The bible predicts that churches will become corrupted in the end times, so it's not entirely surprising to me. It's most definitely sad though. It's scarily accurate about the state of current western society. "But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God. They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power." 2 Timothy 3:1-5
Although that is more or less the pattern of how humans let everything become corrupted. But even in a non-spiritual sense, that prediction is just as worrying because it, at the very least, demonstrates that it has happened before and people won't learn from the past so it will continue to happen.
Agreed. People have short memories and normalcy bias. It doesn't help that we no longer actually teach history. "There is nothing new under the sun," is a Bible axiom for a reason. We may not be in the end times (there are things that indicate we are, and some that don't). Either way, we are in for a rough time IMO.
The bible predicts that churches will become corrupted in the end times, so it's not entirely surprising to me. It's most definitely sad though. It's scarily accurate about the state of current western society. "But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God. They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power." 2 Timothy 3:1-5
Creepy. Its happening.
Although that is more or less the pattern of how humans let everything become corrupted. But even in a non-spiritual sense, that prediction is just as worrying because it, at the very least, demonstrates that it has happened before and people won't learn from the past so it will continue to happen.
Agreed. People have short memories and normalcy bias. It doesn't help that we no longer actually teach history. "There is nothing new under the sun," is a Bible axiom for a reason. We may not be in the end times (there are things that indicate we are, and some that don't). Either way, we are in for a rough time IMO.