Stanek Sunday quote: “All this loose sex, sheer anarchy, one murder after another!”
God indicts the whole population: “No one is faithful. No one loves. No one knows the first thing about God. All this cussing and lying and killing, theft and loose sex, sheer anarchy, one murder after another! And because of all this, the very land itself weeps and everything in it is grief-stricken – animals in the fields and birds on the wing, even the fish in the sea are listless, lifeless.”
~ Hosea 4:1-3, The Message translation
[Graphic via The Land Cries Out: For the Blood that was Shed]
Sep.09, 2012 9:27 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Hosea did prophecy that we would be here:
“Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.” Hosea 13:16
Just an FYI: It doesn’t affect this particular passage that much, but the Message translation isn’t really a legitimate translation of the Bible and shouldn’t be taken word-for-word as Gospel. Peterson added the meaning of what he felt the Bible was trying to convey in English idioms and colloquialisms.
Here is the same passage from the Revised Standard Version:
“1. There is no faithfulness or kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land; 2 there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder. 3 Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air; and even the fish of the sea are taken away.”
Like I said, no important differences in this particular passage. Just thought I’d point that out. And now I’ll stop being a Bible Nazi.
This is such an important passage that I wish all the “personally pro-life” Christians would reflect on. We are all responsible for what happens in this country. We all have the blood of the unborn on our hands. That is all the more reason why we should be dropping absolutely everything to stop it now; for our own sakes as well as the unborn’s.