Keeping the Porch Light on in a Dark World
The US aborts 3000 children per day. On one day, Friday the 13th, 2015, ISIS managed to kill about 130. So who represents evil?
Daily, three thousand children are poisoned, burned, dragged from the womb, have their skulls crushed and their brains sucked out, and dismembered in the womb. This is true of every “Christian” Western nation: Europe, Canada, the US, Australia . . . France, as it happens, aborts more children than are born. ISIS doesn’t promote abortion.
Who are we to call anyone evil?
The hypocrite, or best of the unregenerate, believeth but either with a human faith, which resteth but on the word of man, or else with a dead, opinionative faith, which is overpowered by infidelity, or is like the dreaming thoughts of man asleep, which stir him not to action. He liveth by sight, and not by faith: for he hath not a faith that will overpower sense and sensual objects; James 2:14. Matt. 13:22.
Richard Baxter and William Orme, The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, vol. 8 (London: James Duncan, 1830), 384.
James 2:14 (ESV) 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
Matthew 13:22 (ESV) 22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.