they haven't married. It's not the age of the "victim" near as much as it is simply fornication.

Are you ok with two 40 year olds shacking up?

 

Say what? Old timers being resistant to change is the same as statutory rape - come on!!!!!!!!!!

 

When has sin ever been the rational choice?

 

You just hear about it more now. We have instant news from around the world pushed by a media that lives and dies on violence and sex. 30 years ago, if it happened in the next town over, you might never have heard about it. Along with Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc., etc., it's everywhere immediately. These thing also make it easier to get caught. More often than not it is someone else who turns them in, not the student who is involved, especially with male students.

For those who do report it themselves, it is easier to do now. There is less chance of being ignored or attacked further for coming forward with it.

We also have a world of very sexualized children. And they are already hormonally challenged because of the reasons JamesL mentioned. I know as a teen in the early 80's if a decent looking teacher approached my godless self I would have been an eager participant, not a victim in any sense. Imagine now in a world where sex is served with breakfast. I am not saying there are no victims, but there are not as many as you would imagine who think they are victims.

 

When I was in school, there was one teacher that every boy drooled over. There were quite a few who were hitting on her. We were 15-16 years old, and she was somewhere in her mid 20s

Had she engaged with any one of us, we would have all been high-fiving for the rest of our school days and beyond.

Victims? Hardly. Wolves is more like it

 

It's only the next logical step, IMO. If it's OK to sleep with anyone you want heterosexually or even homosexually, why let age stop you? If you make your own moral code, why should anyone be able to dictate to you at what age you can sleep with someone?

 

I would say when I was in high school it would have been the same thing with me.

 

Just because underage children want it and enjoy it does not mean they are not victims. Feeding underage children alcohol is another example of this.

 

And here is the problem. When so many in the CHURCH have a rolling moral code that justifies their sin that they often refuse to acknowledge as sin, is it any wonder that sexual sin is running rampant?

Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, Matt. 24:12

As I said in another thread:

We excuse away our drinking.
We excuse away our smoking.
We excuse away what we watch.
We excuse away what we listen to.
We excuse away why we disrespect authority.
We excuse away how we support a man who rejects Jesus while purporting to still want folks to come to Christ.
We excuse away the way we dress.
We excuse away our prejudices.
We excuse away our lack of love.
We excuse away our judging outside the church.
We excuse away our gluttony...our gossipping...and our phonyness.
We excuse away our desire to win an argument as defense of the faith.
We excuse away our nastyness in how we respond to others.
We excuse away the truth and ask for unneeded examples when we well know exactly what is being talked about.

If we can excuse all of our sin without repentance but justification, why are we surprised when others start rationalizing and excusing and justifying why and how they could do these things mentioned in the OP?

On any given day, folks on this board sinfully disrespect and dishonor the President of the United States.

On any given day, folks on this board express attitudes that border on hate for those who don't share their politics.

So to answer RD2's question

A lot of these folks you mention who are in the church learned how to justify and rationalize their unChristlike behavior from being surrounde by churches filled with folks doing the same with their unChristlike behavior.

It's why the women in the churches are dressing more unGodly and why you hear more and more about these situations.

If the church were really serious about these things, all the other unGodly behavior would be addressed. But the people in the church are only concerned about addressing the heinous nature of the next guy's sin while ignoring their own more corporately acceptable and palatable sin.

It's prevalent because God's people are setting the bad example of excusing, rationalizing and justifying sin.

 

What sort of age range are you calling "underage children" ??

Who's the victim if a 13 year old male rapes a 35 year old woman?
Would that 13 year old be a victim if a 25 year old man held the woman down?
Or is he only the victim if the woman is willing?


Same with drinking. If he's a victim when someone buys it for him, then what about the 13 year old who steals it from a grocery store?


Does his status as a victim change by the status of another?