Man
can live about 40 days without food, about three days without water, about
eight minutes without air but only about one second without hope” from “The
Terminal Generation by Hal Lindsey. Hal Lindsey’s Report last Friday was very
timely to answering this question.
Suicide
is a byproduct of losing hope and losing hope is, IMO, a byproduct of losing faith in God. According to Mr.
Lindsey, suicide is increasing in all age groups. Teenagers and the elderly
used to be the groups with the greatest rate of increase. Now it's the baby
boomers who are committing suicide in increasing numbers. Suicide in male baby
boomers 50 years old and up have increased by about 50% and women in the 60
years and up range have increased about 60%. So what happened to the baby boomers?
This was the generation born after World War II and pretty much grew up in the
60s. The 60s was went God started to be thrown out of school and free love and
drugs were the order of the day.
From
the Center for disease control quoting IIeana Arias, Deputy Director, CDC, “There
may be something about that group and how they think about life issues and their
life choices that may make a difference.
Today
more deaths among the young are by suicide than traffic accidences. There are
about 100 to 200 suicide attempts for every one that is reported. A cry for
help? I think so! If a
person rejects God and His Word abortion, pornography, drugs and generally
immoral behavior can result. I’ve
known people who have gotten so involved in mysticism and dietary rules that
they became as emancipated looking and as lifeless as the statures they so
admire.
Some
people become absorbed in perversion and I
suspect that the pornography junkies worship at the false altar of online
pornography. Violent movies and video games are the norm. So do those addicted
to the pornography and/ or violence become an out picturing of what absorbs
their mind resulting in mass shootings and pedophilia?
The
family unit is disintegrating and children are often born to single mothers.
Father no longer knows best and the media airs commercials that make the
children seem smarter than their parents.
Our
nation allows the killing of babies in the womb and votes in same-sex marriage.
Romans 1:28-29 sums it up, “Furthermore, just as they did not think it
worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved
mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled
with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of
envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.”
Added later:
Romans
1:18-20 The wrath of God is being
revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who
suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is
plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation
of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have
been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are
without excuse.
Added
Later:
Back
to the subject of computers, I started out with a Commodore 64 and then
transitioned to MS-DOS. So I never was an Apple fan.
After
the recent death of Steve Jobs with all the attendant publicity, I started to
study their logo, an Apple with a bite taken out of it. I thought I wonder if
this was intended to be a reference to Genesis. I don't believe that the actual
fruit that Adam and Eve took a bite of was identified, however, it is usually
pictured as an Apple. So was Steve Jobs saying that computers are taking a bite
of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Just an interesting passing thought
I had the other day. The amount of information and the speed of acquiring it
via computers/ Internet could become a near deity to an information junkie,
ouch.
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