The surprising reason why young adults are more likely to be tried

This for Valentine’s Day: Almost two thirds of young adults believe that marriage is still an important institution. Only 21 percent of the eighteen to twenty -two years of age told a landmark Just Study that marriage is “irrelevant”, while 61 percent state to consider it relevant to society. Twenty years ago, 39 percent of young adults saw marriage as irrelevant.

However, the reason for the support of marriage is not what you may think. It was said: “The philosophy of life of young people has baked the idea that divorce is an option. And because we don’t see marriage as forever, we are more open to try it. We deal with self -love and learn in a possible way above ourselves, and if that comes in the form of a divorce, they attach it. “

In other words, many young adults believe in marriage because they also believe in divorce. If this marriage does not work, you can get divorced later and try it again later. This feeling resembles the “cafeteria morality” that is so common in our culture: “truth” is whatever you believe, so you can choose the “truths” that you personally address.

The Just The study also reports that 23 percent of young adults often have sex at one-night stands compared to 78 percent, the information to do this twenty years ago. However, this trend is not the result of a more bibler morality: they are flooded with what a commentator calls “toxic messaging about sexual sex” from social media. Due to the COVID 19 blocks, the therapists also indicate technological dependencies as well as increased stress, psychological health problems and social stuning.

The good news is that a large majority of today’s young adults believe in marriage and does not believe in one-night stands. The bad news is that you take these biblical positions for extremely unbiblical reasons.

The problem with “natural” truth

This message is part of a global trend that we have been observing in western culture for generations.

Pragmatism claims that the truth is everything that works; Utilitarianism defines the truth in a similar way than what works best for the largest number of people. The postmodern philosopher Richard Rorty took a now popular step and defined the truth as what works for people in the community.

For many, a concept of truth is a lens that claims that there is an absolute source of morality and should lead our moral decisions. In their declaration of praise that “all people are created equally”, the American founders quoted the claim that such a truth is “a matter of course” as their authority. They did not appeal to Genesis 1:27 or another external authority for the equality of humans.

One result was that many who do not perceive such equality as “a matter of course” reject them in favor of the truth Do Find you for you. For example, many colonial Americans were convinced that Africans were an inferior nature for fishing and would be better enslaved for white people than to live freely on their own continent. Many saw indigenous Americans in a similar way as “pagans” and their breed and culture as inferior, a view that legitimized the intake of their country through the expansion to the west.

I say this to point out that the right position in marriage and premature sex is a step towards the wrong position for the wrong reasons. As soon as we reject north on our compass, it is at best arbitrary to go in the right direction.

Why biblical obedience is best for us

St. Valentine would have agreed.

After a few reports, he was Roman priest and doctor, who was marty for his Christian faith in Rome by 270 ment0. Other stories identify him as Bishop of Terni, Italy, who was apparently also marty in Rome. These could be different versions of the same account and only refer to one person.

While he became famous for healing the blind daughter of his prison and leaving her a note on the day of his execution, he signed “from her Valentine’s Day”, the fact that he was ready to die for his faith, makes my point of view .

Pragmatism would not agree to his decision and argue that we should do what is in our practical interest and claim that the execution is clearly not an option. Utilitarianism would also say that it would not be reinforced in the best interest of the martyr or the one whom they are martyrically martyr. And in a similar way, Rorty’s postmodern communitarianism would say that martyrdom threatens the entire community of believers with extinction.

This is because non-biblical thinkers overlook the transforming difference about biblical morality that live according to their truth, regardless of the costs for themselves.

Jesus said: “If someone came after me, let him deny himself and take his cross every day and follow me” (Lukas 9:23). Paradoxically, such self -denial is in our best interest if it positions us in such a way that we can experience the best what an omniscient, omnipotive, omniben -evalent father can do for his children. And to give up our life to our Lord does exactly that.

Paul said: “I was crucified with Christ. It is no longer me who lives, but Christ who lives in me ”(Galater 2:20). As a result, he served his gentleman “with all his energy that he works powerfully in me” (Colosser 1:29).

As the saying says, the Lord always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him.

We cannot break the law of gravity

As the Anglican philosopher JV Langmead Casserley found, the man who jumps out of a window in tenth history does not ask the law of gravity. In the same way we do not break God’s commandments – we break on them.

God’s Word is always “profitable for teaching, for the allegations, for correction and training in justice, so that the man of God is completely equipped for every good work” (2nd Timothy 3: 16–17). Moses said to his people: “This law of the law will not drain out of her mouth, but you will meditate day and night so that you can make sure that you do it after everything that is written. Because then you will prosper your way and then you will have a good success ”(Joshua 1: 8).

I do not say that living will always lead to secular progress. As we noticed, Saint Valentine was only one of many who died over the centuries because of their beliefs. But I claim that living biblical living will always position us to experience God’s best, be it in this or the next life. If our faith requires our sacrifice, God will more than reward such a loyalty in eternity.

And our loyalty to our Lord will also move to him. St. Valentine is an exhibition A.

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