Red Deer Advocate, November 20th,
2010. The counsel of the world is usually wicked counsel. One could not stumble
upon more wicked counsel than what is given here by the smiling Harlan Cohen.
This columnist is counseling the anxious sinner to, in the words of the Bible,
‘hold the truth in unrighteousness’ (Romans 1.18.) In other words, he is
telling him to suppress the truth that is rising up inside him and convicting
him of sin. It is for the suppression of God’s truth manifesting inside that
the ‘wrath of God is revealed’ (Romans 1.18, 19.)
This
columnist is far from caring or even knowing what the Bible says, undoubtedly.
What is his authoritative basis for the counsel he gives? In a follow-up (on
December 4th) to the article pasted in here, he states what it is:
“I think he’s sick because being gay in today’s world means facing
discrimination, bullying, and hate.” This diagnosis is based on nothing but
what he thinks; it is based on his
mean opinion. On the basis of that, he
counsels the tormented inquirer to be proud and to smile!
On
the basis of God’s word (no opinion but God’s) the counsel would be to allow
truth to rise up and suppress your sin, which is the holy counsel’s answer to
the counsel of the wicked. And this counsel should be taken for the following
reason: “knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things [sins
like fornication] are worthy of death” (Romans 1.32.) According to God, they
are worthy of death, death of body and soul: judgment from God upon the whole
man, both here and hereafter.
The
next piece of decent advice to the man convicted of his homosexual
experimentation is this: “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins
may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence
of the Lord” (Acts 3.19.)
“Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of
the wicked is far from me” (Job 21.16.) This is a fitting word concerning
newspaper columnists of Harlan Cohen’s stripe. The prosperity and minute of
fame that they enjoy is not in their hand; it is never secure. Prosperity made
from wicked counsel is about as secure as chaff in a windstorm! “God
distributeth sorrows in his anger” (Job 21.17.) The wise thing is to put wicked
counsel far from you, and to secure prosperity in heaven by receiving the
counsel of God.
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