Change

Here is a starting point for discussion from the ancient past with a twist so that I can make a connection with the present. What was Sodom's and Gomorrah's SIN? Now, bare with me. I'm not a Bible scholar but I am a student, I know it may be weired but follow me for at least the length of this first paragraph. My initial response was to simply say: Sin, all sin! Then, I formulated a more refined answer when, with some research, I concluded that homosexuality was their sin. Now, with even more research and as time has tempered my thinking, my answers today are these change/acceptance/apathy...

What do I mean? I'll try to render, as only I can, my own opinion that may perhaps allow for some of you to come to my side of this discussion. I believe that as time is our witness, we as a society are led, from age to age, to change the way we accept; CHANGE. The subject for this discussion will be the varied life-styles of individuals being accepted as the life-styles FOR the many. A life-style that could be included in the short list of choices we have deemed as acceptable in this era or age, would not have been accepted, as early as, 50 years ago.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

So, the few are endeavoring to change the way of the many. Remember when we as a society started accepting "Living-Together", "Sex-Talk", "Four Letter Words", "TV-Programing", the "INTERNET"... ext. Well, if you haven't noticed, we are being programed continuously, and to include yet another option to our list of choices, life-style choices. It has been inserted into the sexual revolution of the '50s. It has been inserted into the the struggle for the equal rights of minority groups in the '60s. It has now been inserted into the tradition of marriage; Change!

We are being programed into looking at a life-style as the next evolution for marriage. There, I did it, I made the leap. I've equated evolution, life-style choices, and marriage into what we have known as a biblical tradition. Marriage is still between a Man and a Woman; Right?

But wait, soon the definition of marriage will be refined, modified; changed. We as a society will have our thinking refined, modified and alttered to accept the change. Time will again be our witness and as those from our past, we will change; we will evolve. The future is not ours, it belongs to those that are to live with the changes that will then be traditions. We don't really know the consequences of our actions. Face it, we're not going to be around. So, let us just do the best we can for those who will carry on the task of refining, modifying and changing what we have accepted for ourselves; Right? Right!

As history has shown, change is violant and only one thing is assured; Change.