Lauren was absolutely right.
I have every intention of atempting to offend 3 types of people in this blog and it is for good cause.
As is it we have people who just do bad things. You can define bad things as you wish because you will most likely be correct. We have the ignored people and we have the people overseeing both.
The bad people at Seattle Christian are stereotypically the more wealthy out of the bunch. They can afford most anything they like so naturally they need to resort to the lower level activities of society to make them content.
The ignored people are the good people who have a couple of few really good friends. They sit alone and are silent if they are not with their friends. No one knows their names. No one knows much about them besides their names if they know it. These are the people that can leave the school and no one notices. These are the people that make up a majority of the world. These are the people that keep the world floating.
There are the over seers. They are called teachers. I have had 4 classes today which showed this 3 times so I am basing evidence as a whole off of a small sampling. These teachers glorify the people fit into the first category. They must know that they are dumb because it is written on their face and the first category seems to try to seem dumb. Yet the teachers continue to glorify them by making them exceptions to rules and being lax. It is in their loose policies that they let these smart people slide more into their own sin but in doing so put the 2nd type of person lower.
The next part is based on a true story witnessed by Lauren Rubio. 4 people failed to do an assignment so they cheated on it and turned it in for full credit. These 4 people are from the first category. They received that full credit. They received a better score than some people that do it on their own. So you have the first group above the 2nd group because they did the wrong thing.
The teachers do not do anything about it. In fact they congratulate the first group at being so good at the assignment they really did not do. So now the opinion of the teacher is raised by the first group and is lowered to the second group because they are not as good.
The first group will most likely advance to a college of more merit than the first group for having superior grades and having more money than the second. This is still based on small samplings and stereotypes.
So here is the question:
Why do good?
What stops the second category becoming more like the first category? Pride? God? Moral law? Conscience? Peers? Fear?
Despite how bad these all sound, it is better to be caught and failed for 1 out of 100 assignments than failed for all the ones you did not do.
The response is that if they are caught and failed they will learn and do better. But here is the thing. The 3rd group has supported ans reinforced the 1st category for so long that they no longer see the harm in which they do and do not want to change.
It is all of our faults and we all fit into a category at some part in our lives. Why why should we do good if you are not going to stop us?
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Ephesions 2:1-5b As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world, and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God who is rich in mercy made us alivei weht Christ even when we were dead in transgressions.
However
Romans 6:1-3
What shall we say then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Furthermore,
James 2:14
What good is it my brothers if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
Okay Josh here's my point, everyone sins, but the differance in whay you are putting forward is the perpetual issue of cheating otherwise what is one assaignment in the big scheme of things? Now if these individuals are constantly cheating then they either A. Have a serious sin in their life that they need to address or my opinion that they don't care about it. If the latter is true then they're claim to faith is dead. (James 2:18-19) If they are not genuinly saved then no wonder they cheat. I mean why not? if nothing is absolute then i hold that cheating is not wrong and boom it's not wrong (postmodern example, but i could do the same for the secular humanist, or islamist or whatever)
however we as Christians have issue with the fact that our life of sin is dead. It died when we gave to Christ on the cross. We do right because we strive to live our lives in accordance with Gods will.
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