Tormented Souls

We must realize the strategy of the world and the devil is to make sin look and feel normal. As one theologian put it, “Our great security against sin lies in being shocked at it.” But in a world awash with sensuality in everything from beer commercials to teeny-bopper shows on Nickelodeon we are in grave danger of becoming insensitive to sin.
I’ll never forget the time in seminary a bunch of us were watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade–relatively speaking, a pretty safe movie. But there’s a scene where it comes out (verbally, not visually) that Indiana Jones and his father have slept with the same Nazi woman. This little revelation is meant as comic relief, and indeed the line from the father and the expression of his son when he finds out his dad had sex with the woman he did are delivered with good effect. Many people in the seminary room, men and women, laughed. At this point an older seminary student piped up, “Guys, that’s fornication. A man and his father should not be sleeping with the same woman. It’s not funny.” This man was not very popular at that moment, but he was right. Read the rest HERE