Have you noticed we have made sin seem so much more acceptable today? Have you noticed how sin is rarely considered a factor in our personal and national problems? Have you observed how we have taken good strong, decisive words that describe behavior of which God disapproves and have made them acceptable – if not completely respectable?
Sin is not really sin anymore – it is “arrested development,” “an upward stumble in man’s progress,” “biological growing pains,” “error of mortal mind.”
And while we excuse willfulness and rebellion against God, the consequences of our disobedience continues to grow and multiply, and we wonder what has happened to our homes, our schools, our cities and our nation. We have cheapened our concept of sin by depreciating the words we use to describe it.
Stealing is not stealing anymore – it’s called “inventory slippage”; God calls it stealing and the perpetrator is a thief. Adultery is not called adultery any more – it’s “an affair,” a “one-night stand”; in Hebrews 13:4, God’s word says, “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Fornication is not called fornication, it’s called living together “with benefits.” Marriage is redefined and perverted and is called “an alternate lifestyle.” God has other names for it.