One of the very disturbing (to me at least) trends I have seen lately is the number of my "Christian" friends on FB playing a game that mimics real life mafia activity. Is this really the message we want to send to the world, that we think it's okay to "pretend" to be involved in murder, theft, racketeering, prostitution, etc., as long as we don't do it in real life?
That doesn't sit very well with what I read in the New Testament, or the Old for that matter. Five times in the book of Leviticus alone, we read words "Be Holy, for I am Holy." "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you," 2 Cor 6:17.
"And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." 2 Cor 6:11.
How do we as Christians align the concepts of being separate and sanctified and being imitators of Christ (1 Cor 11:1) with pretending to murder, steal, extort, commit sexual impurity, etc? In my mind the two cannot and should not be brought together. "No man can serve two masters . . ."
Am I right? Am I wrong? What do you think?
"And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." 2 Cor 6:11.
How do we as Christians align the concepts of being separate and sanctified and being imitators of Christ (1 Cor 11:1) with pretending to murder, steal, extort, commit sexual impurity, etc? In my mind the two cannot and should not be brought together. "No man can serve two masters . . ."
Am I right? Am I wrong? What do you think?
