c918aa34 No.3755399
>>3755362there is no such thing as male rape or male genital mutilation, its just whining.
b779a5e4 No.3755413
>>3755399I hope I haven't tried to reach you too late.
Just because those things happened to you, and you have never managed to deal with them in any way other than hardening your heart, doesn't mean that they are not real or destructive and evil things.
When does the abused become the abuser? At what point? It more or less starts around the time the abused no longer see/feel anything wrong with what was done to them.
Hardening your heart, leads to
more sin:
13 "But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin."
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Hebrews-3-7_3-14/Anyway… I'll be around for half an hour or so.
b779a5e4 No.3755414
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
3:7-13 Days of temptation are often days of provocation. But to provoke God, when he is letting us see that we entirely depend and live upon him, is a provocation indeed. The hardening of the heart is the spring of all other sins. The sins of others, especially of our relations, should be warnings to us. All sin, especially sin committed by God's professing, privileged people, not only provokes God, but it grieves him. God is loth to destroy any in, or for their sin; he waits long to be gracious to them. But sin, long persisted in, will make God's wrath discover itself in destroying the impenitent; there is no resting under the wrath of God. Take heed: all who would get safe to heaven must look about them; if once we allow ourselves to distrust God, we may soon desert him. Let those that think they stand, take heed lest they fall. Since to-morrow is not ours, we must make the best improvement of this day. And there are none, even the strongest of the flock, who do not need help of other Christians. Neither are there any so low and despised, but the care of their standing in the faith, and of their safety, belongs to all. Sin has so many ways and colours, that we need more eyes than ours own. Sin appears fair, but is vile; it appears pleasant, but is destructive; it promises much, but performs nothing. The deceitfulness of sin hardens the soul; one sin allowed makes way for another; and every act of sin confirms the habit. Let every one beware of sin.